| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 120 pages) |
| Series |
33 1/3 |
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33 1/3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"The Jesus and Mary Chain's swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and to the top of 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 taste making entity in the process. The Scottish band's notorious live performances were both punishingly loud and riot-spurring, simultaneously acting as socio-political commentary on tensions emergent in mid-1980s Britain. Through caustic clangs and feedback channeling the rage of the working-class generation who'd had enough, Psychocandy gestures toward the perverse pleasure in having your eardrums exploded and loudness as a politics within itself--not unlike the S & M pleasure of noisecore. Yet Psychocandy's blackened candy heart center - calling out to phantoms Candy and Honey with an unsettling charm and feminist bent - makes it a pop record to the core, not unlike The Ronettes late '60s croons. Drawing from the sweetness of '60s girl groups, The Stooges' masochistic stage antics and Lou Reed's feedback-laced guitar swells, 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 record's cult popularity became embedded within the sacred canon of pop music. The irresistible Psychocandy emerged as a clairvoyant account of pop mastery that still causes us to grapple with pop's relation to ourselves."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Jesus & Mary Chain (Musical group)
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Jesus & Mary Chain (Musical group) (OCoLC)fst00676058
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Rock music -- Scotland.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
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MUSIC -- Lyrics.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
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Rock music. (OCoLC)fst01099204
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Scotland. (OCoLC)fst01206715
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| ISBN |
9781628929515 (electronic bk.) |
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1628929510 (electronic bk.) |
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9781501305221 (electronic bk.) |
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1501305220 (electronic bk.) |
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