Jesus & Mary Chain,LP,Psychocandy,Blanco Y Negro BYN7,UK & EU 1985,1stP,Cut Dead

	£		21
	$		28

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Alt Rock

Jesus And Mary Chain

Title and label: Psychocandy, Blanco Y Negro BYN7, UK & EU, 1985 1st Press  

Condition of vinyl: VG+ Due to fine hair-lines. Please Note: This plays VG+ to EX with a clear bright sound.

Matrix Side A: R/S Alsdorf 240790-1 A X

Matrix Side 2: X UK X R/S Alsdorf 240790-1 B3  38

Condition of sleeve: VG+ Due to edge-wear on the outer sleeve. Please Note: this has been coloured in. This also comes with a picture inner sleeve EX

Psychocandy Review by Ned Raggett

Arguably Psychocandy is an album with one trick and one trick alone -- Beach Boys melodies meet Velvet Underground feedback and beats, all cranked up to ten and beyond, along with plenty of echo.

 However, what a trick it is. Following up on the promise of the earliest singles, the Jesus and Mary Chain with Psychocandy arguably created a movement without meaning to, one that itself caused echoes in everything from bliss-out shoegaze to snotty Britpop and back again.

The best tracks were without question those singles, anti-pop yet pure pop at the same time: "Just Like Honey," starting off like the Ronettes heard in a canyon and weirdly beautiful with its bells, "You Trip Me Up" and its slinking sense of cool, and most especially "Never Understand."

Storming down like a rumble of bricks wrapped in cotton candy and getting more and more frenetic at the end, when there's nothing but howls and screaming noise, it's one hell of a track.

 However, at least in terms of sheer sonic violence and mayhem, most of the other cuts were pretty hard to beat, as sprawling, amped-up messes like "The Living End" (which later inspired both a band and a movie title) and "In a Hole."

"My Little Underground" is actually the secret gem on the album, with a great snarling guitar start, an almost easygoing melody and a great stuttering chorus -- not quite the Who but not quite anything else.

What the Reids sing about -- entirely interchangeable combinations regarding girls, sex, drugs, speed, and boredom in more or less equal measure -- is nothing compared to the perfectly disaffected way those sentiments are delivered.

Bobby Gillespie's "hit the drums and then hit them again" style makes Moe Tucker seem like Neil Peart, but arguably in terms of sheer economy he doesn't need to do any more.

Side 1:

Just Like Honey

The Living End

Taste The Floor

The Hardest Walk

Cut Dead

In A Hole

Taste Of Cindy

Side 2:

Never Understand

Inside Me

Sowing Seeds

My Little Underground

You Trip Me Up

Something's Wrong

It's So Hard

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