I’ve always admired how sure they were of their abilities. I bet everyone who thought they were cocky are upset now that their albums and images are still celebrated 30 plus years later
Roses said the only two bands that came close to them were the Mary Chain and Public Enemy. For all the mumbling, spikiness and stroppiness they made fantastic records
One of the best bands to exist. More then a classic LP, more then influential. I can hear their influence in most amazing bands to come out of the 90s...smashing pumpkins, nirvana, the pixies, and on and on and on...
Pixies were around at the same time as them and had their own sound. I've never heard Nirvana mention them as influences despite Kurt's penchant for name dropping obscure bands. In fact I've only read stories of American bands complaining about them at Lolapaloza because they were behaving like their usual selves and being ''dicks'' to everyone🤣
Just saw them last night in Glesga and the boys are right, the records are still in the shops, their influence is everywhere and people still love them.
I love how much Will believed in himself and stayed artistically “pure” & the fact that he was right about the fact that 20 years from then they’d still be in record stores and that even if they didn’t matter then, it didn’t matter. That countless amounts of bands were influenced and are still being influenced by them, it just gives me chills thinking about. That’s the problem with mainstream music of today they’ve sold their creativity in exchange for the cheapest of all things to be famous and make money.I find it appalling. The Capitalistic and corporate greed, it reminds me of the fact that even with all the garbage the internet puts out, by means of it we can find out about all these amazingly talented bands in Russia or Denmark or Berlin that are making music for the love of it and we can still find so many bands that exist today that are just as incredible but don’t get mainstream credit and who cares. Don’t sacrifice your artistic/moral integrity for a dollar.
If you become "popular" in America, you've pretty much sold out. If you become palatable to mainstream america, you should question your artistic direction..
Pychochandy the greatest British debut album ever - no one but no no one gets near and I have heard them all from the Sex Pistols to the Mysterines. Respect JAMC
2.48...how prophetic...the album is still regarded as a seminal work of art..as he explained...30 years on still listening to the album...modern music i forget so easily..this i remember so easily..thankyou
I love the Brothers Reid so much. Both very intelligent with an unflinching honesty. Every song they have ever written has always appealed to my musical tastes, with my favourites being April Skies, Drop, Happy When It Rains & the one they did with Williams then girlfriend Hope Sandoval called 'Sometimes Always'. Their cover of another one of my heroes , Syd Barretts 'Vegetable Man' is excellent.
The noise element was what drew me to listen to them. They’re inspirational! So ahead of their time. Psychocandy is a masterpiece, many artists have copied their style. I wish I’d been to one of their early shows.
Prophetic words. Massive influence on other bands (e.g MBV) and still sounds great today. The same can't be said for most of the dross clogging up the charts back then
@2:28 Prophetic words from Jim Reid. He had the foresight to know that Psycho Candy probably wouldn't be understood by the mainstream at the time but people will keep discovering the album in the future. This could be the most honest they've been in an interview from that time instead of the usual ''we're the best band in the world and we're going to be as big as the Beatles''
Back when “ fledglings “ took themselves too seriously. They must be teens at least ,like they’ve got the world on their shoulders bcz of this morose interview! still love their music and bought it all including this beezer! And yes it’s cheerful. JAMC
they defend i guess the word candy as not necessarily about heroin , then in the same interview jim mentions the song 'hit'?!They arent trying to deny they were into h , are they? i met william in 1998 at the house of blues show after they broke up on stage and couldnt even get through one song. Afterward william was outside sitting with these two ,if i remember correctly, japanese girls , and i kept asking william if uv ray was about speedballing, he finally looked me in the eys and said'probably'
It would be nice to see an interviewer not be so deprecating of musicians and just celebrate in their talents. Each musician , each band brings their own uniqueness into that genre. You can tell they were so bored of her questions.
I absolutely hate these questions ... what a waste of time (i.e"do you see yourself doing stadium performances in the future?") with such personally motivated and pure musicians about where they be going.
The thing is the Reids had repeatedly said in interviews in the early days of the band that they wanted mainstream success, that they didn't want to be 'another indie group playing gigs in a cupboard and making records for 20 people' (their words, not mine) So she's not being sarcastic, she's not being confrontational, she's only addressing the obvious contradiction between aiming at mainstream and being 2 introverted guys unwilling to play the game. Look at Jim and William here, they actually look quite relaxed, they are aware the interviewer is on their side and she's basically just playing the devil's advocate.
Do you reckon Jim and William voted in or out for the Scottish independence thing I'm English so I'm interested what these guys would think as jamc is my favorite band!
Jacob George interesting question. I know their ex drummer Murray Dalglish, his son was in the same class as my son, so we’d bump into him at school meetings. Murray still lives in EK, and runs his own Hairdressing Salon, he also still plays some gigs. He voted ‘YES. These guys come from the same background and area as Murray, so I’m pretty sure that they may have voted YES to Independence.
I think they'd have voted to get out. At the time of the referendum, it made sense to stay united... Now with brexit and Johnson, poor Scotland is shackled to England's clown car fire.
Sell out? The released a fire album in 2017. Everyone recalls JAMC when they think of the 80s, most record stores have Psychocandy in their collection...
Psychocandy would be much better if there were more listenable songs than three or four. Honey, Sowing Seeds and Something Wrong are brilliant as great songs with epic soundscapes. Most of the rest just sounds like feedback to me.
Yeah that’s half the point I guess it’s classified to most as noise pop as in combining abrasive sonics with pure pop melodies cause of you listen to never understand with the feedback it’s just a pop song