Screamadelica
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| Studio album by Primal Scream | |||||
| Released | October, 1991 | ||||
| Genre | House, Alternative | ||||
| Length | 65:10 | ||||
| Label | Creation Records | ||||
| Producer | The Orb, Hypnotone, Andrew Weatherall, Hugo Nicholson, Jimmy Miller | ||||
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Screamadelica is a 1991 album by Primal Scream and was their first to be a commercial success. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted it the 27th greatest album of all time.
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[edit] History
The album was a massive departure from the band's early indie rock sound, drawing inspiration from the house music scene (and associated drugs) that was becoming popular at the time of its production. The band enlisted house DJs Andrew Weatherall and Terry Farley on producing duties, although the album also contained a wide range of other influences including gospel and dub.
The album's title track did not appear on the album itself; the ten minute dance track was also produced by Andrew Weatherall and sung by Denise Johnson. It appears on the Dixie Narco EP released in 1992, and featured in the opening credits of the now rare Screamadelica VHS video tape.
The album includes "Loaded", which was a top twenty hit single in the UK. Dance DJ Andrew Weatherall began remixing "I'm Losing More than I'll Ever Have", from their previous album, and the resulting track disassembled the song, adding a drum loop from an Italian bootleg mix of Edie Brickell's "What I Am", a sample of Gillespie singing a line from Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues" and the central introductory sample from the Peter Fonda B-movie The Wild Angels.
[edit] Track listing
- "Movin' on Up" – 3:47
- "Slip Inside This House" – 5:14 (Erickson/Hall)*
- "Don't Fight It, Feel It" – 6:51
- "Higher Than the Sun" – 3:36
- "Inner Flight" – 5:00 (instrumental)
- "Come Together" – 10:21 (UK Version)
- "Loaded" – 7:01
- "Damaged" – 5:37
- "I'm Comin' Down" – 5:59
- "Higher Than the Sun [A Dub Symphony In Two Parts]" – 7:37
- "Shine Like Stars" – 3:45
All songs written by Gillespie/Innes/Young, unless noted.
The lyrics to "Slip Inside This House" have been truncated and altered in places in comparison to the song's original recording by the 13th Floor Elevators. A notable example of such modification is in the chorus, where Slip inside this house was altered to Trip inside this house.
[edit] Acclaim
The album has received widespread acclaim, as one of the best albums of the 1990s, appearing in many critics' lists and audience polls. Examples:
- It won the first Mercury Music Prize in 1992.
- In 1996, Select Magazine named it as the number 1 album of the 90s.
- In 2001, Q Magazine placed it at number 81 in a list of the Top 100 albums of all time.[1]
- It appeared in Channel 4's list of the 100 Greatest Albums of all time.[2]
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Band (uncredited)
- Bobby Gillespie
- Andrew Innes
- Robert Young
- Martin Duffy
- Henry Olsen
- Phillip 'Toby' Tomanov
[edit] Guests
- Denise Johnson - lead vocals on track 3
- Jah Wobble - bass on track 10
[edit] Additional personnel
- Jimmy Miller, The Orb, Hypnotone, Andrew Weatherall, Hugo Nicholson - production
- Paul Anthony Taylor - programming
- Dave Burnham - engineering
- Jimmy Miller - mixing
The song "Movin on Up" was used on the previous Telewest Broadband commercials before Virgin Media bought them out. Subsequently Bacardi used the song on a UK television ad. "Movin on Up" was also featured on the popular game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" on fictional alternative radio station "Radio X"
[edit] References
- ^ Radiohead romp home in Q poll. BBC. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.
- ^ Channel4 - 100 Greates Albums. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.
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