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- Artist: The Jesus and Mary Chain
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- Release Date: 1985 11
- Total Time: 42:15
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
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. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Just Like Honey | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (3:01) | |
| The Living End | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (2:15) | |
| Taste the Floor | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (2:57) | |
| The Hardest Walk | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (2:39) | |
| Cut Dead | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (2:45) | |
| In a Hole | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (3:02) | |
| Taste of Cindy | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (1:42) | |
| Never Understand | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (2:58) | |
| Inside Me | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (3:09) | |
| Sowing Seeds | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (2:50) | |
| My Little Underground | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (2:31) | |
| You Trip Me Up | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (2:26) | |
| Something's Wrong | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (4:02) | |
| It's So Hard | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (2:38) |
