Tripping Up & Tasting The Floor


The Jesus And Mary Chain ‎– Psychocandy [BYN 7 UK 1985 24-Bit FLAC]

As some may recall I have been regularly critical of WEA Records (aka Warners) and their way of dealing with music in the mid eighties. It's time to briefly to cut them some slack and offer praise for the quality of their vinyl album pressings during the era. My first pressing of Psychocandy is still in superb condition and this rip was a joy to produce.

With all the hype flying around about The Jesus & Mary Chain in 1984/85, Warners were set-up to fail as many a major had struggled to build on the credibility of the indie acts they snapped up. Under the careful guidance of Geoff Travis, Mike Alway and Alan McGee, the Blanco y Negro subsidiary nurtured and protected its acts until the American conglomerate pulled the plug.

A1  Just Like Honey
A2  The Living End
A3  Taste The Floor
A4  The Hardest Walk
A5  Cut Dead
A6  In A Hole
A7  Taste Of Cindy
B1  Never Understand
B2  Inside Me
B3  Sowing Seeds
B4  My Little Underground
B5  You Trip Me Up
B6  Something's Wrong
B7  It's So Hard

Comments

  1. Blogmeister24 January 2020 at 08:50

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  2. Anonymous24 January 2020 at 11:58

    I bought my copy of this from Our Price in Lincoln, along with Tim Buckley's Greatest Hits. Great to have it in hi-res, thanks very much indeed! (I know vinyl will always be the the highest-of-res but you know what I mean...)

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  3. apf25 January 2020 at 02:19

    Thank you !

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  4. Harlen Manatee-Farms31 January 2020 at 06:46

    bought my copy for $1.99, in 1985-6? at Natural Sound in Albuquerque, NM. I think it was a promo.

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  5. Anonymous9 June 2020 at 22:46

    Now THIS is the way the album should sound. Takes me right back to when I bought it on LP. None of the CD issues have this kind of depth and clarity. Thank you for sharing. Darklands sounds fantastic too.

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  6. Angelo Dagdagan14 September 2021 at 15:03

    Thanks for ripping and sharing this landmark record. By melding the melodies of The Beach Boys and the feedback and beats of The Velvet Underground, The Jesus and Mary Chain created a movement (Shoegaze) without meaning to. This album was unlike anything that had ever come before.

    I haven't heard a vinyl rip of this record. That changes now. You are a Godsend Blogmeister.

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  7. Blogmeister6 December 2022 at 09:15

    New link: https://timeneedle.blogspot.com/2022/12/trip-me-up-and-taste-floor.html

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