Kick kick kick snare, repeat: 15 songs that borrow the drum intro from “Be My Baby”

The song’s shuffling Wall Of Sound arrangement represents the hazy nostalgia of Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days” and The Clash’s “The Card Cheat,” and receives stylistic reinterpretations like those of the Melvins’ “Creepy Smell” or Co La’s “Wanna Say Faux.” But it takes true Phil Spector obsessives like The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Jim and William Reid to lift Blaine’s beat wholesale and make it the band’s own. The pattern may be often imitated and frequently duplicated, but “Just Like Honey”—the leadoff track of the JAMC’s first LP, Psychocandy—gives it a state-of-the-art update for 1985, before baptizing the thing in sheets of noise-pop feedback. It’s the bold opening salvo of a bold debut, one that kicked off the ensuing shoegaze movement’s own fetish for Spector-like excess—and one that has Blaine’s influence stamped all over it, down to the “Be My Baby”-recycling 10th track, “Sowing Seeds.”