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...
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..
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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'
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
He's right, you'll find psycho candy in most record stores today
Yeah, whilst it comes across as a bit arrogant in the interview, Jim has ultimately been proven right to say that.
Everything Jim said came true,
I miss record stores.
true even in the only little record store in my town has it
i remember seeing psycho candy in the window of barnes and nobel around 20 years after this interview
Saw them 3 days ago, and they absolutely KILLED it.
I love us growing old together.
They were right. Not only does Psychocandy remain a classic, it's because it was made in that "pure" way with a whole lotta heart.
2023 and still listening to the Reid boys
"If I wasn't in the Jesus and Mary Chain, I'd love us." :)
Nice profile picture
@@chiphazard471 Thanks
darklands will forever be in the record store. That record is pure.
one of the greatest opening tracks on any album. its amazing isnt it. youd think 'how can you even come close to just like honey?', and there it is.
Actually quite hard to get a vinyl copy of Darklands, give it a go.
ASMR OF THE FINEST ORDER!
Their sound their attitude their look has never been matched
The Hardest Walk ….. such a pretty song. Absolutely ❤️❤️❤️ it.
You think you made a classic LP? That's the understatement of the century Jim. The soundtrack of my life
Precious document. JAMC played a wonderful concert in Milano last 17th of April. The god of music bless them.
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
The Stone Roses were huge fans of these guys.
I remember that band. I used to listen to them in the 90s. They were pretty cool. I think some of their music is still valid today.
@@chocomanger6873 Their first album is still semi fresh today. Not as timeless as psycho candy of course but still pretty listenable
Oasis too.....
Roses did an interview very much like this.
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
Loved em from moment I heard “Never Understand” repeatedly played through an adjoining bedroom wall back in 1984/85
Best... Band... EVER!
35 years later Psychocandy is still a classic
PSYCHOCANDY still in record shops. Still loving it 2018. Happy songs. Feedback is awesome. So influential.
Just purchased a 4 album set in 2022 to replace lost and not returned ones, top band, top songs...Darklands awsome !!!
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...
Yes the music is cheerful. It has brought me great joy for many years.
Absolutely aces.I remember taking a bus for 3 days to see them play in LA.86 just amazing memories.
well done sir!
Here I am in 2019 and they definitely inspired me!
I LOVE the Jesus & Mary Chain
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.
hell yeah!! you probably would like motorama you should check them out
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..
I don't know what it is but being scottish myself and listening to their accents makes me laugh so much
jmac.they really give zero fucks(they do it for themselves and for music fans) still to this day.
Half the time they are taking the pish, but this was a good interview it gave them a chance to respond creatively!
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
No bands like this anymore...
Jim Reid is just wonderful
Jim, you were absolutely right. Psychocandy is a classic that's withstand test of time. And your band is still legendary!
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.
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
That and damned damned damned ❤
‘Time will tell’… time did tell
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.
Those guys were so raw and pure no compromised ..
Young men! It takes years to realise you are not as important as you think - 7 billion people and all that. Great band!
Totally right. Their music is pure.
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.
Jim Is very cute for me
Great band with great hair. Didn't know they were Scottish until just now, though I was digging their sound in the mid 1980s.
Anyone whose into guitar music HAS to know this band!
I LOVE that they knew, even then, what a great album Psychocandy is.
Love them so much , just absolutely my heroes and a huge influence on me , made me save my pennies for an old gretsch , just brilliant
Am I the only one that gets unexplainably emotional just by listening to this?
Inwardly Jim and William knew they were in for the long haul. JAMC music has broken so many barriers. Just love that introverted brilliance
Im in love with jim
Have been for decades 😊
PURE🥰😇
Awesome!!!
Aye , aye and aye again , still the records sell and theyer
Nice nice nice nice
Only in the last days of 2021… are we finally feeling the effects of these hairstyles. 😎
Sunie!
Loved her.
Jim was not lying I mean hell that record had a big influence on my bloody valentine
Mbv came out first.
Psychocandy is still around...
JAMC are still around...
Their influence is still around...
I just simply love them... ❤
you ask me what purity is, this is what purity is
His brave.. egotistic almost.. prediction re the Album Psychocandy is spot on ..it IS a classic that I bought as soon as it came out 👍
What the ramones did with barre chords JAMC did with noise. They have a similar melodic approach bubble gum pop melodies back by noise/barre chords.
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
Mbv came out first.
@@Dagger-DeepNo they didn't - both formed in '83....
@@Dagger-Deepmbv wasn’t noisy and fuzzed out on the early stuff. Jamc has been noisy since day 1
Three thumbs down....proof that there are still some 50s beatniks out there!
It is pure true
Jim is right, they made a classic LP.
Love how he knows "PsychoCandy" would be looked apon in twenty years.
ジザメリ大好き💕
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
my t-shirt 1986
Spot on Psycho Candy is still relevant today.... look at the film Lost in Translation
they sound so humble o.o
A great fxxcking band !!
Will pay £25,000 for Jesus & Mary Chain - Flower of Scotland (live Hampden Park 1987 SOUNDDESK-HIGH-QUALITY).mp3
Damn he was right on the money
Sunie Fletcher!
JAMC influenced us to make our triple-album. No Serial Killer.
Great band and Psychocandy was brilliant. There was nothing like it at the time.
Psychocandy makes Nevermind sound pretentious.
Sonic Youth and Husker Du added a pop sensibility to noise a few years before JMJ. And of course there was the Velvet Underground.
Nevermind was made to sound the most pop possible, so obviously was a pretentious album
i was sad to learn nirvana copied the sound from an echo and bunnymen song for about a girl i thought that was one of nirvanas best songs
@@leahflower9924 makes no sense, Kurt barley listened to those bands
@@xdef1ne listen to echo and bunnymen read it in books John peel sessions and tell me what you think
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'
Reid Brothers
Shoegaze gawds
1985
Thank you.... 1985 because?
Which is David Yow?
subtitles please.
Lol!
Yeah, you def influenced a lot of people
The mid eighties.
The girl in the thumbnail looks like kt tunstall
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.
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.
Candy is a drug slang for COCAIN or nose CANDY
Jim Reid smiles?
Angelically.
The Reid brothers puzzling over why they are not accepted in the "pop industry".. Cos they were trying to write pop songs???! 😁
William probably schtupped the cute interviewer
She's NOT cute......
What planet this guys came from?
Planet of Sound. (Same as Pixies.)
Come on guys cut your hair dudes
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 you are a dick
@@irishrebel1360 Potato
@@itistime467 you also a dick
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.
Jim= the handsome brother
Don't think it matters darlin.. They don't make music with their faces..
What kinda fucking comment is this. That's rude as hell. And none of these dudes are ugly. They're emo and represent the 80s.
Psycho jelly babies. ''Time will tell...''
Riddled with middle class guilt!
They came from a council housing scheme in East Kilbride
Are you?
I wish William would stop interrupting and talking all the time- my God man, stop being so chatty!
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
Bad A.. band ever!!!
And now they're playing opera houses. Sell. Out!
They're old, do you expect them to be playing at clubs?
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...
@@natechenry It was a joke.
The cringe factor here is like reading your teenage diary at the age of 54 multiplied by 100
pretty smart articulate and culturally relevant teenagers then !
They were cool in this day and age, now two miserable drunks.
Jim’s been (or had been) sober for a good while. Going by a 2010 interview...
Judgey
Better a has been than a never been.
Personality bypass X 2, their music is really quite monotonous, a couple of good pop tracks, but let’s not kid ourselves, it is mediocre.
Yes Lou Reed lite.
Get stuffed, troll.
@@christophernason4307 omg yes
I recall *WHAM* (or any other number of pure-pop bands) saying *the exact same thing* as these boys are saying here