PRETTY POISON DISCOGRAPHY FULL
Much to the chagrin of the band’s dance audience, Primal Scream had pawned its samplers, gone to Memphis and given their libido full sway, producing what is essentially a fair-to-middling Black Crowes album. Three long and unproductive years after Screamadelica, out came Give Out but Don’t Give Up, bearing a neon Confederate flag on its front and a picture of late Funkadelic guitarist Eddie Hazel on its back - disproving the axiom that you can’t tell a book by its cover. A truly inspired fusion of pop, rock and dance, Screamadelica brought new respectability to the word “influences,” and even won the prestigious British Mercury Award.Įxpanded from a three-song British 12-inch, the American Come Together EP contains “I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have,” three mixes of “Loaded,” two of “Come Together” (a single previewing the third album) and a live version of “Ramblin’ Rose.” The Dixie Narco EP combines remixes with a bluesy ballad B-side the album spawned four additional British singles that are of remix-spotter interest only. Although the technicolor sound was basically masterminded by Weatherall and programmer Hugo Nicholson (apart from Gillespie, the actual band seems to appear on less than half of its own album), Primal Scream’s flagrant derivativeness works beautifully to its advantage in this format: MC5 quotes and guitar solos appear in the middle of tripped-out dance grooves, and the group spans three generations of British beat by collaborating with Jimmy Miller, Jah Wobble and the Orb on a single disc. Primal Scream found itself reborn as an avatar of pop/ambient/house. “Loaded” primed the works for the dazzling Screamadelica, a dance album with a rock album’s accessibility. Letting DJ friend Andrew Weatherall (who’d never been in a recording studio before) have a go at remixing “I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have,” a track from Primal Scream, he chopped out most of the original song, threw in a groove and loads of samples (including Peter Fonda dialogue from The Wild Angels) and emerged with the awesome “Loaded.”
Primal Scream seized the moment brilliantly - if inadvertently. The latter version won out, but the album is so Swinging London-’60s-Stones-obsessed there’s even a song entitled “Aftermath.” For Primal Scream, the band squeezed into leather gear and fast-forwarded to 1969 the album is so Detroit-obsessed that there’s even a song called “Gimme Gimme Teenage Head.” But the record did lead to something completely different…Īs psychedelic drugs (re)conquered England, the C86 crowd began infiltrating the burgeoning rave scene, and the bowl haircuts and Rickenbackers were replaced by baggy pants and sampling equipment practically overnight. Sonic Flower Groove was recorded twice (first with Smiths producer Stephen Street, then with Red Krayola kingpin Mayo Thompson). The first two albums parade the group’s influences so obviously that it’s hard to spot an original thought. It took several years and wardrobe changes for Primal Scream to equal that moment. The brightest light of the Primals’ early days is the oft-compiled B-side “Velocity Girl,” a 90-second blast of densely echoed Rickenbacker bliss that is a defining moment of Britain’s short-lived C86/anorak pop era. The group released a pair of singles on Creation over the next two years, but took a back seat to Gillespie’s other career until he left the Reids’ employ in early ’86. Pretty Poison had several more dance chart entries, the most recent being a new version of "Catch Me (I'm Falling)" which hit number 43 in 1998.įebruary 2009 saw the release of new song "Finga Lickin' Good" on iTunes.Glasgow’s Primal Scream made its public debut in October ’84, the show at which vocalist/superfan Bobby Gillespie also made his first appearance as the Jesus and Mary Chain’s style-over-competence drummer. Pretty Poison opened for The Clockmen in May 1986 at Drexel University's Battle of the Bands. A re-recorded version of Nighttime in 1988 became their second Hot 100 hit, climbing to number 36. The B-side contained a shorter Spanish mix vocal. The song also went to number 1 on the dance chart. Billboard Hot 100 hit, peaking at number 8.
PRETTY POISON DISCOGRAPHY MOVIE
In 1987, their song " Catch Me (I'm Falling)" was featured in the Jon Cryer movie Hiding Out, and with heavy MTV exposure, it became a top 10 U.S. "Nighttime" was released on the Svengali label. They charted for the first time in 1984 with the song "Nighttime", which hit number 14 on the U.S.
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