Primal Scream - "Primal Scream Live In Japan"

If you haven’t seen this band live, you’re missing out on one of the best live shows around today. Hopefully this doesn't come off as bragging... I feel extremely lucky to have spent two and a half weeks on tour with “The Scream” witnessing this “rock n’ roll-rave”, party their way across the United Kingdom last year in honor of their “Dirty Hits” album (which is a greatest hits of sorts). Considering the legendary rock alumni on the tour (Mani from The Stone Roses on bass, Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine on guitar, Bobby Gillespie who played drums on The Jesus And Mary Chain’s “Psychocandy” on the mic, and the rest of Primal Scream), the over abundance of free flowing class A drugs we all used to destroy and open our minds with, not to mention all the weed and alcohol put in front of us, their blinding techno light show (that’ll either make you wanna dance or have a seizure), hearing these songs every night and the excitement one gets from being around all the previously stated… I think it’s safe to say I was never the same after that little vacation. This Primal Scream Live In Japan cd is one of the souvenirs I brought home with me and it’s the closest thing I’ve found to recreating that tour (and you won't even get brain damage from it). This baby only came out in Japan (so it’s gonna carry a high price tag around $25) and was mixed by Kevin Shields so you know it sounds siiiick. They play a pretty good cross section of tracks selected from their numerous full lengths and even tackle the Johnny Thunders song “Born To Lose”. Here’s three of my favorite songs from it. This version of “Shoot Speed/Kill Light” is different than the live version you can find on “Buddyhead Presents: Gimme Skelter”. So check that out too if you're digging on these.

(Download – “Accelerator” live)
(Download – “Shoot Speed/Kill Light" live)
(Download – “Movin' On Up” live)

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Comments

[erik]

I've always heard good things about this band, so I'm am download some and see what the craze is all about. Excuse me, I am not up to date on my Primal Scream, and for that my ears are sorry.

[r]

any band that does smack and fucks underage girls while touring w/ depeche mode is OK with me.

[Matthew C.]

"tokyo is a high energy city, primal scream is a high energy band, together we took the fukin' roof off the place, you shoulda been there."

[jeff]

i wonder if they ever played "come together" at any of those shows

[Ryan]

Is this that band with the rebel flag on one of their album covers? Fuck that.

[King Kerching]

This web blog gets better everytime Keller rips a track from his library.
I also too am fortunate to have seen PRML SCRM live, during the 3 best albums, Vanishing Point, Exterminator and Evil Heat. Fucking hell those titles all together are like the names of 70s psychadelic slasher road movies.

[Paul]

Check out the book "the myths and misbehavior of Primal Scream" by Kris Needs to learn more about one of the greatest bands to ever grace the planet. For some reason their records don't sell at all in America so they'll probably never tour here again. Also check out Two Lone Swordsmen, it's a band featuring Andy Weatherall who programs a lot of the Scream's electronic sounds

[Andy The Panda]

This record sounds great! I still like the version on Gimme Skelter better but this version of SHOOT SPEED is good too... prolly one of the best songs ever.

[kucera]

cmon cmon...hit the accelerator hit the accelerator! hey travis remember to post some songs off the junior kimbrough tribute.

[Johnson]

Ugh, I really was disappointed when I finally heard this band. This sounds like the shit those granola kids in my high school would listen to. Next please...

[Andy The Panda]

huh? granola? Accelerator sounds like a techno stooges to me.. it's dirty and hard... are we talking about the same band?

[king ink]

hey travis, you sent me this record over AIM like a year ago in exchange for a live spacemen 3 recording. man i've been listening to this ever since. autobahn66 and shoot speed/kill light are my personal faves off this one. what was kevin shields' role with this? did he mix it or play on it or what? killer record man.

ps-you should post some stuff off of suede's first album. people need to be hipped to them.

[Travis K]

Yeah they played Come Together.. but it's not on this cd... I think that's what you were asking...

What are granola kids?

And Kevin Shields played guitar on it.. (i.e. made noises) and mixed it.

[mendo]

Primal Scream have been ruined for me by the amount of times i heard that song about getting your rocks off when i was a small child and hearing middle aged neighbour women singing along to it on the radio, I'm sure they're good but that just ruined it for me even though the band is full of bona fide legends. My respect for Mani is particularly high after him coming up and talking to one of my friends at a club one night so high that he thought he'd came their that night with my friend and was asking if they were going to a party afterwards even though my friend had never met him before or even talked to him earlier on that night.

[Ryan]

I'm not supporting a group with a fuckin' rebel flag on their album cover. Isn't anyone else with me dammit? What's wrong with you fuckers?

[Andy The Panda]

uhhh... well then don't support em man... big loss. maybe start with not posting on this primal scream post smart guy.

[miguel]

quite funny, boys. Now you're onto Class-A drugs, and all rock'n roll; it wasn't like that when you came across town, lil' kids.... Thanks for the laughter, but please, go any further from beginners level.

[Kev Kharas]

Confused by the granola reference, but waving at the 'get your rocks off' nod...fuckin' Virgin radio. This, however, blows it outta the water. Shields is the guv'nor.

[King Kerching]

Who the fuck is king ink?

Hipped onto suede? Please ignore Travis.

Also i think the Rebel flag is hinting towards the albums title "Give out but never give" an almost rebe title. Nuffink to do with whatever u Americans got up to back in the day.

[king kerching]

ignore the missing bits... just fin work.

[Jason]

Seriously, what the fuck is a granola kid?

[jesusbar]

"Seriously, what the fuck is a granola kid". For all of you who ask this, it is quite obvious, it means hippie. How hard was that?. Fucking christ o' mighty

[Andy The Panda]

my favorite primal scream song is "KILL ALL HIPPIES"

[Tim]

I have a rad shirt with that emblazoned on the back. By the way, the stooges' junior kimbrough covers are pretty awesome. It's refreshing after the shitstorm of skull ring.

Another aside, my ex-girlfriend's dad really liked skull ring, and he was down with the stooges back before it was iggy and.... Maybe you have to be as old and out of touch as iggy is to like that shit. I heard he likes slipknot. I hate reading stuff like that.

[dirk danger]

REBEL FLAG! who cares! they used it as americana symbolism.. it was rather pastiche too since it was a neon light rebel flag. It's just an extension of their Rolling Stones obsession on that album which in turn is Rolling Stones obsessing with the American south in their years. Not that big of a deal.. if it's glorifying the confederacy that's one thing, but nothing else in the art says that. So I don't think you need to get your knickers all riled up over that album cover.

[Ryan]

OK, I guess that makes more sense. But like out of everything in the world they coulda put on the album cover, they picked that? The band might make good music, but I think it was a poor choice. It's like when people try to promote that flag because it stands for 'heritage' or 'history' or whatever. I don't buy into that. I think it's a slap in the face.

[Andy The Panda]

hey geek.... get over it. That's their worst record. Check out the others.

[J]

Man, people gripe about that cover. People come to my house, and if they see that c.d. they are always,"What the fuck?" about it. The Scream's buddy Irvine Welsh said, "You can't assume every white who lives south of the Mason-Dixie line is a racist, that's unfair. America is a racist country, so is Great Britain... We used the image because it's a beautiful picture." and wasn't he at least nominated for a best screenplay Oscar or some shit. That's close to a Nobel Prize right? So, now shut up and just rock out to the sick ass tunes.

[Ryan]

Why don't you suck my nuts, GEEK. Yeah, I'm a badass on the internet!

[Andy The Panda]

Yeah whatever geek. Go eat some vegan food.

[Ryan]

I don't get it, is vegan geeky? I think it's kinda cool. Ed Templeton's vegan.

[Andy The Panda]

Yes it's geeky to eat gerbil food. Who's Ed Templeton?

[esther]

thank you thank you thank you

[king kerching]

Hey shut up about that cover. I cant believe your worked up about it. Smoke someones pink peace pipe n chill.

What I wanna know is!!!!!!!!! What the fuck is going on with the download speed on this site??????????

[Ryan]

OK, I just think it's kind of a turn off and somewhat disrespectful, maybe I'm wrong. Google Ed Templeton if you want. But yeah, the download speed is slow as balls. Some1 fix it please.

[shelbot]

"Why don't you suck my nuts, GEEK. Yeah, I'm a badass on the internet!

Posted by: Ryan | May 10, 2005 10:45 PM

Yeah whatever geek. Go eat some vegan food.

Posted by: Andy The Panda | May 10, 2005 10:58 PM

I don't get it, is vegan geeky? I think it's kinda cool. Ed Templeton's vegan.

Posted by: Ryan | May 10, 2005 11:06 PM

Yes it's geeky to eat gerbil food. Who's Ed Templeton?

Posted by: Andy The Panda | May 10, 2005 11:10 PM"

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Holy crap.. that was REALLY funny.. you guys need a TV show or a radio show together... hahahahahahahahhaha... wow!!!!!!!

I think "yeah i'm a badass on the internet" and "gerbil food" has completely made my day!

[Andy The Panda]

Skateboarding? You fucking jock!

[Travis Keller]

The download speed is slow cuz there's like 100 kids downloading this shit at once... it's not really fixable.

Click on those banners some more please...

Wow, you kids like to fight...

[Oliver]

Wasn't that picture of the flag taken by a black guy? Yes, it was.

[Ryan]

OKOK, I'm over the album cover. Geezus. Ed isn't really a jock, he's an arteest as well. My deluxe editions of Faith and Pornography by the cure might be here tomorrow, I'm pumped. I'm really impressed with the amount of updates to this site lately. Is shelbot the person that posts music sometimes on here?

[Michael]

Travis

Maybe no one clicks on the banners cuz "truth" organization and victory records such a mean dick... Just a thought.
Don't you know people in high places that wanna have their banners on here other than some anti-smoking campaign and quite possibly the worst record label in existence. I'm just sayin, if you want people to click on the banners without having to tell them to do so, maybe there should be better banners?

Oh, anyone heard the new need new body? it's sicky gnar gnar...

[kucera]

im pretty sure that shelbot is shelby cinca...frodus anyone? anyway i think dude plays or played in decahedron and black sea with joe lally...fugazi anyone?

[kucera]

and travis is on the brink of sobriety so thats why theres a lot of posts...plus him and company like music and sharing it with the masses. its not that confusing.

and why whine about the banners, no one is forcing you to click on em are they? get a hobby.

[mendo]

I've got tremendous rates here, you just have to pick unsociable/foreign hours. To jump on the bitch bandwagon I wanna request some sort of black man music, with the hollering and booty bass, or some heavy bass like Aphex or what not, surely the 'head is down with some of that shit?

[Travis Keller]

"Maybe no one clicks on the banners cuz "truth" organization and victory records such a mean dick... Just a thought.
Don't you know people in high places that wanna have their banners on here other than some anti-smoking campaign and quite possibly the worst record label in existence. I'm just sayin, if you want people to click on the banners without having to tell them to do so, maybe there should be better banners?"

Hey Michael, Better banners? Money's money to me. As long as it's green man. Here's the deal, if you want this site to stay free... click on em you little bitch... more so the ones on the right side of the page. thanks.
Travis

[MIchael]

keep it in your pants buddy, it was just a suggestion. Get a hobby? How about i start getting tough on the internet like you?

[Michael]

I do click on the banners cuz i like this site, it just seems like you're asking people to click them cuz no one is. That's why i made the suggestion, sorry if it came off shitty.

[shelbot]

I play in Decahedron.. was in Frodus... Travis has a funny joke about Frodus.

[Michael]

Is it the joke about how you signed to a christian label?

Just kidding, let's hear it.

[Travis Keller]

Ok here's the joke...

Do you like Frodus?

[stephen]

Yes, I like Frodus.

[Travis Keller]

How about I Frodus dick in your mouth?

[Ryan]

Hahaha! That's pretty good. http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?style=music&pid=6870062&cart=247226264
Travis has wood now.

[kucera]

haha. travis didnt you or aaron use that joke in the frodus interview you did a few years back? shit is still priceless.

[Craig]

What's with the ungrateful, whiny ass complainers???

It's cool free music? Shut up click on the banners and say thanks!

Offended by the cover of Give Out But Don't Give Up??? Ridiculous!

Flip the cover over and dig into the Eddie Hazel pic on the back...One of the most underated guitarists of all time!

Keep the good shit flowing on the site...My itunes library is forever grateful!

[Ryan]

I agree man. It makes me nervous when people bitch on here. I'm afraid they'll just quit posting new songs because people are being dumbass dicks.

[Darryl]

Ryan, you're a douche. There's nothing wrong with the Confederate flag. 9/10 Confederate soldiers were too poor to own slaves, and were defending their homeland from the raping and pillaging. But then again, my root's are in Appalachia so I might be biased. But whatever...

You'll probally cry when you find out they have a song called 'Swastika Eyes.'

[Ryan]

fuck u pussy, nice name. No, I won't be buying primal scream shit.

[Darryl]

Thanks Ryan.

Actually, I should be thanking Travis. This live shit sounds alot better then their counterparts on "Dirty Hits."

Should've sent me that shit instead, then again, I should'nt have disapeared. But whatever.

[Mitch Weintmanberg]

Please post more Primal Scream Travis... this shit is great! And from the looks of things very popular with everyone else too.