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Glasgow, United Kingdom (1982 – present)

Primal Scream are an band from Glasgow, Scotland, originally formed in 1982 by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie. The current lineup include Bobby Gillespie (vocals; former The Wake bassist and The Jesus & Mary Chain drummer), Andrew Innes (guitars), Barrie Cadogan (guitars), Martin Duffy (keyboards; former Felt keyboardist) and Darrin Mooney (drums). Other important members were Robert “Throb” Young (guitars from 1985 to 2006) and Gary “Mani” Mounfield (bass from 1996 to 2011; current The Stone Roses bassist). The band is renowned for the frequent change of music style, from , , to with influences.

The band released nine studio albums so far: the indie pop Sonic Flower Groove (1987), the indie rock Primal Scream (1989), the alternative rock/acid house Screamadelica (1991), the classic rock Give Out But Don’t Give Up (1994), the alternative rock/electronic Vanishing Point (1997), the alternative rock/industrial rock XTRMNTR (2000) and Evil Heat (2002), the classic rock Riot City Blues (2006) and the alternative rock Beautiful Future (2008).

They also released the compilation albums Echo Dek (1997), Dirty Hits (2003) and Shoot Speed (More Dirty Hits) (2004), the live albums Live in Japan (2003) and Screamadelica - Live (2011).

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  • Kallian_arcadia

    'Kill All Hippies' only number 14? quite surprised. Ah 'Screamadelica' stuff up there no surprise.

    Sunday morning

  • GougeAway84

    Disappointing there's little love for Vanishing Point...and how can anyone mix up The Scream with Massive Attack??

    22 days ago

  • pitrafilla

    temazoooooooooo.......

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  • Isabel94

    @ matt_white, I just had the exact same thing. I searched for Primal Scream in iTunes and was like why the hell isn't Teardrop in the list of their songs?

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  • matt_white

    why do I get this band confused with Massive Attack

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  • thaynalmeida

    Beautiful Summer <3

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  • chikamen

    KILL ALL HIPPIES!!

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  • coconutcreme

    liquidsheep: sonic flower groove is my favorite primal scream album. i love the others as well but it's my #1

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  • leeisfreee

    Kevin Shields was on the Evil Heat album too in case you didn't know.

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  • timahall

    LiquidSheep - I'm the same. I only like their janglepop period.

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  • Sandman2527

    Shields is gonna be on the new album? Nice.

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  • XMD5a8000

    KEVIN SHIELDS IS GONNA BE ON THE NEW RECORD FUCKING HELL YES!

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  • Post-GearsofRab

    I always loved Movin' On Up, I finally checked out the album it's on, and man, it's definitely not what I expected!

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  • mkordi

    screamadelica rules <3 [2]

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  • LiquidSheep

    I'm curious: are there other people around here who think Sonic Flower Groove was a masterpiece compared to their other records? I absolutely love that album, but I'm not a fan of their other work.

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  • Wiracocha

    Amazing stuff!

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  • missy_aggro

    hogmanay gig was amazing!!

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  • justboy2

    loaded ♥

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  • JuliusNepos

    who tagged this as britpop?

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  • alin1

    "The band, who released their last album, 'Beautiful Future', in 2008, have said that the new album has been heavily influenced by their 1991 album 'Screamadelica' which they toured throughout 2011. Of their forthcoming 10th album, frontman Gillespie told Q magazine that it is sounding "like "a psychedelic record" and is also "based around one chord."" Source: http://www.nme.com/news/primal-scream/61221

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