The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy
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2016
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-62892-950-8 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-62892-950-8 (ISBN)
The Jesus and Mary Chain’s swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and through the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within pop music forever. Post-punk and pro-confusion, Psychocandy became the sound of a generation poised on the brink of revolution, establishing Creation Records as a tastemaking entity in the process. The Scottish band’s notorious live performances were both punishingly loud and riot-spurring, inevitably acting as socio-political commentary on tensions emergent in mid-1980s Britain. Through caustic clangs and feedback channeling the rage of the working-class who’d had enough, Psychocandy gestures toward the perverse pleasure in having your eardrums exploded and loudness as a politics within itself.
Yet Psychocandy’s blackened candy heart center – calling out to phantoms Candy and Honey with an unsettling charm – makes it a pop album to the core, and not unlike the sugarcoated sounds the Ronettes became famous for in the 1960s. The Jesus and Mary Chain expertly carved out a place where depravity and sweetness entwined, emerging from the isolating underground of suburban Scotland grasping the distinct sound of a generation, apathetic and uncertain. The irresistible Psychocandy emerged as a clairvoyant account of struggle and sweetness that still causes us to grapple with pop music’s relation to ourselves.
Yet Psychocandy’s blackened candy heart center – calling out to phantoms Candy and Honey with an unsettling charm – makes it a pop album to the core, and not unlike the sugarcoated sounds the Ronettes became famous for in the 1960s. The Jesus and Mary Chain expertly carved out a place where depravity and sweetness entwined, emerging from the isolating underground of suburban Scotland grasping the distinct sound of a generation, apathetic and uncertain. The irresistible Psychocandy emerged as a clairvoyant account of struggle and sweetness that still causes us to grapple with pop music’s relation to ourselves.
Paula Mejia is a writer, journalist and critic. Her work has appeared in The Criterion Collection, NPR, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Rolling Stone and other publications.
Introduction: Taste the Floor
Chapter One: Never Understand
Chapter Two: Just Like Honey
Chapter Three: In a Hole
Chapter Four: Sowing Seeds
Chapter Five: Taste of Cindy
Chapter Six: Some Candy Talking
Chapter Seven: My Little Underground
Chapter Eight: The Living End
Chapter Nine: Cut Dead
Chapter Ten: Inside Me
Chapter Eleven: It's So Hard
Chapter Twelve: Something's Wrong
Chapter Thirteen: The Hardest Walk
Chapter Fourteen: You Trip Me Up
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.10.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | 33 1/3 |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 121 x 165 mm |
| Gewicht | 132 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-62892-950-2 / 1628929502 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-62892-950-8 / 9781628929508 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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