Psychocandy
by The Jesus And Mary Chain

Album
Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain
Year: 1985
Release date: 1985-11-18
Overall rank: 301st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 932 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1985 (5th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 1980s (40th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (301st)

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The Jesus And Mary Chain bestography

Psychocandy is ranked as the best album by The Jesus And Mary Chain.

The Jesus And Mary Chain album bestography « Higher ranked
- This album (301st)
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Psychocandy track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Just Like Honey
Average Rating: 90 (260 votes)Comments: View 3
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The Living End
Average Rating: 81 (157 votes)Comments: View 0
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Taste The Floor
Average Rating: 81 (154 votes)Comments: View 0
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The Hardest Walk
Average Rating: 85 (169 votes)Comments: View 1
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Cut Dead
Average Rating: 83 (155 votes)Comments: View 1
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In A Hole
Average Rating: 79 (144 votes)Comments: View 3
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Taste Of Cindy
Average Rating: 82 (150 votes)Comments: View 2
8.
Never Understand
Average Rating: 83 (150 votes)Comments: View 2
9.
Inside Me
Average Rating: 78 (137 votes)Comments: View 1
10.
Sowing Seeds
Average Rating: 83 (151 votes)Comments: View 0
11.
My Little Underground
Average Rating: 83 (142 votes)Comments: View 1
12.
You Trip Me Up
Average Rating: 82 (139 votes)Comments: View 2
13.
Something's Wrong
Average Rating: 81 (140 votes)Comments: View 0
14.
It's So Hard
Average Rating: 75 (136 votes)Comments: View 1

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Psychocandy rankings

Psychocandy rankings summary
Overall rank: 301st | 1980s rank: 40th | 1985 rank: 5th  Overall chart history
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Psychocandy ratings

Average Rating: 
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 !		46 minutes ago Siromynian  Ratings distribution  1,72076/100
 
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 !		4 days ago AledJames  Ratings distribution  1,69469/100
 
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 !		08/17/2026 04:58 mostlymor  Ratings distribution  7,04679/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.2/100, a mean average of 78.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.5.


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Psychocandy forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 3 days ago in Chart of the day (#5452): By LittleM1971
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s by LittleM1971 () 1. by (1989) 2. by by (1984) 4. (1980) 6. by (1988) 7. by (1985) 8. by (1980) 9. by (1986) 10. by (1988) 11. by (1983) 12. (1985) 13. (1989) 14. (1984) 15. by (1980) 16. by (1980) 17. by by (1987) 20. (1982) 21. by (1984)…”
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“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by joedec () 1. (1989) 2. by (1982) 4. (1990) 5. by (1980) 7. by by (1993) 10. by (1985) 11. by by by (1988) 14. by (1977) 16. by (1987) 17. by (1987) 18. by (1971) 19. by (1979) 20. by (1984) 22. by (1972) 23. by (1979) 24. by (1968) 25. by by…”
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Psychocandy comments

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From 05/30/2013 09:07 | #77644 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I feel like I'm listening to decent power pop through someone else's earphones on a bus.
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From 10/24/2017 19:34 | #200024 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Its cool, but it gets really boring really fast. And on some of the songs it sounds like they play the song and then just overdub a ton of treble-y reverb.
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From 04/05/2012 09:50 | #39436 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Sound to me like the orign of shoegazer music, a funny thing, fast and noisy like punk, but with melodies like pop music, psychocandy might actually be the ideal word to describe their sound. Excellent from beginning to the end, only minus is that the music ends up, sounding a little to monotonic.
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95/100
From 09/05/2017 09:37 | #197314 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album is masterful in every way , for many years it sat comfortably as my all time favourite . I never tire of the feedback, the chaos , the quiet loud and giddy ride . Thank you Reid brothers, thank you young Bobby Gillespie for bringing this baby into the world
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From 11/24/2015 17:49 | #153401 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
It's just annoying. Real noise rock is stuff like Sonic Youth or My Bloody Valentine, where there's layers and layers of stuff on top of each other that ends up sounding beautiful, and if there's a ton of feedback and distortion, then it's significant and adds to the beauty of the song. Here, it's like they decided to play some pop songs and just throw on as much feedback as possible onto it. I can barely even hear the drums let alone the bass because of how loud it all is. I guess people enjoy this, but I really don't see how this is in the top 250 albums of all time.
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Best Albums of  1985
1. Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush
2. Rain Dogs by Tom Waits
3. Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits
4. Meat Is Murder by The Smiths
5. Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain
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7. The Head On The Door by The Cure
8. Tim by The Replacements
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