Psychocandy

Meh. Same energy as Velvet Underground & Nico, which could be a good thing, but with the chaotic grating production of the Pixies.

Electric guitar is a good thing, but the old saying was right after all: you really can have too much of one.

interesting opener just like honey I like the progression of the singer and the music together in the first few tracks odd pop mix with lots of music feedback and noise You got me chasing honey bees in a hole is too much + Taste of Cindy guitarist allowed to go too far in a few songs but I think the rest was interesting enough to keep me interested 2.5

Not my vibe

Forgettable

This is one of those albums that reminds me I didn't grow up in the 80s or 90s. It's an album that sounds like the 90s, but was made in the 80s. I don't care for it honestly, Felt pretty bland. But it wasn't unlistenable. I get that some people might be really into it, but for me? That's a nah. Probably won't ever listen again.

It was a bit rough. Not terrible but not my style.

Hvid støj, herrefedt, men lidt for meget pitch og hyletoner. Ville gå godt på 1000fryd, men lidt for meget støj til mig. Et par fede numre, især i starten af albummet.

Some of the songs are good, some not. Just Like Honey, The Hardest Walk, Cut Dead are the only songs I really liked. The others were mostly unlistenable in all aspects. I struggled to get through the whole album.

Very of its time. I didnt hate it, but I couldn't sing you any of the songs! Bobby Guilespe of Primal Scream on drums seems such a funny concept when he can't even clap in time! Haha.

Hmmmmmmm Yeahhhhhhh no MIGHT relisten in the future tho Final Thoughts: 2/5

They used to perform live with their backs to the audience. Based on this album the audience should turn their backs on the band. Noise isn’t music.

MBV, but it makes your ears a little tired

NOISE NOISE NOISE

El showgaze mai m'ha acabat de fer el pes. Aquest àlbum és un dels fundadors d'aquest estil, el primer dels The Jesus and Mary Chain, i tot i que té un inici potent, es va desinflant i acaba atabalant una mica. Curiós descobrir que el seu bateria va convertir-se després en el líder de Primal Scream.

This is a band I've always wanted to like, but the distorted guitars just can't match up with the vibe, and it always just sounds unnecessarily noisy to me.

I didn’t really enjoy this. A few of the more melodious, dream pop type songs were good but I just couldn’t stand the ones that were heavily distorted, washed out sounding noise. 2 stars.

Not really for me. I can see the appeal of it for anyone into the the new wave/goth scene but it doesnt do it for me. 5 stars for the quality of the music but only 2 stars for how I relate to it.

Not a big fan. Very liberal use of feedback, and it was too much. If I heard this when it came out, I may have liked it, but I have heard the same sound done so much better.

grungy but not in a good way. this album is a hard listen.

Couple of good songs, his voice is very dreary though

Not my cup of tea. A bit too much post punk

One-trick pony. Feedback guitar og skraldet lyd, uden bas og max diskant. Ender med at lyde som The Ravonettes afspillet på en radio på et badeværelse som ikke er indstillet ordentligt.

It's really fuzzed-up, the guitar kind of rides over top of the vocals which makes it a little hard to listen intently to. Maybe I need to give it more of a shot without headphones, just pretty difficult to listen to.

Oh man. This sucks to do. i don't understand because I feel like shoegaze should be up my street? Like, I like music that's more about mood and texture than lyrics. I love Cocteau Twins. I just was listening to track after track here and cannot for the life of me remember how a single one went, or even that there were any I was enjoying in the moment. They completely washed over me like murky water. Anything distinctive I *do* remember, I didn't like. Turns out while Cocteau Twins' unintelligible lyrics are mesmerising and dreamlike in a positive way, Jesus and the Mary Chain's just kind of prick my misophonia. So this 1 star is to be taken to mean: I didn't like anything about this album. That doesn't mean I hated it and would never listen to it again. But right now I cannot think of a single nice thing to say about it that's not from its Wikipedia page. Maybe I should be listening to all these albums sitting doing absolutely nothing so I can focus on them. But I feel like if I can't even passively enjoy them while working out or walking to work or making dinner, and I'm not compelled to try listening to them a second time, then that's on the album.

This was not good. I hated this vocalist. I just couldn't get into this album at all. Do you think this band knows what reverb is? Cause God everything just clashed with itself. This was definitely not my favorite at all. Actual Rating...1.5 Liked Songs: "The Living End" , "The Hardest Walk" , "Inside Me" , "Sowing Seeds"

could not even listen to one song. not my vibe

Yuck.

It's not my thing at all. Pretty dismal sound, depressing as fuck, had to switch it off about half-way through, before I slashed my wrists.

I don’t know what happened here but I absolutely hated this. Way too grainy and just gave me a headache.

What the fuck is this shit?

Not for me.

1. honey - 1 2. living - 1 3. tazte - 1 4. uualk - 1 5. dead - 1 6. hole - 0 7. cindy - 1 8. candy - 0 9. never - 1 10. inzide - 1 11. zeedz - 1 12. little - 1 13. trip - 0 14. uurong - 0 15. hard - 1

I can't understand on what merit this album got onto the list by listening to it.

2/10 Le pongo un dos porque dos canciones no eran malas y le doy el beneficio de la duda. Pero una cagada, no de será apropósito o esta mal gravado sin querer o que se yo, pero no se puede escuchar, imposible de terminar una canción, lo tuve que dejar sin terminar

Wasn’t good

Too echoey but still can’t hide the fact that they’re British.

Put em on the cross

Two albums by a relatively mediocre and unknown Britpop band, both in the same month? Scandalous. Just Like Honey is alright (I'll try to ignore the percussion part shamelessly ripped from Billy Joel's Say Goodbye To Hollywood). Quite airy, which is extremely typical of anything released in the 80s. But better than most of the stuff that follows. (*Edit: never mind, I can't ignore the percussion, because later on the album, Sowing Seeds uses the exact same percussion. Meaning J&MC just ripped off a song from earlier on the same album. This is almost as bad as Ram and Ram on the album Ram.) The album's sophomore track, The Living End, forgets that guitars are supposed to sound good, instead going all-out on distortion (à la the repeated coda of I Want You (She's So Heavy)). Pretty clear that J&MC's audience does *not* appreciate such a generous layer of nondescript noise, judging by the streaming numbers on Spotify: the least distorted song, Just Like Honey, is also the most popular by far. The Hardest Walk at least attempts a decent punk/post-punk vocal line, and the guitar could be worse, so it gets a pass. Taste of Cindy and Some Candy Talking are much the same: fairly melodic, fairly undistorted, fairly good. Something like In a Hole, though... What am I supposed to do with this? Same with all of the songs from Never Understand onward. They're reminiscent of a standard punk chart, but with a thick layer of radio static on top that makes the music sound strictly worse. This is inarguable. Any music better than silence – like any of these songs without distortion – will be worsened by making it more difficult to hear. Imagine Bohemian Rhapsody or Stairway to Heaven with this grating, ear-piercing stuff layered on top. Would it be better or worse? Just a thought experiment. The shoegaze genre gets away with this because the distortion is done more tastefully, flowing along with the music rather than blotting it out. 1/5 Key tracks: Just Like Honey, The Hardest Walk, Cut Dead

Ei

Everything other than first song sounds terrible

What if we take our crappy album and, hear me out, add this constant background noise that will either sound like heavy static or a crowd screaming at a concert we aren’t at, and play that loudly over almost everything?

"Psychocandy is the debut album by the Scottish rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. It combines catchy (SIC!!) pop melodies with overdriven electric guitars and feedback-filled cacophony. The album is regarded as pioneering for the shoegaze genre." So says Wikipedia. I see. I do indeed hear a lot of feedback, along with bored (and boring) vocals and, overall, a band that would love to sound like the Velvet Underground. Except they were around 20 years earlier and had two brilliant songwriters. Music like on this album is the reason why I’m sceptical about ‘indie rock’. Boring noise for a boring generation (mine). Terrible. And I well aware that this is considered a true post rock classic.

Crank distortion to 200 and go. Gets annoying quickly

Parklands was alright but this was pretty dire. Extreme shoegaze - seems like it was one of the first in the genre. Weird and faint lyrics, tonnes of distortion, not a lot to like. Strange, as I didn't mind their other one on the list.

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.

Not enought reverb, not enough distortion. I could almost hear the music, and we can't have that, now can we?

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.

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.

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!

production team should be fired into the sun

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

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:

Meh

Jobbigt att lyssna på. Lyckades inte lyssna klart, trots lång paus i mitten. Massa oljud, och inte den bra sortens. Det blir bottenbetyget.

Not much I enjoyed about this one tbh.

Ушкам больно((

And I'm being generous

Weird one

Really muddy sound. It's hard to tell if these guys are good or bad.

So not my thing; reminded me too much of the muddy sound of Bullet For My Valentine. Didn't last past In a Hole.

This one felt boring and the same thing over and over again. Not for me.

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.

# 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

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.

Holy shit. This was absolutely terrible. One of the worst things I've ever heard.

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.

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.

Crap ! No stars given

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

this sucks

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."

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.

My ears! They bleed! Seriously, what is with the super harsh noise on every song?? It's obnoxious.

Jag förstår att det är inflytande, men varken genren den skapade eller influerade tycker jag om. Vill typ aldrig lyssna på igen, finns de hookar så är de begravda under ljud och sångaren håller på att somna

This is the soundtrack to the perfect unreleased 1980s movie. It has both kinds of 80s movie songs: 1) the kind that plays in the background while the girl, a social misfit who would be cute if she styled her hair differently, who had her heart broken cries alone in her room and 2) the kind that plays in the background while the bad boy drives around in his car after breaking something, like a window or a guy’s arm or that misfit girl’s heart. There’s also some bonus tracks for when the bad boy drops into a bar to drink his troubles away and a shitty band is playing some indecipherable song in the background included at the end of the album. God, this would be a great 80s movie. Too bad it’s just a terrible album.

Kind of trash

this was awful, it sounded like it had been recorded in a tool shop. Pity because at times through the pain I thought I heard pretty decent guitar. Im not buying that people actually like it.

I used to frequent a rock club which only had regulars, and a few of them loved The Jesus and Mary Chain, so I was excited to hear this. That sharply changed. So much reverb noise, it sounded like the shower was running and I was in the next room trying to listen to a song, only to hear the chhhhhhhhh of running water. In a Hole reminded me of trying to tune into Channel 5 on the kitchen telly in the late 90s. Ahead of its time, maybe? More songs in, it feels like I've put in a full shift on a construction site. I can't believe this album is only 40 minutes long. I felt like it would be okay if it wasn't so intense. There's nothing wrong with the tunes themselves. But Jesus Christ, I've now got tinnitus. Might be worth keeping in mind in case I get yet another neighbour who blasts Adele on repeat.

Som totalmente comprimido, sem nenhuma dinâmica, vocal “enterrado”, bateria sem profundidade… é uma descarga de guitarras zumbindo o tempo inteiro. Muito mal gravado/ mixado. Horrível! A estética deste tipo de som não me agrada.

Saai... krap drie kwartier lang gitaargekras met hetzelfde slappe tempo en dezelfde vlakke zeikstem. Gezien de nagels-over-een-schoolbord-achtige irritatiefactor van de gitaren, een hele dikke vette 1. Ga je moeder pesten.

Shoegaze met een hoop distortion. Het is weer eens wat anders... Het klinkt vaak of het in een schuur is opgenomen en de zang is weggedrukt. Als je meerdere keren checkt of je je geluid wel goed hebt ingesteld, is er toch iets mis met het album. Maar waarom checkte ik dat eigenlijk? De continue feedback-piep liet mij toch eigenlijk al weten dat het probleem niet bij mij lag.

Eh

I think this album should be disqualified from this list, at least in it's current form. Maybe it's a me problem, but too many songs on this album had guitar distortion that was so high pitched and ear-piercing that I felt almost noxious while listening. I listened through once in headphones while in transit and the general noise around me softened the high pitch frequencies ... some tracks were still physically painful to listen to but it wasn't as bad as my second listen. During my second headphones listen alone in my silent apartment, it was unbearable at times. Without the street noise to soften it, I was in pain during several tracks. I felt sick. I had to switch to playing it out of a speaker to finish the album and even then there were tracks that bothered my ears. If I had a dog, it would have attacked my laptop and begged for the noise to stop. Do I have good hearing? Can i hear high end frequencies most people can't? I dunno. Or maybe it's an issue of modern playback being too good. Maybe in the 80s there wasn't as much high end in the playback so those ear piercing frequencies weren't there or were much softer. Maybe to their ears through the speakers at the time it was abrasive, but not painful. I gather the goal was to have very abrasive distortion and create this contrast between the slow soft pop songs and the hideous and abrasive guitar distortion. And in concept, that's a really cool idea. I love songs that do that normally. But in practice, at least in the version on spotify, it is borderline unlistenable for me. I'd be curious to hear it on vinyl though, i know there's a different vinyl mix for most albums (especially older ones like this one). The sad thing is, on the songs where there isn't this awful distortion, I really liked it. If there was an album of just those tracks, i'd probably give it a 3 or a 3.5. But the other half of the album gets a 1 from me because it's awful to listen to. I'd love to hear an acoustic version of this album or one that's been put through an EQ to remove those high pitched sounds. Hell, I could probably EQ the album myself in logic. Get some mp3s, run it through an EQ, cut those frequencies and export a better version... but right now I can't be bothered. So i walk away from this album conflicted, either it's an issue with the modern mixes of the album which would be disappointing but not the band's fault. Orrr this is exactly how it was intended to sound which pisses me off. If the second scenario is true, then this band can fuck right off. In the great words of Jeff Goldblum: “The Jesus and Mary Chain were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” - 1 star (disqualified)

This isn’t for me, was bored throughout

Две звезди давам само заради първата песен

Groupe inconnu. Cet album combine des morceaux terriblement mous avec un son très violent. Le résultat est ... mou et terriblement inintéressant et ennuyeux, avec un son qui ne donne pas du tout envie d'y retourner. =>1/5

Noisy

Not music

I try to listen like it's my first time listening to it in the year it debuted. This one must have been a trip. NOW though... it's a tough listen. Lots of noise and static. Like listening to a dentist drill. This wasn't an enjoyable listen for me. 1.5/5.

I wasn’t a big fan of the 80’s

I really don't like this album. Like at all. It's wingey and grungy and just annoying.

I did not enjoy this. It sounded like sitting beside a polluted canal watching it go by. There is probably something beautiful in there, but it was swamped with scuzz and i listened twice through and couldnt tell you a single thing about this

I don't get it!!!!!

I'm not a fan of shoegaze or its adjacent genres, but the production on Psychocandy feels particularly harsh and sloppy. For most of the album I was willing to set that aside and give it a 2 for innovation and creative merit, but it truly managed break me in its final minutes with 'It's So Hard', with distortion clipping into oblivion and incoherent rambling vocals that would make Mark E. Smith proud. It's as if The Fall discovered reverb and feedback noise, and I mean that in the most insulting way possible. To its credit, this band did make me see My Bloody Valentine's Loveless in a new light -- I still don’t “get” it, but it sounds like heaven compared to this bullshit.

shoe gaze if you want to but its really dull

I hate bands that pass off albums like this and they call it music. I don't know how people could listen to this. It is just so distorted and reverb-ed that you can't even understand or interpret what the singer is singing. The guitar on this album is akin to nails on a chalkboard, like literally, go listen to it for yourself and you'll know what I'm talking about. Favorite Tracks: Just Like Honey Rating: 1/5

Indi musik wie ich es nicht mag. Zu viel Hall sehr verzerrt

What if The Beach Boys grew up inside an industrial clothes dryer?

I feel like someone took a fucking grater and slid it across the microphone. Shoegaze fucking sucks.

Someone fix the radio tuning. There's too much static

some songs are downright painful to listen to and i’m not even on headphones. these high pitch screeches are killing my ears!

Ugh

I hate you sjoegaze 1 star

Whingey

Das esch jetzt ned so miis. Wahrschiindlech liids eifach dra dasi ned so gärn agschroue werd. Eitentlech wärs ned so schlächt, zwar au ned guet sondern eifach mettelmässig, aber es esch eifach alles so hert. Ond us ergendemne grond esch emmer no so es ruusche oder was au emmer debi woni zerscht för e Fähler ghalte ha bis es genau met em Song weder ufghört hed. Esch e chli schad wel t riffs send eigentlech ned so schlächt aber met allem rondome för mech ned wörk gniessbar.

I hated this.

I struggled to pay attention to be honest - but the few moments I did I found it very irritating.

Not for me

That was awful. Way too much reverberation so, I could not hear and understand the lyrics.

Awful

I'm sure this was an intentional "artistic choice"...but fuck this particular noise rock. Just because squealing guitar feedback is something you can do doesn't mean it's something you should do, and just because it's different doesn't mean it's good. 1.3

This album is like listening to alternative rock on the radio but also being just out of range of the station so you hear only snippets of the album but mostly static.

Well now, I have been completely mistook for 40 years. I always thought this lot were one of the Goth bands, because of there name. And now I have found out I was totally wrong. Shame really, if they had have been a goth band there was a chance (slim I know), but still a chance I would have liked it. Instead I got this boring load of twaddle. Half tempted to give it a 2 because it wasn't objectionable, but if I did i feel it would devalue the other 2s I have given. 1 it is then.

there are songs i could listen to, but not the whole thing. When it's Noise Pop, it's clearly not for me... I just hear the 'noise' part and not the pop part unfortunately.

Tracks seems so similar and boring. The reverb is to much and I can't say I'm intrigued to listen to more of this band. 1/5

The sweet sound of distortion and tinnitus

I like noise music and things like Suicide but the application of feedback to these songs, other than maybe Just Like Honey where it felt more restrained, really doesn't feel like it accomplishes anything but novelty. I get how influential this album is but it really was a slog to listen to and I feel like for noise to be interesting/successful it has to also be provocative and this was not. Just hard for me to get on board.

Horrible vocals layered in front of mediocre instrumentals

This album makes me want to give all my other one star albums an extra star just so I can make sure this is the lowest ranking album

I guess excessive guitar feedback was revolutionary in 1985. In 2025, this sounds like some lame emo garage band destined to go triple plastic.

Similar sounding songs, over-reverbed lyrics, differentiated only by the different type of feedback in the background. Just noise. I can't see how it has influenced anyone (though some of the vocal sound did remind me of Stone Roses a few years later) I complain that I don't get enough 1 star albums, and then I get 2 over the course of a long weekend. Careful what you wish for.

Gear: ZMF Bokeh Artwork: 🖤🥁🔲 Production: 🔊😵‍💫🤢 Music: 🌀🖤🕯️ Rating: 🍬(🍬)/5

Did not like lyrics and music a downer.

Sounded like a dreary sixth form band playing music in a vase.

That was the longest 42 minutes of my life. Literally hurt my ears. Whoever mixed this album shouldn’t be able to touch a mixing board ever again.

In the words of DJ Khaled, “Another one”. I just didn’t understand the point of this, like it wasn’t instrumentals that pleased my ears and why was the singing so quiet?? Dumb. Couldn’t get through it

I've had an album by these knobs before. They're Scottish (which is synonymous with terrible fucking music I've learned), and shoegaze (one of the worst and most unnecessary genres in music). One of their songs, In a Hole, made me literally take my earbud out and check to see if it had blown. It was just distortion and noise. Why the fuck would someone consider this music?!? And why do these idiots have 2 albums on this list? Favorite songs: Cut Dead, The Hardest Walk Least favorite songs: Taste the Floor, In a Hole, It's So Hard....and the rest of this shitty album 1/5.....just......NO......

que barulheira

Boring alternative rock at its best and abrasive distortions at its worst. Just a very colorless album that did not grab me in the slightest outside of being annoying.

When this album first popped up, I thought it was either going to be a Metal album, a Christian album, or both. Unfortunately, it's something much worse. It's background noise drowning out the vocals on every track of this agonizing experience. One of the worst albums I've ever heard. Favorite Track: "Sowing Seeds".

This one is not heavy at all, still so damn hard to listen

I did not like this at all

truly awful, so many songs I couldn't even sit through because they were way more stressful than enjoyable. like the horror movie of music

Wat een fucking herrie. Blijkbaar is dit noiserock? Ik weet niet wat het is, maar als je je genre zelf al herrie noemt is er toch echt iets aan de hand. Wil je nou zelf noiserocker worden? Het is heel simpel! Je maakt de meest generieke Indiepoprock die je kan bedenken, heel belangrijk! Het moet echt ontzettend generiek zijn, dus niemand moet zich hierdoor aangesproken voelen. Gedaan? Ok top, nu moet je net iets na de helft het nummer COMPLEET VERNAGGELEN. Verpest je gitaar, stel je microfoon kut af en vooral ook R E V E R B! Het is nu belangrijk dat je echt kut muziek maakt, het moet niet te luisteren meer zijn! Is je dat ook gelukt? Heb je het opgenomen en iemand gek genoeg gevonden om het uit te geven? Top! Nu zal over een jaar of 40 een nietsvermoedende muziekfan zijn ochtend compleet verkloot zijn omdat je troep om de een of andere reden word opgenomen in een 1001 albumlijst. FAVO: Het einde, ik word hier actief kwaad van.

Had to stop listening after a few songs. The music gave me a headache.

Well this was just awful... loud screeching noise for an hour. Cool. But exactly what I expected from 1985 Psychocandy...

Any song seems to be squashed by the distortion. It's so distracting and ultimately annoying.

If an album gives me a headache I give it one star, ‘nuff said.

Det var en jävla skillnad på det här albumet och Darklands

- komischer Sound, klingt alles wie im Badezimmer oder einem Hallenbad aufgenommen, why so viel Reverb?! - was haben die mit ihren weirden Hintergrundgeräuschen? Ist mir am Ende bei "You Trip Me Up", "Something's Wrong" und "It's So Hard" aufgefallen. Keine Ahnung, ob ich das vorher überhört / weggefiltert habe beim Coden.. aber holy ging mir das auf den Sack

If you like distortion with a ton of reverb this is the album for you 1/5

Feedback, hiss and noise.

If it weren’t so noisy it would be a very boring pop album. Instead it’s boring AND painful to listen to 😍

This album is a coin. Two sides n' all that, y'know? Heads: I'm honestly surprised by this album. I went into this thing expecting nothing but boring-ass loud noise. Y'know, just because they put the volume and reverb all the way to 11, I'm apparently supposed to consider this "good" because it's "not mainstream." But then there's actually a number of tracks where, through the reverb (was this thing recorded in the Grand Canyon?), I actually think it's kinda pretty? It's these '60's pop group melodies where, like, if these songs had been recorded conventionally, this might as well be bubblegum. And of course, those ended up being my favorite. Besides the reverb, I feel like the worst thing I can say about them is I maybe would've liked a different vocalist. Something that actually fits that '60s pop aesthetic instead of... Well... Tails: I'm honestly not surprised by this album. I went into this thing expecting nothing but boring-ass loud noise. Y'know, just because they put the volume and reverb all the way to 11, I'm apparently supposed to consider this "good" because it's "not mainstream." And yep — that's what it is alright. Harsh buzzsaw guitars and faceless post-punk vocals, all slopped into a mushy mush thanks to a way-too-thick level of reverb. The reverb's really just a step away from how it sounded on Stan Freberg's parody of "Heartbreak Hotel", and only a small one at that. Like, I can't even really think of any specifics to comment on because the reverb makes it just that hard to. Although, hey, I'm pretty sure if you **did** get rid of it there still wouldn't be anything to talk about. Like, "Ah, cool, more post-punk nonsense — my **faaaavoriiite**~." Of course, this album isn't exactly a coin flip. It's "tails" more often than its not, unfortunately. Even when it **is** "heads," I don't find myself really thinking that I'd wanna return to these songs. In fact, being 100 with y'all: I didn't even finish this. Yes, I listened to the first side (the first seven songs), then I tapped out. I just couldn't fathom what I'd gain listening to the other seven tracks. Like, how could this album possibly different in the back half that'd make me go, "Oh, no it's actually **genius** and I **love** having noise blared at me." Look, maybe I have baby ears that are just too used to pop and traditional production methods. I recognize fully that I was never gonna be in the audience for noise music like this. But I gotta rate this how I feel, and... Oh, I so wanted to be generous and give this thing a 2. Like, just on the merit of those couple of '60s melodies I liked so much. However, given the fact that it actually caused me to stop listening halfway through... Yeah, no. On that alone I have to give this thing a 1. Even albums I was feeling less generous towards, I could still get through to the end. Hell, I finished shit like DEVIL WITHOUT A CAUSE and MAXINQUAYE. Not here, though. I'm tired and I don't wanna yawn my way through more solid walls of noise. "Poetry-noise?" I suppose. It's just not worth my time to make heads or tails of it.

Take a shoegaze rhythm section and run the whole thing through a fuzz pedal. Then have the lethargic singer half-ass his vocals over the top of it. That's what's going on here. Nothing grabbed me as a listener. 1 star.

Tedious tripe.

Approaching this with no context to this band or its importance in the music space, this sounded awful. After reading some reviews before writing my own, I can get why this took off, but hoo boy does it just not work for me. I disliked feeling like I was listening to this in a hallway. No faves here.

ja helemaal niks mee, veel te veel moeilijk doen

Iets te heftig voor me Nee helemaal niks voor mij

Album 553 of 1001 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985) Rating : 1.5 / 5 Classified as Rock/Indie/Shoegaze...but the Shoegaze comes through just a bit much to me. The amount of reverb made my tinnitus angry. They succeeded at what they intended to do but I don't like it very much.

Emphasis on the psycho in psycho candy. Wow was this horrible. These songs felt like a combination of feedback and screeching to make a horrible sound. Nothing could have prepared me for how bad this was going to be.

While this could desperately use a remastering, I still don’t think that would add more than a single star to this mess.

Siis mitä helvettiä, onko nää auton kaijuttimet rikki?? Ei nää levyt oikeasti voi kuullostaa tältä. Tää miksaus raiskaa korvat ihan oikeasti. Ei tälläistä voi kuunnella. Kappaleet ei välttämättä niin huonoja olis, mutta tuo kitaran feedback on ihan oikeasti NIIN HIRVEÄ

I endured but my hearing didn't

Punk can die, won’t try to save it

Needs more reverb and distortion. Also, not enough cowbell

This was unlistenable.

Desperdício de uso da distorção nas guitarras. Talvez tenha inspirado trabalhos melhores de outras bandas.

so boring and washed out

That was grueling. And it doesn't help that a majority of the songs sound blown the hell out and mastered horrendously. I don't know it was intentional to make it sound like the guitar, singing, and sometimes percussion were clipping so horrendously it sounds like it was recorded incorrectly. But even if intentional, it doesn't make it sound even remotely palatable.

I didn't believe for a second this sounds like this on purpose. This sounds like shit. And it's hard to tell if anything good if buried under all the nose. This is clearly a band trying to sound good and failing but now are claiming it was on purpose.

"Just Like Honey" is routinely recommended to me by Spotify due to my other listening preferences, but I really wish it wasn't. Listening to this whole album is only going to make that worse. I don't like it. Listening to this album makes me feel like I'm standing waiting for a urinal in a graffiti and piss covered bathroom in the back of a grungy club that has flaking black paint and sweat dripping down the walls and I'm listening to the band playing in the main hall through the wall and over the sound of drunk chatter and vomitting.

Somewhat unlistenable for me. I get that this kicked off shoegaze, but man it was a lot of noise.

Whoa guys.. is this how “scream-o” started? Not a fan.. volume was at 5 and it still hurt my ears..

sucked

1st track. This noise... this is intentional? The static?

Apparently, according to Wikipedia, thise music has been described as "bubblegum pop drowned in feedback", (or noise-pop), and helped establish the style of distortion-laden fogginess that would eventually become the foundation for shoegaze. More depressing than Joy Division, (who I like), with none of the charm or energy.

Just heard "just like honey" before. But this album was using too much of the garage sound. The over use of feedback and fuzz made me jump songs.

There may have been songs under that fuzz and distortion but I couldn’t tell. Painful dreck.

This was terrible. Not something I needed to experience.

Easy 1 star for "actively bad". Almost no melody and lots of staticy noise makes for an unpleasant listening experience

Sounds like a bad electrical connection

Couldn't determine whether it was the mixing. or that the vocals could barely be heard but am sure deep down its a wonderful record.

Something’s Wrong (with the sound board.) Or maybe this is an album for the audibly impaired? Every song but one (Sowing Seeds) has massive background noise of jet engine, buzz saw, or really loud feedback over simple beats and lyrics making the album difficult to enjoy. The experience would have been much better if someone, anyone, just told the lead singer to not bring the microphone so close to the speakers (1.1*s)

This noisetrash for music really grated on me and I struggled to find something, anything, even a little tiny bit redeeming but could not. I don't mind some distortion and effects if used right but this whole album just bothered me. Everything is drowned out and the singer sounds like he's singing from underneath a very plush (and badly stained) basement sofa. Please stay there.

Jesus the Jesus...WTF? This hurt to listen to...quite literally. Had to turn it down and almost off. Were they recording while the studio construction was being completed? Yell the guy cutting tile to take a break. I can't even give this a good rating for being experimental/unique and maybe 1st to use guitar feedback. A little is ok...they way overdo it. Yeah lets add that ripping through a bag of rusty nails with a band saw sound instead of good lead guitar. Forget about a good riff...bring in the angle grinder and go to town on this barnacle covered boat hull. Songs wouldn't be half bad if they weren't attacking a chalkboard with a Sawzall. I felt relief when the radio static from hell would cease but it was short lived. The squeeling train wheels I hear by my apartment every 10 mins are now not so bad. Mary chain, you brought the pain.

When this first started I was on board. A couple of low key melodramatic songs with the distortion and reverb turned way up was at least a somewhat unique sound. Unfortunately this continued for 40 minutes straight. Ever song used the same trick and sounded the same. By the end of this album I was frustrated and wanted it to be over. Despite only being 40 minutes long I can't believe how long of a listen this felt like. Not sure if this is The Jesus and Mary Chain signature but this album is completely a one-trick pony. Listen to one song then turn it off. 0.30 stars

I skipped through the songs and they mean nothing to me. The 'Mary Chains' had no meaning for me in the past and even less so today. They are a typical product of their time and have not aged particularly well. The 'guitar fog' is just irritating. Linking them to the 'Stooges' is just ridiculous, they will never reach their class. The Stooges will stay, the 'Mary Chains' will disappear into the abyss of music history. Good!

Short review today because I’m sleepy. I hoped this would be good because I’ve really enjoyed this band previously. Unfortunately, this album is dogshit. There are a couple of decent songs, and the. A lot of tracks that sound like TV static. Avoid this one.

I love to imagine what was happening in the studio during the making of this album. "Guys, I have a great idea. What if we make an album, with super airy vocals that are completely incoherent, and a bunch of really tinny empty sounding guitars." "You're definitely on to something, but I feel like there's just something missing from it." "I've got it! What if there's just constant white noise in the background, that way the airyness and tinnyness of the album is exaggerated even more!" "How did we not think of that? You're a musical genius man!" This album is truly hot garbage. If you think that there is anything even remotely worth admiring about this, I will never be able to take any of your music opinions seriously. This makes My Bloody Valentine's debut sound like the greatest album of all time.

More Reverb Please!

I was very close to turning it off in the middle of the album. Hard to hear anything else besides guitar feedback.

Hated it. As mom used to say, just noise.

I seriously had to fast forward multiple songs because it hurt my ears to listen. I don't know why or how they make it sound like that but I wish they hadn't. The parts of the song before that happened I enjoyed, but then the sound quality would get distorted and I just couldn't handle it. I want to give it higher, but honestly I just could not listen to it again even if I wanted to.

Yea this blows. Feedback for its own sake, the lead singer cant fucking sing a bar, flat affectation and a lack of connection caused by the first two points. Make this stopppppppppp.

Sikkert banebrytende for sin tid, men disse ellers "myke" melodiene med overdreven noise og feedback funker ikke for meg, og jeg liker mye lo-fi.

I really hated this album. The distortion was just all I could hear. I felt like my ears were bleeding and not in a badass way. I really love the classic 80s vocals but I can find that with another band. Never gonna listen to this again. I feel worse off for it. I hate to be so negative, but this album really was not the move in ANY sense. Did not have a favorite song. Did not add to my Spotify library.

Crap in the 80s and still crap now......

Awful.

unintelligible garbage 1.5

Not a fan

Weird. Sounds bad.

Meh... Just a bunch of noise to me.

Music sounds like it’s coming out of a cheese grater. Couldn’t hear or understand a word of what the singer was saying

Wow. I've heard so much about this album my whole life and thrilled for the opportunity to actually listen to it. This is absolutely godawful.

Somewhat decent music ruined by background sound making it sound like they recorded this under a waterfall

Not a fan

could not listen to it after a while -- too much white noise on the album making me sick.

While I believe I should like this album I don't. It is of "my era", and fits with music such as Love & Rockets and The Cure, but the constant 'in a cave' sound irritates me. I'm certain the album belongs on this list, it's just not on mine personal list.

It just sounds like alot of loud noise, it sounds really shit. It's just a way shitter version of Joy Division.

This is rough. Like really rough. For day 100, I’m disappointed this is what I had to listen to. This is pretty much a cornerstone of shoegaze and noise music history, but damn do I not enjoy it one bit. Think of the most intense, primitive and rough around the edges kind of shoegaze guitar sounds you can think, then multiply them by ten-fold and fill a whole album with them. Some of these songs actually hurt my ears. Like my hearing felt off after listening to them. Prime examples are Taste the Floor and Never Understand. It’s just too distorted and loud. Better shoegaze bands found the balance. It’s so fuzzy and blasted out, what he is actually playing is almost indiscernible. The drummer plays very basic beats. He plays the same beat on multiple songs actually. And the singer has a voice that sounds like it would match a completely different music profile. His voice is so clean and smooth compared to everything else, it throws me off. The only song I can say anything positive about is Cut Dead, since it’s the only one that doesn’t blow my fucking ear drums out. Rating: 2/10

I 'm willing to give noisy stuff a chance. I gave it a chance but won't give it a second chance

I hate Shoegaze and this is probably the most unlistenable shoegaze album ever, well apart from the dreck that My Bloody Valentine has released.

Best Song: Cut Dead. At least they cut off the fuzz for this track. Worst Song: You Trip Me Up. Love a song where feedback and distortion take centre stage and the musicians are relegated to just background players. Overall: Just toneless talking over an unending, annoying buzzing. The musical equivalent of trying to maintain a conversation with a heavily self-medicated hitchhiker as your car hurtles down the highway with all the windows open and no, no matter how much you ask, he won't speak any louder. Music for people who hate dynamic range. Music for wasps.

I can't get past the feeling that I'm in a large empty underground carpark with the (perfectly capable) band set up in a small alcove 200 feet away and some heavy industrial cutting tools working between us. I guess that at least makes this record evocative.

Psychocandy is mostly a lot of noise, noise that doesn’t seem to go anywhere. A lot of the songs are completely lifeless. I respect that the distorted, washed out guitars were a big influence of many of the late 80s/early 90s bands that I did love but the lifelessness is just too much 3.7/10

My brother in christ, you took extremely mid songs and stuck belt sanders and reverb over the top of them. So much that it hurts to listen with headphones. Utter bullshit. I don't have time for this.

TL;DR: Porcaria. Quando ouvi a primeira música e vi que ela era, de longe, a mais famosa do álbum, já fiquei com medo. Já vi que seriam longos 42 minutos... Que som terrível o dessa primeira música, parece que foi gravado com um Nokia em um banheiro gigante. Odiei esse efeito que usaram. Desconfortável de ouvir. Ok, aparentemente o som terrível não é exclusivo só da primeira música.. Agora entendi porque a primeira é de longe a música com mais reproduções. É porque é o que todo mundo que veio escutar o álbum conseguiu suportar. Passar da primeira é um desafio que nem todos são capazes. Ah vai tomar no cu essa 6 - In a Hole cara. Quem foi o filho da puta que colocou essa distorção bicho. Tô ficando PUTO com esse álbum. No final da 8 - Some Candy Talking parece até que tem um erro no último segundo dela. Vazou um som completamente perdido. Editaram essa bosta á moda caralha. A 13 - You Trip Me Up tem literalmente microfonia a música toda. Tem som de microfonia... Eles acharem que isso seria uma boa ideia.... Colocar microfonia numa música... Ai cara... Na 14 acho que talvez eles tenham percebido o lixo que tava ficando esse álbum, daí veio a ideia do nome dela. E pra fechar, a 15 foi claramente nomeada em homenagem a todos que conseguiram chegar até o final do álbum. Ao menos eles reconhecem. Bom, é isso.. Tive que parar no meio do álbum e colocar alguma música que eu já conhecia pra ter certeza que não era meu fone que tinha estragado. Acho que esse foi o pior álbum que já ouvi na minha vida. Literalmente me deu dor de cabeça. Quem foi o puto que escutou isso e pensou "Olha, acho que dá pra publicar, vai dar boa". Tinha que levar uma surra. Acabou com o meu dia. Preferia ter escutado um álbum do Sorriso Maroto.

i don't understand how someone can call this an album that everyone should listen to. what exactly should I be listening for because all I hear is noise

I would have rather shoved firecrackers in my ears

Way too sober for this

At the end of the album, my Spotify put on a new song at random and I immediately knew Psychocandy had finished because I was enjoying the new song.

Just fucking noise, cant listen to this shit any more.

This one was a bit of a difficult listen... not because the lyrics were deep or got me bad but because there was so many effects over the instruments I couldn't hear what was going on. Taste the Floor specifically was a tricky one. Stand out songs: - Tinitus: I now have it - The Hardest Walk: Legitimately was a good song ngl - Sowing Seeds: A nice (comparatively) peaceful song - My Little Underground: It's easy to see

Didn’t enjoy 👎🏻

RAUTAA. VAI. ROSKAA? no roskaa... vokaalit, rummutus, kitarat, bassot, sanoitukset, miksaus, masteraus, äänet kuntoon niin voidaan harkita respektfullia kakkosta voin vaikka ylläpidolle huikata että vaihtaa mutta tämä luolarecording on täyttä paskaa yksi biisi toistetaan 27 kertaa tylsäsää niin vitun tylsää. Seppo, tämä on roskaa. you trip me up

started out meh and got worse. i dont want a headache

Screechy, awful noise. I can see where some might say that this resembles music in some way, but I'm definitely not one of those. This was hard to tolerate at best.

I tried to listen to the ‘beach boy’ melody underneath the screeching sounds and didn’t get anywhere.

Versta er niets van door die versterkte gitaar die letterlijk overal doorheen schreeuwt. Komt ook geen einde aan, geen idee waarom je dit gehoord zou moeten hebben

Wat een herrie

1 This one wasn’t on streaming so I had to find a YouTube rip. I’m unsure of how much of my perception s were influenced by that. There seems to be a lot of folk and post-punk/goth on this list and I gotta be honest, the sound of harmonizing can openers is starting to wear on me. This album has occasional high points where a melody peeks through or rhythms are allowed to rest but I just don’t hear much of difference between this and say, Joy Division, Velvet Underground, The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen etc. When it doesn’t sound like a vacuum cleaner that’s clogged this is just OK, and that in the loosest possible sense. The back half has a little more to dig into but all in all I feel like a band was playing in the basement of a some kind of workshop and the mic was upstairs. Almost unlistenable.

Boring to me. Noisy and depressing

meh

what'd they say?

Terrible

Not my type

I thought something must be wrong with the streaming service. What could make an album sound so terrible? Looks like this was the band's intention. It's unlistenable.

I really hate the tones of this album, theres so much high pitched staticky awful noise. The guitars make me want to die. I’m on track two and I want to pull out all my hair. This whole style and vibe of music just doesn’t do it for me. So boring.

I have a hard time with apathetic singing. I briefly poked at the remastered version and it sounds way better which is an experiment I’ve never partook in before. Would not listen to this album again.

Whatever they were going for here did not resonate with me at all. The whole album was just noisy as hell, and any tracks that were more tolerable just ended up being repetitive. Noisy rock or pop that isn't done right is just straight up annoying.

A bit biased going into this seeing the band's name and the decade of release. So far it's more of the same bland 80's vocals and bad synths. Thankfully it isn't a long album but so far I have not been enjoying it. Just a bit too slow and soft for me. I'm not a fan of the mixing at all, the music drowns out the singer throughout and the distortion from the guitars is unpleasant to my ears. The songs sounded very repetitive and similar and they felt blended together. Almost made it through the whole album but I just couldn't do it.

Nada mais que ruído.

Dit is wel heel erg veel van hetzelfde. Lijkt wel alsof de drummer maar 1 drumbeat kent.

No me gusta

Well this album feels long. A lot of it is unpleasant to listen to. In fact, none of it is pleasant to listen to.

How does everyone love this album so much? Probably doesen't deserve only a 1 but I don't care too much. 1

Ei tätä ulinaa ja särinää oikeesti kestänyt kuunnella, oikeesti fyysisesti tekee vähän pahaa. Dnf. Harmi, koska ilman särinöitä ja vähän kirkkaammalla soundilla ois oikeesti mahkuja olla ihan jees.

p540. 1985. 1 star Dull indy rock that thinks noise+feedback = edgy+important. Would have helped if the singer didn't sound doped. Nearly every track sounds the same. Listened to the entire album and nothing stuck or left an impression. This is just noise. Move on, nothing to see (or hear) here. Not sure why this is on the "must hear" list, as there is nothing new or innovative here - the Velvet Underground did this kind of thing better 20 years earlier.

Basic instrumentals paired with low effort vocals make this album incredibly boring. The heavily distorted guitars are the only good thing about this album, and they’re not even present on every track. 2/10.

I wasn't interested. Not my cup of tea. A lot of bland and simplistic songs. There were too many songs just lazily shuffled between 2 chords the majority of the time, such as "Something's Wrong". and WHY ON EARTH is there so much ear rape on this album? A large fraction of this album was too painful to enjoy. The music wasn't nearly good enough to warrant the ear-ache. Best experienced at a low, low volume. I was hoping it would be like the Cure or Depeche Mode or something but I enjoyed it much less. I kinda liked the vibe of the singer's voice, but the music was just boring and/or painful and got in the way. If ur into 80s alt or goth rock there are definitely better albums than this. Only decent song imo: "Sowing Seeds"

Mumble rock. Really it's just that the vocals are way back in the mix and the tracks sound like they're being played in an empty elementary school gym.

Bad sound, not good album, sounds like a tape recorded live. Bad quality audio

Repetitive and not understandable… stopped after 3 songs.

Das Leben ist zu kurz, um Scheiß Musik zu hören. Nach dem fünften Song ausgemacht. Kann ich nicht im geringsten ernst nehmen.

Just not for me.

Words alone cannot describe how much i hate this shit. No favorite track.

If I wanted to listen to metal screeching noises I would go to an old, rusty playground. There are some truly awful sounds I never expected to come out of instruments in this album. Adding in the fact its mixing is horrid and that there's no clear tone the band is going for makes for a less-than-pleasant experience.

Overdrive wasn't cool then, and it sure as hell isn't cool now.

Definition one hit wonder

has a couple OK songs. mostly just noise

not my cup of tea at all really. Only song I liked was Sowing Seeds

I'm okay with quiet rock, I'm okay with noise (love Nine Inch Nails!), but this was terrible. Maybe relevant in its time, but I'm fine to never listen again.

I appreciate this was a very important album, the dawn of shoegazing. It even got 'best debut album of 1985' in one list and makes lots of other lists put together by music journos of the time, trying to jump on the next bandwagon and not caring whether it sounds good just as long as it's new and hip. Admittedly it is strangely hypnotic and some of it is very good, but overall it just feels like a walI of sound fell on my head. A lot of it is also just unlistenable. 1985 must have been a really bad year for new artists.

Not good to be honest. I listened to Aretha Franklin afterwards. Now she can sing 😍

too grungy for me

1

nope

Oh look, it's the band Stone Roses always wanted to be. I enjoy neither of them. It all seems a bit aimless, going nowhere, just plodding along with not much life in it.

This one didn’t really do it for me. Shame!