Primal Scream Screamadelica double vinyl LP 1991

	£		29
	$		38

LP surface fine, folder has very minimal surface wear. CRELP 076 1991

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 is 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. The single "Movin' on Up" was the band's breakthrough hit in the United States, reaching #2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and also making #28 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

[edit] Album cover

The album cover for Screamadelica was painted by Creation Records' in-house artist Paul Cannell, who died in 2005.[5] Screamadelica was among ten album covers chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of "Classic Album Cover" postage stamps issued in January 2010.[6][7]

[edit] Musicology and samples

• "Movin' On Up" opens the album in C major and is similar in style to the Rolling Stones. The song features Bobby Gillespie's vocals in the verse section with a gospel chorus, accompanied throughout by acoustic guitar, electric guitar and percussion. The song borrows from the lyrics to Can's "Yoo Doo Right". The lyrics are similar to those of Amazing Grace.
• "Slip Inside This House" is a version of a 1967 song by the 13th Floor Elevators. Primal Scream's version features Sly Stone's laugh from the end of the song "Sex Machine" (from the 1969 album Stand!) and the Amen break.
• "Don't Fight It, Feel It", in the Italo house style, with vocals by Denise Johnson.
• "Higher Than the Sun" uses a sample from "Wah Wah Man" by the Young-Holt Unlimited Trio. It also has a recurring spoken word sample from "Get Away Jordan" by Take 6.
• "Inner Flight" samples the closing sound on Brian Eno's "The Great Pretender" from the album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy).
• "Loaded", in E major, features lines spoken by Peter Fonda's character in the 1966 movie The Wild Angels, as well as a drum loop from an Italian bootleg mix of Edie Brickell's "What I Am". There are brass pedal notes between the sections with vocals. It is a remix of Primal Scream's own "I'm Losing More than I'll Ever Have", off their second album 'Primal Scream'
• "Damaged", in contrast to the previous track, has a slower tempo and more reflective mood. Sparse percussion, acoustic guitar and piano accompany quiet vocals.
• "Come Together" is the longest track on the album. On the UK version, the track opens with part of a speech given by Jesse Jackson at the Wattstax concert held in Los Angeles in 1972. About half-way through the track, a repeated female vocal line "Come... together as one" kicks in and repeats for the rest of the track.

[edit] Critical reception

Screamadelica has received widespread acclaim, frequently appearing in critics' lists and audience polls. Allmusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine called Screamadelica "an album that transcends its time and influence."[8] Pitchfork Media praised the album on their 2003 list of the "Top 100 albums of the '90s," saying: "Screamadelica's atmospheric and imaginative hybrid of past, present and future captured its moment in vivid color and splendor, and it still radiates with a kaleidoscopic glow."[11] In a 2009 review, the BBC hailed the album as "a solid gold classic."[9]

• It won the first Mercury Music Prize in 1992.
• It was Melody Maker's album of the year in 1991.[12]
• It was Select's album of the year in 1991.[13]
• In 1996, Select named it as the #1 album of the 1990s.
• NME placed it at no. 3 in its "Best Albums of 1991" list.[14]
• In 2003, NME placed it at no. 23 in its "100 Best Albums Ever" list.[15] In 2006, the magazine also placed it at no. 15 in its "Greatest British Albums Ever" list.[16]
• In 2000, Q placed the album at #18 on their list of the "100 Greatest British Albums."[17] In 2001, Q placed it at #81 on a list of the "Top 100 Albums of All Time."[18] The album ranked #2 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime" list.[19]
• In 2003, Pitchfork Media placed it at #77 in a list of the "Top 100 Albums of the '90s."[11]
• It appeared in Channel 4's list of the "100 Greatest Albums of All Time."[20]

"Movin' on Up" was used on the previous Telewest Broadband commercials before Virgin Media bought them out. Subsequently, Bacardi spirits used the song on a UK television ad. The song was also featured in the popular game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on fictional alternative radio station Radio X. A Northern soul version was also recorded by the late Edwin Starr for the cult British surfing film Blue Juice.

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