Screamadelica: the poll

"Higher Than The Sun". Combines melodic songsmith qualities with an interesting use of electronics to the best effect.

I was thinking specifically of Come Together - I much preferred the single version of that to the album version - I ended up buying some US import of the Come Together EP to get it.

time and overexposure has largely spoiled this record for me. loaded would be my first choice to listen to.. it was also the first primals i ever owned (though i heard ivy ivy ivy first)

xpost yeah, and I think the elongated version of the single version was on one of the 12" singles (and nowhere else)

My favorite track from this always alternates. These days it's Slip Inside This House.

Higher Than The Sun is their best song ever.

Even last month live when they turned the last third into a blues jam.

Come Together 4EVA!!!

Although this record is very dated

More love from me for the title track. I had it tightly wound in its entirety round one side of the Dixie Narco 7" - I'm amazed the needle didn't carve through the disc every time I played it

In its absence, 'Don't Fight It, Feel It' is the only one I ever listen to, so that

Apart from Movin' on Up, Come Together & Loaded, I don't think this record is dated at all. Still sounds amazing at 3 in the morning. Voted for Shine Like Stars.

htts (dub symphony)

I could never get into this record- I don't know maybe you had to be there or something. Perhaps Kate's right that a lot of it has aged badly and by the time I heard it in the early 00's it just didn't sound so great- I actually like Vanishing Point better. Also, the original "Slip Inside This House" is far superior. I don't know, maybe I should give it a another listen one of these days.

Damaged ftw

guess which one i'm gonna vote for

it would be easier if you just told us.

"I Belong to Glesga (Dear Auld Glesga Toon)"

but it's obvious which one i'm gonna vote for

Why would it be obvious to anyone but you?

SOOO OBVIOUS, GOD

"A Plague of Shitehouse Keechers"?

Anyway, until CM deigns to reveal all, I have a soft spot for "Slip Inside This House", but, I think it has to be "Higher Than The Sun [dub symphony]"

DFIFI because no Bobby lol

^^ same reason im probabyl going come together

here's what you've all been waiting for

come together, duh

you being a huge balearic guy, how could we not have guessed.

it is also the best song called "come together" (non-controversial opinion imo)

(dude did you not see me repping for Studio lolz)

sometimes think this is the best British indie canon album of the 90s because it's got just enough sense of fun on board not just 'miserable splendour' like Loveless, Dummy, Maxinquaye etc.

2nd-best song called "come together" = blur's come together

never did like spz one much and beatles is str8 overrated

Annie's is better than all dat (not PS)

jesus fkn christ there are 872 recorded "come together"s on allmusic

"Come Together" is the song that made me start hating Primal Scream.

"Come Together" is a good Beatles song!

noooo

abbey road is an album that totally only becomes any good at "she's so heavy" and then remains very good for the remainder

I think we would all agree that.

No we wouldn't

absolutely fucking not

x-post

Something is k-lassic, frank sinatra told me so

And all the Lennon stuff on Side 2 is shit

should do a thread of louis' totally random assertions

I'm surprised there's never been a "best Come Together" poll.

"Come Together" is the song that made me start hating Primal Scream. - if that is when you started hating them, does that mean you preferred the leather chaps & cowboy hats phase?

xxp actually can we not?

It's the "Come Together" Arena Thread!!!

I forgot MC5's "Come Together"!!!!

Yeah me too til I read that thread. Still Spiritualized though, with MC5 second.

if that is when you started hating them, does that mean you preferred the leather chaps & cowboy hats phase?

That means I liked "Loaded" a hell of a lot and was blindsided by how much I despised "Come Together". (I refused to listen to them for a long time after hearing "CT", which is why I didn't discover how great "Slip Inside This House" was until years after the fact.)

I'm sure the Bobster didn't forget the MC5 version...

wot no Hixxy ;_;

"Slip Inside This House" is 2nd-choice for me

"Problem is, any time that I start to read any words that come out of Bobby Gillespie's mouth, I start to love that album a little less. Which is a real shame, so I try to avoid the interviews."

Typically a good idea for any musician one likes...

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/screamadelica452.jpg

i like primary colours

Round Boxes, whoo!

From the DVD...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onyn005txjE

I've fallen in love with 'higher than the sun' since the reissue. Bobby's such a weak singer but somehow transcends this on many points throughout screamadelica. Love the melismatic delivery of the line 'what I've got in my head you can't buy'. Also love the 7" version of come together for similar reasons.

Funny how people upthread are saying this sounds dated - they're not wrong, but this is the first sign of a full scale stylistic revival

The Screamadelica EP (with the eponymous track) is as good as anything they ever did, and still sounds great.

Whoops, Dixie Narco EP I mean. Track is called "Screamadelica"

Classic Albums - Screamadelica

http://devonrecordclub.com/2013/09/26/primal-scream-screamadelica-round-54-nicks-choice/

perfect timing Scik as i'm about to see them in a few days here in Los Angeles.

RIP Denise Johnson

https://louderthanwar.com/denice-johnson-much-loved-manchester-and-primal-scream-singer-rip/

RIP Denise. This is great.

Really cool interview, thanks Visiting

Sad about this, she was so great with Primal Scream back in the day

Was just thinking about her solo single the other day. I bought it as a cassingle!

listening again thanks to lorde and "higher than the sun" is really one of the coolest psych-rock tracks of all time, wish they'd done a whole album with the orb

Yep, the best thing here.

Hell yes, altho I’m partial to Shine Like Stars for similar reasons

there are some cool sounds here but it doesn't hang together really does it? maybe you had to be there (like with the stone roses album)

there is also something a bit off that I can't really articulate about the way so many white british bands used gospel in this era

it's also hard for me to hear this band without thinking "you wankers" - maybe I'd like it more if there was a different name on the cover

Funnily enough, their name isn't on the cover.

otm re higher than the sun, don’t really f w the rest of this album

i had the vhs version of this (and only the vhs) and the video for Some Like Stars was gaby agis dancing which gave it a little something extra

ok you know what i mean xps

wtf this album is great fools

it seems like the kind of album that would soundtrack a lot of formative experiences so i can sort of imagine why it so special to many people. i don't like it much but i'd probably be into it if i'd heard it at the right time & place (i feel the same way about neutral milk hotel)

unfortunately the first primal scream song i heard was country girl and i was just like fuck off

Whenever I would finally make it home from God knows how long pillin' it hard to deepest, darkest drum 'n' bass or transcendental progressive house or mad happy trance, (back in '97/'98) I'd go to bed and put this on and the world was aaaaalright 🙂

You missed everything kid, I feel sorry for you! xp

wtf this album is great fools

I am indeed a great fool.

I was at the Palladium show featured on the rerelease, first of four times I saw them over the years. (All of which were really good, oddly enough, because arguably they shouldn't've worked and yet here we are.)

Never saw this poll, interesting results. My four favorite tracks placed #2-5, definitely prefer them to the better-known tracks. Didn't realize ILM lately felt the same!

"higher than the sun" is so cool that they could have made an entire career out of that sound. and really should have honestly

Echo Dek scratches the "Primal Scream go dub reggae" itch pretty well, even if it's not quite up to the standard of HTTS

there are some cool sounds here but it doesn't hang together really does it?

I thought this when it was first released, and still do. IIRC, it was largely cobbled together from various sources to capitalise on the success of "Loaded", rather than being planned as an album.

That's why I've always preferred Morning Dove White to Screamadelica. Both seriously good albums, but the former feels more cohesive, and gives a glimpse of what the latter could have been if Weatherall was more involved.