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Primal Scream: Screamadelica

screamadelica

On September 23, 1991, “Creation Records” label released “Screamadelica”, the third Primal Scream studio album. It was recorded 1990 – 1991, and was produced by The Orb, Hypnotone, Andrew Weatherall, Hugo Nicolson and Jimmy Miller. In 1991, “Melody Maker” and “Select” magazines named “Screamadelica” “Album of the Year”; the album won the first “Mercury Music Prize” in 1992; in 2003,  “NME” magazine placed it at no. 23 in its list of the “100 Best Albums Ever”, and in  2006, the magazine placed it at number 15 in its list of the “Greatest British Albums Ever”; in 2000, “Q” magazine placed “Screamadelica” at number 18 on its list of the “100 Greatest British Albums, and in 2001, the magazine placed it at number 81 on its list of the “Top 100 Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Bobby Gillespie- lead vocals
  • Andrew Innes- guitar
  • Robert Young- guitar, lead vocals
  • Martin Duffy- keyboards, piano
  • Henry Olsen – bass, guitar solo
  • Phillip “Toby” Tomanov- drums, percussion
  • Denise Johnson – lead vocals
  • Jah Wobble– bass
  • Paul Anthony Taylor – programming
  • Dave Burnham – engineer
  • Jimmy Miller – mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, and Robert Young, except “Slip Inside This House” by Roky Erickson and Tommy Hall.

  1. Movin’ On Up
  2. Slip Inside This House
  3. Don’t Fight It, Feel It
  4. Higher Than the Sun
  5. Inner Flight
  6. Come Together
  7. Loaded
  8. Damaged
  9. I’m Coming Down
  10. Higher Than the Sun (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts)
  11. Shine Like Stars

Suede: Same

Suede

On March 29, 1993, “Nude Records” label released the debut self-titled Suede album. It was recorded 1992–1993, at “Master Rock Studios” in London, and was produced by Ed Buller. The album won the 1993 “Mercury Music Prize”.

Personnel:

  • Brett Anderson – vocals
  • Bernard Butler– guitar, piano
  • Ed Buller– synthesizer, arranger, keyboards, engineer
  • Mat Osman– bass guitar
  • Simon Gilbert– drums
  • Shelley Van Loen – violin
  • Lynne Baker – viola
  • Caroline Barnes – violin
  • Trevor Burley – cello
  • Simon Clarke – tenor and baritone saxophone
  • John Buller – horn arrangements
  • Gary Stout – engineer
  • Peter Barrett – design
  • Andrew Biscomb – design
  • Tee Corinne– cover photography
  • Pat Pope – photography
  • Pennie Smith– photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler.

  1. So Young
  2. Animal Nitrate
  3. She’s Not Dead
  4. Moving
  5. Pantomime Horse
  6. The Drowners
  7. Sleeping Pills
  8. Breakdown
  9. Metal Mickey
  10. Animal Lover
  11. The Next Life