Riot City Blues [Enhanced]

Primal Scream | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000GRTQXY
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,919 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Country Girl

2. Nitty Gritty

3. Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar

4. When the Bomb Drops

5. Little Death

6. The 99th Floor

7. We're Gonna Boogie

8. Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)

9. Hell's Comin' Down

10. Sometimes I Feel So Lonely

11. Stone Ya to the Bone [*]

12. Gimme Some Truth [*]

13. Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar [Live][*]

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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

Product Description

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. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Their Best, But Pretty Good, August 22, 2006

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svgtom (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Riot City Blues (Audio CD)

Fans seem to be split on this album. Overall I really like it. I wouldn't call it a throwback to earlier Primal Scream albums but it's definitely got that flavor. If you like the first single, Country Girl, then you'll probably like the rest of the album.

One thing that should be noted is that the Bonus Tracks listed on Amazon and the CD itself are incorrect. The actual tracks are Gimme Some Truth, Country Girl (live), and Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar (live). Stone Ya To The Bone is not on the album.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Give Out... But Never Ever Give Up!, August 1, 2006

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Anthony Vasquez (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Riot City Blues (Audio CD)

the scream is a bizarre creature. a Byrds-esque band that reinvented itself as dance acid-house (practically creating the genre with Screamadelica), then nearly ruined their careers after trying out the Rolling Stones - bare bones, rock 'n roll thing with Give Out. then of course they rebounded with the tripped out Vanishing Point, and the skull-crushing club monsterpiece XTRMNTR.

now they're trying the Rolling Stones thing again. are the results different? yes, mainly this disc is much more raw, and less produced than it's glossy predecessor. also, the songs are more focused, and less jangly - thanks to producer Youth, of Killing Joke fame. but at the same time they still manage to crossover into their acid-dub ways with "little death", a hornier version of XTRMNTR's "keep your dreams". "suicide sally" must be an amazing experience live, if it's as good as they played on zane lowe's bbc show. and the album closes with the true stunner, "sometimes i feel so lonely". think Death In Vegas' "23 Lies" as done by Lee Hazlewood.

the scream have proved they can pull of just about anything. so what's next?

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome album!, April 17, 2007

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J. floyd (pac nw) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Riot City Blues (Audio CD)

I've been waiting for Primal Scream to make an album like Riot City Blues and they finally did it. They tried couple of times before with their second self-titled cd and Give Out But Don't Give Up cd but couldn't pull it off with consistency. I wish Riot City Blues was a double album though because the songs are so good. I think every song on this cd is great. It's just a fun cd to listen to and these guys can really play their instruments. This album is a mixture of the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Country music, Glam rock, pyschedelic, etc. Unfortunantely, Primal Scream is so good at making futuristic, electronic, intense garage-rock that most fans love(including me) that they might not like this style of music; but they just need to accept these songs for what they are because they are amazing. I hope the boys continue in making this style of music but knowing them, they're going to go back to making XTRMNTR and Evil Heat type of songs to please their fans. I urge Primal Scream to continue on making all kinds of music for music sake, not to sell cds but the music business is all about money so we will have to wait and see. No matter what though, Primal Scream will always be one of my favorite bands and it's too bad they are not popular in the U.S. because they are truly amazing and I just love their rebel image.