Paula Mejia

The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628929515
• Artikelnr.: 48421101

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Taste the FloorChapter One: Never UnderstandChapter Two: Just Like HoneyChapter Three: In a HoleChapter Four: Sowing SeedsChapter Five: Taste of CindyChapter Six: Some Candy TalkingChapter Seven: My Little UndergroundChapter Eight: The Living EndChapter Nine: Cut DeadChapter Ten: Inside MeChapter Eleven: It's So HardChapter Twelve: Something's WrongChapter Thirteen: The Hardest WalkChapter Fourteen: You Trip Me Up

Rezensionen

An interesting and eminently readable study of one of the most significant albums of the 1980s ... The book is a welcome addition to a consistently excellent series. The Kelvingrove Review