Primal Scream.

yeap, this kind of sucks:

Couldn't disagree more.

i kind of take that back. i first listened to the single version of the song and really didn't like it. then i found this longer version and posted it. when listening to the longer version after listening to the single edit i liked it much better.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/03/22/primal-scream-its-alright-its-ok/

boy, that title is good ammo.

They are getting progressively worse, it sounds like the Lighthouse Family

has anyone already listened to their new one, "more light"? i read good things about it.

fuck primal scream, man.

fuck fookin primal scream, man.

Kicking off my Ben Sherman loafers, I fire up the Gaggia machine and hit play on a Soundcloud file of It's Alright, It's OK by Primal Scream. Shortly I'll have to hack up and dissolve the corpses of Vilma and Marie, dangling like broken red umbrellas in the bedroom, but breakfast is a "me moment".

From the moment I hear that Jimmy Miller piano figure over bongos, it's clear to me that the moment has come for Primal Scream to make imitations of their best 1990s imitations of The Rolling Stones. This fits the mood of the moment perfectly, for Vilma and Marie were dispatched last night in the style of some of my own prize-winning murders from the early 1990s, themselves copied from Ted Bundy, the Mick Jagger of murder. The gospel choir entering on the chorus is as predictable as a Bosch powerdrill to the mouth, and just as effective.

I'm not a hardcore religious guy myself, but I do love rented gospel choirs of black women singing behind white males belting out the sort of feelgood sentiments that look great on motivational postcards featuring shorelines and sunsets. Call me an old softy, but Bobby's vehement morale-boosting is doing me a power of good as he slurs in his drug-addled Scottish hipster brogue:

There's a time to remember, time to forget
(Something something something) no time for regret

In verse 3 there's even a hint of Bobby's Crowley discipleship in:

Let your will be a guide
There's no point in pretending when you know it has died

That's very much my own take on the meaning of life; I'd certainly be the last person to pretend that Vilma and Marie didn't die last night for the sake of giving my throbbing will a couple of fair-to-good orgasms. I've made a mental note to purchase a compact disc (for old time's sake!) of Primal Scream's return to form at the earliest opportunity. This major label long-player promises to be a veritable cocaine feast of warmed-up platitudes, cynical nostalgia-mongering, shake'n'vac production sheen and stylist sneering.

Thanks, Bobby, I'm donning the hazmat suit light of heart.

fookin primal scream, man.

whose accent is this meant to be?

love this cover, no band name or title:
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/uploads/article_images/A1TwfgbkkLL_AA1500_.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Momus-Tender-Pervert-172004.jpg

lol. i know momus has a mixed reputation around here, but tender pervert is a masterpiece. so many good songs. primal scream doesn't mean anything to me unfortunately. screamadelica is pleasant enough but my impression is that they are a "you had to be there" kind of band.

i was singing "i was a maoist intellectual" all this morning for some reason

so good. bishonen is my favorite. the harpsicord sound works well with momus's songwriting. i like his "analog baroque" phase too.

curious about bobby's pose, considering he and momus share some history.

yeah good point. i guess it is probably some kind of homage.

probably some kind of pwnage

Is, or is not, the new Scream single a cover of the theme tune to whimsical septuagenarian BBC detective series New Tricks?

Bobby and Momus toured Germany together in 1987. In Hamburg an art student called Helga Knipp laid them both on the same night, donning a blonde wig to bed Bobby and a Japanese bob to snare Momus. The next morning the singers complained at the breakfast buffet of an itching in the genital region. Both then went AWOL, forcing the tour manager to consider continuing the tour without them, substituting dreary indie-rock instrumentals for Primal Scream sets and clever conceptual silence for Momus.

"Crush" the tour manager decided to scour Hamburg for the two singers. He found them late that night, posing for Helga in Elbpark, where the trees were just coming into flower. Using a special "devil's horn" pose she'd developed at Hamburg Art School, a powerful flashgun, blossom, and shooting on special infra-red medical film used for autopsies, Helga gave both vocalists a startling new look which would shoot them to stardom. Momus used his the very next year for his Mercury Prize-winning album Tender Pervert, but Bobby's got lost in the post and wasn't delivered until 2013.

Desperately bored while waiting for his photo and his fame to arrive - a jealous junkie recluse with screaming tinnitus and a bad case of VD - Bobby whiled away his wilderness years posting to ILX under the name "Momus".

Boab: "Ye whit? Whit ye fuckin' oan aboot, ya fuckin' walloper? Momus? Ye mean that bawbag fae Paisley wi' the fuckin' patch oeer his eyeba'? Aw naw, talk o' the devil, here he comes."

Momus: "The dehvil? What about him?"

Boab: "Naw, the devil."

Momus: "Aye, that's whit ah said. Listen Rab, can a borrow a peencil aff ye?"

Boab: "A whit?

Momus: "Ah've goat an essay full o' big fuck off words tae hand in.... nah, ah'm joshin' ye, man , ah've actually goat a bookie's line tae fill in and ah've loast mah wee bookie's pen, so how's about that peencil?"

Boab: "Ah'll gie ye a fuckin' 'peencil' awright, right in yer other fuckin' eye!"

Momus: "Come oan Rab, fer auld time's sake! It must be all o' seeventeen years since we last met."

Boab: "How come you cannae talk properly?"

Momus: "Remember Hamburg?"

Boab: "Never been there, mate."

Momus: "Course ye huv!"

Boab: "Gonny leave me alaine?"

Momus: "Aye, fair takes me back, remember that bird, Helga?"

Boab: "Whit bird? Listen if you don't get oot ma face ye'll be usin' yer broken fingers tae pick yer teeth up aff the flerr!"

Momus: "The flair."

Boab: "The flerr."

Momus: "The flair."

Boab: "The flerr."

Momus: "The flair."

Boab: "The flerr."

Momus: "Rab, did you know that on the web, everyone will be famous to fifteen people."

Boab: "BEAT IT, YA WANK!"

lols all around

tbh "XTRMNTR" is one of the greatest albums of all time, much better than "Screamadelica", and it's not a "you had to be there" moment, and it's a much better follow up to "Loveless" than "m b v" was

i'll listen to it today stevie.

\(^o^)/

plz report back

can confirm that exterminator rules

yeah i have no time for screamadelica or most of primal scream's work apart from 'velocity girl,' and i love XTRMNTR. top 10 of the decade for me easy.

Screamadelica was a botched album... all the wrong mixes went on in the wrong order and it was at least a year after the fact. XTRMNTR was amazing when it came out and remains so.

50% cosign. XTRMNTR is awesome classic, but I still like Screamadelica a lot.

Very very underwhelmed at the time by Screamadelica. Loved XTRMNTR at the time & occasional listens confirm its marvellousness. I have listened to nothing else by Primal Scream. Should I bother?

Vanishing Point is the only other album you need to hear. I actually prefer it to XTRMNTR, mainly because of how amazing Burning Wheel and Kowalski are.

I don't think they've ever made a masterpiece. Their three best albums all have flaws. Screamadelica has Movin' on up and Loaded which I never need to hear again in my life, Vanishing Point has Star and Medication which are retro bullshit and XTRMNTR features Bobby rapping.

You got to be kidding me, Pills is one of my favourites on the album. If you think of it as the rambling paranoid interior monologue of a guy who's been running on pills for four days without sleep. I think it's absolutely brilliant, the album as a whole is SUCH a masterpiece to me. I know Bobby talks a lot of shite but the flashes of brilliance make up for it tenfold.

I haf listened to this new album and it is quite good.

I know it's all opinion but I'm pretty sure in this instance it's factually correct to say that Bobby Gillespie couldn't rap his way out of a damp paper bag.

You got to be kidding me, Pills is one of my favourites on the album. If you think of it as the rambling paranoid interior monologue of a guy who's been running on pills for four days without sleep. I think it's absolutely brilliant, the album as a whole is SUCH a masterpiece to me. I know Bobby talks a lot of shite but the flashes of brilliance make up for it tenfold.

― MatthewK

Sorry I find his rapping totally embarrassing. "The truth about you, you never been true" I just don't know how anyone can take that seriously.

You don't have to take it seriously to enjoy it.

I kind of want to buy the new album.

The thing is it sounds to me Bobby was being serious when he was doing that rap, like he really wants us to "Tell the truth" but it just sounds bad and I cringe every time I hear it. I do like the album a lot but that song is just a big misstep.

I have to agree. He does it again on Culturecide, which is the only disaster on the new album. I interviewed Gillespie at his manager's house just before XTRMNTR came out and he put the album on and rapped along to Pills. That was awkward.

Pills has honestly never bothered me! The bit where he just gives up and swears over and over and over is awesome.

Anyway, I'm listening to the new one on *gulp* Spotify and it's alright, isn't it? I'm enjoying quite a lot of it. I didn't even give Beautiful Future then dignity of a single listen, and the CD of Riot City Blues got defenestrated, it was that bad.

I just reading reviews of their albums the other day and came across your Riot City Blues one on Stylus, it actually made me want to hear it. I remember quite liking the single from Beautiful Future but never bothered with it even though when Virgin/Zavi was closing they had hundreds of copies selling for a couple of pounds.

Ha! I got the plural of poets laureate wrong in that. Shocking.

Riot City Blues is daft pastiche but harmless - Country Girl and When the Bomb Drops are both keepers. The only worthwhile things from BF are the Fleetwood Mac cover and Weatherall's remix of Uptown. After those two and the patchy Evil Heat the new one is better than anyone could have expected - David Holmes's production is terrific.

I found the production / sound on RCB awful and offensive, but it's a Youth job, from when I was at the height of my crusade, and he's a butcher.

I'm kind of astonished at how good More Light is on second listen. It's not amazing, or anything, but it is just really, really good, all the way through.

I got as far as the phrase "final solution to teenage revolution" and just felt too embarrassed to continue.

Suspension of disbelief Matt

Echo Dek is their best. I'm still trying to find other music that sounds like that and having trouble.

I've paid zero attention to lyrics.

Echo Dek is their best. I'm still trying to find other music that sounds like that and having trouble.

a bunch of the other b-sides/remixes from the period are in the same general ballpark