THE MAKING OF #PSYCHOCANDY BY THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - FEATURING JIM REID AND WILLIAM REID
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Bought my nephew a copy of #Psychocandy for his 18th birthday.
Original, not a repress. Mint condition. That object is 22 years older than he is.
It was … not cheap.
But I also sent him a letter, explaining why I chose that from so many possible others.
The context in which it erupted in my life, and how I feel about it 40 years later.
I hope that is more valuable than the vinyl. Because, ultimately, music is nothing without us.
And we are lesser without #music
1000 Day Album Challenge (#80) The Jesus & Mary Chain: Psychocandy (1985) [20.03.24]
listen to the girl / as she takes on half the world
moving up and so alive / in her honey dripping beehive…
Ramones + Beach Boys + Feedback = Psychocandy or at least that’s what it seems like to me now. I don’t if I was too young to view it that way at the time. I just know the concept of that formula didn’t strike until years later. better still Jesus & Mary Chain are AM radio Top 40 hitmakers in a world in which the Velvet Underground were as big or bigger than The Beatles.
I certainly know that’s a world in which I would like to live. give Just Like Honey, The Living End, Taste the Floor and Taste of Cindy a listen and then tell me I’m wrong.
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