Psychocandy

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!