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Just Like Honey Taste the Floor Sowing Seeds
I never listened to them before. Fun album
Most of the album was pretty innocuous and many of the songs sounded the same. At first, I thought the worse song was, "In A Hole", but then "You Trip Me Up" started, and it started with a note that just made my back teeth ache, so I've changed my mind and now the worst song is, "You Trip Me Up'.
Lotta distortion. Just Like Honey and Taste of Cindy are solid cuts. Not my favorite Jesus and Mary Chain record.
They sounded almost as bored and indifferent as I felt listening to this.
Never really looked in the direction of JaMC before. Wasn't quite what I was expecting. Wasn't bad at all, but I think it could have been done better and was by other bands. A little samey at times, but overall not bad.
Rockin' 80s goth. I knew I should have listened to them a long time ago. LIke in the 80s. Missed opportunities, but I'm glad I caught up w ith them now. 4.5/5
A very interesting sound. Whoever said it sounds like a bubblegum pop band and Joy Division having a fight in a warehouse was spot on. The sound seems to primarily consist of loud guitars blended far into the background with subdued lead vocals brought more into the foreground. The band sounds like a mix of early shoegaze, The Velvet Underground, and The Beach Boys. Overall score of 1/5 because the abrasive noisy tone of the guitars was too overstimulating for me, to be honest. I can see the potential, and judging based on their next release, they do write some pretty decent music, but I’m just not a fan of their execution on this album.
more noise from the 80s
Fun album! I added “Some Candy Coming” to my Generator playlist.
Not a lot to say that hasn't already been said.This is just a collection of great pop songs.Produced in a way that you either love or hate.But can't deny the influence. This would have been groundbreaking in '95 and it came out in '85
The only thing keeping it from being a 5 was the fact that the production was just dripping in reverb. Felt like I was watching a really cool house show in an empty indoor pool. Otherwise just super strong songwriting, catchy, quick, not a single note wasted.
Jonkinlaista räminää ja kaikuefektiä brittipopin jalanjäljissä
Not enought reverb, not enough distortion. I could almost hear the music, and we can't have that, now can we?
Shoe gazer greatness!
Maybe I need more than a couple of listens to get into this.
Jesus and Mary Chain have two song modes: slow 50’s style dirges and fuzzed-out rockers. Most of the time it works but occasionally you listen to one song certain that you’d literally heard the same one 4 songs ago. Vocals are very lackadaisical which sometimes makes you cry out for them to put some welly into it. The whole album utilises a level of reverb that makes the whole thing sound like it was recorded in a disused aircraft hanger. BUT… a lot of it is very pretty and cool. Go figure.
Mixing 60's girl group production with their love of The Velvet Underground, their fuzzed out production is frequently considered the birth of shoegaze. There is beauty and melody to be found throughout all that fuzz and noise. Whilst this album can feel rather one-note with its thunderous pop songs, it doesn't feel too indifferent to the Ramones self-titled. They have an established sound and they get in and out without much variation on that sound. Others have even pointed out that the songs on here sound like Ramones tracks all reverbed up and slowed down. The other time when this repetitive style doesn't work in the record's favour is on 'Sowing Seeds' where the introductory drum pattern mirrors opening track 'Just Like Honey' and you might be left confused that the album is repeating itself. As one record store clerk famously stated, these guys picked up where Echo and The Bunnymen left off.
Just my type of thing. Looking forward to coming back to this one.
If Phil Spector chose noise instead of murder.
Æ elske det
Trodde jeg kom til å like denne bedre enn jeg gjorde. Liker vanligvis at ting låter litt stygt, men når låtene ikke er gode nok så blir det dessverre litt slitsomt å høre på. Dette er tilfellet her, hvor låtene er litt kjedelige i bånn.
Hører sjeldent på The Jesus and Mary Chain, men setter bestandig pris på de når jeg gjør det. Det er bare som oftest andre plater jeg heller hører på hvis jeg er i humør til støyete greier.
Fikk en bra start på mandagen med den her. Mange godlåter her, men denne gangen var det Taste the floor som traff hardest.
Det er noen tøffe sanger her, men mixen låter ho drit.
Har så lyst å like denne plata. Like sjangeren, en del bra låta, men slit sånn med lydbildet. De tynne gitarene som lage en slags billig støyvegg. Æ kommer nok til å høre mer på denne, men æ e ikke frelst.
Mye bra. Mye stygg gitar. Dem kan bedre enn det her.
Liker egentlig dette bandet, men denne plata ble litt for monoton for min del. Noe med lydbildet som var ganske kjedelig etter hvert. 3/5
Liker bandet, men jeg har aldri hørt så mye på dem i ett strekk før, og det ble veldig ensformig. Synd, for plata har et par sterke låter (eller kanskje egentlig bare Just Like Honey).
3/5
This was unremarkable. Nothing grabbed me while listening to it and a day later I’m struggling to even remember anything about it. I’ll give it a middling 3/5
This is a struggle. I'm tapping out half way. The distortion is crazy and I can't tell what the hell he's saying majority of the time. Holy crap!
You Trip me Up almost made my ears bleed and I physically cringed while in my office while listening to this album.
I’m not a huge 80s guy, but Jesus and the Mary chain are an exception. 3.6
Noise Rock! A genre I had never heard of, but made perfect sense once this album started. The distortion made it pretty meh. Seems like it was pretty revolutionary at the time. But I didn’t find it very compelling. 4/10 Acceptable
I like a lot of the descendants of this album. I don't like this album quite as much, but it is still strong.
High hopes, faded
A couple of the tracks were OK, just OK. A bit whiney, emo, shouty, loud and noisy for me
No.
I can't overstate enough how bad this album sounds, possibly the worst sounding one on this list so far. Or at least a top contender. My ears bleed just listening to this. Everything sounds like it was recorded in a cathedral, which it makes it impossible to distinguish the instruments. Somehow they prioritized to make the overly distorted and harsh guitar cut through the mix the most, so now I don't want to hear anything with high-end for a couple of hours. Thanks. No good sounding song in here, but here is a small list of the worst sounding ones: 'Just Like Honey', 'Taste The Floor', 'It's So Hard'. Bottom-of-the-Mariana-trench 0 rating for this one. If they wanted to provoke by making it sound bad, they have succeeded. Congratulations.
So much distortion that nothing really breaks through, it was like listening to a band playing music from another room. The only thing that cut through the noise was the high notes of the guitar which was pretty jarring. 1 star.
Jesus. Mary and Joseph that's a lot of distortion. Stone Roses but distorted beyond being listenable.
Blast from the past
This one’s tough. Just Like Honey is good. The next two tracks I didn’t really like. The Hardest Walk is actually quite good. In a Hole is way too distorted. Taste of Cindy is less fuzzy but still too much. The last few tracks are in the middle somewhere. I can see why this is influential but it’s kind of a toss up for me
I know Jesus and Mary Chain but didn’t really listen to any of their albums other than what I’d hear on KROQ. I was disappointed based on my limited knowledge of them from the radio - too much noise rock for me.
I've liked this album since it came out. I never had a copy - I just had the Just Like Honey 7" but someone nicked it about 30 years ago. As I was listening, I was wondering is it too much for one session. By the end, I'd decided no. I enjoyed listening to this after a long break and look forward to listening again.
I think I like the concept of this group in my contemporary history more than their actual input. They feel like punky gothy background music suitable for a shift washing dishes at a cool diner. I'm down but I don't precisely yearn for the experience...again.
I think I’m too old for this kind of music. I mean there’s a few songs I will take and add it to the playlist but man this sounds of just the screeching static. I was like all right I’m kind of over. It could barely hear some of the lyrics. Some of the time. Definitely probably be better if I was depressed it screams. It wasn’t a phase mom it’s a lifestyle.
A cool grungey sound. I liked it! But I think I’d enjoy it more if I were depressed so I feel like I can’t fully appreciate it at this time in my life but I’ll keep this one in the back pockets.
Nothing defines 15 year old me better than this album. It was the first album I massively anticipated by buying the singles, recording all the Peel sessions and recording their handful of TV appearances on VHS, and then if anything it was even more immense than I had hoped. Sort of gratifying it still annoys enough people to average under 3.0. I was very popular in the family car with my cheap leaky walkman headphones blasting this on full. My mum got her revenge by saying that they sounded like Cliff Richard on Never Understand. Uhuhuh. I also remember plenty old farts (people in their 20s) saying they were just a rehash of the Velvet Underground. "Pah who the hell were the Velvet Underground but ok I'll check them out?" TIME PASSES. "They're pretty cool but the Marychain are rehashing way more than VU, what are you on about?" I see the reviews noting its influence on shoegaze. I think that's why I was always a bit lukewarm on that genre back then. It felt like it combined Psychocandy with the Cocteau Twins and diminished both. At least MBV had something extra.
Great album, Golden Years amazing song.
Ah, Jesus and Mary Chain, I like some of their stuff… Not this album though, at times just a wall of noise with added distortion. Some of the tracks just hurt my ears! Will not be listening to this album again...ever!
In A Hole
5 / 10 - Interessanter Mix aus sauberen, ruhigen Vocals und total verzerrtem, lärmenden Instrumental - Verzerrung und Noise teil des Gesamtwerks, nicht nur des Verzerrens wegen - Trotz des Lärms sind die meisten Kompositionen recht ruhig und monoton - Durch den ruhigen, gelangweilten Gesang und dem konstanten Krach im Hintergrund recht ermüdend komplett durchzuhören Favs: - Just like Honey - In A Hole
production team should be fired into the sun
I came of age in the tail end of JAMC's presence in alternative rock music in the US. Their biggest contribution to rock to me is that the Pixies did a cover of Head On, which I proceeded to cover in one of my first bands, even at a church youth group lock-in without really explaining that it, like many of the other songs we played, were in no way Christian rock songs. But c'mon man we're all having fun and no one's getting hurt. This album just runs together for me.
3.1 Torn on this one. Pioneered a great genre, kicked off shoegaze, noiserock, I think helped set the course for alternative rock, grunge etc. first listen I quite enjoyed it and was excited to go back, but after 3 or 4 listens I'm already a bit bored of it. Unlike MBV there's no real great hooks, and the dreamyness just isn't there. It's a wall of sound for wall of sounds sake. Should be on the list, but not a great album.
Really catchy songs, insanely distorted. Honestly preferred the less distorted tracks, which is not to say that the crazy distorted ones were bad, just I tended to like the cleaner ones better
Too much overdrive and too much feedback overpower not enough vocals. "The sound IS the music" group can't hear anymore because tinnitus set in with this album. I'm sure there's a garage band with 50 dollar guitars that could sound better.
Very good
very fun listening experience enjoyed thoroghly and happily surprised love the raw garage vibe and romantic emotional lyric. very punk pop and emo. Melancholic teenage and rebel vibes. Only one song I was kinda meh and cringing in the beginning. I would however have ordered some of the songs differently for IMHO better experience 3* would give another listen or more for sure
I heard Kolaps right before this and I honestly think this is worse and more grating to my ears. I don't know exactly why but the type of distortion and the amount of it makes this sound bad to me. And the distortion sounds almost the same to my ears on every track so it's also boring to listen to aside from unenjoyable Standouts Just Like Honey 1/5
Just Like Honey is a great opening track that still holds up really well. The rest of this is just too buzzy / noisy / dissonant for me. It feels like somebody is idly strumming a guitar whose strings are way too loose. Not unpleasant, but not my type of thing.
I’ve only heard just like honey. I haven’t heard it in so long I can’t even remember how it goes. I’ve given up ranking them. It’s just noise and speaking. It’s not shoegaze. Just like honey: 5/10 Pretty boring. The living end: 3.5/10 Taste the floor: The hardest walk: Cut dead: In a hole: Taste of Cindy: Never understand: Inside me: Sowing seeds: My little underground: You trip me up: Somethings wrong: It’s so hard:
idk how to explain this, but this album reminds me of the film The Crow (1994)
I wasn't a fan of this band in the 80s
Teilweise voll toll, teilweise viel rauschen
Sooo, what I'm hearing is that Scotland invented grunge in 1985. It's a lot of good, early, raw "rock" sounds that definitely moved the genre forward away from more pop stuff. I wouldn't say I enjoy it, but I respect it.
more 80s slop
If you can endure the numbing amount of feedback, this one is for you!
It’s not exactly my style but it is very admirable, artistic, and cool. It actually kinda gives me David Lynch vibes: a sweet, innocent throwback type of music played and mixed in such a manner that it’s kind of noisy and sinister and unsettling. It’s definitely a must-listen, #305.
Not for me
Moody gothy vibes
2.5
Meh
Jobbigt att lyssna på. Lyckades inte lyssna klart, trots lång paus i mitten. Massa oljud, och inte den bra sortens. Det blir bottenbetyget.
Inspirerande skitighet, låter som Ramones spelat in med darkthrones bandspelare. Blir 3a för black metal-pop.
Jag kanske är bränd men efter två lyssningar är det inget som fastnar för mig. Kanske skulle behövt en tredje. Dom måste ha varit före sin tid? Det är ju iaf ball.
snacka om att vara emo i gubbängen 2008! otroligt soundtrack att ha tonårsångest och längta bort till
Mjuka poplåtar i hårt distad förpackning är alltid en bra present. Kunde inte lyssna mer än en gång men har ju lyssnat förr.
Under all the feedback and distortion, there's probably a pretty good album here.
I could do with a little less reverb, but like the energy.
It has its moments, but they are few & far between. It's a challenging listen, and may be an album that rewards those that give it more eartime. But from just this initial listen, it mostly didn't hit the mark.
I can see why it’s important Sounds ahead of its time sonically Some cool songs but I’d rather listen to the shoegaze stuff this album helped inspire
I have heard this album before and really enjoyed the fuzzy guitars and distortion with really echo-y vocals. I love shoegaze so this band is essential foundational listening. It's noisy but really melodic in spots. Something's Wrong really hit me on this listen.
Not much I enjoyed about this one tbh.
"Psychocandy" is an album of deliberate contradictions, oscillating between atmospheric moodiness and abrasive noise. The decision to bury the vocals deep in the mix enhances that cavernous, haunting feel. For me, the record is at its best when leaning into Phil Spector-inspired production - the opening track, "Just Like Honey", is a perfect example. However, I’m less convinced by the feedback-drenched tracks like "Never Understand", which lean heavily into a punk aesthetic. This makes for a somewhat uneven listening experience; yet, for fans of what my mother would call "loud music", it’s never a dull moment. Three stars The version of the album I listened to has the excellent "Some Candy Talking" which was wasn't on the original release. Side one 1 "Just Like Honey" (5/5) 2 "The Living End" (3/5) 3 "Taste the Floor" (3/5) 4 "The Hardest Walk" (4/5) 5 "Cut Dead" (3/5) 6 "In a Hole" (3/5) 7 "Taste of Cindy" (4/5) Side two 1 "Some Candy Talking" (5/5) 2 "Never Understand" (3/5) 3 "Inside Me" (3/5) 4 "Sowing Seeds" (4/5) 6 "My Little Underground" (3/5) 7 "You Trip Me Up" (3/5) 8 "Something's Wrong" (3/5) 9 "It's So Hard" (3/5) Total - 52 Average - 3.47 253/1001 138/253 albums reviewed were new to me
This was cool, need to check out more proto-shoegaze
One of the most accurately named albums of all time.
1.73
I dig this, but it can get a bit much if you're not in the mood. It feels kinda like Joy Division with way screechier distortion.
Peak shoegaze
Phwoaar, yeah! I don't know if I love Psychocandy quite as much as Darklands, which I think has slightly more standout tracks on it, but it's still absolutely top rate. Bursts of noise, top drawer melody, a couple of songs (Just Like Honey and Candytalking) that hold incredible emotional resonance) and a really consistent gothic vibe to it. Great stuff.
Still sounds great. Beautiful and menacing in equal measure
Glorious. Listened in an indoor trampoline park at half term. Thank you noise cancelling headphones….
Among my top 10 all time favourite albums of all time, thank you for sharing Random Generator Person❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Not listened to this album for a long time. Really enjoyed revisiting this
Solid and noisy and didn't grab me.
Ушкам больно((
It's noisy. In that good way. But never really clicked for me, even though I can see the throughlines. High 2s.
Et band jeg har vært i nærheten av å lytte til før, da de opererer innen sjangre jeg tiltrekkes av. Biter av alt-rock, post-punk og shoegaze her. Pop-melodier druknet i fuzz. Kan til og med minne om en noisy The Stone Roses til tider (se f.eks. The Hardest Walk). Litt varierende sangkvalitet, men jeg er kjempefan av estetikken. Første lytt var veldig engasjerende, men albumet tapte seg betraktelig ved påfølgende gjennomganger. En sterk treer. Top 3: Sowing Seeds, My Little Underground, The Hardest Walk
Interesting. Clearly very influential on a lot of stuff I really like, but I found the proto- nature of this a bit off putting. I enjoy the things this influenced more I think. The vocals weren’t great and the buzzy guitar tone was a little irritating as well.
I was not sure I was gonna dig this. I was aware of their influence, and.... the first track didn't do anything for me. But then that wall of distortion opened up and I loved it. "Just Like Honey" and "Cut Dead" are my least faves. Even then, the proto-shoegaze sound of "Cut Dead" is undeniable, I can respect it. If it were a longer album, those two might not have as much weight. As it is, a strong 4 for me.
Considering my musical taste, I should’ve listened to this before and love it, somehow I think I tried a bunch of time but it never caught me. Listening to it, I love the aesthetic, chainsaw fuzzy guitars with sweet jangly melodies on top and sardonic vocals. It just feels kind of uneven. When it works, like on The Hardest Walk, it’s incredible. I just feels not all songs are as strong and many fall short. So the album falls short of greatness.
Away from the 80s land of synthesizers and spandex and you will find the music for non-conforming weirdos that continue a legacy on music of today without the flashy new wave haircuts or chic fashion sense. Lot of this music the industrial/goth/noise rock was sort of the real continuation of the rockist world that would provide a gateway from My Sharona to Nirvana and the Seattle Grunge scene. This excludes metal, which really branched off to its own thing in the 80s, but not the influences of alternative rock. Psychocandy and The Jesus and Mary Chain as a whole, is probably one of the more important albums of the 80s for rock music. Not in the new wave or post punk sense, but for that continued 70s rock to 80s rock sound. It took in the aforementioned industrial/goth/noise sounds from the 60s (IE: being strongly influenced by Velvet Underground) and 70s with a good dash of the early era of The Cure. Don't forget to dip your paintbrush with a good dose of fuzzy guitar tone.
Some standouts, some a bit monotonous. Nice vibe overall but maybe not my favorite of its style.
Finally some noise! I can understand that this is not for everyone. Hence the low average score. I don't think noise is for every ear in this review community. But I love it!
Memmmmories ❤️
I tried to like it, I can understand the aesthetics of noise and the production choises but... The songs themselves suck, they're plain and repetitive, with almost nothing happening beneath the wall of noise. Sometimes they start to sound promising but never develop or go anywhere. 2/5
Outstanding record
And I'm being generous
Liked the guitar sounds. Songs didnt really stick with me.
A whole lotta sound!
The fifth and sixth members of the band are Feedback and Reverb.
Noise popens far? Just Like Honey er perfeksjon, definitivt på lista over de 100 best pop-låtene i historien. (En dag må jeg lage denne lista for å se hvor tight det er å komme blant topp 100.) JMC var også klar over at de var inne på noe der, for Psychocandy inneholder flere låter som høres ut som forsøk på å finne akkurat den låta. Sowing Seeds er praktisk talt en reprise. I tillegg til Just Like Honey-likes, finner vi forsøk på å perfeksjonere motorsykkellåta. De begynner allerede på spor nummer to, hvor de ikke engang prøver å være subtile om det: "I get ahead on my motorbike / I feel so quick in my leather boots / My mood is black when my jacket's on". De kommer nærmest med å nå motorsykkelnirvana med In a Hole. Låta kan beskrives som om en produsent fra fremtiden har bestillt Joy Division, men det er shoegaze. Absolutt et viktig album, men selv om det alltid høres kult ut (de gikk hardt til verks for å være verdens kuleste band), er det ikke til å komme unna at det går litt på tomgang. Det er på en måte forsøk på å lage to låter igjen og igjen.
Jeg liker jo plata, og syns den er viktig, men de perfeksjonerer soundet og stilen på "Just Like Honey" og lager ganske mange varianter av et par låter. Heldigvis tåler jeg det fordi plata er nesten transcenderende, drømmende. Det er så latterlig kult selv om det høres ut som de har tatt opp vokalen på et toalett. Det er jo nesten en gimmick at alle låtene kunne vært med i en midwest indiefilm. Det er først nå det har slått meg hvor mye plata minner om Suicide, men også Velvet Underground såklart (særlig "Cut Dead". Men likevel er det noe eget de har klart å få til med det fine nesten popaktige som ligger under all støyen. Gitarer som spiller små melodier i det fjerne som nesten ikke lar seg oppdage av støyen.
Jeg setter pris på støyen, men ikke så mye mer.
Weird one
dark and moody, although i did struggle to get a grasp on some of the songs with the amount of distortion over them which was a shame
A bit overrated. But if you like the dream pop of Mazzy Star or the Smashing Pumpkins or the Teenage Fanclub, no doubt you probably heard of the Jesus and Mary Chain, who provided the blueprints to dream rock and shoegaze by using feedback noise and reverb to decorate their lush pop songs. But it never feels so deliberately alienating as Lou Reed ever did with the Velvet Underground, rather this noise wall of sound feels more akin to never letting go of the sustain pedals of a piano. The chords wash over one another, but you can still hear them quite clearly to jive along with their punk songs. Eventually it all sounds a bit samey, but there's still a few glimmers of noisy fun to keep you entertained.
Pretty good, never heard of them before. Kinda distorted avant garde, good to run to.
Influential and unique. An acquired taste
Priem
Ein Mix aus Wave und Rock, der konsequent durch einen Störsender gejagt wird – spannend, aber nicht überragend: ein interessantes, raues Debüt, das nicht immer zündet, aber definitiv Charakter hat
Psychocandy will be my second J&MC album to review, and also my last album of 1985, which happens to be the year I was born. I came into this project only knowing J&MC’s song “Head On," which I really liked, so I was excited to see two of their albums on this list. I enjoyed Darklands, and gave it four stars. I thought the guitar playing and distortion made Darklands a fun album, so I imagine I’m going to like Psychocandy as well. Like Darklands, I enjoyed Psychocandy. I thought the guitar playing on this album was really good, and I enjoyed the Jim Reid’s vocals as well. J&MC have a really unique sound, and that was full present on this album. I liked how there were these great melodies buried under the noise and distortion, rewarding the listener for giving their full attention to the album. The lyrics and vocals were pretty pop-oriented, and they reminded me of sixties surf rock in the way they were delivered. Sometimes though, I thought the distortion was too much, and that it didn’t add a lot to the sound; at those moments, it felt like the distortion and fuzz was just a layer you had to remove to get to the good stuff. Still, this album was a fun journey, and I felt like it got better as it went along. I really enjoyed being able to connect the dots from this album to the shoegaze albums that would come out in the late eighties and early nineties. While this album wasn’t my favorite, I definitely appreciate the artistry and influence that it had. As far as the best songs on this album are concerned, I really liked “Just Like Honey,” “The Hardest Walk,” “Never Understand,” and “Sowing Seeds.” However, I’d have to say that “Something’s Wrong” was my favorite. I loved the guitar playing, and I really liked the echoing and metallic sound to the percussion. The vocals were at their peak here too, and this song was just really beautiful. This was a fun album to dive into, and I’m glad I got to experience a couple of albums from these guys.
A great late night album.
This is just a very weird album of pretty much nothing going on. I guess there is an audience that enjoys it, given the relatively high number of listens. I think that this would've been fine back in the day, possibly just as a background listen, but now it's just a bit meh, unless it's a background song.
Surprising OK
This will always be a classic album. The best way to describe it is noisy psychedelic rock with a post-punk and goth undertone. If you’re into noise rock with abrasive distortion and feedback, this album will definitely hit the spot. Another great element is the 60’s-style psychedelic, ethereal vocals buried under all the chaos and noise. Even though the album leans into noise, it sticks to traditional song structures, making it listenable and easy to latch on to.
It has a decent sound, but the songs didn't stand out much
The only reason this is getting a 3 instead of a 2 is that I'm blinded by the fact that they're Scottish, this will probably be as patriotic as I get this year.
I feel like I’m missing something. Not like I’m insulted, but, rather, I feel like I’m missing out. I really like the fuzzed out rock of The Jesus And Mary Chain, but it doesn’t hit me in any powerful way like I keep hoping it will. I appreciate their noisy tendencies, but the notes beneath the wall of distortion leave me wanting something ~more~, whatever that may be. As I think about it, TJAMC have more in common with Suicide than most other bands on this list, but this still sounds like B grade work. What am I missing?! What’s the secret to liking The Jesus And Mary Chain?!
This is a perfect album for this project: you should definitely hear it once, even if you hate it. The simple description of this music is bubblegum pop songs played with the reverb and distortion turned up to 11. Actually, I don't think it's much more complicated than that. By now a lot of bands have followed this formula, but I think Jesus and Mary Chain were one of the first to do it. Which makes this album sound almost quaint, which feels like an absurd thing to say about such cacophonous music. I don't need to hear this album again, but JAMC are so over-the-top committed to this sound, there's a kind of hilarious genius to it. Gotta respect.
Didn’t really listen
Boring.
4.5
Game changer
Really muddy sound. It's hard to tell if these guys are good or bad.
I had to listen to the full album 3 times to actually pay enough attention to it to rate it. I would say there are some stand outs but over all... it's a good album for background listening. It can get a little drone-y but all the songs felt cohesive without getting to repetitive. I would put this on again to listen to at work but it wouldn't be my main pull for a listening experience.
on the debut Jesus and Mary Chain album, The Velvet Underground once again prove themselves to be one of the most pivotal bands in recorded music history. the Reid brothers were very clearly inspired by the simplicity and memorability of many a classic TVU track when they wrote the songs for Psychocandy; you could make a drinking game out of listening for when they start rocking between the I chord and the IV chord, a very Lou Reed-esque move. that being said, you'd never mistake their band for a Velvets ripoff, on account of the near-constant barrage of distortion and (especially) amplifier feedback coating just about every track. the combination of catchy melodies and noise walls the J&MC cooked up here would go on to be a pivotal influence on the shoegaze movement later in the decade, with the heavy distortion taking on more of a dreamlike quality. it's interesting to compare that later stuff to an album like Psychocandy, which remains so resolutely dark in spite of the relatively upbeat songwriting on the surface. decent 8/10.
3.5. Very cool little album from a band I had never heard of. Liked this one a lot.
Fuzzy shoegazey noise rock goodness
Wasn’t quite sure what to expect but by the end of the album I’d added the band to my favorites
Almost enjoyed this enough for a 4. Almost.
I like these lads. Simpsons: No
It's just pure noise and I kind of liked it.
So not my thing; reminded me too much of the muddy sound of Bullet For My Valentine. Didn't last past In a Hole.
One of my favorite albums of all time and a bit of a life-changer at 15. The perfect prelude to the noise pop and shoegaze developments of the late 80s and early 90s, sickly-sweet hooks and melodies buried beneath a net of static, with vocal deliveries both apathetic and earnest all at once. An album for the ages and one that absolutely deserves to be here, in my opinion.
2.7
Jesus Chains robes
some good songs but not really my kind of music.
I was previously familiar with the artist but not this album. I think it is one of those whose historical importance and influence is greater than the listenability. Despite being influential and kicking off an entire genre, I feel it is not super interesting to listen to. It mostly seems like noise for the sake of noise, on top of relatively uninteresting tunes. I can appreciate it but don't see myself listening again.
What an excellent album, love it
"Psychocandy" by The Jesus And Mary Chain was a completely new experience for me, as I had never heard the band or this album before. The overall sound is very punk-ish, with that constant wall of guitar feedback being the most defining element. It is kind of cool at first, but since it is present in pretty much every song, it quickly became a bit too much for me. One song like that works well, but across a whole album it felt over the top. Also there is much too much reverb - it's all over the place. I was also never much of a new wave or post-punk fan to begin with, so this style does not really click with me. That said, I do have to give them credit for the variety on the record. There is more going on here than I initially expected, even if it did not fully win me over. I could see myself giving it another listen at some point, but probably not anytime soon.
The bomb!
The effects put an interesting vibe on what would otherwise be a pretty bland pop album. It's creative but it lacks a cool factor.
I don’t actually hate the massive amount of reverb and washed out nature of everything as much as I thought I would. I do, however, think that those effects are the only reason this is notable. It’s a pop rock album under it all. It’s not bad, it’s not particularly engaging either.
One of the most abrasive sounding albums I've ever heard outside of metal and hardcore punk. Could be passed off as pretentious nonsense, but it's quite beautiful and has grown on me a lot in recent years. I should give Darklands another go.
I want to like this album, but it just doesn't sound good. I don't mean that it's bad musically, or the lyrics are bad, but the mixing and sound quality is just atrocious. The poor recording and lo-fi sound just makes it difficult to enjoy this album or listen to it critically.
Another British post punk album. It was okay at times, but really overbearing as well. 2.5/5 Probably won’t listen again
Just like honey. . .
4.0 stars I liked this one A LOT more on 2nd and even moreso 3rd listen. at first they sounded like a poor man's Stone Roses...but even if that were true (it's not) that's a pretty good thing. that said, they do remind me a good deal about the Stone Roses debut album. definite grower, might even go back and relisten down the road. Favorite track: Just Like Honey
Sometimes it felt like surf rock
vibed with
Fuckin decent.
Litt uinspirerande, men går bra
Lowkey this album was really hard to listen to, it sounds like I’m at a late 80s 7th and 8th grade semi formal most of the songs were horrible and maybe one or two good one I almost gave up on listening to the whole thing
I loved this album when I was in college. It was tailor made for my interests at the time. It's poppy new wave / post-punk with a ton of noise and dissonance. There's also a muted affect that reads as "cool" to young adults who still care about that kind of thing -- a bit of a C-86 vibe. And, of course, this album is one of the most obvious forerunners of shoegaze. But I also hear JAMC influence all over pop/rock music from Smashing Pumpkins to Frank Ocean and everywhere in between. I can't help but offer my one critique though...their formula is to layer a bunch of feedback and trashy noise on top of saccharine 60s-style pop tunes, which means the two elements never really integrate. They don't ever successfully make pop music FROM noise, it's always pop music PLUS noise. Nevertheless, it's very good and much more interesting than a lot of the shite their contemporaries were putting out.
Truly outstanding album, never understand, cindy, honey, trip me - Reid brothers so inspirational- I still have my old JAMC t shirt from the 1980s🤩
This album feels dirty and gritty and I'm not sure I like it. Also all the mumble singing is driving me crazy, I get that you are edgy but does that mean I can't hear your lyrics!
First listen outside of just like honey…I get why Billy corgan says they’re one of the Pumpkins biggest influence. The guitar was cool - and would have been insane sounds in the 80’s…but it was a bit much. A 3.5 I bumped up…
They've just never been for me. This album is fine but I didn't finish listening to it. I'm not sure why I would need to hear this before I die.
In theory.. I like this record. In practice.. it gets old after a while. Sorry. I do like that other groups took these ideas and made them better.
This one felt boring and the same thing over and over again. Not for me.
Liked it a lot more than I thought I would. Too many songs though 3 stars
01) Just Like Honey - 7,5 02) The Living End - 6,5 03) Taste the Floor - 6,5 04) The Hardest Walk - 6,5 05) Cut Dead - 6,5 06) In a Hole - 6,5 07) Taste of Cindy - 7,0 08) Some Candy Talking - 7,0 09) Never Understand - 7,0 10) Inside Me - 6,5 11) Sowing Seeds - 7,0 12) My Little Underground - 6,5 13) You Trip Me Up - 6,5 14) Something's Wrong - 6,5 15) It's So Hard - 6,0 TOTAL: 6,67 (67/100) Current ranking: 530/792
If only for its influential sound, it’s up there. But yeah it’s the noise art that I love, especially the day after this supposedly randomized list gave me The Pixies
Not bad. It almost sounds like if the velvet underground went straight shoegaze. Probably groundbreaking and novel for the time and holds up well due to modern shoegaze aesthetics/revival being very in right now but the actual music isn't as interesting to me.
Eh, not my cup of tea
Not for me
The contrast between the loud instruments and the singing is interesting. they should scream more
I respect the hell out of this, especially coming out in ‘85. I sort of forget about The Jesus and Mary Chain, even though I actually bought this tape twice because the first one got eaten by a tape player, and then the second one got eaten by the same tape player. So I associate a lot of unfair anger and frustration to this album.
As a child, I remember being vaguely terrified of a massive poster of this album in the local music store. Who were these people with the haircuts? Why were they sad? What did those massive red and black words mean? I didn’t want to know. A decade or so later, I finally bought the CD and have been listening to it ever since. Masterpiece.
Had no idea what to expect with this one but was pleasantly surprised. First half guitar distortion was a little too much for the rest of the sound but the second half was really enjoyable
The feedback hurts my ears
Enough like Sonic Youth for me to like it but too shoe-gazery for me to love it. If you want to fuck me in the ear with your guitar you're going to have to look me in my eyes.
Normally I hate this kind of noisy grunge, but I actually found myself feeling pretty neutral about it, which is maybe the highest praise I can give it. Although the last song is truly awful
How have I not heard this until now
Nice
Eigentlich ganz cool, grunge/punk mäßig, haunting, für mich persönlich etwas zu gritty, die Musik ist zu laut und man hört den Gesang nicht so gut, sehr repetetiv und es gibt kein Lied was wirklich raussticht
Just like honey is great. The rest of it got very tedious.
Оооо хорошее
A couple of these songs really hit, but overall, a meh?
Oh a glorious mashup of pop, punk, VU and wall of sound here from The Jesus and Mary Chain all bound together in feedback. This album lived on my turntable when I first bought it, and I still play it today. I don't think there's a duff track here, but I particularly love Taste of Cindy, Just Like Honey and Never Understand.
This was an album. It contained music.
Fav tracks: the living end, the hardest walk
Just like that it’s 1985 again... I can almost taste the snakebite and black or smell the patchouli The rawness of punk, the feedback of hardcore on rock n roll at a walking pace . With out the feedback this could be the happy bop pop of altered images . Or the Ramones played at half speed . The beach boys if they grew up in Govan. Ironically in places this is more industrial than the Liaibach album I had yesterday
Vocals suck and are hard to hear. The instrumentals are just noise.
I have no idea what this is, but Wikipedia says it’s noise pop. Absolute trash. Wikipedia also says it’s proto-shoegaze, but this is too awful for me to believe that.
Listened Before? N Pioneering noise-rock record. Dripping with sludgy sounds. Enjoyed it, but couldn't listen every day. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Just Like Honey
I remember the buzz when this came out and the marmite effect of trying to hear the music through the noise. I don’t know why I didn’t take to it, but I remember a friend going to The Royal Court in Liverpool to see them - he said they tuned up for 20 minutes, took a bow, and left. 1. Just Like Honey 2. Some Candy Talking (not on my album) 3. Never Understand
Too droney
# Album Name: Psychocandy # Artist: The Jesus And Mary Chain # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Starts out with a banger - just like honey. After that, its a lot of noise and distortion. As someone who suffers from tinnitus, i do not recommend it at all. # Top Tunes: Just like honey # Would I listen to it again? No
Distortion much. A little okay but this was just constant static noise. Nope.
I liked this much more than I thought I was going to. And I’m not even really sure why. There are actually melodies here. And it’s not too showgqzy, which is a bonus. A surprising 3.5 rounding up to 4
I wish I listened to this decades ago. I feel like it is no longer novel or unique, so it's hard for me to rate it fairly. Nothing in particular stands out, but this is entirely my kind of music.
Reminds me of a lite version of the band "James".
That's one way to produce an album. But in all seriousness it was really good. I listened to it after midnight, after a lot of stuff happening, at it was perfect.
Maybe it's sacrilege, but I'm going to give this four rather than five. I really like it, but for some reason my listening didn't push me into five territory. I gave Darklands five, and I'm not sure I could objectively say this is worse. Strongly suspect there are days when the scores would be swapped.
Soooo good
< the Beatles No thank you. Started out perfectly ignorable, became annoying
Killer
Too repetitive
This was really solid. It reminds of an artist but I can’t quite place it. Kinda sounds a bit like some of the classic Aussie pub bands but there’s also some Nirvana in the guitar (obviously this was before Nirvana but it’s more of a comparison). Great album, solid the whole way through!
This is the second day in a row that I get bands that don't appeal to me at all right now. In fact, if you didn't tell me they were different groups, I would tell you that I'm tired of listening to a single, wretched 50 track album... Alright, that's slightly harsh. This album is marginally better than yesterday. On a 5 star scale, it's still 1 star. On a 10 star, it would be 2.
Man, I wanted to like this, just to much noise. So disappointing, since I'm sure there's a gem in there. 2/5
Favorite Track: Just Like Honey
This is one of those it sucks so bad that it kinda becomes good albums
Kitchen sink album. Not in the “it has everything” way, I mean the “hold on I can’t hear anything because the kitchen sink is blasting” way.
I wanted to like this album so much more than I ended up, because the first song, "Just like Honey" sounded alright. Classic 80s soft rock ballad. But then the rest of the album took such a huge dive for me. I listened to the album on Spotify on Lossless quality, and yet several songs had me questioning my equipment. The distortion and screeching on some of the other songs was just so unbearable that I couldn't make it to the end of them for fear of giving myself a headache. Some better mixing could've made such a difference here.
Could only find album as part of a bootleg upload. Interesting, but I don't think the quality was enough to accurately judge
First impression is I’m instantly into it. Proto Stone Roses. Sounds years ahead of its time. Bit relentless as an album all at once. 2.5 rounded up to a 3
Psycho candy was Len Houmous’ pet name for his 21st wife. 3.5 1/14 Just Like Honey
# Playlist Track - Just Like Honey # Notes - First time I heard this I though it was so jarring and grating that I couldn't even quite finish it. - There are way too many moments, like in "In a Hole" and "Taste of Cindy" where random noise, feedback and distortions eat up the whole song. - It gets a bit better if you're using headphones, as you can still kind of listen to the sound beneath the noise. It is still very annoying, anyway. - And it keeps happening over and over! So much that it feels like a cheap trick to sound "edgy".
J&MC are instantly recognizable. Nice alternative music but not a favorite for me.
First time and last time. I thought the album started out well but I was soon just tired of the music
Bit repetitive but I like the atmosphere
Previously rated: #394 - Darklands (3/5) ******************************* Album #990 This was quite the assault on my ears -- very noisy. My Little Underground is the epitome of that with all the feedback. It's effect heavy on everything, including the vocals, which made it almost impossible to decipher any of the lyrics. Too bad, because there are some good melodic and catchy songs here. I wouldn't mind hearing them with less noise. Whereas Darklands got a high 3, this one would be a low 3, so they are further apart in enjoyment than the equal rating would indicate.
I feel so distorted
I appreciate the decision to go with a raw, distorted sound, but I was hoping the singer would introduce some variation to counter it
Holy shit. This was absolutely terrible. One of the worst things I've ever heard.
The contrast between the soft/whispery vocals and the wall of noise behind it is interesting (overdrive is cranked to 500000 and gets a bit grating), but the content of the songs themselves don't really do it for me or make me feel much. It is cool sounding, songs are simple poppy numbers but the delivery throws you. This is so clearly a precursor to shoegaze. A bit same-y
I didn't feel like this album is something special. Not a bad one tho 2/5
imagina fazer um álbum que já inicia com uma das maiores pedradas da história eu sou 150% suspeito pra falar de tjamc pq tem um espacinho muito especial só pra eles no meu coração pedrada master 100%, um dos melhores álbuns já feitos, escutar isso jovem mudou minha forma de escutar música etc etc BRABO
esse aqui eh união sinistra entre BARULHADA e POPZINHO. como pode esse album ser tão bom e barulhento e gostosinho ao memo tempo?? eu fico doido demais, eh dos maiores do mundo memo. sem ele, metade das banda noventista que eu gosto nem existiria. devo tudo a esses irmão escocês. fun fact: eu sempre ESQUEÇO que esse eh mó barulhento em comparação ao darklands (que eu escutei BEM mais, inclusive). é sempre um choque, bom d+
2.0 - Weak
7 - GOOD
Distorted guitars is often a thing I like since it can be used very well. This is an example of when it isn't. Its to much and even covers the singing. Nothing I want to listen to again.
Day699 - i like it but imagine how cool i’d be if this was my favorite band
It was fine but too much grunge is too much
i liked the way they implemented the noise, but the album is just… boring? idk i only enjoyed 2 songs
This was an all new one for me and I really enjoyed hearing all the artists I like that were influenced by it. From Nirvana to Belle and Sebastian I was getting all sorts of 90s alternative/indie vibes.
Good but mostly makes me want to listen to Darklands and the Happy When It Rains EP. It’s like an appetizer.
One of my old favourites
Nice one
1001 Albums Vol. 0016: Psychocandy ============================================================ Introduction: Well, it's been quite a while, but I've finally reached another album and even name that I've never heard yet again. Good for me because this is why I really started doing this in the first place. I wanted to make self-discoveries while discovering names completely new to me at the same time. Will I make any self-discoveries with this album? Probably not. I've heard shoegaze before and know that upon repeated listens I generally warm up most songs in the genre. Speaking of which....Psychocandy is the debut album by the band...The Jesus And Mary Chain...weird name...released in the year 1985. Wow, it's actually kinda surprising to not be listening to something from the 60's or 70's. Anyway, this album is considered to be extremely influential and one that you should listen to before you die due to its productional innovation. This was apparently one of the first albums created to fully lean into a more echoey and noise-filled environment which would become signature of the genre known as shoegaze. And again, like I said, shoegaze is a genre that I can generally get behind. It's definitely one of the more obscure and hard-to-get-into genres. That may be because of subdued lyrics, dreamy production, or something else that people generally don't like that I'm missing. Point is, shoegaze is a genre that is not for everyone. The score on this site perfectly reflects that, AND...I will say, from the additional research I've done into this album, these lower scores may actually be somewhat valid this time around. From what I've seen, this album doesn't deserve to be in the 2's, but its score isn't nearly as unfair as some of the other albums on this site. It's a pretty mixed bag from what I've read. Besides that, the only other thing to mention before I get into the listen is that this album was apparently pretty influential on alternative rock as well. That's cool. Alternative rock tends to be a pretty consistently good genre. Anyway, with all of that said, let's get into the first potential 3/5 that I've generated for quite a minute. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track 1: Just Like Honey Score: 10/10 Track 2: The Living End Score: 7/10 Track 3: Taste The Floor Score: 8/10 Track 4: The Hardest Walk Score: 9/10 Track 5: Cut Dead Score: 8/10 Track 6: In a Hole Score: 6/10 Track 7: Taste of Cindy Score: 8/10 Track 8: Never Understand Score: 7/10 Track 9: Inside Me Score: 6/10 Track 10: Sowing Seeds Score: 8/10 Track 11: My Little Underground Score: 7/10 Track 12: You Trip Me Up Score: 6/10 Track 13: Something's Wrong Score: 7/10 Track 14: It's So Hard Score: 5/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conclusion: This was a weird listen. It's so very obvious that this was shoegaze in its early days because this album was actually pretty rough around the edges. It contains that iconic and instantly recognizable shoegaze vibe to it but with a lot less good production. Admittedly, there are a lot of pretty good songs on here, but there were also a lot of alright and a few bad songs as well. You have songs like Just Like Honey is a great song that honestly sounds like it could have come out later in the shoegaze era....You then have songs like In a Hole which isn't bad but makes me want to rip my ears out because the guitar is so, so, so incredibly loud to the point where it sounds like static. Again, not a bad song, but a better producer and sound design could have made it way better. This isn't an isolated issue across the album either. Many of the later songs have this exact same problem only it doesn't extend across the entire song. Yes, I know this album leans more towards noise than shoegaze, but it's still annoying and kinda takes me away from the songs. Again though, I would consider mostly everything on this album to range from alright to great. It could be a lot worse. On the positive side, the music here manages to be pretty good when it's not bombarding your ears with irreversible damage. Most of these songs I find pretty good follow the trend of having a more dreamy vibe similar to that of shoegaze instead of noise. There's a weird mix between the two genres on this album. It's a mix that honestly sounds incredibly unique if not a bit rough. I wouldn't classify this album entirely as dream pop, shoegaze, or noise. It's just its own thing. It's a thing that I haven't really heard anywhere else. That deserves credit. Anyway, the lyrics on this album are alright. Again, Just Like Honey is pretty great in terms of its lyrics while the others are either good or alright at best. Most songs contain an interconnected theme of feeling isolated or wanting to isolate yourself from the world. Then you have some that straight up tell a tale of someone riding their motorcycle into a tree and getting decapitated upon impact. I'm not hating on that song, I like it because of how goofy and unexpected it is...but it's still goofy. For the most part, the lyrics on this album are pretty vague and are up to heavy amounts of interpretation. The same can be said about what is even being said by the singer. As is generic with shoegaze, the music takes the forefront with this album while the singer takes the backburner. I'm not criticizing this choice in production by any means, if anything it only helped set the standard for what would later be the shoegaze genre. It's good even though I know a lot of people probably hate shoegaze just for that reason. With all that said, Psychocandy is a very mixed bag. Yes, it did help set the standard of an up-and-coming genre of music, but that fact is so very clear throughout most of the album. If anything, most of the album kinda has that D.I.Y. tone of early punk rock but a lot more echoey and with more production distortion. At the end of the day, it is a good album, but it is also one of the weakest I have generated on this site so far. ============================================================ Psychocandy Score: 7/10 Song Average: 7.3/10
Super grunge vibe, which I like. Some tracks really push the feedback noise vibe a little too far, but overall I like this one. That being said, I'm not sure I'll go back to it. Like a high three, but still a three.
It’s good, reminiscent of mbv just not as perfectly put together
the songs are hit or miss. did i say hit or miss? I meant mid or miss.
We’ve been on a run of albums I know very well lately. Psychocandy is another great one. Shoegazy powerpop with an overlay of white noise and feedback. Very influential, and every time you play it in full it always sounds…exciting. Songs like Just Like Honey, Never Understand and The Hardest Walk are very well-known, of course. But the whole album has stood the test of time really well.
I'd heard of the band before but thankfully hadn't heard any of their 'noise' before. Musically it might have been ok if the distortion had been kept under control, but it wasn't. The vocals sounded like they were being sung from the other end of a 100m long tunnel so I've little idea of the lyrics. By the second side it was giving me a headache and I think this might be the only album that's ever done that to me.
Maybe you had to be there at the time?
Enjoyed it but didn’t love it. Kinda punk, kinda alternative
I overall enjoyed this album. It feels like early britpop, most similar to the stone roses. I thought some of the lyrics were quite gimmicky but I enjoyed sowing seeds and just like honey.
Bang up my street this, really enjoyed it. Heavy stuff but still musically minded. I would describe it as Britain's answer to Sonic Youth, very impressed. Definitely knew the name but didn't expect it to sound like this.
It was ok.
I love noisey ass guitars. Only problem with this is a lot of the songs blend together, I enjoyed getting my ears blasted 👍
3.5
Honestly this album would be so much better without all the hall reverb. I know this was a thing in the 80s, especially in goth recordings, but this feels like they ran it through the reverb two or three times for maximum effect. Tha fact that there's an actual damn good album under all this is keeping me from tanking this album. I'm actually glad the let up on the verb on subsequent albums. I need a mac and rubbers... Damn (8.1) ★★★★
Nice pop melodies buried under a wall of noise. 4 stars
I think this album was pretty ahead of its time for 1985 and there's certainly some cool stuff here, unfortunately, there's some stuff that doesn't work as well too. Ultimately, I appreciate it more than I enjoy it. Highlights for me are "Just Like Honey", "The Hardest Walk", and "Cut Dead". 4 stars.
Not as Psycho-randy as I've been for this in the past but overall this still holds up as a pretty classic debut and essential go-to record of the 80s that meshes tuneful lusty 60s Beach Boys and Spectorian pop with howling, scabby, punishing noise rock. Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie is on this and does a great impersonation of Moe Tucker on drums. High points include Tastes Like Honey, The Living End, Taste Of Cindy and Something's Wrong.
Crap ! No stars given
not impressed, lots of mud 2/5
Many brilliant albums would not exist without "Psychocandy". The Jesus and Mary Chain did something almost unheard of in the music industry. They used guitar feedback and noise to create a unique sound. Without it, "Psychocandy" would be just another '80s album. However, it's not a great record. 3 stars for "Psychocandy".
Not for me.
I was not a fan
Most people seem to say that this was the birthplace of shoegaze -- personally, this feels more like the genesis of a new genre: lazy-fucking-crap-punk Goddamn man. I liked Darklands. This is just not it. I don't get the appeal; noisy, painful, and confusing. Fave tracks: - Just Like Honey - Cut Dead
Boring. Noise. Meh.
Pretty good. The feedback is a little much at times.
Had this on in the background whilst working. It left no impression whatsoever.
This is a low 2 for me. Don't like this type of vocals at all. Musically it was decent.
It’s the fuzz!
mind-altering substance
Just Like Honey is a good song. Rest is not bad.
Raw, buzzy, raucous but poppy at the same time. A bit repetitive and lacking dimensionality and the recording is not good but that's part of the charm I suppose. Reminds me a bit of joy division and nirvana having a lovechild.
I understand how this is meant as kind of a reaction to 80s Post-Punk trend (rather than being a part of it), but I prefer pretty much any 80s Post-Punk album
I wanted to like this but the distortion is all over the place
Day 93 Took me a couple of goes but ended up really enjoying this. 7/10 Highlights Just Like Honey Sowing Seeds
I really like Darklands, but had never heard this one and my initial reaction was not great, but as the album went, it grew on me. I can see why people unfamiliar with them would hate this album. It is very noisy, but underneath that, it is pretty straightforward.
Commitment to noise was fun, lots of grain and fuzz, no memorable songs or song structures, fits a mood but I don't know when I would return 2/5
Sowing seeds konne vært av fontaines D.C. Alt i alt for kjedelig for meg, ingenting som fenga. Beste sang: Sowing seeds
Surprisingly still holds up! Enjoyable!
I really dislike this band. Not for me, and no really catchy songs.
Might be slightly better than the last album that came up in 2023 but not by a big margin. Not a fan
A garbled mess.
this sucks
I honestly thought the Jesus and Mary Chain was a 70's hippy psychedelic band! But they are not. They are an 80's alternative "college radio" band. And they are a very good one! I actually sort of loved this considering my allegiance to the genre. This is one of those "thank you 1001albumgenerator" moments for bringing them (probably BACK) into my sight. I don't remember any specific songs from this album from back in the day but it is highly likely I have heard, and liked some of their music. Good thing I listen on youtube so I could become a member of their content site. Got some listening to do!
Didn’t ever care for the singles. I’m not a Goth teenager
I found them interesting today. Nothing great but kind of fun as I did yard work.
*1985 *Scottish alt rock. *Pretty standard UK 80s music, but nothing memorable. RATING. 6.5/10
I would have liked this album a lot more if there hadn't been this much haze. I love myself some shoegaze, but the level it was taken to on some of the songs on this album just wasn't for me.
Fav: Just Like Honey Least Fav: Never Understand Idk what they were saying over all that guitar but it sounded cool enough, some singing would be a nice improvement tho
Mediocre Kramps style album with intolerable static and feedback over entire mix. Trash.
In the words of parents that echo down the ages... "it's just noise."
Great. It rips. Fun fun fun.
Big noise - really hits the shoegaze vibe perfectly, and was a solid listen.
Bored
Some of the worst shit I’ve ever heard. Guitars that distorted should not be paired with weak-ass whining moaning vocals. Drums don’t even come close to the energy of the guitars either. Just awful, and if you like this, I don’t want to know you.
Really good, feels very shoegazey and interesting. Almost 5, but rounding down to 4