Primal Scream - Riot City Blues
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Artist: Primal ScreamEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Country Girl
- Nitty Gritty
- Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
- When The Bomb Drops
- Little Death
- The 99th Floor
- We're Gonna Boogie
- Dolls (Sweet Rock And Roll)
- Hell's Comin' Down
- Sometimes I Feel So Lonely
- Stone Ya To The Bone
- Gimme Some Truth
- Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar (Live At XFM)
Music reviews of Riot City Blues
Music Review: Under-appreciated
Rating: 5 Stars
The negatives that dog this band always amaze me. (See the 'official' Amazon review on this page, for an example.) Anything but the most casual listen would confirm that Primal Scream are without doubt THE hottest, most butt-kicking rock band in the world today. And Riot City Blues is possibly their strongest effort to date.
Perception is everything. Some people still think PS sold out when they stopped being punk. Or that they were too laid-back in their Screamadelica psychedelic period. Or that they cloned the Stones with Give Out But Don't Give Up. Cloned??? They made those aging gasbags look like the pathetic has-beens they really are. The Stones only WISH they could sound this fresh, hot and downright clever.
When it comes to Riot City Blues, many listeners will be deceived by the extra-loud heavy-metal sound. But just stop and read through all the lyrics. These are amazingly intelligent songs. Some, like the deceptively bouncy Country Girl and the more overt 99th Floor tend towards the cynical. But this isn't just nihilism; it's intelligent comment. Poetry, even. And always redeemed by incredibly soulful singing from Gillespie and infectiously melodic composition. Not to mention a deep-down integrity; these guys are singing to please themselves, not to net a bigger paycheck, or to please some music-industry dweeb.
If I had to list the most important albums of the 21st Century so far, Riot City Blues would be very high on the list. And if I were listing the most important bands (not to mention the most under-appreciated by snooty, pretentious critics, who can't really remember what rock 'n' roll was all about), Primal Scream would be a strong contender for top spot.
Description of Riot City Blues
Limited edition Japanese only tour edition includes three bonus tracks on the audio disc along with a bonus DVD (NTSC/Region 2) that features the censored and uncensored video to 'Country Girl' and the video to their second single, 'Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll'). Sony. 2006. * Please note you will need an All Code DVD player to view.In 1994, Primal Scream took all the momentum behind its era-defining 1991 masterpiece, Screamadelica, and pissed it away with an addled disc of secondhand Stones riffs called Give Out But Don't Give Up. It was a career disaster that still gets the British band plenty of ink on worst-of lists, which makes it all the more insane that the group would want to revisit the scene on Riot City Blues. Working with guests such as the Kills' Alison Mosshart, the Bad Seeds' Warren Ellis and Echo & the Bunnymen's Will Seargeant, Primal Scream turns a blind eye to the mind-melting electronics of its most recent releases, Xtrmntr and Evil Heat, and instead settles into a laughable retro-rock groove highlighted by cliché-ridden songs such as "Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar," "Nitty Gritty" and "We're Gonna Boogie." The good news is that the album is not a complete disaster. The ridiculous lyrics and honking harmonicas will admittedly find good homes on innumerable roadhouse jukeboxes. --Aidin Vaziri
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