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How can 'Honey's Dead' be so ace but 'Psychocandy' be so profoundly meh?

ehwhat [Edit] [Delete] 18 replies 10:09, 24 March '09

I mean the gulf is soooo huge.

unprecedented I think.

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  • HOOOOOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ehwhat I want to kiss you. I want to hold you in my arms and cherish you through long winter nights together. I want to find and tune my acoustic guitar just so I can write sweet off-kilter ditties in praise of you.

    I thought I was the only one who thought that Honey's Dead was vastly superior to Pyschocandy (the recieved wisdom being that Psychocandy is their one classic album and they went steadily downhill after that). I have felt so alone for so so so so so long.

    xxxxXXXxxxxx

    sunbakedsnowcave | 24 Mar '09, 10:19 | X
    • Psychocandy is chords 1 and 4, one after the other, with some blathering over the top and token fuzz.

      Honey's Dead is all killerwhale no fillerfail

      ehwhat @sunbakedsnowcave | 24 Mar '09, 10:24 | X
      • Utter rot.

        They're both classics. So there.

        douglasdouglas @ehwhat | 24 Mar '09, 11:02 | X
  • I like both albums

    but agree honeys dead is loads better!

    earnse | 24 Mar '09, 12:26 | X
  • truth be told...

    i prefer 'darklands' to either of them. also, describing 'psychocandy' as "meh" is just wrong.

    capt_oats | 24 Mar '09, 14:36 | X
    • I agree

      'Darklands' is my favourite too.

      ianc21 @capt_oats | 24 Mar '09, 16:12 | X
      • Mine too

        musicismyradar @ianc21 | 24 Mar '09, 17:03 | X
      • Soyme here

        twicetwoequalsfour @ianc21 | 24 Mar '09, 18:04 | X
  • Describing anything by JAMC as 'meh': craziness.

    poptimusgrime | 24 Mar '09, 14:46 | X
    • You've obviously not got

      'Stoned & dethroned' or 'Munki' then?

      vamos @poptimusgrime | 24 Mar '09, 16:06 | X
      • Stoned and dethroned is so middle of the road

        it is a danger to oncoming traffic.

        sunbakedsnowcave @vamos | 24 Mar '09, 16:15 | X
        • I like it in its own understated way

          You probably have to be stoned to fully get it, but meh, not my scene.

          musicismyradar @sunbakedsnowcave | 24 Mar '09, 17:04 | X
  • Psychocandy is one of the worst albums I've ever heard

    untrue | 24 Mar '09, 21:17 | X
    • just...baffled

      What is it you don't like about it? The feedback, the druggy attitude, the Moe Tucker drums, the garage rocking guitars, the hooky melodies, the shortness of the songs?

      Cos all that stuff spells "yes" in my value system.

      OK, bit of a sacred cow, but...come on.

      willma @untrue | 25 Mar '09, 08:00 | X
  • Preposterous

    Honey's Dead has aged terribly. Listen to the drums.

    They sound like the drums used by M People and the Lighthouse Family. Perhaps it sounded smashing at the time of release but unfortunately by the time I heard it all the shit pop 90s bands used programmed drums that sounded exactly like those on Honey's Dead.

    'Automatic' pisses on it

    old_brutalist | 24 Mar '09, 22:17 | X
  • JAMC never ages

    Everything they have done is genius. End of subject.

    Inza | 24 Mar '09, 22:47 | X
  • theres no accounting for taste

    I reckon HD is one of JAMC's weaker moments. It always seemed to me they were trying to do another psychocandy and hence it sounded quite contrived.
    Psychocandy is much better, probably tying with Darklands for best album.
    Stoned and Dethroned is fucking ace, love the country elements. Probably my most listened-to JAMC album

    gianfranco_zoloft | 25 Mar '09, 03:46 | X
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