PSYCHOCANDY

'''Psychocandy''' is the debut album of the Scottish alternative band The Jesus and Mary Chain. The LP was released in November 1985 on Blanco y Negro Records and peaked at number 31 in UK Albums Chart. The band had been signed by the label on the strength of their debut, Slaughter Joe-produced single, "Upside Down" and media attention generated by the band's anarchic gigs.
''Psychocandy'' utilised the then-radical notion of combining simple pop tunes, à la The Beach Boys, with the searing guitar noise more akin to The Velvet Underground, effectively creating the genre of Noise pop and prefiguring Shoegaze. The album is considered to be a landmark recording, frequently appearing in various "best-ever" album lists, such as placed at number 88 in 2000 ''Q'' magazine list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.
The album includes the singles "Never Understand", "You Trip Me Up" and "Just Like Honey". Following reissue on CD in August 1986, the bonus track "Some Candy Talking", which was originally released on the namesake EP, was included. In 2006, the album was remastered and released in DualDisc format without "Some Candy Talking" to conform with the original playlist.
The songs "The Hardest Walk" and "Just Like Honey" were featured on the soundtrack of the films ''Some Kind of Wonderful'' (1987) and ''Lost in Translation'' (2003), respectively.

Contents

Track listing

Personnel

Charts

External links

Track listing

#"Just Like Honey" – 3:03
#"The Living End" – 2:16
#"Taste the Floor" – 2:56
#"The Hardest Walk" – 2:40
#"Cut Dead" – 2:47
#"In a Hole" – 3:02
#"Taste of Cindy" – 1:42
#"Some Candy Talking" – 3:19 (only on the 1986, 1997 CD release)
#"Never Understand" – 2:57
#"Inside Me" – 3:09
#"Sowing Seeds" – 2:50
#"My Little Underground" – 2:31
#"You Trip Me Up" – 2:26
#"Something's Wrong" – 4:01
#"It's So Hard" – 2:37

Personnel

★ Jim Reid - Guitar, Vocals

★ William Reid - Guitar, Vocals

★ Douglas Hart - Bass

★ Bobby Gillespie - Drums
plus

★ John Loder - Engineer

★ Karen and Laurence - Backing vocals

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★ Karen Parker was Bobby Gillespie's girlfriend at the time. She sang backing vocals on Just Like Honey. Laurence Verfaillie, William Reid's girlfriend, sang backing vocals on Taste of Cindy but her contribution was erased from the final mix. Her credit remains on the sleeve, though, as it was designed before the album's mix was finalised. [1]

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1985	UK Albums Chart	31
1985	US Billboard 200	188

External links

★ Lyrics