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Unafraid of publicly confessing an unashamed love of Phil Spector and Motown alongside more obvious influences like The Velvet Underground. Sure enough, the likes of Cabaret Voltaire, Einsturzende Neubaten and Throbbing Gristle had already crossed previously forbidden boundaries, but here was a band not afraid to fuse melody with obnoxious bursts of white noise. From the opening echoes of 'Just Like Honey' to the crushing finale that is 'It's So Hard', every single solitary part of Psychocandy's 14 piece jigsaw signified a new dawn in the way so-called alternative, independent or experimental bands (*delete where appropriate) would approach music in the future. Christmas Day in 1985 would be where lines were drawn, old cassettes and vinyl cast aside, and pretty much everything else discarded as being irrelevant. If hearing Never Mind The Bollocks for the first time acted as some kind of musical awakening, then Psychocandy represents my official Groundhog Day. How many top ten singles can you name that open with the immortal line 'I wanna die like Jesus Christ, I wanna die on a bed of spikes'? Uncompromising until the end, if ever a band deserved the remastered box set treatment with added warts and all it would be East Kilbride's finest. Nevertheless, for 14 years they proudly raised two fingers at the mainstream, infiltrating it at their leisure throughout. Some may claim they'd run out of ideas and more probably patience by the time 1998's Munki rang the death knell. What's more, instead of sticking to the unique formula they created on that initial masterpiece, The Mary Chain evolved with every subsequent release.

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Argue the point if you wish but it would be inconceivable to imagine genres such as shoegaze, post-rock, C86 or indeed many of the more leftfield, guitar-based independent sub-genres even existing without Psychocandy paving the way. Even now in 2011, debut album Psychocandy still sounds as relevant and shocking as it did when first issued in November 1985.

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