Is Psychocandy the J&M Chain's Best?
 

I love psychocandy, I was playing it again yesterday.I've had it for years but havent got another record by them. The question is does anything really top their debut or does nothing ever reach that status again in their career?

God help us.

its awesome.

get darklands, honey's dead and speed of sound. honeys dead and speed of sound are a bit different that psychocandy, even more noisier.

Psychocandy is horrible. They obviously couldn't play their instruments when they made it. They are a disgrace if only because they put the word 'Jesus' in their name. He deserved better.

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Yeah man, that is one crap album.The production is terrible and he couldn't sing.

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Psychocandy's production is fucked because they should have used a 'feedbacker' instead of relying on their amps.

i was banned for over-posting and reccomending big muffs too much. :D that was funny

I think it's their best, but I like the B-side collection Barbed Wire Kisses almost as much. To me the lo-fi production is part of the greatness of the album, much as I love the production of White Light/White Heat and for that matter Confusion is Sex. Of course Psychocandy is way more of a pop effort than either of those, but at the time noise-pop was new enough people weren't so jaded about it. It still stands the test of time for me too.

I like it a lot, but then again, I also like Automatic a lot. They done some good stuff!

I have the same problem. Psychocandy is the only JAMC album I own, and I am unsure of which other of their records I should get.

Me too. I love Lofi, noisy rock, but I find the production of this album horrible. Boring...

I was just kidding when i posted about the production being horrible.Of course it's their best album and one that goes beyond production qualities alltogether.It's just that i've found it odd to see that question asked for the millionth time.

I thought Psychocandy was a bit repetitive. Some good moments, but not enough to give the album any momentum.

As for me, I wasn't kidding. I don't like the production.

I think it's their only GOOD album...

i've never heard any of their other records, and i'm in no rush to either, none of their songs i've heard from their other records have really done anything for me

Yes, it is the best.

But, Darklands is a great album too. "April Skies" although not the typical JaMC song, is one of their best.

Psychocandy is extremely simple and generally so groovy only Suicide's first album can top it on the groovy-o-meter; I always have the Psychocandy cover at the front of my record browser (well, a lot of the time).

I gave it 4.5/5 on RYM. The obvious melodies were given a new lease when played by JAMC.