Primal Scream.

Metro sent out tons of free tickets to last night's show. I was surprised they had trouble selling the show. Don't they play big stadiums and festivals in the UK? It was good, a nice sampling from most of their albums. My favorite moments were probably from XTRMTR. They made heavy usage of their green laser. The band is always kind of ridiculous teetering on the edge of Spinal Tap territory, as it should be. I noticed the volume kept increasing to the point that even with my earplugs I was retreating further back.

I walked out of their show mid-way through (I was really only there to see BJM). As great as Mani is, I couldn't sit through that horrid Guitar Center guitar jackoffery the new guy was playing.

I caught them a few times while they were touring for XTRMTR & they absolutely killed. That was when they had Shields on the team. I have zero interest in seeing them at this point (but would probably go if given free tix).

yeah they were great with Shields

‘Screamadelica’
Primal Scream’s classic re-issued for its 20th Anniversary
March 7th in Collector’s and Deluxe Editions

'Screamadelica' is one of this era's most beautiful, far-reaching pieces of musical adventure…pretty much a perfect album” NME 1991

Primal Scream to release a newly re-mastered version of Screamadelica to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their genre-defining, groundbreaking masterpiece.

To mark the 20th anniversary of this landmark record, the band have made a new cut of the album with the help of their longtime friend and occasional collaborator, Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine.

Since its release in September 1991, the inaugural Mercury Prize winning record has influenced countless bands and artists, been widely acclaimed by critics as one of the defining records of the 1990s and as one of the most inventive albums of it’s generation- the album had a huge effect on 90s popular culture, bringing acid house and rock n roll to a unified mainstream audience that had until that point been disparate and underground.

The Collector’s Edition of Screamadelica will comprise four fully remastered CDs and a heavyweight gatefold double LP, including a new cut of the original album as well as the previously unreleased ‘Live in L.A., 1991’ album, a CD of original remixes by Andrew Weatherall , The Orb and others, along with a re-mastered version of top 10 hit EP, ‘Dixie Narco’.

There will also be a 30 minute documentary DVD: ‘The Making Of Screamadelica’, documenting the album track by track, plus bonus content from the original Screamadelica VHS, accompanied by a 50 page commemorative bound book featuring interviews with the band, unseen images, and notes on the Story Of Screamadelica by ‘Loaded’ magazine founder James Brown.

The Collector’s Edition boxset will also include a 12” slipmat featuring the original iconic sleeve design by the late artist Paul Cannell, a Primal Scream replica tour t-shirt (by Worn By) and 5 x 7” art cards.

Screamadelica – The Collector’s Edition’ will comprise:

CD1: Re-Mastered album (Re-mastered by Primal Scream & Kevin Shields)
1. Movin’ On Up
2. Slip Inside This House
3. Don’t Fight It, Feel It
4. Higher Than The Sun
5. Inner Flight
6. Come Together
7. Loaded
8. Damaged
9. I’m Comin’ Down
10. Higher Than The Sun (A Dub Symphony In Two Parts)
11. Shine Like Stars

CD2: Live In L.A., 1992

CD3: Original Mixes

Loaded
1. Farley Mix 7” (5:59)
2. Loaded 7” (4:19)

Come Together
3. Farley 7” (4:23)
4. 7” Mix (Wetherall (4:45)
5. Terry Farley Extended 12” Mix (08:02)
6. Hypnotone Brain machine Mix (5:14)
7. BBG Mix (6:27)

Higher Than The Sun
8. Higher Than The Orb (5:00)
9. Higher Than The Sun 12” (6:43 )
10. American Spring Mix (6:20)

Don’t Fight It
11. 7” Edit (4:10)
12. Graham Massey Mix (4:53)
13. Scat Mix(8:07)
14. High, High, High (Massey) (5:54)

Bonus
15. I’m Losing More Than I Ever Had (4:48)
16. Ramblin Rose (2:27)

CD4: The Dixie Narco EP (Re-mastered)
1. ‘Movin’ On Up’
2. ‘Stone My Soul’
3. ‘Carry Me Home’
4. ‘Screamadelica’

LP1 & 2: Re-Mastered album – Gatefold 2LP
A1 ‘Movin’ On Up’
A2 ‘Slip Inside This House’
A3 ‘Don’t Fight It, Feel It’

B1 ‘Higher Than The Sun’
B2 ‘Inner Flight’
B3 ‘Come Together’

C1 ‘Loaded’
C2 ‘Damaged’
C3 ‘I’m Comin’ Down’

D1 ‘Higher Than The Sun (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts)’
D2 ‘Shine Like Stars’

DVD: Classic Album documentary
‘The Making Of Screamadelica’ – 30 mins

BONUS
1. ‘Screamadelica’
2. ‘Movin’ On Up’
3. ‘Slip Inside This House’
4. ‘Don’t Fight It, Feel It’
5. ‘Higher Than The Sun’
6. ‘Come Together’
7. ‘Damaged’
8. ‘Loaded’
9. ‘Shine Like Stars’
10. ‘Inner Flight’

EXTRA
Original Tour T-shirt replicated by Worn By (Size L)
50 Page Book – The Story Of Screamadelica told by Bobby, Andrew and James Brown
12” DJ Slip Mat
4 x 7” Art Cards (original Paul cannel Designs)
1 x 7” Perforated stamp style art card

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... with the help of their longtime friend and occasional collaborator, Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine.

It'll never happen...

Andy Weatherall on 6Music last Sunday, on the music that inspired Screamadelica. Every track was a corker, far better than anything on the album, of course: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w4gsf.

Well worth a listen on the i-player

Good lord, that's even more sprawling than the Stone Roses boxset. I might pick it up anyway. Yikes.

For those dismissing the first two PS albums; at least track down the song "Imperial"...it's a classic. Most of the rest is pretty bad though.

Oh, we loved those first few b-sides.

Can — Mother Earth. ???

kinda lame that there's nothing previously unreleased. I'll be skippin this.

how is there no acid house on the Weatherall 6mix? certainly house/techno was an inspiration for the album. seems like bullshit to me.

kinda lame that there's nothing previously unreleased. I'll be skippin this.

The entire live CD is previously unreleased, the documentary is previously unreleased, the book is previously unreleased, and the Screamdelica VHS has been OOP for 18 years. (And I've never heard that BBG mix or the two Massey ones.)

Plus the remaster is previously unreleased, of course.

$82 a ticket to see the playing-Screamdelica-in-full show in Sydney in January, btw.

yeah I meant the music. the mixes are all from singles aren't they?

don't really care about the live CD, can't imagine they were a decent live band at this stage (they were pretty great on the XTRMNTR tour tho)

It's funny that they looked so shambolic doing "Loaded" on TOTP back in, and nowadays that's the look that the backing band for Take That seem to attempt.

don't really care about the live CD

How dare you not care about an aural document of a show I was at. (Okay so I'm biased.)

full Screamadelica london show from last night here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w4kck

kind of think a more interesting thing for the box would be the 'original pre-weatherall mixes' of the tracks. like, they put out the original 'higher than the sun' and (iirc) 'come together' as b-sides at one point.

I don't think I've heard the "original" Come Together, only the Farley mixes. At the Olympia gig last night they started with the Weatherall, segued into the Farley and ended on the Weatherall, gospel choir and all. It was pretty special.

I don't think I've heard the "original" Come Together

ah it was p rare

http://www.discogs.com/Primal-Scream-Come-Together-Original-Recording/release/568801

some1 i know got it

better take out a mortgage if you want a copy

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00000G6I2/

(23 pence used, 24 pence new)

ha! broheems got it on white label, super-expensively istr

For anyone who missed the Weatherall show, I've put together a Spotify playlist with all the available tracks from it plus a few additions and substitutions. The man had/has exquisite taste.

http://open.spotify.com/user/dorianlynskey/playlist/2yMDD8outZPeXOKEgJQIn7

For anyone who missed the Weatherall show, you might want to get ripped in Glasgow

just saaaayin'

http://testpressing.org/2010/11/23/radio-andrew-weatherall-the-music-that-made-screamadelica/

Love this 1992 LA Times review of Primal Scream and their weird 'rave' music.

"I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry," said one teen-age boy.

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-09/entertainment/ca-2613_1_primal-scream

love that quote

Awesome.

reads like it was written in 1956 and the reporter has attended a rock'n'roll bop at which the notorious Mr Bill Haley had played ...

never heard of these 'original versions' of Higher Than The Sun and Come Together before! ..Sun was the b side of Burning Wheel apparantly fyi.

Searching for that original Higher Than the Sun, I founf this great comment under a YouTube clip of the single version:

jesus just had a flash back not so long ago jesus man i was fucked to this tune, mushrooms straberry trips hoffmans to much acid back then you dont see it now do you ,i used to walk for miles man
bigluckfinn 1 month ago

He understands.

what do you mean 'original higher than the sun'?

it was on the b-side of burning wheel

as pisces said two posts above you

I have that single but don't have it ripped. Bummer. Will google.

I have that single but don't have it ripped. Bummer. Will google.

So, the deluxe version is £145

(£93 from Amazon, £99 from Play)

saw the Screamdelica show a couple of weeks back

venue was horrible but the show is IMMENSE

leave before the encore though

Is that when Jack McLaughlin and the Thingummyjig Dancers come out?

Bobby Gillespie, Jackie Liebzeit and Liam Gallagher on one-finger piano, hopefully.

Guest spot by Fran and Anna

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hLRDZ3qfL._SS500_.jpg

Budget series? Budget EVERYTHING. What the hell is that.

It's incredible.

Boaby G can tell you all about them

<3 ilx' treatment of bobby g

auld cunt will be rairin fou athort the cludgie wi mani an the ghaist a alex chilton sengin 'seck.....fuck! fuck!' a we speak

Bobby: "Whit th' fuck ye oan aboot, ya fuckin' walloper! Ur you tryin' tae make oot ah'm some soart a fuckin' teuchter who cannae even speak proper English like? Ya fuckin' ride! Ah'll have you, pal!"
Holger: "Leaf it Herr Bobby, he ist nicht vurth it..."

Bobby Gillespie, Jackie Liebzeit and Liam Gallagher on one-finger piano, hopefully.

― Neil S, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 13:48 (57 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is choice PS-grail-referencing btw

Fran definitely >>>> Anna

Is Inner Flight as sped up as the youtube vid. version is? fucking ruins it