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| 2.0 poor | MusicIsMyFavorite | May 24th 11 |
Influence aside, Psychocandy is a genuinely bad album. Too lazily played to evoke any coherent feeling, too fuzzed out to articulate its melodies, and plagued by some truly inane lyrics ("I get ahead on my motorbike/I feel so quick in my leather boots/My mood is black when my jacket's on/And I'm in love with myself"), Psychocandy's only worth is that it inspired some of the greatest albums of all time (You're Living All Over Me, Loveless, etc.).
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| 5.0 classic | Isaac George | May 29th 12 |
I get ahead on my motorbike, I get ahead on my motorbike. I feel so quick in my leather boots, I fell so quick in my leather boots. My mood is black when my jacket's on, My mood is black when my jacket's on. And I'm in love with myself, And I'm in love with myself. rBest Songs: Just Like Honey, The Living End, The Hardest Walk, Taste of Cindy, Never Understand, My Little Underground, It's So Hard
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| 3.6 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | July 29th 20 |
Birth of a genre: take post-punk rhythms, hidden pop melodies, add some a lot of fuzz, echo and saturation and there you go: shoegaze. As if Phil Spector produced The Stooges' Fun House, or if The Velvet Underground decided to record Beach Boys tunes. While this record's influence gets nothing but mad respect from me, I like the idea of the record more than the actual songs off it. Eh.
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| 5.0 classic | IsildursBane44 | April 13th 20 |
Noisy and abrasive. Poppy and sweet. Make up your mind Psychocandy! Clearly a staple for early noise rock, and I see the appeal, but it's not really my kind of album outside of the more melodic songs. rEdit: I'm enjoying this a lot more right now. I suppose I just wasn't getting it the first time. There are a lot more pop sensibilities then remembered.
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| 2.5 average | Skyline28 | April 21st 16 |
I've spent years trying to like this album and while I have an appreciation for the influence that it has had I just can't get into the music itself. 'Just Like Honey' is a good song that sticks in the mind but the rest of the album is composed of average and forgettable fuzz rock that seems like its trying too hard to be cool.
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| 0.0 | wwf | March 3rd 16 |
I don't normally 1 albums by artists that I don't enjoy on any level but this is just obnoxious.
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| 2.5 average | MadBaron | May 2nd 15 |
While this album has an interesting gimmick, namely 60's pop under a layer of white hot guitar noise, it's far too repetitive and abrasive for me to give it a pass. The noise is not used artfully; it is piercing and messy making the treble of the songs almost unlistenably harsh. The noise doesn't seem to serve any purpose except to detract from how painfully unoriginal the songs are. The more mellow pop oriented moments almost save this album, but they all seem to recycle the same drum pattern to the point that it just gets boring. There are a handful of classic songs on here, but they are all buried among repetitive nonsense.
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| 4.5 superb | red0 | November 30th 08 |
The Jesus and Mary Chain made shoegaze and noise rock accessible by down-tuning their guitars and engulfing them in noises of feedback. It's shocking to see these guys make these noises with just a guitar-but they do, making Psychocandy, their one true noise album, a classic.
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