Primal Scream.

Remastered by John Davis at Metropolis. Remaster approved b Kevin Shields.

That's what the sleeve says.

Bobby: Kev di'yae ken this Screamadelica remaster mon?
Kevin: Yeah, whatever.

Bob: "Holl' Shieldsy, whit's the sketch wi' this fuckin' remaster here?"
Kev: "Oh 'tis a wonderful piece o' work, Robert, me boy, yer man Davis has done a simply splendid job, splendid! Sure didn't I tell him so meself."
Bob: "I don't gie a fuck aboot that, who the fuck is this cunt? Ah cannae jist hiv any auld punter in aff the street remixin' ma fuckin' CDs, man. Ah need som'dy ah can bum aboot efterwards, some cunt everybody's heard ah."
Kev: "Oh but you're a terrible man for the name droppin', Robert, terrible!"
Bob: "Could you no' ha' done it yerself, ya lazy Irish get? Ah mean, whit's this "approved by" shite? Ah'll gie ya a fuckin' boot up the erse in a minute, see how ye approve o' that!"
Kev: "But I need me rest, Robert, I've only got 10 years to make the next album, so I have."
Bob: "Don't gie us that, ya shitebag. Ah'm fuckin' phonin' Holger up, see if he cannae dae it... Holger? Get up Holger, ya dozy auld bastard..."
Holger: "... Herr Bobby, it is 10 o'clock of the hour, why are you phoning me at such ein ungottliche uhr already! Gott in himmel, Englander schwein!"
Bob: "Hey calm doon, auld yin, ah'm wahntin' a favour, that's a'. Listen, could you dae a cheeky wee remaster o' fuckin' Screamadelica?"
*click*
Bob: "Hullo? Hullo?"

haha!

^

Last-minute appearance of Holger Czukay makes it.

irl giggles

totes..

impressions of Bobby Gillespie are like the purest of comedy gold to me for some reason

reading Tom D's Boaby quotes in Limmy's Dee Dee voice

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

Which is exactly how they should be read!

Tom, I borrowed (and credited) that dialogue for my blog: http://sickmouthy.com/2011/03/25/screamadelica/

Hope you don't mind!

Boaby says, on my behalf, "Nae bother, fire away man..."

Beer and being glad it was the end of the working week may have had something to do with it but enjoyed last night's BBC4 documentary on Screamadelica - was struck by the regret at the excess from the band (bar Bobby) and how likable Henry the bass player seemed.

I really enjoyed it, even without beer.

I enjoyed it too. Take it the documentary was the same as the one that came on the dvd of the deluxe version of Screamadelica?

Henry seemed like an absolute gent

I liked the idea of him and denise in the grown-up zone of the tourbus, quietly chilling with a bit of Ayler and a copy of What Car?

'not available' in my area. shit

I always listened to Screamadelica from a historic/curatorial stance as I was only about 10 when it came out. But witht he remasters I'm enjoying Screamadelica more than I ever have... Although when I picked up the remaster, didn't realise all it came with was the crumby Dixie Narco EP, as I'd assumed the second disc would be chocka with other things. Still, it's great and I think Higher Than The Sun has managed to invade its way into my list of favourite tunes.

Seems daft that there's no way of getting the "interesting" compilation of mixes beyond buying the expensive LP box.

Apart from buying the complete set off itunes, which OK isn't too bad pricewise...

By the way, a guy in the pub on Monday who'd watched the the BBC 4 documentary (obv. I didn't) was talking about some "free jazz guitarist" who was interviewed and who had played with Primal Scream... who the flip would that be?

Henry Olsen

he and denise j were the best parts of the show for me ..

I thought he was a bass player?

yup. but he supposedly played some guitar parts as well.

OK, I don't know why I (still) expect people to know what free jazz is

Jim Navajo

LOL. I can't being to descibe the widespread hilarity that ensued in Glasgow when the name Jim Navajo first appeared.

I wouldn't have minded but he always used to wear a cowboy hat iirc.

Well underneath it he looked like he'd been scalped (by Navajos perhaps)

McGee should've bankrolled a Martin Duffy solo project in the late 90s when he seemingly had money to throw away. I was listening to "Train Above the City" and some other Felt instrumental stuff the other night - the guy's talent has been pretty much wasted in PS.

That's cos the guy has pretty much been wasted in Primal Scream. Didn't he once fall OFF a ceiling onto a table full of beer glasses etc and nearly die?

That was Wile e Coyote.

The Geir Hongro remix of 'I'm enjoying Screamadelica more than I ever have' is going to be hit, you just know.....

was a great doc. wonder what 'the story' is re the 1991 crash n burn. it all seemed to go very wrong very fast and they all seemed genuinely fucked up over it except Bob. i mean Throb was on the verge of tears there at one point. also i wonder why he left in '06?

I have TWO Primal Scream DVDs on pre-order - a longer version of the rockumentary and Screamadelica live. Perhaps my enthusiasm will wane by the time they come out at the end of the month.

thought Throb leaving was to do with him not doing the same drugs as the rest of the band / favouring ones that impacted his live performance / cf Bob's comments in the box set doco about the Give Out brown period still affecting some people now

I made my own Screamadelica to help celebrate Whitsun. It has proved massively unpopular with the downloading public:

http://blindfaithandhumblepie.blogspot.com/2011/05/whitsundelica.html

Meanwhile, my Primal Scream DVDs have arrived. One of them includes a CD of the Olympiah-ah-ah-ah-ah show.

http://i.imgur.com/AdK01.jpg

Primal Scream have expressed their disgust at Theresa May's decision to walk off stage at the Conservative party conference on Tuesday to the sound of their hit Rocks. "How inappropriate," the band said in a statement on Wednesday.

"Didn't they research the political history of our band?" the statement continued. "Hasn't she listened to the words? Does she even know what getting your rocks off means? No. She is a Tory; how could she?"

he's one to talk having nicked her hairdo and facial expression don't think much of his blouse but

this is a thing tho isn't it, sarkozy (or his ppl, one assumes) used an mgmt song without permission a while ago at a conference

think republicans have done sthing similar before

The history of music is littered with such incidents. In 2008, the band James complained about the use of their hit Sit Down at the Labour party conference while four years earlier the Conservatives invited the censure of Keane after using Everybody's Changing in their election campaign. Earlier this year Tom Petty insisted he did not give US presidential candidate Michele Bachmann permission to use his song American Girl while in 2005 Angela Merkel enraged the Rolling Stones when she used the band's 1973 hit Angie as her campaign theme in her bid to become chancellor.

[Don't Worry, Be Happy] was used in George H. W. Bush's 1988 U.S. presidential election as Bush's 1988 official presidential campaign song, without Bobby McFerrin's permission or endorsement. In reaction, Bobby McFerrin publicly protested that particular use of his song, including stating that he was going to vote against Bush, and completely dropped the song from his own performance repertoire, to make the point even clearer.

Wasn't there a thing with Born in the USA being used in a military recruitment campaign a few years back?

Rocks is a WTF choice for an old Conservative woman to use.

"Dealers keep dealin'
Thieves keep thievin'
Whores keep whorin'
Junkies keep scorin'
and that's because of the Human Rights Act amirite?"

*ringtone plays Can's "Peking O"

Bob (for it is he): Hullo?

*muffled voice on end of phone*

Bob: McGee? Whit dae you wahnt, ya wee Orange bastard?

*muffled voice*

Bob: Whit am ah daein'? Ah'm fuckin' chillin', man, watchin' fuckin' Rastamoose.

*muffled voice*

Bob: Ye whit?

*muffled voice*

Bob: Tory Party Conference? Here, haud oan a minute, whit ur you daein' watchin' the Tory Party Conference? Huv you forgoatten mah auld man wis a staunch leftwing trade unionist and the band, Primal Scream, have played several political benefits in the course of our career, including shows in support of striking miners and Palestine?

*muffled voice*

*turns TV over, "Rocks" plays quietly in the background*

Bob: No way, man! Wait tae ah tell mah maw! She'll be fuckin' made up!

*muffled voice*

Bob: Aye... but we're oan the telly tho, in't we?

*muffled voice*

Bob: Listen Al, ah don't gie a fuck whit oor fans think, they listen tae the pish we put oan ur records, how fuckin' smart can they be?

*muffled voice*

Bob: Whit?!?!? Release a fuckin' statement? Get tae fuck! Ah'm releasin' nu'hin', man! No' unless it's been remixed by Kevin Shields first...

*muffled voice*

Bob: But...

*muffled voice*

Bob: Aye... but...

*muffled voice*

Bob: Awright, awright, ah'll fuckin' cobble some shite together aboot fuckin' big business and whit huv ye, 'n get Warner Brothers' legal department tae gie it the once ower... happy noo?

*muffled voice*

Bob: Naw, ah've no goat time tae listen tae how you discovered Oasis! Catch ye fuckin' later!

*Bob inexpertly dials a number on his mobile*

*mobile rings*

Bob: Maw? Turn the telly oan noo!

:-) missed u Boabie!

^^^^

http://images.nitrosell.com/product_images/9/2113/oor%20wullie%20help%20ma%20boab.jpg

Bob: Maw? Turn the telly oan noo!

Maw: Aw cheers son ah luv them Dandy Warhols.

Bob: Whit? AW FUCK!

http://thequietus.com/articles/07116-primal-scream-theresa-may-rocks

his afternoon the internet has been afire with Primal Scream's righteous blasting of Theresa May for apparently using their track 'Rocks' at the Tory Conference. We actually reported this as fact, until helpful Quietus twitter follower @alcxxk sent us the footage which shows she was actually using the Dandy Warhol's 'Bohemian Like You'.

Bob: McGee, ya we rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrat!