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Primal Scream

  • 02-02-2010 06:42AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭


    having influenced a whole new generation of 'dance-rock'/ electronic/ ambient rock Ive never really see them mentioned much in here! what a shame...

    Yes they are a bit more classic rock or guitar rock at times but they have some really great spaced out rock music! If there is one thing i can do with this thread is try and make 5 new followers of Primal Scream, so I have to choose this song carefully... might even just 3 jsut to show your their greatness :p

    Think The Stones meets The Doors and Velvet Underground?! I udunno so drunk!

    Movin On Up Live(has to be live)


    (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind - best or worst breakup song ever ;-)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ9wj5NCops

    Kowalski Live at Glasto


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    what a band. Didnt listen to them in ages, must download them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    seanybiker wrote: »
    what a band. Didnt listen to them in ages, must download them.

    my job here is done! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭RastaRed


    screamadelica still in my top 5 albums of all time, top band, met bobby&mani once sound fellas


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭cinnamon girl


    Wildly overrated IMO ... apart from "Velocity Girl", which was class.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 708 ✭✭✭zimovain


    Some great tunes. Love 'em!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Absolutely adore them. It's very difficult to choose a favourite album of all time, but if I was really pushed to decide, it would be Screamadelica.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭JimsAlterEgo


    screamadelica all the way - one of the best albums ever - they were doing serious sh!t at the time :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭Dan Dare


    Screamadelica for me also, I only heard it for the first time a couple of years ago when Dave Fanning had someone on his then Radio 1 Programme who chose it as their classic album, they played three or four tracks, and, I bought it the following day.
    Was surprised that I had never heard it before, then looked at the cover and saw that it was released in 1991. My son was born that year and I guess that my eye was not on the ball as far as music was concerned. A truely great album maaan!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    Wildly overrated IMO ... apart from "Velocity Girl", which was class.

    grrr... im guessin your a neil young fan? or radiohead? or pumpkins... each are fantatstic but dont underestimate scream. give em another listen :p
    screamadelica all the way - one of the best albums ever - they were doing serious sh!t at the time :p

    halleluah brother!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭cinnamon girl


    grrr... im guessin your a neil young fan? or radiohead? or pumpkins...

    Not particularly any of the above actually, just like the song
    each are fantatstic but dont underestimate scream. give em another listen
    Won't change my opinion from the first 1,000 or so listens. I liked their early (C86 days) singles but the albums have been all over the shop in terms of quality. Screamadelica is the best one but it was massively overhyped at the time and some of the songs just aren't really that good.

    They've spent their career jumping from bandwagon to bandwagon, with more success at some than others, and I give them full marks for being able to pull off different styles reasonably credibly, but there are probably at least 100 bands I'd rather listen to from Scotland alone.

    At the end of the day it's all about personal taste *shrug*


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  • Subscribers Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    I have dipped in and out of Primal Scream albums over the years, Screamadelica would definitely be my favourite though - a true classic. Full credit to Andrew Weatherall for his production of the album... (among many other gems, most recently 'Tarot Sport' by the F*ck Buttons.)
    Screamadelica (1990 - 1992)
    The band were first introduced to the acid house scene by McGee in 1988. They were at first skeptical; Gillespie said: "I always remember being quite fascinated by it but not quite getting it."The band did, however, quickly develop a taste for it and began attending raves and taking ecstasy[citation needed]. The band met up with DJ Andrew Weatherall at a rave, and he was given a copy of "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have", a track from Primal Scream, to remix for one of his shows. Weatherall added a drum loop from an Italian bootleg mix of Edie Brickell's "What I Am", a sample of Gillespie singing a line from Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues" and the central introductory sample from the Peter Fonda B-movie The Wild Angels. The resulting track, "Loaded", became the band's first major hit, reaching number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. This was followed by another single, "Come Together", which reached number 19.
    The band entered the studio with Weatherall, Hugo Nicholson, The Orb, and Jimmy Miller producing, and Martin Duffy now full time on keyboards. They released two more singles, "Higher Than The Sun" and "Don't Fight It, Feel It", both of which were successful. The album, Screamadelica, was released in the autumn to ecstatic reviews. Ink Blot Magazine said that the album was "both of its time and timeless."The album was also a massive commercial success, reaching number eight on the British charts. The album won the first Mercury Music Prize, beating Gillespie's former band, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
    The supporting tour kicked off in Amsterdam, and it included a performance at the Glastonbury festival before coming to an end in Sheffield. Throughout the tour the band and their increasingly large entourage gained notoriety for their large narcotic intake. The band's drug habits have often been publicised, journalist James Brown reported a now infamous story: the bandmates were arguing with one another about whether to get Vietnamese, Chinese or Indian. When one of Brown's colleagues asked them if they'd settle for a burger the band informed him: "It's heroin we're discussing, not food!". Around this time, the band recorded the Dixie Narco EP. Some of the tracks showed a change in the band's sound, featuring a more American blues-rock sound and starting to show a P-Funk influence.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_Scream


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    Won't change my opinion from the first 1,000 or so listens.
    They've spent their career jumping from bandwagon to bandwagon,
    Not really only really been 2 main styles.
    but there are probably at least 100 bands I'd rather listen to from Scotland alone.

    oh yes I forgot how good Travis are :p

    hehe just kidding, it is all about personal taste your not the only one who dislikes them but your the only one who posted here(so far) disliking them :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭sweetie


    I loved vanishing point, evil heat and xtrmtr - song like swastika eyes, some velvet morning, star, if they move kill em


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭cinnamon girl


    Not really only really been 2 main styles.


    Eh??? They've gone through well more than two styles. Their early releases were C86 pop, then they tried to go all Stooges/MC5, then they became a dance band, then it was the Stones, then trip-hop, then a harder techno sound and I completely lost track after that (I'd lost interest long before).
    your not the only one who dislikes them but your the only one who posted here(so far) disliking them
    I'd imagine that fans are more likely than non-fans to open a thread.

    And I don't dislike them, I just think they're seriously overrated.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 Metropolis


    I really really don't like Screamadelica.

    I really really love XTRMTR!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    XTRMNTR is my "roll down the windows, pissed off sitting in traffic" record.

    Sample lyric "Sick, ****, ****, sick, **** ****"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭sweetie


    just saw that xtrmntr came 3rd in Nme best albums of the noughties.
    it would be in my top ten for sure


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 708 ✭✭✭zimovain


    ya, it's a top album.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,100 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Seen them at Witness back in 2002.Was a great gig,as much as I can remember. :D


  • Subscribers Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Seen them at Witness back in 2002.Was a great gig,as much as I can remember. :D

    Yeah me too, was lucky enough at the time to have had working passes as I was there with someone involved with 2fm at the time. Got to meet Bobby Gillespie behind the stage and chatted with their roadies out back also while they were rolling up a few spliffs :D Bobby was pretty sound actually, seemed happy to say hello and got a picture too - which is actually still undeveloped in a disposable camera!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag




    Great track, great video.....40-something year olds rocking as good as the young dudes :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Love Primal Scream; Screamadelica, XTRMNTR and Evil Heat are all class albums.
    If I was pushed to pick a favourite Scream track, it would probably be this:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭Valmont


    I would consider Screamadelica a masterpiece but I don't rate any of the other albums very highly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭T "real deal" J


    Screamadelica is amazing. One of the best albums i've ever heard. I actually prefer listening to Evil Heat ahead of XTRMNTR Autobahn 66 is great to drive to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Vanishing point just edges it over Screamadelica for me, but they're pure quality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    Great to see some interest here!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 712 ✭✭✭arsenallegend


    sweetie wrote: »
    just saw that xtrmntr came 3rd in Nme best albums of the noughties.
    it would be in my top ten for sure


    Great record that but Screamdelica is such a great album its tough to ever knock it. Come together and Loaded plus movin' on up is stunning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,913 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Screamadelica's greatness doesn't need any further elaboration.

    Vanishing Point is also excellent

    Xtrmntr has some great stuff on it - the "MBV Arkestra" track (which is largely the work of Kevin Shields) is astonishing - but as with some of their other albums Bobby Gillespie's lyrics and singing let it down in places.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Really liked Moving on Up but just think they borrow too much from the Stones tbh


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Bought Screamadelica when it came out, after hearing the more spacy tracks. Love the album but my least fave tracks are the Rolling Stones style efforts.

    Listening to them got me into Jah Wobble, The Orb, Gong, Steve Hillage, Beach Boys - there's just so many non-Stones influences going on in that album :)


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