Screamadelica: the poll

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?

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COME TOGETHER!!!

even though i sometimes don't acknowledge individual tracks when i play this album through, 'slip inside this house' is the definite winner for me.

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last 3 polls i've voted in, i've voted for the winner (protection, down on the upside, this)

yay conformity

How the fuck did "Loaded" place so low?? I love that song.

Let's party then!

That might be the best sample in any song ever.

How the fuck did "Loaded" place so low??

Too many great songs!

I completely missed this, give +1 for Loaded

Guys, "Higher than the sun" is higher as a sum!

rubbish lyrics and everything, but im surprised 'im coming down' got naaathing. prefer it to damaged any day.

It just hit me how much melody Country Girl takes from Damaged

Come Together 13

srsly, what is wrong with you ppl

If she can be believed, she's as excited to hang out as I am. Plus I can hear that amplified Kenyan preacher about 75 meters away. "Come Together" seems like the right choice here. And ... yes.

Seriously having a breakthrough with this album here, after years of listening to it.

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2010/02/primal_scream_to_play_screamad.html

Primal Scream To Play Screamadelica Live!

11:07 AM GMT 17/02/2010
Primal Scream To Play Screamadelica Live!

PRIMAL SCREAM WILL PLAY their dub/house/gospel/acid-rock opus Screamadelica in its entirety for the first time on November 27 at London's Olympia.

Produced by Stones-mainstay Jimmy Miller and DJ Andrew Weatherall, Screamadelica saw the band make the chemical-fuelled leap from jingle-jangle indie-rockers to acid house evangelists. A gospel choir, a brass section and original Screamadelica vocalist Denise Johnson will all join an expanded line-up of the band on the night.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, February 26 via www.gigsandtours.com

"Gospel! ... Gospel!"

What is it with bands nowadays doing concert tours where the big selling point is they're going to play their canon album in its entirety? Van Morrsion did it wth Astral Weeks. Todd Rundgren did it with A Wizard A True Star. Roger Waters did it with Dark Side of the Moon. And now the Primals are doing it with Screamadelica!

Here's to hoping Jesse Jackson drops by to do guest vocals on "Come Together."

What scares me is, there was a point when I would have cared. There was a point when I would have cared a lot.

Now this news makes me cringe.

Sounds quite fun, tho I don't know what PS are like live these days (I have never seen them live)

They are no longer the Battersea Dogs Home For Lost Shoegazers, they are now a perfectly competent gang of session men propping up what is left of Bobby G's ass. It will be perfect for the nostalgia trippers. I am perfectly sure they will do an adequately good job of performing this album.

Which is really, truly odd, as the band that actually recorded this album were *not* actually capable of doing so.

im not usually up for this kind of thing but this one is tempting

"adequate" and "competent" are never words I thought I'd type about Primal Scream.

i dunno, last time i saw them (TEN YEARS AGO... fuck) they were boringly competent

i have no idea who actually played what where, on record or off btw

Not a tour, or indeed a big selling point, but Suede also did this with their five albums in five successive nights at ICA. I wonder just who went to the final gig?

I'd probably be more interested in this one if they got a session guy in to replace Bobby G himself.

Suede also did this with their five albums in five successive nights at ICA

amazed i missed news of this. did they change line-up midway through?

I suppose "indie nostalgia band plays their big album" is a guaranteed way of saying "we promise they won't bother you with any of that post-success experimental nonsense or come-back albums." Also a way of screaming to casual fans THERE WILL BE NO SONGS YOU DON'T KNOW. HONEST!!!!

I'd really rather see Primal Scream do a "greatest hits" show of the sort they've been touring recently than shit all over an album they actually had very little to do with the actual making of.

about five of those greatest hits are from 'screamadelica' though

there aren't that many people out there aching to hear 'kowalski' iirc

and i sure as hell don't want to hear anything they've done since exterminator at the latest

Yeah, I remember they were one of several bands that were all "our next album is going to be all IGGYness" until the 'dance remix' took off and suddenly all those bands were all "ah, there's always been a dance element to our music"

(for newer readers, that last quote was from The Soup Dragons, who were about to release their new Iggyalbum but withdrew it *just* in time (cassette versions escaped) for a dancey makeover)

I'd prefer them to do a "history" gig, like Motorhead did once, where all their past members come and go in chronological order, and they start off with "All Fall Down / It Happens"

yeah?

how much of 'pet sounds' was played by the beach boys?

Ah, the old "there's always been a dance element to our music" escape clause. I liked that Soup Dragons album, for shame.

I don't remember anything past XTRMNTR at the "greatest hits" type show, it was pretty much monster hit followed by monster hit with the occasional ballad to go to the bar. Which is how greatest hits shows should be. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it, there was a lot of nostalgia notes that they managed to hit quite well.

Of course I'd be unlikely to recognise anything past that one album that came out after XTRMNTR whose title I conveniently forget but it had Autobahn 66 and that awful cover of Some Velvet Morning on it?

i can't remember either. all their 00s albums have similar auto-generated titles.

I had to look it up. Evil Heat. ::shudders::

yeah, "Evil Heat Shudders" would have been better.

What I always liked about them was that after paying people to make their records good, they would learn to play them live. So most bands would have left Loaded as a remix of I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have, rather than turning it into a mainstay of their sets (although the bit where he starts singing A Love Supreme over it live is embarrassing - or is that over something else?). At Reading 94, maybe, they played a live version of the Dust/Chemical Bros remix of Jailbird, which was just great, exhilerating (rather than a bit shit like the actual song).

Fave ever Scream gig was after Vanishing Point came out in the old train station in Barcelona. They opened and closed with different versions of Burning Wheel and played Five Years Ahead of My Time. Awesome.

Or like the MBV Arkestra remix of If They Move, Kill 'Em.

I was vaguely aware of Riot City Blues, but Beautiful Future, WTF? I didn't even know they had done another. Was at a party last weekend with a bloke who theorised that for every band, whenever it was you stopped following them, they *always* had one more album you were not aware of. This seems to bear this out!

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