Primal Scream Country Girl

[zenie]

I am loving this song at the moment.

Can't wait to hear the rest of their new stuff too

Anyone else?

Do we need a poll?

 

[trashpony]

Tis good.

We always need a poll

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Best single of the year so far, it fucking rocks

 

[Biddlybee]

Tis good.

We always need a poll

Trashy you're a poll addict

 

[zenie]

Best single of the year so far, it fucking rocks

Agreed

*Poll added*

 

[RaverDrew]

Didn't like it the first time I heard it, but it's a real grower and I love it now.

 

[trashpony]

Trashy you're a poll addict

It's the most benign of my addictions

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Yet to hear.

 

[zenie]

Yet to hear.

It's quite a different sound but I guarantee you'll like it.

 

[Flavour]

Let me be the first to say it's bollocks.

A different sound? What's different about it? Sounds the same as everything else on the radio

 

[Sweet FA]

I love Primal Scream - whether they're being hippy ravers, angry noiseniks or the Rolling Stones... Country Girl is them being the Stones again (see also Give Out But Don't Give Up) and it's ace.

I met that Gillespie at the Roses allnighter at Brixton Academy. 'You're brilliant' I said in my pilled up enthusiasm. 'Aye right enough' he replied drunkenly. I like to think we connected.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

It's quite a different sound but I guarantee you'll like it.

Cool - I'll be listening out for it.

That was one of PS's strengths in the past, to jump chameleon-like, with ease, from one genre to another, album by album - from jangle pop to stoner rock to house to dance to blues to ambient to industrial to electonica...

 

[zenie]

Let me be the first to say it's bollocks.

A different sound? What's different about it? Sounds the same as everything else on the radio

Different for Primal Scream I mean

 

[boing!]

Never really got into Primal Scream before but I am loving the new single. Had it stuck in my head all morning.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

It would be nice to see the gang back on track, 'cause I'd got the impression it had kind of fizzled out after that last album bombed, then the greatest hits...

Many parallels with Massive Attack over the years.

 

[Flavour]

And the Chemical brothers.

 

[Sweet FA]

Different for Primal Scream I mean

zenie- have you heard Give Out But Don't Give Up? I think you'll like it... It's got that same bluesy/stonesy thing going on...It's the one after Screamadelica, '94 I think.

 

[trashpony]

I love Primal Scream - whether they're being hippy ravers, angry noiseniks or the Rolling Stones... Country Girl is them being the Stones again (see also Give Out But Don't Give Up) and it's ace.

I met that Gillespie at the Roses allnighter at Brixton Academy. 'You're brilliant' I said in my pilled up enthusiasm. 'Aye right enough' he replied drunkenly. I like to think we connected.

He's married to my colleague's cousin. I'm trying to arrange an 'as if by accident' meeting

 

[saucisson]

Heard it about 2 weeks ago on radio (and again last night on xfm), said to the wife...well that the best thing they've done in 10 years...lets hope it goes to no1....sounds like 'brown sugar' though (and other assorted stones bits...what can a poor girl doooooo)...but nowt wrong with that.

 

[Sunspots]

He's married to my colleague's cousin.

An article in the most recent Observer mentioned 'when Gillespie marries Katy England'.

-Is Bobby about to commit bigamy!??

 

[Jambooboo]

It's good but I prefer dubby, ambienty, housey, electro-punky Primal Scream to Stonesey Primal Scream. Plus it's far too radio-friendly and I suspect I'm going to be very bored of it very soon.

 

[*Miss Daisy*]

He's married to my colleague's cousin. I'm trying to arrange an 'as if by accident' meeting

can you sneak me in your pocket when you do trashy? pleeeeease,,

I love primal scream,, Just found a listings of their new album in the hope that i can find it and download it,,
quite a useful primal scream site,,,

 

[Sunspots]

Against my better judgement, and despite all the (-entirely justified) criticism they receive, I've always been a bit of a fan of Primal Scream.

Bobby can't sing, can't dance, and seemingly can't stop himself from acting the dick as he tries far too hard to be shocking and rock'n'roll. Everything Primal Scream do is so blatantly a take on previous styles, and the way that they jump from one style to the next suggests that they still don't really have their own musical identity. IMO, a sizeable chunk of the credit deserves to go to whoever else they've got onboard at the time.

The new single sounds crap to me though. Obviously harking back to 'Give Out...', but the chorus particularly reminded me of another of their Stonesy tracks, 'Damaged' (-which I do love).

And much though I like Little Barrie, he's no replacement for Kevin Shields. Now he's gone, I don't suppose there'll be many more 'ACCLRTR's...

Primal Scream are rarely more than the sum of their record collections; but damn them, they do have excellent taste.