Reviews:

This album came as a total surprise to most people in 1987. Aaah 1987, it was the year of bandanas and the crossover to metal for a lot of other hardcore bands. Sure, the year before, G.I. had released this nameless and strange album with a sitar and psychedelica written all over it. People knew they were changing and going in a different direction. But it still was a punkalbum. You wasn't a punkalbum, it was something different. Never before had a punkband ventured so far into the territory between psychedelica, punk and pop and had succeeded. Listen to the opening song "Jaded Eyes", John Stabb definitely had found his voice, charismatic, melodic and dark. It's a great lovesong ("I judged you/Wrong, I thought/In your head/Had no plot/Got the jaded eyes/So naive") and it's also just a great song. "Man In a Trap" sounds like a sixties psychedelic band gone berserk, albeit with a steady and fast metronome leading the band. "Wishing" is one of the more hardcore oriented songs on You, but has a sitar solo over a thrashing ultrafast rhythm, weird but fantastic, it works to great effect. By the way, You and Crash feature drums from Peter Moffet, who is just great, especially in the faster songs he is very imaginative. Not unlike Bad Religion's Pete Finestone on the Against the Grain recording. You also features some Hammond-type keyboards that bring an unusual warmth to this album. The keys are sparsely used but are in all the right places. You holds up till today as one of DC-punk's best albums, it's timeless and essential. Get it!!!
-THOMAS