Primal Scream.

Point? I think he's spot on!

1) Screamadelica is their most celebrated album.

2) The album with the least singing/lyrical content from BGill is....

The crass Crass remark suggests that he'd think the same no matter who sung or wrote these sentiments or how they were performed or sung. Socialism is so irritating and unsexy, darlings...

Tim Burgess was repping Crass and Rudimentary Peni in the Big Issue recently. That was pretty wtf?

I mean:

Tim Burgess was repping, as a rapper would say, Crass and Rudimentary Peni in the Big Issue recently. That was pretty wtf?

Ah yes, non-tax paying American citizen Tim Burgess...

i like that guardian review a lot.

can i just say re tim burgess : umm wtf is with the new haircut ?
just looks soo wrong.

Petridis so read the ILX reaction to his review of whatever the last Primal Scream record was called. I remember people posting "omg *obviously* he thinks its shit even if he isn't saying so" and "has any band ever had such a free pass from the music press as Primal Scream?"

He hates us but can't live without us.

Do they get a free pass from the music press?

(Take yr point about the Crass mention)

Burgess' haircut is officially the worst haircut since John Mills in Hobson's Choice.

Hisa new haircut is coz he is hanging out at The Old Blue Last w/The Horrors and etc and is having a mid-life crisis of relevancy.

wig morelike.

Anyway, Bobby invented the commune notion which Crass later adopted when he put some string around his pram on a day out at Bothwell Castle, opened a tin of cold baked beans and said ye cannae come in.

Hahahahah

Do they get a free pass from the music press?

of course they do! they're hailed as this swaggering bunch of spirit-of-rock hedonists, who -- when they weren't busy ROCKING or LIVING ON THE EDGE -- invented THE 1990s AS WE KNOW IT, etc. when was the last time you saw a piece saying: "fucking hell, these increasingly irrelevant old tools should swivel?"

last time? Upthread, probably.

first time? Hmmm......

(Well, it was "Give out but" obv)

It works for them though - Primal Scream manage to appear second on the bill at every festival despite drawing a modest crowd each time and not really being that popular.

The low point of the album has to be their cover of Hawkwind's 'Urban Guerilla'. This was mildly embarrassing when Hawkwind wrote it (35 years ago, if memory serves, I bought a copy because it was kind of notorious). Now it's seriously embarrassing.

The Hawkwind original is great! NEVER wanna hear the Primal Scream version.

But Bobby wrote the song especially for Hawkwind after he'd watched the Magilla Gorilla cartoon on the Glen Michael Cavalcade. He wasn't too chuffed when they got the spelling wrong.

That petridis review is pretty decent, eh? He's OTM about a bunch of stuff that's annoying about them.

First negative review I've read of one of their albums in a mainstream publication since their second album. There's got to have been some extra-musical shenanigans going on behind the scenes there.

he is, as a rapper would say, all up in your grill

i know it's the Guardian but srsly, time to stop doing this

Don't recall too many rave reviews for Don't Give Up, Peter Gabriel And Kate Bush or whatever their 1994 album was called.

That album should have got a post-Lee Hazlewood review of "give up".

as a rapper would say

Studio albums
Sonic Flower Groove (1987)
Primal Scream (1989)
Screamadelica (1991)
Give Out But Don't Give Up (1994)
Vanishing Point (1997)
XTRMNTR (2000)
Evil Heat (2002)
Riot City Blues (2006)
Beautiful Future (2008)

As a rapper would say: “He’s one of the best that did it.”

i don't get this one

stevem: http://www.mp3lyrics.org/x/xzibit/double-time/

Don't recall too many rave reviews for Don't Give Up, Peter Gabriel And Kate Bush or whatever their 1994 album was called.

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 18 July 2008 11:24 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I don't recall too many raves for that one either, but I don't recall any slagoffs (and it was a shit album) and I do recall a lot of scribes making excuses for them over it.

Petridish should get a two-month grace period from ILX slagging for that review, the rapper line is the only cringer

To be fair, there are shit bits in Islington, but Bobby G doesn't live in one of those.

Don't recall too many rave reviews for Don't Give Up, Peter Gabriel And Kate Bush or whatever their 1994 album was called.

Think Select gave it 5/5 originally and Q gave it 4/5 (thats not saying a lot tho).

To be fair, there are shit bits in Islington, but Bobby G doesn't live in one of those.

I used to walk past him on the way to work when he was taking his kid to school. Son always looked spick and span with his blazer, cap and satchel. Dad always looked like shit.

despite its lack of nads, i'm starting to like little bits of this.

sorry, everyone.

its a lot better than the last one

I give it six out of ten.

sounds about right

I used to walk past him on the way to work when he was taking his kid to school. Son always looked spick and span with his blazer, cap and satchel. Dad always looked like shit.

-- Discordian, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:54 (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

Ma Gillespie: "Now come on Boaby, ye've got tae make a good impression on yir first day at school. Put yir tie on and dae up yir top shirt button?"
Bob: "Mammy, it's too tight!"
Passing Archie Shepp: "I've just had an idea..."

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 July 2008 09:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Think Select gave it 5/5 originally and Q gave it 4/5 (thats not saying a lot tho).

Select did give it 5/5.

I listened to XTRMNTR over the weekend and ... well, it was underwhelming compared to what I remember it as (even as late as 2004, I still thought it was the shit, but then again, a lot of the stuff I liked from 2000-2004 has gone out of favour with me lately).

Black out the windows, sound the alarm and take cover… Primal Scream are set to rampage through the UK this winter as headliners of the notoriously anarchic NME Rock ‘N’ Roll Riot Tour!

Starting in Oxford on November 20th, Scotland’s favourite sons will be blowing up venues throughout country on their 16 date extravaganza, culminating in a historic homecoming date at Glasgow’s SECC on December 13th.

Front man Bobby Gillespie said: “We're so happy to be doing this tour because we can rock and we can have a riot. Right now we're playing better than ever, we're having a great time, we're having a ball. When people come to the show they’re really gonna get their money’s worth!”

The tour, which has famously given a leg up to the likes of the Kaiser Chiefs, The Enemy and Razorlight is set to round off an already extraordinary year for the band who played a triumphant headline set at T in the Park last month, giving music lovers a taste of the white knuckle ride they can expect from the forthcoming tour.

Fans were also treated to a taste of new material from the Primal’s ninth studio album, out now on B-Unique. ‘Beautiful Future’, which debuted in the UK top ten this week, was produced by Björn Yttling [Peter, Björn and John] and Paul Epworth (Bloc Party) and features contributions from some of the music world’s most eclectic talent including CSS’s Lovefoxxx and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age)

Conor McNicholas, NME Editor, said: “The NME Rock N Roll Riot Tour has found a killer headliner with Primal Scream. Their classic-laden back catalogue encompasses everything from dancefloor euphoria and Rolling Stones raunch to electronic punk, but it’s the devastating laser-guided pop of their new album ‘Beautiful Future’ we’re looking forward to most. This is shaping up to be an amazing tour. Bobby Gillespie has always described his band’s output as being ‘high energy rock’n’roll’. Come and see just how right he is.”

This is a good press release when you read it in a Pathe newsreader voice

'blowing up venues throughout country'

Ya couldnae blow up a balloon, ya feckin' gobshite

Bobby Gillespie has always described his band’s output as being ‘high energy rock’n’roll’.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/shakinstevens/images/ecards/shakin_stevens02.jpg

Ah yes, true rocker and proper socialist Shakin' Stevens!

Could teach wee Bobby a thing or two!

I was flipping through The Clash magazine which belatedly reviewed Beautiful Future and gave it 4 stars and called them the greatest band on the planet. Ha ha! I listened to it again last night and it's still a letdown, though I do like "Uptown." Evil Heat was a fun album. I didn't think it would have been difficult for them to match, but apparently it was. Still, if they played a reasonably sized (not too big) venue I'd go see 'em.

Yes, I'd see them too. Doubt they'll be back to Texas anytime soon, though. I'll pick up the new album when I come across it for $5 used, not going to seek it out though. It's up to fate as to when I am inevitably disappointed a bit.

I've got a couple of tickets to sell for their gig at the SECC in Glasgow on 13th December, if anyone wants them? Face value or thereabouts, webmail me if you want them plz.