The sound is what people talk about, but the reason why the album remains a classic is because of the simplicity and quality of the songs, just like the brothers themselves have said. You can play any of these songs on an acoustic guitar around a campfire and they are equally as strong.
@arthurb6882 Жыл бұрын
I find this with a lot of music and it's a bit frustrating, it's almost always the songwriting which is by far the most important thing but people always talk about the sound way more, possibly because it's easier to talk about
@thelo-fidelityarchive5972 ай бұрын
@@arthurb6882with Psychocandy it's absolutely both, the great Pop tunes colliding with those harsh sounds is what makes it special. That said I also love Darklands precisely because it shows people that the tunes work just as well without the noise, hell some of it's tracks are arguably even better.
@dns12356 жыл бұрын
The melodies absolutely buried in feedback. Mind blowing for the time. Changed the sound of pop music for me.
@EditEverything3 жыл бұрын
i heard this when i was 15. at the time i was obsessed with the top 40. after hearing them i realised everything i knew about music was wrong. i was hooked. the 1998 sidewinder tour at the enmore theatre was absolutely epic and literally, a riot.
@gorrillion15 жыл бұрын
I first saw the Jesus and Mary Chain on some TV music show , I was 15 and it was the video for You Trip Me Up which had just been released , It was like a magical moment , I was already listening to alternative music at that age and 60's stuff like the velvet underground and the doors etc .. but when I saw this video it was like I had been hit on the head with a tuning fork that resonated with my soul or something , that big wall of noise over a beautifully melodic song and the video with all that sunshine and sand . They became my favourite band , I remember going to record shops and finding the Upside Down single and Never Understand and buying the Psychocandy album . I had the You Trip Me Up and Just Like Honey 12" even though they were on the album because I wanted to hear all the B-sides , things like Just Out of Reach , Vegetable Man and Head . Also the double Some Candy Talking EP with the gatefold sleeve . These were magical songs for me , unlike anything else I had ever heard , I loved the noise and the strange feeling it gave me , the beauty of the songs and the sound of the instruments , almost like psychedelic surf music , the reverb on the drums and the feedback over everything , I used to listen to it all through headphones and it was like I was in another world , a world of sonic joy and adventure , it was like a dream , they got it just right with these early records , what a wonderful time ..
@monty18644 жыл бұрын
Never understanding was my WOOOOOOAAAHH moment , things went a bit black , and I loved it !
@rogerbelger20144 жыл бұрын
great comment dacker. i remember my first time to hear their debut album , its was 1985, i was hooked, the sound was nothing ive ever heard before , they instantly took the #3 spot of my favorite bands and pushed Big Country to #4 ( U2 #1, The Church #2)
@ren-jy9kp3 ай бұрын
this is the level of obsessed i am wirg this band and im literally 15
@oncewerekiwis4 жыл бұрын
This album is in my top ten all-time. It simply never dates itself.
@MagicofIreland5 жыл бұрын
One of the Greatest albums of all time, they never surpassed
@uvepeu78554 жыл бұрын
Sin duda
@stevebenoit52953 жыл бұрын
Darklands to me is their masterpiece. It is the acoustic version of Psychocandy in some ways.
@curly_wyn2 жыл бұрын
No way, Psychocandy’s a hundred times better. Their noise and feedback and avoiding the sound of the eighties entirely is what made them cool!
@PeterParker-gp8bi Жыл бұрын
@@curly_wyn i think their both good but i would still have to put psycho candy at number 1
@Sugarnaut Жыл бұрын
Luv ‘em both, but I listen to Darklands 10 times more often.
@curly_wyn Жыл бұрын
@@Sugarnaut I guess that’s because you’re attracted to the more *80s* sound of Darklands lol
@arthurb6882 Жыл бұрын
@@curly_wyn not necessarily, what I love about the jesus and mary chain mainly is their songwriting, with the sound being important but not nearly as important as the songs themselves, and you can hear the songwriting much more clearly on darklands. psychocandy is still my favourite, but only because the songs are better I think. the feedback is cool but it's the songs which make them good
@dondamon46694 жыл бұрын
There first two albums are masterpieces! Fucking beautiful sound that could make you cry with hope!
@chrisconklin8735 ай бұрын
JAMC are so unique that they are their own Genre of music. One of the best bands of my generation.
@hdufort Жыл бұрын
I giggled when I watched a documentary about shoegaze and TJAMC were in the category "accidentally shoegaze" (nice joke). They really invented a sound.
@iggypopisgod96 жыл бұрын
No mention of Velvets or Ramones as influence on introduction....boo
@FrostedSeagull5 жыл бұрын
To Iggy, You make a good valid point and could have added Phil Spector's wall of sound. The brothers Reid were obviously influenced by the Velvets and other so called punk and post punk bands. The JAMC had their own unique formula and as I have written, reintroduced guitar, in particular distorted guitar with reverb. In 1991 the gnome of Darkness, front man from the Sisters of Mercy, Andrew Eldritch stayed the obvious. Whilst discussing his then latest album Vision Thing he said that the Sisters avoided guitar solos, repetitive choruses, added synthesiser, overplayed acoustic guitar that had been sampled 800 times. As one critic correctly said, Eldritch is full of it as Vision Thing is a hard rock album with no solos, a huge guitar sound I.e it sounds like 800 guitars are being played and the synth added to make it sound different from an atypical U. S. Band. VISION THING was classed as Industrial. Unfortunately both grunge and Ministry's Psalm 69 buried it. Eldritch was lucky that the world wide Goth audience helped Vision Thing sell into the millions.
@HermanWaldorf4 жыл бұрын
but Rolling Stones,, c'mon..
@curly_wyn2 жыл бұрын
@@FrostedSeagull Yeah, while lead guitar and guitar solos are cool, they’re not necessary and in my opinion are often meandering and time-wasting. A good rhythm guitar is the only guitar that really matters.
@Goatchild906 ай бұрын
One of the best deubt albums ever released One of the greatest albums of all time One of my favourite albums ever
@MaxLoopTV5 жыл бұрын
Psychocandy is Melodic and Powerful...Still sounds Great today
@MaxLoopTV2 жыл бұрын
@@curly_wyn It was produced in 1985 what do you expect
@curly_wyn2 жыл бұрын
@@MaxLoopTV that was a stupid comment on my part, and was before I really gave the band a chance, I’m sorry. Psychocandy was actually inspired by the Wall of Sound. Now I love them, and tracks like Just Like Honey and The Hardest Walk make me tear up with hope and joy! ☺️🖤
@avedic4 жыл бұрын
The most 90s 80s band ever.
@stevej1154 Жыл бұрын
Snakedriver is, in my opinion, the pinnacle of their achievements. Not on the album, but would fit right in.
@sovaine11 ай бұрын
The very first time that i heard Never Understand i was blown away it was like a experiencing your very first orgasm.... probably one of the most ferocious yet melodic records ever made 😊, that era was magical, everything that was great about UK music that will never be replaced.
@jumofi2 жыл бұрын
Bollocks! The album biggest influence is The Velvet Underground.
@MrBooYa-yd5er5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely the Nevermind of the 80s a standout melded classic and always will be
@FF-so3su3 жыл бұрын
£17 k in 1985 would have bought a family home in most British cities at the time.
@vanmahler6282 Жыл бұрын
With Unknown pleasures of Joy Division, one of the most unique and special records of all the times.
@vera.1yz76411 ай бұрын
❤Jim!!! In teen I had a crash for all them I deeply remember that it s funny
@stravvman5 ай бұрын
I don't understand why there's still not a single documentary on the band or at least a long video essay
@TheSickNeeds5 жыл бұрын
good old sonic detritus..
@jimhinkley89834 жыл бұрын
Surprised also to see the Rollings Stones mentioned when to me they probably had become a bloated parody of their early energy by the ear;y 80s when the Mary Chain said that's enough, we can do better than that dribble and tried to reinvent pop music. The Velvet Underground a far clearer influence and parallel, both in their sound and importance for the evolution of music. Even the Beatles I would think are a better pointer as they too were tremendously innovative and helped make music interesting again. But then I've never really enjoyed Mick Jagger's work :) and I'm sure the RS have contributed something... but more in the way that Mark Knopfler misused his obvious talent to make a largely forgettable catalogue except for the rather lovely Sultans of Swing.
@latontolog4 жыл бұрын
VU are perhaps the most obvious influence on the Mary Chain, but they loved (60s/70s) Stones as well. Listen to the outro to "Nine Million Rainy Days" for one obvious reference.
@Rugmunchersauce32 ай бұрын
Well, they were into what the Stones WERE in the 60s , when they were Brians group (just like in the actual photo of them in the video). They probably DIDN'T like what they had become, but that didn't mean they were going to pretend not to love their early work. I wouldn't go to see the RS anymore, even if I could afford their prices, but I still love their older stuff.
@SavagesInMyTown2 жыл бұрын
that a lot of info in three and a half minutes lol. i enjoyed the vid
@Absorbvids Жыл бұрын
Favorite record.
@nicksmart54697 ай бұрын
Makes the sex pistols sound like yes
@marcraygun6290 Жыл бұрын
Will had gibson 330 not 335 and 8 don't think he had for this album
@Flibbybibby5 жыл бұрын
Loveless did NOT cost that much. Repeating myth makes not fact.
@latontolog4 жыл бұрын
Kevin is that you??
@curly_wyn2 жыл бұрын
Imagine it cost even less 😂😂
@audiolego6 ай бұрын
250k to record Loveless?
@HermanWaldorf4 жыл бұрын
to me, the only serious reason to learn to play guitar is to make it sound as in Psychocandy. I saw Jesus and Mary Chain at the time of Automatic and it was great, I saw them again a few years ago in a festival and they were pathetic, should have given up a long time ago
@sergiocosta_1975 Жыл бұрын
They sounded great to me last year: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp2zq2OQfJtnq7c
@subterraneanpimpernel94552 жыл бұрын
no mention of Joe Foster.
@Sugarnaut Жыл бұрын
You got my attention. What did he do?
@Mark958762 жыл бұрын
The best and the worst rolled into one. Sounds like the Verve's guitarist Nick McCabe.
@flinchey69625 жыл бұрын
Jim’s a genius
@ScottDonnelly-gs4xm10 ай бұрын
What shite ,Bobby was in JAMC before primal Scream if u make a doc get it right,Bobby does not talk about being in any band b4 JAMC,in his own words in Tenement Boy
@Rugmunchersauce32 ай бұрын
Not in it's full form, no. But it's not quite right what you wrote. In the book, he mentions playing briefly with Altered Images, Wake and also forming the very first version of Primal Scream with his mate. It was whilst trying to get some more members for PS that they met the JAMC and then THEY asked him to be their new drummer. The Primal Scream even opened for them occasionally, even though Bobby was also the drummer for the headlining band. Are you sure you really DID read the book?!
@aranyawaasii4 жыл бұрын
struth!
@therealparanormale5 жыл бұрын
the jesus reid
@theetea59612 ай бұрын
😂
@David-dv2lb8 ай бұрын
The girl reading this has no idea what she's saying.
@Rugmunchersauce32 ай бұрын
She's just reading something already prepared for her by someone else who hasn't done all the homework for it.