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Certain Songs #764: The Jesus and Mary Chain – “The Hardest Walk”

January 19, 2017 by Jim Connelly

Album: Psychocandy
Year: 1985

To this day, I don’t know if seeing The Jesus and Mary Chain play live just a couple of months after Psychocandy came out helped or hurt my love of the album.

After all, we already knew that part of their shtick at the time was to play incredibly short, auto-destruct sets, and so — unlike, say, seeing R.E.M. on the Pagentry tour, which was just a few months later — heading up to to San Francisco to see The Jesus and Mary Chain probably wasn’t going to deepen my understanding of Psychocandy, which was clearly a studio creation anyways.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Psychocandy, The Hardest Walk, The Jesus and Mary Chain

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