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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
okay, someone needs to explain this:
some of the most atrocious production ever employed. why do people love this album so much? |
I think simply put it's the best collection of individual songs they ever put on one album. It's not my favourite album of theirs I prefer Honey's Dead as an album but in terms of individual songs Psychocandy beats it with ease. The production is awful but I guess i've got used to it over time.
If you look at the circumstances of it's release and the timing of it (Gigs ending in riots, being the total antithesis of slick corporate 80s pop) you can see why music journalists went apesh
it over it, and it did influence a hell of a lot of bands. I don't think Grunge or Shoegaze happening just a year or two later was an accident and I doubt those genres would have been anywhere near as big had Psychocandy not been the success it was.