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词条 Psychocandy
释义

  1. Background and recording

  2. Music and lyrics

  3. Release

  4. Reception

  5. Track listing

     2011 bonus disc 

  6. Personnel

  7. Charts

     Weekly charts  Singles  Certifications 

  8. References

  9. External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2014}}{{Use British English|date=June 2014}}{{Infobox album
| name = Psychocandy
| type = studio
| artist = The Jesus and Mary Chain
| cover = Psychocandy.jpg
| alt =
| released = 18 November 1985
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Southern Studios, Wood Green, London
| genre = {{flatlist|
  • Noise pop
  • alternative rock[1]
  • post-punk[2]

}}
| length = 38:55
| label = Blanco y Negro
| producer = The Jesus and Mary Chain
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Darklands
| next_year = 1987
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Psychocandy
| type = studio
| single1 = Never Understand
| single1date = February 1985
| single2 = You Trip Me Up
| single2date = May 1985
| single3 = Just Like Honey
| single3date = September 1985
}}
}}

Psychocandy is the debut studio album by Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. It was released in November 1985 on Blanco y Negro Records. The album is considered a landmark recording: its combination of guitar feedback with traditional pop song structures proved influential on the forthcoming shoegazing genre and alternative rock in general. The band moved from its abrasive sound with the release of their second album, 1987's Darklands.

Background and recording

After quitting their jobs in 1980, brothers Jim and William Reid formed The Jesus and Mary Chain with bass player Douglas Hart. Taking inspiration from German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, girl group the Shangri-Las and The Velvet Underground & Nico, they bought a Portastudio in 1983 when their father lost his job in a local factory and gave the brothers £300 from his redundancy money. The band recorded a demo tape containing the songs "Upside Down" and "Never Understand" which was heard by Glaswegian musician Bobby Gillespie, who in turn passed it on to his friend Alan McGee of Creation Records.[3] McGee was impressed with the tape and invited the band to play at a Creation Records showcase event in London, becoming the band's manager shortly afterwards.[4]

Following more London concerts, the Jesus and Mary Chain entered Alaska Studios in Waterloo and recorded their debut single, "Upside Down". Released by Creation Records in November 1984 and featuring a B-side produced by Slaughter Joe, Upside Down sold out its initial pressing and ended the year by being placed at number 37 in John Peel's Festive Fifty.[4] After recruiting Gillespie as their drummer in late 1984, the Jesus and Mary Chain signed to the WEA subsidiary label Blanco y Negro, which had been established by Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis.[3] The band entered Island Studios to record with engineer Stephen Street but the sessions proved to be fruitless and the band returned to Alaska Studios for the recording of their second single, "Never Understand". The single was released by Blanco y Negro in February 1985, and in March that year they began recording their debut album with engineer John Loder at Southern Studios in Wood Green, North London.[4] Psychocandy was recorded in six weeks[3] and totalled £17,000 in recording and production costs.[4]

Music and lyrics

Psychocandy contains fourteen tracks with a total running time of thirty-nine minutes. The music has been described as "bubblegum pop drowned in feedback",[10] that fused "melody with obnoxious bursts of white noise."[5] Critics have noted the influence of classic '60s pop groups[6][4][14] such as The Beach Boys[15][6][17] and The Rolling Stones[17] alongside the work of rock bands The Velvet Underground,[15][6][4] The Stooges[6][14] and Suicide[14] on the album.

Lead vocals are handled by Jim Reid on this album, with the exception of "It's So Hard", sung by William Reid.

Release

The album includes the singles "Never Understand", "You Trip Me Up" and "Just Like Honey". Following reissue on CD in August 1986, the bonus track "Some Candy Talking", which was originally released on the namesake EP, was included on the album, only on the UK Blanco y Negro CDs released in 1986 and 1997; in the USA, it was released on CD by Reprise in 1986 and American Recordings in 1993 without the bonus track. In 2006, the album was remastered and released in DualDisc format without "Some Candy Talking" to conform with the original playlist. In 2011, it was re-released (along with the other five studio albums) by Edsel in collaboration with Rhino as a two-CD set with extra tracks (singles, B-sides, demos and Peel Sessions) and a DVD (NTSC, all-region).

Reception

{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}[7]
| rev2 = Mojo
| rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}[8]
| rev3 = Pitchfork
| rev3score = 9.6/10[9]
| rev4 = Q
| rev4score = {{Rating|5|5}}[10]
| rev5 = Record Collector
| rev5score = {{Rating|5|5}}[11]
| rev6 = Rolling Stone
| rev6score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[12]
| rev7 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev7Score = {{Rating|5|5}}[13]
| rev8 = Select
| rev8Score = 5/5[14]
| rev9 = Spin Alternative Record Guide
| rev9score = 9/10[15]
| rev10 = The Village Voice
| rev10Score = A−[16]
}}

On release Psychocandy received favourable reviews. Writing for NME, Andy Gill described the album as "a great citadel of beauty whose wall of noise, once scaled, offers access to endless vistas of melody and emotion", while William Shaw of Smash Hits called it "a wonderful LP which should bring the Scottish brats the success they've missed out on so far."[17] Tim Holmes of Rolling Stone praised the band as "a perfect recombinant of every Edge City outlaw ethic ever espoused in rock."[18] In the end of year-roundups, the album placed at number two in NME's list of best albums of 1985,[19][20] number 3 in The Face,[21] and number 5 in Melody Maker.[22]

Subsequently, the album has frequently appeared in "best ever" album lists, such as Q magazine's "100 Greatest British Albums Ever", where it placed at number 88 in 2000.[23] In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at number 23 in its "40 Best Albums of the '80s" list.[24] In 2003, the album was ranked number 268 on Rolling Stone magazine's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.[25] The magazine also ranked the album number 45 on its list of the 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time.[26] AllMusic described the album as one that "created a movement without meaning to."[7]

In 2002 Pitchfork listed Psychocandy as the 23rd best album of the 1980s.[27] In their 2018 update of the list, the album was listed at number 40.[28] Slant Magazine listed the album at number 38 in its "Best Albums of the 1980s" list, saying, "Shaping fuzz into a potent, tactile instrument, The Jesus and Mary Chain helped establish the style of distortion-laden fogginess that would eventually become the foundation for shoegaze."[29] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[30]

Track listing

{{Track listing
| all_writing = Jim Reid and William Reid, except where noted
| title1 = Just Like Honey
| length1 = 3:03
| title2 = The Living End
| length2 = 2:16
| title3 = Taste the Floor
| length3 = 2:56
| title4 = The Hardest Walk
| length4 = 2:40
| title5 = Cut Dead
| length5 = 2:47
| title6 = In a Hole
| length6 = 3:02
| title7 = Taste of Cindy
| length7 = 1:42
| title8 = Never Understand
| length8 = 2:57
| title9 = Inside Me
| length9 = 3:09
| title10 = Sowing Seeds
| length10 = 2:50
| title11 = My Little Underground
| length11 = 2:31
| title12 = You Trip Me Up
| length12 = 2:26
| title13 = Something's Wrong
| length13 = 4:01
| title14 = It's So Hard
| length14 = 2:37
}}{{Track listing
| collapsed = yes
| headline = 2011 CD-DVD release bonus tracks
| title15 = Suck
| length15 = 2:08
| title16 = Ambition
| writer16 = Vic Godard
| length16 = 3:31
| title17 = Just Out of Reach
| length17 = 2:09
| title18 = Boyfriend's Dead
| length18 = 1:43
| title19 = Head
| length19 = 3:53
| title20 = Cracked
| length20 = 3:48
}}

Note: the 1986 CD release contains the extra track "Some Candy Talking", between "Taste of Cindy" and "Never Understand".

2011 bonus disc

{{Track listing
| headline = 2011 CD disc two
| title1 = Upside Down
| writer1 =
| length1 = 3:00
| title2 = Vegetable Man
| writer2 = Syd Barrett
| length2 = 3:35
| title3 = In a Hole
| length3 = 2:41
| note3 = John Peel radio session, 23 October 1984
| title4 = You Trip Me Up
| writer4 =
| length4 = 2:07
| note4 = John Peel radio session, 23 October 1984
| title5 = Never Understand
| writer5 =
| length5 = 3:08
| note5 = John Peel radio session, 23 October 1984
| title6 = Taste the Floor
| length6 = 3:08
| note6 = John Peel radio session, 23 October 1984
| title7 = The Living End
| length7 = 2:15
| note7 = John Peel radio session, 3 February 1985
| title8 = Inside Me
| length8 = 3:01
| note8 = John Peel radio session, 3 February 1985
| title9 = Just Like Honey
| writer9 =
| length9 = 2:49
| note9 = John Peel radio session, 3 February 1985
| title10 = Some Candy Talking
| writer10 =
| length10 = 3:13
| note10 = John Peel radio session, 29 October 1985
| title11 = Psychocandy
| length11 = 2:01
| note11 = John Peel radio session, 29 October 1985
| title12 = You Trip Me Up
| writer12 =
| length12 = 2:41
| note12 = John Peel radio session, 29 October 1985
| title13 = Cut Dead
| length13 = 2:47
| note13 = John Peel radio session, 29 October 1985
| title14 = Up Too High
| length14 = 3:44
| note14 = Portastudio demo, 1984/85
| title15 = Upside Down
| writer15 =
| length15 = 3:10
| note15 = Portastudio demo, 1984/85
| title16 = Never Understand
| writer16 =
| length16 = 3:18
| note16 = Portastudio demo, 1984/85
| title17 = Taste the Floor
| length17 = 3:06
| note17 = Portastudio demo, 1984/85
| title18 = In a Hole
| length18 = 2:42
| note18 = Portastudio demo, 1984/85
| title19 = Something's Wrong
| length19 = 3:27
| note19 = Portastudio demo, 1984/85
| title20 = Just Like Honey (Demo Version, October 1984)
| writer20 =
| length20 = 2:58
| note20 = Alaska Studios demo, June 1985
| title21 = The Living End
| length21 = 2:16
| note21 = Alaska Studios demo, June 1985
| title22 = My Little Underground
| length22 = 2:33
| title23 = Never Understand (Alternate Version)
| writer23 =
| length23 = 3:25
| title24 = Jesus Fuck
| length24 = 2:30
}}2011 bonus DVD
  • "Never Understand" {{small|(music video)}}
  • "You Trip Me Up" {{small|(music video)}}
  • "Just Like Honey" {{small|(music video)}}
  • "In a Hole - Old Grey Whistle Test (12 March 1985)"
  • "Riot at North London Polytechnic - interview and live clips (The NewMusic) (15 March 1985)"
  • "Interview - VRT, Belgium (17 March 1985)"
  • "Never Understand - VRT, Belgium (17 March 1985)"
  • "Just Like Honey - The Tube (11 November 1985)"
  • "Inside Me - The Tube (11 November 1985)"

Personnel

All personnel credits adapted from Psychocandy{{'}}s liner notes.[31]

The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • Jim Reid – vocals, guitar
  • William Reid – vocals, guitar
  • Douglas Hart – bass
  • Bobby Gillespie – drums
Additional musicians
  • Karen Parker – backing vocals {{small|(1)}}
  • Laurence Verfaillie – backing vocals {{small|(1)}}[32]
Technical
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain – production
  • John Loder – engineering
  • Flood – engineer {{small|(8)}}
  • Alan Moulder – assistant engineer {{small|(8)}}
Design
  • Greg Allen – art direction
  • Alastair Indge – sleeve photography
  • Bleddyn Butcher – sleeve photography
  • Chris Clown – sleeve photography
  • Mike Laye – sleeve photography
  • Rona McIntosh – sleeve photography
  • Stuart Cassidy – sleeve photography

Charts

Weekly charts

{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}
Chart (1985)Peak
position
UK Albums Chart[33]31
Chart (1986)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[34]87
New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart[35]35
US Billboard 200[36]188

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart positions
UK
[33]
IRL
[37]
NZD
[35]
1985 "Never Understand"47
"You Trip Me Up"55
"Just Like Honey"45
1986 "Some Candy Talking"131137
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.
{{col-2}}

Certifications

RegionCertificationSales/shipments
United Kingdom (BPI)[38] Gold^}}
Summaries
{{small|{{sup|^}} shipments figures based on certification alone.}}
{{col-end}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/post/184696-184696-hope-despite-the-times-12-essential-alternative-rock-albums-f/P1/|title=12 Essential Alternative Rock Albums from the 1980s|publisher=PopMatters|date=27 August 2014|accessdate=27 October 2015|author=Ramirez, AJ}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/07/the-50-best-post-punk-albums.html|title=The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums|publisher=Paste|date=13 July 2016|accessdate=26 August 2016|author=Jackson, Josh}}
3. ^{{cite web|last1=Lynskey|first1=Dorian|title=The Jesus and Mary Chain on Psychocandy: 'It was a little miracle'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/26/jesus-and-mary-chain-psychocandy-live-interview|website=The Observer|publisher=Guardian News and Media|accessdate=23 November 2014|date=26 October 2014}}
4. ^{{cite web|last1=Marszalek|first1=Julian|title=Brown Acid Black Leather: The Story Of The Jesus And Mary Chain's Psychocandy|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/07301-jesus-and-mary-chain-psychocandy|website=The Quietus|accessdate=24 November 2014|date=8 November 2011}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16544/reviews/4143612|title=Jesus and Mary Chain – Deluxe Reissues|work=Drowned in Sound|date=30 September 2011|accessdate=14 July 2012|last=Gourlay|first=Dom}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/xh25|title=Review of The Jesus And Mary Chain – Psychocandy|publisher=BBC Music|date=1 August 2007|accessdate=14 July 2012|last=Jones|first=Chris}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/psychocandy-mw0000652509|title=Psychocandy – The Jesus and Mary Chain|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=14 July 2012|last=Raggett|first=Ned}}
8. ^{{cite journal|title=The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy / Darklands / Automatic|work=Mojo|issue=153|date=August 2006|page=111}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11882-psychocandy-darklands-automatic-honeys-dead-stoned-dethroned/|title=The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy / Darklands / Automatic / Honey's Dead / Stoned & Dethroned|work=Pitchfork|date=4 August 2006|accessdate=14 July 2012|last=Abebe|first=Nitsuh}}
10. ^{{cite journal|title=The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy|work=Q|issue=240|date=July 2006|page=122}}
11. ^{{cite journal|title=The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy|work=Record Collector|issue=|date=2006|page=87|quote=[A] brash statement that guitars should be louder than vocals and that texture of sound was as important as the tunes embedded within.}}
12. ^{{cite journal|title=The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy|work=Rolling Stone|date=29 June 2006|last=Edwards|first=Gavin|page=74}}
13. ^{{cite book|chapter=The Jesus and Mary Chain|last=Sisario|first=Ben|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|year=2004|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=429–30}}
14. ^{{cite journal|title=The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy / Darklands / Barbed Wire Kisses / Automatic / Honey's Dead / Stoned And Dethroned|work=Select|issue=82|date=April 1997|last=Manning|first=Sarra|page=112}}
15. ^{{cite book|title=Spin Alternative Record Guide|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|publisher=Vintage Books|year=1995|isbn=0-679-75574-8}}
16. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv4-86.php|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide|work=The Village Voice|date=1 April 1986|accessdate=22 January 2016|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau}}
17. ^{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xdLsQBjl0-IC&pg=PA38|title=Psychocandy|work=Spin|volume=2|issue=1|date=April 1986|accessdate=22 January 2016|page=38}}
18. ^{{cite journal|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thejesusandmarychain/albums/album/193252/review/6068217/psychocandy|title=The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=27 March 1986|accessdate=14 July 2012|last=Holmes|first=Tim|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622010350/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thejesusandmarychain/albums/album/193252/review/6068217/psychocandy|archivedate=22 June 2008}}
19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/1985.html|title=Rocklist.net ... NME End Of Year Lists 1985 ...|work=rocklistmusic.co.uk|accessdate=14 July 2012}}
20. ^{{Cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/1985-2-1045389 |title=Albums and Tracks of the Year |author= |date=2018 |publisher=NME |accessdate=August 30, 2018 }}
21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/theface.htm#1985|title=Rocklist.net ...  ... The Face Recordings Of The Year ...|work=rocklistmusic.co.uk|accessdate=14 July 2012}}
22. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mmpage.html#1985|title=Rocklist.net ... Melody Maker Lists The '70's & '80's. ...|work=rocklistmusic.co.uk|accessdate=14 July 2012}}
23. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlists.html|title=Rocklist.net ... Q magazine Recordings Of The Year|work=rocklistmusic.co.uk|accessdate=14 July 2012}}
24. ^{{cite journal|journal=Q|issue=241|date=August 2006}}
25. ^{{cite book| editor-last=Levy| editor-first=Joe| editor2-last=Van Zandt| editor2-first=Steven| editor2-link=Steven Van Zandt|title=Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|origyear=2005|edition=3rd|year=2006|publisher=Turnaround|location=London|isbn=1-932958-61-4|oclc=70672814|ref=RS500}}
26. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-debut-albums-of-all-time-20130322/psychocandy-19691231|title=100 Best Debut Albums of All Time|first=Rolling|last=Stone|date=22 March 2013|publisher=}}
27. ^{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5882-top-100-albums-of-the-1980s/8/|title=Staff Lists: Top 100 Albums of the 1980s|date=20 November 2002|work=Pitchfork|accessdate=14 July 2012}}
28. ^{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1980s/?page=9|title=The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s|date=10 September 2018|work=Pitchfork|accessdate=23 September 2018}}
29. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/best-albums-of-the-1980s/P7|title=Best Albums of the 1980s|date=5 March 2012|work=Slant Magazine|accessdate=14 July 2012}}
30. ^{{cite book|author1=Robert Dimery|author2=Michael Lydon|title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition|date=23 March 2010|publisher=Universe|isbn=978-0-7893-2074-2}}
31. ^{{cite AV media notes|title=Psychocandy|others=The Jesus and Mary Chain|year=1985|type=CD|publisher=Blanco y Negro Records|id=242 000-2}}
32. ^{{cite web|url=http://aprilskies.amniisia.com/jamc/members_of_the_mary_chain.php|title=april skies - the jesus and mary chain|first=|last=niina|website=aprilskies.amniisia.com}}
33. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/jesus%20%26%20mary%20chain/|title=Jesus & Mary Chain | Artist|work=Official Charts Company|publisher=British Phonographic Industry|accessdate=6 January 2013}}
34. ^{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St. Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|edition=Illustrated|page=154|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} N.B. the Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.
35. ^{{cite web|url=http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=The+Jesus+%26+Mary+Chain|title=Discography The Jesus & Mary Chain|work=charts.org.nz|publisher=Hung Medien|accessdate=6 January 2013}}
36. ^{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=psychocandy-mw0000652509|tab=awards|pure_url=yes}}|title=Psychocandy – The Jesus and Mary Chain: Awards|work=Allmusic|publisher=Rovi Corporation|accessdate=6 January 2013}}
37. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement|title=Search the charts|work=irishcharts.ie|publisher=Irish Recorded Music Association|accessdate=6 January 2013}} N.B. User must define search parameters by entering either "Jesus and Mary Chain" into Search by Artist and clicking Search or "Some Candy Talking" into Search by Song Title and clicking Search.
38. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx|title=Certified Awards Search|publisher=British Phonographic Industry|accessdate=6 January 2013}} N.B. User must define search parameters by entering either "Jesus & Mary Chain" into Search, selecting "Artist" in Search by and clicking Go or "Psychocandy" into Search, selecting "Title" in Search by and clicking Go.

External links

  • {{Discogs master|5332|Psychocandy}}
  • Psychocandy (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)
{{The Jesus and Mary Chain}}

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