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  • Summary: The Scottish Indie rock band features the live recording from their November 2014 Psychocandy anniversary tour show at the Barrowlands Ballroom in Glasgow. The vinyl release includes a book and a CD of behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.
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Just Like Honey
Listen to the girl As she takes on half the world Moving up and so alive In her honey dripping beehive Beehive It's good, so good, it's so good So... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Aug 4, 2015
    90
    Live at Barrowlands is a marvelous document of the Jesus and Mary Chain at the height of their influential power thirty years later.
  2. 80
    Capped by the sublime You Trip Me Up, even in 2014 Psychocandy was a visceral burn around the very edge of listenability.
  3. 80
    This 30th-anniversary performance of the album at Glasgow’s Barrowlands doesn’t convey quite the sense of risk that accompanied their early shows, but the cocktail of noise and melody has largely retained its potency.
  4. Aug 12, 2015
    80
    Cheap nostalgia and cynicism be damned. They still sound--on this evidence at least--utterly majestic.
  5. Aug 17, 2015
    80
    The band lace all 14 tracks from Psychocandy with attitude, adrenaline and volume: their collective belligerence peaking during Never Understand and the relentless metallic KO of Inside Me.
  6. Sep 1, 2015
    70
    As an accompaniment to the original album--which I'm sure most people reading this will already own (and if you don't, you should)--it stands proud as a comprehensive update to a timeless record.
  7. Aug 4, 2015
    50
    The live shows were deafeningly loud and visceral and the atmosphere is impossible to translate to a record, gamely as they might try. The quality of the recording is very disappointing; varying volume and muffled production suggest it was dashed off in too great haste.

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