Screamadelica |
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Released: September 23, 1991 Peak: -- US, 8 UK, -- CN, -- AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.68 UK Genre: alternative rock/electronica/acid house |
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All songs written by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, and Robert Young unless noted otherwise. Total Running Time: 62:31 The Players:
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Rating: 4.145 out of 5.00 (average of 21 ratings)
Quotable:“The record that brought acid house, techno, and rave culture crashing into the British mainstream” – Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic.comAwards:(Click on award to learn more).
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About the Album:Through two albums Primal Scream had been “jangle pop exponents” CM and “Stonesy classic rock revivalists with a penchant for Detroit rock.” AM However, on Screamadelica, their “amphetamine-driven album,” RV Primal Scream “brought acid house, techno, and rave culture crashing into the British mainstream.” AM“While such bands as the Happy Mondays and Stone Roses had been taking cues from club culture for a while, Screamadelica tore down the barriers” RD by “turning rock inside out by marrying it to a gleeful rainbow of modern dance textures” AM to create an album that was “dubtastic, elastic, psychedelic exercise in deep house and neo-psychedelic.” AM “Musicians who use drugs as their muse often produce albums with mixed results. Primal Scream took ecstasy while making Screamadelica and broke the trend of drug-induced mediocrity by turning out one of the epochal efforts in ‘90s music.” RV “The songs were an invocation to a chemical generation.” CM “This is such a brilliant, gutsy innovative record, so unlike anything the Scream did before, that it’s little wonder that there’s been much debate behind who is actually responsible for its grooves.” AM The album featured four different producers. “Hypnotone helped whip 13th Floor Elevators’ Slip Inside This House into a snarling, bass-driven beast.” RD The Orb “crafted the mind-blowing alien dub transmission of Higher Than the Sun.” RD “the arrangement’s spectral breakdown and reverent swell is gorgeously otherworldly.” CM Jimmy Miller, who had worked with the Rolling Stones, produced Damaged and Movin’ on Up. The former is a “tender country-rock” CM song that “could have been an outtake from an early ‘70s Rolling Stones session” CM while the latter “is an uplifting song of happiness filled with acoustic guitars and a gospel choir. The lyrics, ‘I’m movin’ through the darkness / My love shines on,’ are a celebration of life.” RV However, it is Andrew Weatherall who handles the lion’s share of production duties. The band originally turned to the DJ in 1990 to remix their song “I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have” RD from Primal Scream’s second album. “Adding a new drum beat, dub bass, a soulful vocal sample, and some fresh guitar lines, Weatherall created Loaded…, a single that would not only earn Primal Scream its first UK hit but also bridge the gap between rock and dance audiences.” TB “Singer Bobby Gillespie asks, ‘Just what is it that you want to do?’ before an orchestra comes in to make the listener part of a euphonious party that vastly inspired '90s pop.” RV “The glorious gospel-house of Come Together…formed the backbone of 1991’s astonishing voyage into modern psychedelia.” RD The group reached “joyous bliss on the likes of the seven-minute Don’t Fight It, Feel It, where Denise Johnson takes the lead vocal from Gillespie, and sings of getting high and dancing all night long.” CM While “the producers can claim much of the credit for the music” RD and Weatherall is the one most often attributed with the band’s new sound, “it was Primal Scream who had the vision to demonstrate that dance music could exist alongside rock.” RD “Like any dance music, this is tied to its era to a certain extent, but it transcends it due to its fierce imagination and how it doubles back on rock history, making the past present and vice versa. It was such a monumental step forward that Primal Scream stumbled before regaining their footing, but by that point, the innovations of Screamadelica had been absorbed by everyone from the underground to mainstream.” AM “There’s little chance that this record will be as revolutionary to first-time listeners, but after its initial spin, the genius in its construction will become apparent — and it’s that attention to detail that makes Screamadelica an album that transcends its time and influence.” AM Notes:A 20th anniversary edition of the album included the Dixie-Narco EP, various singles mixes, and a concert performance form the Hollywood Palladium. |
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First posted 3/28/2008; last updated 8/28/2026. |
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