Is anyone actually still buying their stuff?
How are they still going?
Is it just off the back of a very limited set of past glories?
Why does Bobby Gillespie always look like someone's just shat in his cornflakes?
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by klingklang
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It's a hard one
to call.
When i was aged 17 - 21 i was a massive fan. 'vanishing point' 'xtrmntr' and 'evil heat' (to a lesser degree) are all great records. Not to mention 'echo dek' which is madly insanely brilliant (although this is down to andrew weatherall)
I now however, think Primal Scream are shit. The last two albums 'riot city fuck' and the new album 'booodiful future' have been awful.
I think my low opinion of them now is a mixture of growing up a (little) bit and getting into the bands they rip off / pay homage to.
Someone must
by buying it though. They are bloody everywhere. Or are they just being indulgently funded...
Adrian Sherwood
Did Echo Dek. Nothing to do with weatherall.
Fuck
yeah...it's been a long time since i've been ruined enough to listen to echo dek.
i still buy their stuff
and bobby gillespie is as cool as it is possible for an old man to be
really?
I am genuinely interested to hear this - I saw them on the telly the other day trotting out their new single and they were so bland. I've seen them a couple of times on the bill at festivals and loads of blokes seems to REALLY love them (similar to that nostalgic Oasis bloke love for a band) but they just seem so devoid of any...of any....backbone now? I remember seeing this very interview and LOVING that song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqvRD4hBIA0 my how things have changed - skip to 40 seconds in. You said it Bobby.
funnily enough i can't listen to screamadelica
horrible hippie music. but i've liked all the dancier stuff like vanishing point and xtrmntr and all the rockier ones like riot city blues and giv out but don't give up
how anyone can think he is cool mystifies me
the man and his music are deeply embarrassing
klingklang
The sun's out and it's Friday (if you didn't notice) so I advise you go out and have some fun instead of letting this worry you
x
I love them but admit they're really poor now, I'd still goto see them play earlier shit though (all though last time I had the chance I chose Echo And The Bunnymen hmmmmhmh)
contradictions galore
anyway, the sun has got his hat on.
I have
grasped the rudiments of the Gregorian calendar and the ability to look out of the window. I was just curious. And we aren't all on a long school/uni break able to run out to the park for a Mivvi and a baguette at whim. Please don't fret, I am not worrying about this, just curious.
:)
if you're talking about
"i stuck a needle in my arm, i stuck it in my baby's heart" etc, those lyrics are very much tongue in cheek
I feel like Judas
but someone has made a valid point re: past glory's. I fear nostalgia of a time once passed has taken over common sense. I still heart Bobby G in a teenage crush kind of way.
I'm not getting invovled
I can't help myself.
They are still the best band in the UK. Who else tkaes risks with each LP?
You want proof? Get hold of 'Time of the Assassins' off the new LP (only on the ltd edition copy for some stoopid reason).
As good as anything off XTRMNTR / Vanishing Point.
Takes risks?
Shurely shome mishtake?
I used to love the Scream
and they were the first live band i saw in late 90's. They're output seems to be utterly pointless and blad though when they can be so good.
I like all their albums bar 'Give Out But Dont Give Up', 'Riot City Blues' and the new one. Those three are preeeety awful.
The other stuff is ace though - yes even 'Sonic Flower Groove' and the self titles follow up.
They've completely lost it!
enough said....horrible to watch now (if Hop Farm was anything to go by) - funking MOR by numbers. This is one band that need to let it go.
Yes, Take Risks
They could release Lp's full of Rocks and Country Girl if they so pleased. They don't. Listen to Uptown on the new LP. They've never made a song like it.
New producers, new ideas, retreads of ideas, crap songs (zombie man/Suicide Bomb) on new LP. They never stay still.
Before you get on the bandwagon, listen to a bit more content.
But why oh why
did they even go there with "Country Girl"?
I agree with the condradictions claim, on the one hand they are pioneers of releasing edgy stuff or remaking edgy stuff and sounding off the cuff and on t'other the flirtation of media/pop whores. Messin' wiv our tiny minds.
Did anyone see...
Bobby gillespie doing backing vocals with Grinderman at ATP last year? He doesn't look quite so cool when sharing a stage with a suited-up Nick Cave.
I will agree
with you about 'time of the assassins': it's the best thing on the new album.
I'm really struggling with the new stuff though - it's so lightweight, it just washes over me.
Vanishing Point, XTRMNTR, Evil Heat.
Apart from that I agree.
Such a weird band
Half their stuff is awesome ('Screamadelica', 'Vanishing Point', 'XTRMNTR', 'Evil Heat') and half is awesome (the 80s albums, 'Give Out But Don't Give Up', 'Riot City Blues'). The new one is probably their first album that's just "ok". It's neither good nor bad but certainly not a patch on their best work.
I've gone off almost
everything - except Screamadelica.
The last straw was a gig in fucking Brixton about 3 years ago. I had a sore foot and was in the middle of the standing bit. I looked around and it was a fucking Vodafone advert. When did US jocks start listening to Primal Scream?
US jocks...
...wouldn't know Primal Scream if Bobby G. was standing right next to them. They're too busy slurping Bono.
Personally, even XTRMNTR is shite.
I think Come Together and Loaded are the only two tracks of theirs that I like.
Oh and Higher Than The Sun,
and maybe bits and bobs off XTRMNTR cos it reminds me of Deus Ex.
Bleurgh!
Now they're just feel like old dudes playing 12 bar blues with modern beats. Vanishing Point was surprisingly good, but I can't understand why anyone's still buying into this cartoon version of being 100% rock'n'roll.