Screamadelica: the poll

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

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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

if you compress this album to one song the end result can only be "come together".

"Come Together" sounded fucking perfect when I teenager, full of optimism & on drugs. These days, not so much. Loaded holds up, though.

i'm beautiful, i wasn't born to follow
i live just for today, don't care about tomorrow
what i got in my head you can't buy steal or borrow
i believe in live and let live
i believe you get what you give

no question, no contest. best song they ever did.

those are some horrible lyrics

oh they're so hilariously TRIPPY MAN

it's got early 90s peas luv and xtacy self-importance stamped all over it

how can you not love it

Who's a worse lyricist: Bono or Bobby Gillespie?

Mine is the only vote for 'Inner Flight'? And I'm not even a Beach Boys-fanatic.

No option for "unbelievably shitty, self-important, over-rated album" = no vote from me.

Multi-X-Post: "Come Together" is a bad song by a great band.

Are we talking about the "Come Together" with the Jesse Jackson sample that starts out "This is a beautiful day. It is a new day..." OR are we talking about the one that goes "Kiss me, won't you won't you kiss me... lift me right out of this world." I prefer the former, even though it sounds like an absolutely amazing beginning to a song that you expect to start rocking but it never really gets there and ten minutes later it ends.

Give me XTRMNTR any day.

Are we talking about the "Come Together" with the Jesse Jackson sample that starts out "This is a beautiful day. It is a new day..." OR are we talking about the one that goes "Kiss me, won't you won't you kiss me... lift me right out of this world."

Actually I am talking about the "Come Together" that starts with "Here come old flat top He come groovin' up slowly" :)

DFIFI FTW

a song that you expect to start rocking but it never really gets there

worst orgasm ever

ah, but the next day....

You feel a bit used?

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.