Primal Scream - Shoot Speed (more dirty hits)

My love affair with primal scream has been well documented. For a long time they were my favourite band. I've seen them live 8 times (at least) and I used to obsessionally buy their records.

I like them because
1) They have made some great music (I know some of it sucks though)
2) They are a great live band
3) They come from Glasgow
4) They have kept Mani and Kevin Shields off the dole
5) They are nuts
6) They have widened the boundaries of pharamceutical science with the amount of drugs they have taken. I know taking drugs isn't big and it isn't clever and it is dangerous. I don't take drugs and I hardly even drink alcohol now. It will kill you. But primal scream have turned drug abuse into an event at the comedy olympics.
7) Bobby was in the Mary Chain

This CD came out in Japan a couple of years ago. I bought it on import via amazon. It is just class. The more widly available Dirty Hits album was a bit of a let down for me. It had edited versions of classic songs that I had heard a million times before.

Shoot speed is an album for geeks and trainspotters. An album for people like me.

It highlights the screams' jangly side with classics like velocity girl and all fall down. It has the original non-album version of come together where bobby delivers some lovey-dovey drug nonsence lyrics. I love this version. It has a cover of the JAMC classic Darklands and 'so sad about us' by the Who.

Jesus is a great lost song. It was originally the b-side to star (also on this album) and is an almost perfect photocopy of the opiod-haze of the 3rd velvet underground album. The stone roses would just have been a smelly goth band in manchester if they hadn't ripped off velocity girl for made of stone and most of their first album.

This CD is the secret history of a great band that many people don't appreciate.

9 and a 1/4 out of 10. worth the 20quid I paid for it.

Dr. Phunk BSc (hons) MBChB