- Year of release
- 1991
- Global sales
- 3 million
- Genre
- Indie / Dance / Alternative
- Buy this album
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In which Bobby Gillespie and associates dispensed with the fey indie sound they had once pioneered, and instead concocted a thrilling halfway house between the rock swagger of The Rolling Stones and the groove-derived hedonism of the house music revolution.
Best tracks:
Movin' On Up
Don't Fight It, Feel It
Higher Than The Sun
Loaded
Top facts:
- Primal Scream originally grew out of schoolboy punk band The Drains; who would also count among their number future Creation Records head Alan McGee.
- It was McGee who was responsible for turning the initially sceptical band on to the promise of the new house movement.
- The album won the first ever Mercury Music Prize; beating Jesus & Mary Chain, Gillespie's one-time band, to the honour.
- Among the samples that appear on the album are part of a speech given by Jesse Jackson at the Wattstax concert in LA in 1972 (Come Together) and dialogue from Peter Fonda's character in the 1966 film The Wild Angels (Loaded).
- Guests on the album included bass guru Jah Wobble and The Orb, while there was production assistance from house legends Andrew Weatherall and Terry Farley.
If you like this, try:
The Shamen: Boss Drum
Sabres Of Paradise: Haunted Dancehall
Happy Mondays: Squirrel & G-Man 24 Hour Party...
The Orb: Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
One Dove: Morning Dove White
