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Primal Scream
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.9167
Primal Scream Album Rankings
1
There's no underestimating the importance ofScreamadelica, the record that brought acid house, techno, and rave culture crashing into the British mainstream -- an impact that rivaled that ofNirvana'sN
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2
Throughout the album, Primal Scream set a furious pace that only narrowly stops itself before the last note is spat out.
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3
Primal Scream found themselves in danger of losing their hip audience in the wake of their misconceived trad-rock record,Give Out but Don't Give Up.
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4
No great leaps of faith, no huge style shifts, just more of what we've come to love them for. But a bit more laid back and, erm, druggy? If that's at all possible.
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5
Primal Scream's first full-length remix album was produced by legendary UK Dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood, within months of the originalVanishing Pointtapes being completed.
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6
Primal Scream have never made up their minds about whether they want to be political-minded techno-indie-funk futurists or the Rolling Stones circa 1972.
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7
No-one, with the best will in the world, could take Primal Scream as seriously as they take themselves.
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8
Complaining about this album being an obvious photocopy of its influences is a bit like cursing the sky for being blue.
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9
The rock undercurrents that ran throughoutScreamadelicacome to the forefront on the tiredGive Out but Don't Give Up.
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14
Primal Scream's "Kowalski" single marked the return of Primal Scream as innovators, not imitators.
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15
Primal Scream's angry, vaguely political song from XTRMNTR appears in three forms on this U.K. single. Off the dancefloor, it might be too much a good thing.
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16
Primal Scream, in 1989, confounded their fans and foes alike by growing their hair past their shoulders, buying Marshall amps and turning them up to 11, and by showing an alarming tendency to appear
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17
Radical critiques of American foreign policy with a good beat that you can dance to are few and far between.
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