Screamadelica: the poll

As much as I love the title track, I think it's all about Don't Fight It, Feel it.

Wait, no, it's the title track. Parts of this album have aged really, really badly - but the good bits are still SOOOO good that they seem to transcend all that. But then again, maybe it was a time and place.

When the drums kick in about 2:48 on Higher Than The Sun, it's still absolutely magical.

ARGH. DECISIONS. stop polling my misspent youth.

The title track is a b-side on the Dixie Narco EP, Kate; wotchoo talkin' abaht?

the title track isn't on the album tho

xpost

What am i thinking? this should be titled screaPOLLdelica

DFIFI was better as a single.

ARGH. I meant Higher Than The Sun. Sorry, acid flashback, I'm losing my mind.

Voted for Slip Inside This House, although I love most of the things already mentioned pretty much as much.

DFIFI was better as a single.

Isn't this true of all the tracks that were released as singles? Never really got into this album because of that.

not true.

I liked the remix 12" of Don't fight it, it's not here.

Went for the dub symphony.

Isn't this true of all the tracks that were released as singles? Never really got into this album because of that.

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i never really liked the farley/heller version of 'come together' but w. DFIFI basically the 7" mix is pure gold, whereas on the LP it's a bit unfocussed -- even less so than the 12" mix iirc. whereas they just put on the 12" mixes of 'come together' and 'loaded' which are both great. and they put on the 7" of 'higher than the sun' i think.

This should be deluxified.

(You seen those latest Radiohead 3 disc versions of their first three albums?)

OH GOD I WOULD SO BUY A DELUXE OF THIS ALBUM.

Still can't make up my mind. Loaded is never as good as I remember it being.

"Higher Than The Sun". Combines melodic songsmith qualities with an interesting use of electronics to the best effect.

I was thinking specifically of Come Together - I much preferred the single version of that to the album version - I ended up buying some US import of the Come Together EP to get it.

time and overexposure has largely spoiled this record for me. loaded would be my first choice to listen to.. it was also the first primals i ever owned (though i heard ivy ivy ivy first)

xpost yeah, and I think the elongated version of the single version was on one of the 12" singles (and nowhere else)

My favorite track from this always alternates. These days it's Slip Inside This House.

Higher Than The Sun is their best song ever.

Even last month live when they turned the last third into a blues jam.

Come Together 4EVA!!!

Although this record is very dated

More love from me for the title track. I had it tightly wound in its entirety round one side of the Dixie Narco 7" - I'm amazed the needle didn't carve through the disc every time I played it

In its absence, 'Don't Fight It, Feel It' is the only one I ever listen to, so that

Apart from Movin' on Up, Come Together & Loaded, I don't think this record is dated at all. Still sounds amazing at 3 in the morning. Voted for Shine Like Stars.

htts (dub symphony)

I could never get into this record- I don't know maybe you had to be there or something. Perhaps Kate's right that a lot of it has aged badly and by the time I heard it in the early 00's it just didn't sound so great- I actually like Vanishing Point better. Also, the original "Slip Inside This House" is far superior. I don't know, maybe I should give it a another listen one of these days.

Damaged ftw

guess which one i'm gonna vote for

it would be easier if you just told us.

"I Belong to Glesga (Dear Auld Glesga Toon)"

but it's obvious which one i'm gonna vote for

Why would it be obvious to anyone but you?

SOOO OBVIOUS, GOD

"A Plague of Shitehouse Keechers"?

Anyway, until CM deigns to reveal all, I have a soft spot for "Slip Inside This House", but, I think it has to be "Higher Than The Sun [dub symphony]"

DFIFI because no Bobby lol

^^ same reason im probabyl going come together

here's what you've all been waiting for

come together, duh

you being a huge balearic guy, how could we not have guessed.

it is also the best song called "come together" (non-controversial opinion imo)

(dude did you not see me repping for Studio lolz)

sometimes think this is the best British indie canon album of the 90s because it's got just enough sense of fun on board not just 'miserable splendour' like Loveless, Dummy, Maxinquaye etc.

2nd-best song called "come together" = blur's come together

never did like spz one much and beatles is str8 overrated

Annie's is better than all dat (not PS)

jesus fkn christ there are 872 recorded "come together"s on allmusic

"Come Together" is the song that made me start hating Primal Scream.

"Come Together" is a good Beatles song!

noooo

abbey road is an album that totally only becomes any good at "she's so heavy" and then remains very good for the remainder

I think we would all agree that.

Kate's remix summary* pretty nicely describes the recent Weatherall Uptown version

*bar the bemusing melodica line. Pablo was on the OG Star, and how much did New Order use melodica?

Saw them a year ago last weekend and they were good except a) everything off the last two and b) EVERY SONG had to turn into a blues jam at the end, even Higher Than The Sun

from twitter :

jagzkooner Oh and just to reiterate, the primal scream "screamadelica live" gig at earls court is a 1 off only, and WONT be repeated ever again.

(those five Suede gigs I mentioned were in 2003, I just found out to my horror when I read the flier for their upcoming reunion)

whoever picked that photo wants shooting.

And those are their first gigs for 10 years?

that exact line up +1 other random played Glastonbury 2003. it was godawful aswell.

'as well'? Bit harsh on the gigs that haven't taken place yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXBWhYFS1Ao

blocked

Wow. This poll is totally backwards. Come Together is the worst song on here (along with Movin' on Up), and Coming Down is among the best.

BOOOOM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/31/primal-scream-screamadelica-live

Brilliant stuff in here from this morning's Observer. 'Anyone seen Smiler?' The whole house stood up."

The article author seems to be really impressed and excited at any mention of drugs.

Just to take a couple of instances out of many mentions which don't add anything much to the article:

The gentler charms of "Damaged", "Shine Like Stars" and "Inner Flight" completed proceedings. Duffy was tripping on acid for the latter recording.

...Screamadelica was released on 23 September 1991, the cover a trippy image of the Sun created by Paul Cannell, another of the band's associates who was allegedly inspired by a damp patch he'd seen on the Creation offices ceiling after taking acid

and a whole quote from Q magazine:

In December, Miranda Sawyer reported for Q magazine on the band's rider at Barrowland in Glasgow: "Tonight's menu includes: 'glug' (methadone, a soporific heroin substitute); ecstasy (inhibition-dismissing, dancefloor friendly 'love' drug); amphetamine sulphate; magic mushrooms; cocaine and – backstage staple – hash. The varied and various mood alterants are liberally distributed among the tour regulars. 'You know,' muses Bobby, 'it was a love of music that brought us all together and that's what we really get excited about. But we also get excited when the drugs turn up... really excited.'"

Bobby Gillespie, waifish ringmaster of Primal Scream, who is dressed, none the less, all in black: black skinny jeans, black T-shirt, long black hair, only streaks of grey making him look any older than he did 20 years ago.

Um, no.

As someone who is rather an expert in what Bobby G looked like 20 year ago, um, really.... no.

Problem is, any time that I start to read any words that come out of Bobby Gillespie's mouth, I start to love that album a little less. Which is a real shame, so I try to avoid the interviews.

"Problem is, any time that I start to read any words that come out of Bobby Gillespie's mouth, I start to love that album a little less. Which is a real shame, so I try to avoid the interviews."

Typically a good idea for any musician one likes...

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/screamadelica452.jpg

i like primary colours

Round Boxes, whoo!

From the DVD...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI_XAFqvkpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onyn005txjE

I've fallen in love with 'higher than the sun' since the reissue. Bobby's such a weak singer but somehow transcends this on many points throughout screamadelica. Love the melismatic delivery of the line 'what I've got in my head you can't buy'. Also love the 7" version of come together for similar reasons.

Funny how people upthread are saying this sounds dated - they're not wrong, but this is the first sign of a full scale stylistic revival

The Screamadelica EP (with the eponymous track) is as good as anything they ever did, and still sounds great.

Whoops, Dixie Narco EP I mean. Track is called "Screamadelica"

Classic Albums - Screamadelica

http://devonrecordclub.com/2013/09/26/primal-scream-screamadelica-round-54-nicks-choice/

perfect timing Scik as i'm about to see them in a few days here in Los Angeles.

RIP Denise Johnson

https://louderthanwar.com/denice-johnson-much-loved-manchester-and-primal-scream-singer-rip/

RIP Denise. This is great.

Really cool interview, thanks Visiting

Sad about this, she was so great with Primal Scream back in the day

Was just thinking about her solo single the other day. I bought it as a cassingle!

listening again thanks to lorde and "higher than the sun" is really one of the coolest psych-rock tracks of all time, wish they'd done a whole album with the orb

Yep, the best thing here.

Hell yes, altho I’m partial to Shine Like Stars for similar reasons

there are some cool sounds here but it doesn't hang together really does it? maybe you had to be there (like with the stone roses album)

there is also something a bit off that I can't really articulate about the way so many white british bands used gospel in this era

it's also hard for me to hear this band without thinking "you wankers" - maybe I'd like it more if there was a different name on the cover

Funnily enough, their name isn't on the cover.

otm re higher than the sun, don’t really f w the rest of this album

i had the vhs version of this (and only the vhs) and the video for Some Like Stars was gaby agis dancing which gave it a little something extra

ok you know what i mean xps

wtf this album is great fools

it seems like the kind of album that would soundtrack a lot of formative experiences so i can sort of imagine why it so special to many people. i don't like it much but i'd probably be into it if i'd heard it at the right time & place (i feel the same way about neutral milk hotel)

unfortunately the first primal scream song i heard was country girl and i was just like fuck off

Whenever I would finally make it home from God knows how long pillin' it hard to deepest, darkest drum 'n' bass or transcendental progressive house or mad happy trance, (back in '97/'98) I'd go to bed and put this on and the world was aaaaalright 🙂

You missed everything kid, I feel sorry for you! xp

wtf this album is great fools

I am indeed a great fool.

I was at the Palladium show featured on the rerelease, first of four times I saw them over the years. (All of which were really good, oddly enough, because arguably they shouldn't've worked and yet here we are.)

Never saw this poll, interesting results. My four favorite tracks placed #2-5, definitely prefer them to the better-known tracks. Didn't realize ILM lately felt the same!

"higher than the sun" is so cool that they could have made an entire career out of that sound. and really should have honestly

Echo Dek scratches the "Primal Scream go dub reggae" itch pretty well, even if it's not quite up to the standard of HTTS

there are some cool sounds here but it doesn't hang together really does it?

I thought this when it was first released, and still do. IIRC, it was largely cobbled together from various sources to capitalise on the success of "Loaded", rather than being planned as an album.

That's why I've always preferred Morning Dove White to Screamadelica. Both seriously good albums, but the former feels more cohesive, and gives a glimpse of what the latter could have been if Weatherall was more involved.