Line #7 Music/Psychocandy


1	[[quoteright:319:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jamc_psychocandy.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:319:The album art, showing Jim (left) and William Reid (right) on the set of the "Just Like Honey" video]]
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4	->''"We already had learned that kind of thing worked. If you could listen to [[Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico "The Black Angel's Death Song" on the same record as "I'll Be Your Mirror,"]] it worked then. So it's going to work again."''
5	-->[[http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/the_jesus_and_mary_chain_-_jim_reid_on_touring_psychocandy Jim Reid]], discussing ''Psychocandy'''s contrast of noise and Pop ("psycho" and "candy") with ''Under the Radar Magazine'', September 2015
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7	''Psychocandy'' is the debut album by Scottish AlternativeRock band Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain and the TropeMaker of NoisePop. It was released in 1985 through Blanco y Negro Records (in conjunction with Creator/RepriseRecords in the US). The album combines the band's love of Music/PhilSpector-ish "Wall of Sound" Pop with Music/{{Velvet Underground}} and Music/{{Einsturzende Neubauten}}'s head-crushing noise, plus Jim Reid's [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifying]] PerishingAltRockVoice and a PunkRock attitude of not giving a damn.
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9	The record is considered the band's defining masterpiece. Along with NoisePop, the album was instrumental in the development of {{Shoegazing}}, and it continues to be a pillar of Indie and Alternative music to this day.
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11	!! Tracklist
12	[[AC:Side One: A]]
13	# "Just Like Honey" - 3:03
14	# "The Living End" - 2:16
15	# "Taste the Floor" - 2:56
16	# "The Hardest Walk" - 2:40
17	# "Cut Dead" - 2:47
18	# "In a Hole" - 3:02
19	# "Taste of Cindy" - 1:42
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21	[[AC:Side Two: B]]
22	[numlist:8]
23	# "Never Understand" - 2:57
24	# "Inside Me" - 3:09
25	# "Sowing Seeds" - 2:50
26	# "My Little Underground" - 2:31
27	# "You Trip Me Up" - 2:26
28	# "Something's Wrong" - 4:01
29	# "It's So Hard" - 2:37
30	[/numlist]
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32	[-CD reissues also include "Some Candy Talking" (3:19) between "Taste of Cindy" and "Never Understand".-]
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34	!! I'll be your plastic trope for you:
35	* AlternativeRock
36	* FaceOnTheCover: The Reid brothers, taken from a shot from the "Just Like Honey" video.
37	* MeaningfulName: "Psycho" refers to the harsh noise and "candy" refers to the Pop melodies underneath it.
38	* NoisePop: [[TropeMakers The album that kicked off the genre]].
39	* PerishingAltRockVoice: TropeCodifier with Jim's breathy, sleepy voice.
40	* PostPunk
41	* {{Shoegazing}}: UrExample with its combination of dense walls of guitar noise, foggy atmospheres, low-key vocals, and pop melodies.
42	* StandardSnippet: The distinct "dum du dum tsch" drum beat that kicks off "Just Like Honey" was originally a ShoutOut to The Ronettes' "Be My Baby," but has since been used by just about every indie rock band.
43	* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Underneath the noise, the music is very simplistic, sometimes not even bothering with a third chord. As described in the booklet included in ''The Power of Negative Thinking'', the Reid brothers were more concerned with the feel of the music than technical ability.

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