I'm just your longtime curse: DARKLANDS by THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, POLL OF

This isn't as good as Psychocandy but it's pretty good. Happy when it rains used to make me happy so I'll vote for that.

April Skies/Happy When It Rains are the same song but what a song.

Of course it's between "April Skies" and "Happy When It Rains" though "Down On Me" and "On the Wall" are my idiosyncratic affections here.

I'll take "Happy When It Rains" because when I was a kid this was THE SONG. And because the line "Things vaporize and rise to the sky" taught me, for the first time, about

a) internal rhyme

and

b) diction control (the surprising and wonderful scientific interjection of "vaporize")

April Skies/Happy When It Rains are the same song but what a song.

yeah. gave the edge to "happy" because it's the one i had the most recent craving to hear.

loved this album to death when it came out. first semester of my freshman year of college, timing couldn't have been better.

think the title track is being underrated here

title track is great. it's like the album's mission statement. "to talk in rhyme with my chaotic soul." "all things end in nothing." like i said, i'm glad i heard this when i was 18, because if i hadn't bee 18 i might not have loved it as much.

special nod also to "cherry came too," which is maybe too cute but does their thing pretty perfectly.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

haha Alfred is right & it's between those two but I went with "Happy When It Rains" for the "do do do" part over "April Skies"s "ooh ooh ooh"s part.

I like the structure of both songs: in "April Skies" e.g. there's the "sacrifice myself for you" part which sounds like a chorus, but they hold off the song's title until the next chorus. They pull the same trick in "Happy When It Rains".

Next for me is "Darklands" & "On the Wall" & "Cherry Came Too"...wish I'd have seen this poll earlier since it's a good one to talk about & I missed that window & gotta run now...

not much talking happened at all tbh ;_;

hopefully the psychocandy one will be more divisive

Yeah, I went with "Happy When It Rains" too.

"Cherry Came Too" for it's sweet little Beach Boys rip of a tune but this isn't anywhere near the first album really.

the languidness of the opening chords and carefully measured drumbeat of 'darklands' wins it for me

Not trying to be contrarian, and I'm fine with the apparent winner, but I'd go w/Nine Million Rainy Days. Maybe 'cause it's more in line w/Psychocandy. Just graft some feedback onto it and you could totally put it on the first album.

just two dudes and a drum machine

xpost. Wrote that just before re-listening to the track, and was happy to find that it's better than I'd remembered!

s/t tracak

like this much more than psychocandy

^^ my main man

I like it more than Psychocandy too; or at least I listen to it a lot more than Psychocandy. I like tuneful JAMC more than screetchy JAMC (when they pull both off at the same time it's obv. better).

my introduction album to this band, going with "Happy When It Rains." i'm gloomy like that.

Psychocandy is all tunes. Just with a light fluffy topping of scree for extra deliciousness.

Damn I wish I'd voted "Fall" now.

April Skies/Happy When It Rains are the same song but what a song.

Correct. I went with "April Skies" because the other one inspired that awful Garbage tune of the same name.

Nah: "Only Happy When It Rains" >>>>>>> "Happy When It Rains"

my challop:

barbed wire kisses > psychocandy >>> darklands

casting a contrarian vote for the closing tune

Argh, why the short timescale on this? I am not going to get a chance to listen to it again before I vote.

I seem to remember loving Nine Million Rainy Days but argh. There are songs i don't remember.

I used to <3 this album so much. It's totally the comedown record to Psychocandy's fizzy buzz. JAMC always do one upbeat (for them) pop album then a miserable acousticy album to follow, then back to the pop.

Cherry Came Too.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

rare that every song gets a vote!

xpost. After all these years I still don't know what a challop is, but totally agree with:

barbed wire kisses > psychocandy >>> darklands

(But I still like them all.)

challenging opinion

lol I thought nobody was gonna vote in this poll since nobody replied. happy to see DARKLANDS take 2nd

"Darklands" gets my vote for one of the most underrated follow-ups of all time, followed by "Automatic," which surely wins "most underrated follow-up to an underrated follow-up."

Ugh, how did I miss this? "Fall" was robbed.

Argh, why the short timescale on this?
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Yeah, I missed this entirely.

There was a rumour that they were going to appear on Dolly Parton's TV show. "Deep one perfect morning" would have been perfect for this.

My vote? Hah, I missed this poll so don't have to.

You know, one of these days I will actually have to listen to that last album they made.

Listened to it again, on Spotify.

Awww, I had forgotten how sweet About You is, there's just something so uncharacteristically sentimental and upbeat about it - reminds me almost of the Pastels.

Glad with my Nine Million Rainy Days choice, but Down On Me - wow. Happy When It Rains -> Down On Me -> Nine Million Rainy Days is just such a killer sequence.

Ah, did you ever hear Sandie Shaw's cover? It's renamed "Sweet about you"....

Nice results, I think the top three were pretty predictable, though.

The Pastels covered About You last time I saw them, so they obviously thought so too - xpost to K8

so, who wants to poll psychocandy?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Impossible.

Would poll Honey's Dead, though.

sounds like a challenge to me

I wanna poll just like Jesus Christ.

I haven't heard this in a loooooooooong time. I remember that almost every song had the same bloody "I'm Waiting for the Man" chord changes (not much different from Psychocandy then). Still, the title track was quite nice, despite that hilarious line "talk in rhyme with my chaotic soul".

Totally missed this. I'd maybe have gone for the title track but looking at the results I've decided to promote Cherry Came Too to 5th place.

It is a fine album. Psychocandy will always be first but hearing Darklands still makes me feel good - such a warm and engaging album considering it talks about nothing but death/rain/pain/holes.

I still love Automatic, as well. Every album I listen to just gives me this little shiver of "I remember when..." It's stupid how much of my life is tied up with this band.

Damn, I forgot all about "On the Wall." Kinda lame that that one only got two votes & NMRD four. Those are easily the best trax imo.

The Jesus & Mary Chain were making love on the edge of a knife
when Cherry took their soul
And beat it with her pole

Wrong thread! That should be on "tweak the lyrics..."

Maybe. I still can't come up with a JAMC tweak the lyrics. :-/

Well, if I cannae,...

oh, i've got one...

would have voted 4 "cherry came too"

my friend found 'psychocandy vinyl lp' on amazon and ordered it, only to find darklands in the package when it arrived

lol

aw.

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