Song · The Jesus and Mary Chain
“You Trip Me Up” by The Jesus and Mary Chain
From the album Psychocandy (1985)
“You Trip Me Up” by The Jesus and Mary Chain appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1985. It was first released in 1985 on the album Psychocandy. Its best result is #12 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1985. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #67 alternative song of 1985.
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"You Trip Me Up" was the second single the Jesus and Mary Chain pulled from their 1985 debut Psychocandy, out on Blanco y Negro that May, and it was among the first four songs the Scottish band ever put down for a Peel Session. Jim and William Reid wrote it, and both of them sing and play guitar on it, with Douglas Hart on bass and Bobby Gillespie on drums; the band produced it themselves, with John Loder engineering.
It's noise pop at its sweetest and nastiest, a pretty tune shoved through a wall of racket. NME put it at number six among its tracks of the year for 1985, it reached 55 on the UK singles chart, and the video was shot in the Algarve in Portugal.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 12 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1985 | 50 |
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