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Primal Scream's new album - Is anyone looking forward to it?

Alex's Grandma

23:54 / 03.05.06

Hearing the single on the radio the other day, I very nearly caught myself punching the air, which, y'know, hardly ever happens.

I mainly hope the LP's going to live up to it's promise - OK, they, Primal Scream, conceivably are a bunch of middle-aged Scottish junkie fuck-ups, playing old-fashioned music to a festival crowd while everyone's on speed, beer and such, while everyone's on LSD, but it's not as if you go to hell for that, unless, well you do. This being an issue that I'm guessing they'll address in their new record.

I do hope it works out for them, though. I love those guys.

doctorbeck

07:13 / 04.05.06

they were awesome live recently in london, best i have seen them in 16 years in many ways, mani in partic bringing a PIL / kraut rock sensibility to a lot of fairly lacklustre recent tracks, country girl was great live but a couple of the other new tunes sounded like status quo to be honest and i was thinking uh oh, anothe4r return to 'southern boogie' that ended in the disaster of 'give out but don't give up' last time. so not exited to be honest, but i'll give it a listen on the strength of the single and fort old times sake

Ganesh

08:13 / 04.05.06

Wasn't their new stuff recently compared to, er, the Proclaimers?

lonely as a cloud...

08:33 / 04.05.06

Heh. The single's kinda silly, but in a fun way, I thought. Video here. I do like the Scream, though I really didn't like the last album (can't even remember what it was called...!). I'll probably give them the benefit of the doubt and pick up Riot City Blues, mainly because I really really loved Exterminator - angry, pounding dance/punk/dunno what else, which I enjoyed like no other album since Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible.

There's a decent interview on the Guardian's website here, btw.

Alex's Grandma

14:32 / 04.05.06

Wasn't their new stuff recently compared to, er, the Proclaimers?

Christ.

That, um... That doesn't sound good.

lonely as a cloud...

09:44 / 05.05.06

Compared by whom? I can't imagine the Scream doing the Proclaimers...! Maybe Bobby's just got a new pair of glasses?

foolish fat finger

23:56 / 07.05.06

hey, what's wrong with the Proclaimers?! 'ah'm comin'back, from misery te happiness toda-a-ay... uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh!' proper good!

I did think xtrmntr was a superb album, but lately they seem to have slipped back into lazy punk blues riffs... to my ears anyway... I can't say I am excited; to me they are a bit like the Charlatans; pleasant but a bit uneventful... but I wish them well...

Totem Polish

11:18 / 08.05.06

Hmm...however much I liked XTRMNTR when it came out, I've found that I can't actually listen to Primal Scream anymore, something about Bobby Gillespie being a paranoid self-righteous tit in interviews and the poor man's Iggy on stage that just gets me all narked. Saying that though I think Country Girl and its frankly brilliant video is probably the closest to them sounding like the only genuine party band of their generation left.

What I mean to say I guess is that were Primal Scream promoted as a loose collective occassionally fronted by a glaswegian junky then they'd be the coolest band in the world. Instead they always seem to me to be as good as whoever's producing a particular song on a particular day. So if that's Andrew Weatherall, then that's great, but if it's Bobby pretending he's reinvented rock'n'roll, then maybe not. Now, if its Rick Parfitt on the other hand...all power to them I say.

Korso Jerusalem

00:17 / 05.06.06

Back from the dead!

I just got this album, and it is fucking fantastic.

The summary is spot on, it's Bob Dylan fronting the Stones with a pile of FX. I haven't felt like dancing this much since...
Fuck, since a while ago.
I recommend this album to anyone. This will become the required background music to all parties occurring in your immediate and distant future.

Punji Steak

08:56 / 05.06.06

Second that, what a cracking album. I imagine it will be my soundtrack to the Summer now. OH YEAH!

SteppersFan

11:18 / 05.06.06

Love the single, looking forward to the LP.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:06 / 05.06.06

Really looking forward to this...

kan

09:31 / 06.06.06

Just watched the video and I'm relieved that c.girl managed to stagger out intact at the end, was sure it was leading to a sorry end...

A return to 90's form for the screamers, I like their apocalytic stuff but you can't beat them when they're in happy mood.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:25 / 06.06.06

I really can't agree. I don't actively dislike 'Country Girl', but it's a genuine actual real life Guilty Pleasure for me, where the guilt comes from the suspicion that I may be giving Primal Scream an easy ride based on their other work.

This seems like a weird step backwards for them - Give Out But Don't Give Up was retrograde enough, but tracks like 'Rocks' and 'Jailbird' were fun, perhaps partly because they were so shameless in their Stones-aping - but why do it again? Then again, I think they'd exhausted their ability to make electro-dancey-industrially stuff too.

It increasingly seems like they peaked with Xtrmntr, specifically 'Shoot Speed / Kill Light', which I think of as a happy song.

kan

11:24 / 29.06.06

Oh dear, did I say return to form?

The album's pretty mushy actually and the Little Death track sounds like JESUS JONES (was it they that did the hello,hello song?), oh dear.

c'mon boaby!

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:27 / 29.06.06

'Suicide Sally & Jonny Guitar' is the worst Primal Scream song I've ever heard. Apparently, it is about Kate & Pete. These two pieces of information are probably not unrelated.

kan

18:42 / 29.06.06

Gave it another go but still aint working. I really tried with nitty gritty but without bobby g's whining tone this could be The Quo or in fact Chas 'n Dave.

Oh and Suicide Moss/Johnny Docherty -
' We're alright, alright , gonna be alright ' he chants through the chorus,
erm not really.

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