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10.03.1985
Time
Jay Cocks
Psychocandy
"Ever wonder what happened to punk?"
01.06.1985
NME

You Trip Me Up
"small Scotsmen falling over"
1986

Michael Small
Psychocandy
"keep your fist on the volume control"
1986
LA Times
Robert Hilburn
The Best Rock Albums at Midyear
Psychocandy is number 1
26.01.1986
LA Times
Robert Hilburn
True Brits
the influential Psychocandy
1987
Reflex
Jeff Anderson
Darklands
"I'm a Jesus And Mary Chain fanatic"
1989
Entertainment Weekly

Videos 1985 to 1989
"The group takes a determinedly casual approach to making videos"
12.11.1989
LA Times
Richard Cromelin
Automatic
"They might have hit it with their third album"
11.1991
Select
Andrew Perry
Peel Sessions
Quick review of the Peel Sessions CD
1992


Single of the Week - Reverence
Reverence
05.1992
Select
Andrew Perry
Resurrection: The Reid brothers' apocalyptic second coming
Positive review of Honey's Dead
15.05.1992
Entertainment Weekly
Dave DiMartino
Honey's Dead
".. you're almost dead, honeys"
10.07.1993
Melody Maker
Robert Prieur
Barrelscraping
This guy does not like Sound of Speed
1994
Select
Sarra Manning
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Brief review of all the albums up until Stoned and Dethroned
1994
the Rocket
Robert Allen
Stoned and Dethroned
Stoned and Dethroned
13.08.1994
NME
David Quantick
Exile on Mainline Street
Stoned and Dethroned
17.09.1994
Billboard
Carrie Borzillo
Acoustic Jesus and Mary Chain set an American hit
Review of sales and strategy for SaD
30.09.1994
Entertainment Weekly
Johnny Huston
Stoned and Dethroned
".. hearken back to the quiet acoustics .."
10.1994
Juice
Craig Mathieson
Stoned and Dethroned
".. but it may prove to be one of their more enduring"
08.10.1994
NME
Sylvia Patterson
Come On
Somewhat cruel review of Come On
08.10.1994
Melody Maker
Andrew Mueller
Come On
Bare facts about Come On
15.12.1994
Rolling Stone
Corey Seymour
Stoned and Dethroned
Stoned and Dethroned
06.10.1995
Entertainment Weekly
Chuck Eddy
JMC Hate Rock'n'Roll
".. the band appears to be falling asleep."
11.1995
Alternative Press
Dave Thompson
Jesus and Mary Chain Hate Rock'n'Roll
I Hate Rock'n'Roll
03.1998

Sarah
Cracking Up
Are they cracking up?
07.03.1998
NME

William 'Tired of Fucking'
.. like a bucket of cold water!
05.1998
Rolling Stone
Rob Sheffield
Munki
needless to say, they all sound pretty much the same
05.1998
Cosmik Debris E-Zine
John Sekerka
Munki
Full of hooky, hummable tunes
05.1998
Hot Press

I Love Rock'n'Roll
05.05.1998
Drum Media
Ross Clelland
Cracking Up
deep and hollow
23.05.1998
NME
Victoria Segal
I Love Rock N Roll
from a bunch of 16-year-olds in Sunderland, it still wouldn't be good enough
06.1998
Uncut

Saviours of the Month
turning full circle and reviving their own garage-punk roots with renewed vigour
06.1998
Alternative Press
Michael Segal
Munki
most purposely dumb album as well as their smartest
06.06.1998
Melody Maker
Davis Benedict
Scuzzy Logic
It's good to have them back; miserable odd buggers
12.06.1998
Entertainment Weekly
Will Hermes
Munki
...still have the gall to pen "school-fool-cool" rhymes...
23.06.1998
Drum Media
Mark Fraser
Munki
This is it, the ultimate J&MC record
12.07.1998
The Sun Herald

Munki
...the overall odour is suspiciously like a band slowly decomposing...
09.1998
Spin
Dennis Lim
Munki
...have finally found a niche as their own tribute band
2000
Mojo
Edited by Jim Irvin
Psychocandy
from The Mojo Collection - The Greatest Albums of All Time