Psychocandy-The Jesus & Mary Chain (my paen to Liz and Molly, who better 'get' this)
In the John Hughes film of my revised teenage years, i cannot decide whether or not i want to be kissed by Ralph Macchio at of 1:29 of "Just Like Honey" or at of "The Hardest Walk." Wait...ok, i think "Just Like Honey" would serve as maybe the closing credits...right about 2:06 i go back to the guy who originally dissed me. Like Pretty In Pink. Or do i end up with the guy who pines away (ala Ducky)....AKA Some Kind Of Wonderful. I think I'd use "The Hardest Walk" for the breakup scene...clearly the moment where he sings "Don't want you to need me..." over and over and Ralph is devastated.
Beautful, loud, fucked-up, its just devastating in its delivery....i remember hearing this and thinking there was nothing else like it. Its so beautiful...like some kind of cotton candy that's actually laced or actually insulation (i actually ate insulation once cause it looked like it)...sweet yet bitter...i cannot say enough about Psychocandy...hey, there you go...perfect title.
It meant so much to me them...it was the sound of the world outside my little Loverboy-lovin' (no, i wasn't Lovin' Ever Minute Of It) Indiana town. Its the record you'd make if you wanted to feel what it was like to have your heart broken, but had no fuckin' clue what that meant. It sounds like desire.
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What a difference 8 years can make. While you were eating insulation, I was listening to Supertramp and ELO and the Doobie Brothers and the Eagles. As graduation approached, along came the Pretenders and Steely Dan, and then I got to college and found the 3 other cool people on campus who introduced me to Roxy Music and Elvis Costello and the Furs. The year I started law school is probably the year you saw Sixteen Candles with 16 of your best high school friends. I never really knew the Jesus and Mary Chain, but I'm gonna check them out. Thanks for the paen.
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