XTRMNTR
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Primal Scream's XTRMNTR is one of the most intense and innovative politically charged musical diatribes since the MC5's 1969 debut. Approaching electronic, funk, and alt-punk-based sounds with equal ferocity, this is arguably the band's finest record yet. The over-the-top brilliance of "MBV Arkestra" (a seven-minute, Kevin Shields-saturated noise fest) alone cannot be exaggerated. Really! --Mike McGonigal --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Amazon.com
Seldom is a band's sixth album their best, and Exterminator is nothing less than a radical new dawn. Only a few years before, Primal Scream seemed spent--a drug-addled joke, numbing the pain with the idle comfort of rock & roll cliché. Exterminator is their baptism by fire. An album with a righteous social conscience, it rages against apathy and injustice with all the funk-fueled indignation of Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On. Musically, Exterminator is bound by a... read more --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Album Description
Seventh album from British indie-rock band. Featuringcontri butions from Brendan Lynch, David Holmes and Kevin Shields p lus a remix of 'Swastika Eyes' from the Chemical Brothers. 2000 release. Standard jewel case. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
XTRMNTR
Average customer rating:
- I'm seven years behind my time
- Don't Catagorize
- A Superb Record.
- Aggressive, Danceable Punk
- They scream again (but now a lot louder)
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XTRMNTR
Primal Scream
Manufacturer: Astralwerks
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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British Alternative
| Alternative Rock
| Indie Music
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Similar Items:
- Screamadelica
- Vanishing Point
- Give Out But Don't Give Up
- Evil Heat (with Bonus DVD)
- Riot City Blues
ASIN: B00004SZG2
Release Date: 2000-05-02 |
Tracks:
- Kill All Hippies
- Accelerator
- Exterminator
- Swastika Eyes
- Pills
- Blood Money
- Keep Your Dreams
- Insect Royalty
- MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill 'Em)
- Swastika Eyes (Chemical Brother's Remix)
- Shoot Speed/Kill Light
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Primal Scream's XTRMNTR is one of the most intense and innovative politically charged musical diatribes since the MC5's 1969 debut. Approaching electronic, funk, and alt-punk-based sounds with equal ferocity, this is arguably the band's finest record yet. The over-the-top brilliance of "MBV Arkestra" (a seven-minute, Kevin Shields-saturated noise fest) alone cannot be exaggerated. Really! --Mike McGonigal
Amazon.com
Seldom is a band's sixth album their best, and Exterminator is nothing less than a radical new dawn. Only a few years before, Primal Scream seemed spent--a drug-addled joke, numbing the pain with the idle comfort of rock & roll cliché. Exterminator is their baptism by fire. An album with a righteous social conscience, it rages against apathy and injustice with all the funk-fueled indignation of Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On. Musically, Exterminator is bound by a coherence that has eluded them since 1991. From the tense industrial trance of "Swastika Eyes" to the scurvy-thin hip-hop of "Pills" and the exultant krautrock of "Shoot Speed Kill Light," one minute the Scream are diseased and desperate, the next they're basking in glorious, righteous euphoria. Thank the guests, certainly--the Chemical Brothers, New Order's Bernard Sumner, My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields--but when you hear Bobby Gillespie screaming "from here to where" on the hyperdistorted pedal-to-the-metal drag race of "Accelerator," you'll know he's the one with the road map to a terrific rock & roll future. --Louis Pattison
Album Description
Seventh album from British indie-rock band. Featuringcontri butions from Brendan Lynch, David Holmes and Kevin Shields p lus a remix of 'Swastika Eyes' from the Chemical Brothers. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
Album Details
New 11 Track Album Including Remixes of 'swastika Eyes; And 'if They Move Kill Them'
Customer Reviews:
I'm seven years behind my time.......2007-03-22
XTRMNTR doesn't feel like a proper album -- there are too many guest musicians and lack of a cohesive sound. It does, however, feel like the first recording to fit the band's name -- XTRMNTR sounds like it could have been recorded while the group was in their first week with Arthur Janov. The songs are filled with rage, paranoia ("eterminate the underclass, exterminate the telepaths") These definitely aren't the free, fun loving guys I remember from high school. There's no "Come Together" or "Higher than the Sun" here. Instead there are raw, thudding tantrums like "Swastika Eyes" and "Kill All Hippies." I guess they're catchy enough to stomp along to, though some go on a bit too long. The opener, "Kill All Hippies" uses an effective sample from the Dennis Hopper film "Out of the Blue." Not exactly "Animal House." My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Skields contributes some guitar work and production to "Shoot Speed/Kill Light" as well as an unusually sibilant remix of "If They Move Kill 'Em," a track from their album "Vanishing Point." The songs Shields contributes to are probably the album's highlight -- loud, fuzzy distorted guitars that had me feeling like I was ripping through to another dimension, when I was just opening a bag of Sun Chips. I think New Order borrowed Bobby Gillespie and the guitar riff from "Shoot Speed/Kill Light" for a song on their "Get Ready" album.
All and all, if having the sun really sounds like this, I'll probably just buy a vowel.
Don't Catagorize.......2007-02-01
I wouldn't even begin to put Primal Scream in a genre; it would be disrespectful. But whatever catagory you wanna put them in they are accomplishing the very core of what most of that kind of music started out as. Nor would I compare them to another band but much like Rage Against the Machine (A band that has been ripping at the government and all establishments and doing a very good job at it) Primal Scream continues this long waged battle against those who would attempt to lie and cheat the common man (or woman). As previously referenced in many reviews this album spits acid and doesn't stop until all the lies surrounding us have been exposed for what they are. With a clever use of wit and irony most songs start out to take the opposite stance of what Primal Scream is about. I won't pretend to be an expert as this is the first album from them I've ever heard but I do know that XTRMNTR is politically charged, energetic and tenacious enough to grab your attention and never lets go. I've had this CD for over 3 weeks and I still listen to every track as if I've heard it for the first time.
A Superb Record........2006-10-09
This is a truly excellent alternative record in every sense of the word. Like another reviewer on here I tend to agree that this type of record has been attempted by many, with only limited success. That is until the Primal Scream came along, shed the Rolling Stones covers and finally did what they are good at, creating definitive angst-ridden music, with the help of some true geniuses: Kevin Shields, Bernhard Sumner, Brendan Lynch, Tim Goldsworthy (of the freakin' DFA) and Dan Nakamura (before he went lame w/ Head Automatica). I am a big Jesus and Mary Chain fan and I can't help but liken this record to Psychocandy; hard, abrasive, excellent hooks and not to sound cliche, but more grown-up and refined than other stuff out there. This is such a cool CD, and its a reminder to fans of Gillespie and the rest that while they may underwhelm us with canned fodder like Riot City Blues, on occassion, they are still capable of the brilliance captured here and in Screamadelica. Now here it is, the autumn of 2006, 6 years after this disc's release, and this record might still be 5 years ahead of its time.
Aggressive, Danceable Punk.......2006-01-21
Really 4.5 stars. This album blew my mind when it first came out. It still sounds great 5 years later. A lot of bands have tried to combine rock n roll and dance music and just ended up sounding silly. Primal Scream invented this genre and still no one else is even close.
If it wasn't for a few really weak tracks, I would give XTRMNTR 5 stars. The first half of the album is ridiculously good-- it rocks harder than just about anything you're likely to hear. Imagine a modern day "Physical Graffiti"
But for some reason, even though Primal Scream always manages to put out 4 or 5 brilliant songs with each release, they're always balanced out by a few tracks that are just awful. I guess this is what you get for trying to push the envelope.
The middle of XTRMNTR is really not worth listening to. It picks up by the end with a couple of songs that have a heavy "On the Corner"-era Miles Davis debt. This is what's great about Primal Scream--- they don't recognize boundaries between different genres of music. If it's funky, if it rocks, it's in there.
all in all, this is a must have for those who like hard, funky music that takes chances.
They scream again (but now a lot louder).......2005-08-09
Everyone puts 1991's "sceamadelica" on every "classics" list but this 2000 release surpasses it with all the style. Theres no trace of the band who recorded the lame "give out but dont give up", its almost as if they pick again their dance-rock combo from screamadelica and infused it with a dark, punk-angry attitude, and the result was a total bomb! So say goodbye to the rolling stones impressonators...
Try to imagine the stooges, my bloody valentine and new order all mixed up on a car crash and you get a somewhat vague clue of this record, this is the kind of sound that puts itself on the border between masterpiece and pointless annoying noise, and eventually falls on the right side of the fence. Its the kind of music suited for our era, noisy, agressive and explosive, everything orks fine in here, even bobby gillespie's rapping on "pills"! No weird sound turns to be superfluous in the songs, theyre all necessary to their structure, as weird as cut-up as it may sound on a first listening. So, if you liked the give out but dont give up-period primal scream, keep away from this record, this is the punk rock version of scremadelica. Some of the lyrics may sound a bit clicheed but they suit the sound like a glove, mr gillespie isnt reaching for no gospel "movin on up" kind of thing, this is the dark and dirty side.
And, Kasabian, i bet you guys loved to be Primal Scream...but you cant.
Average customer rating:
- I'm seven years behind my time
- Don't Catagorize
- A Superb Record.
- Aggressive, Danceable Punk
- They scream again (but now a lot louder)
|
XTRMNTR
Primal Scream
Manufacturer: Creation
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| British Alternative
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Similar Items:
- Screamadelica
- Vanishing Point
- Give Out But Don't Give Up
- Evil Heat (with Bonus DVD)
- Riot City Blues
ASIN: B00006JK9B
Release Date: 2000-01-31 |
Tracks:
- Kill All Hippies
- Accelerator
- Exterminator
- Swastika Eyes
- Pills
- Blood Money
- Keep Your Dreams
- Insect Royalty
- MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill 'Em)
- Swastika Eyes (Chemical Brother's Remix)
- Shoot Speed/Kill Light
- Im 5 Years Ahead Of My Time
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Primal Scream's XTRMNTR is one of the most intense and innovative politically charged musical diatribes since the MC5's 1969 debut. Approaching electronic, funk, and alt-punk-based sounds with equal ferocity, this is arguably the band's finest record yet. The over-the-top brilliance of "MBV Arkestra" (a seven-minute, Kevin Shields-saturated noise fest) alone cannot be exaggerated. Really! --Mike McGonigal
Amazon.com
Seldom is a band's sixth album their best, and Exterminator is nothing less than a radical new dawn. Only a few years before, Primal Scream seemed spent--a drug-addled joke, numbing the pain with the idle comfort of rock & roll cliché. Exterminator is their baptism by fire. An album with a righteous social conscience, it rages against apathy and injustice with all the funk-fueled indignation of Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On. Musically, Exterminator is bound by a coherence that has eluded them since 1991. From the tense industrial trance of "Swastika Eyes" to the scurvy-thin hip-hop of "Pills" and the exultant krautrock of "Shoot Speed Kill Light," one minute the Scream are diseased and desperate, the next they're basking in glorious, righteous euphoria. Thank the guests, certainly--the Chemical Brothers, New Order's Bernard Sumner, My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields--but when you hear Bobby Gillespie screaming "from here to where" on the hyperdistorted pedal-to-the-metal drag race of "Accelerator," you'll know he's the one with the road map to a terrific rock & roll future. --Louis Pattison
Album Description
Seventh album from British indie-rock band. Featuringcontri butions from Brendan Lynch, David Holmes and Kevin Shields p lus a remix of 'Swastika Eyes' from the Chemical Brothers. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
Album Details
New 11 Track Album Including Remixes of 'swastika Eyes; And 'if They Move Kill Them'
Customer Reviews:
I'm seven years behind my time.......2007-03-22
XTRMNTR doesn't feel like a proper album -- there are too many guest musicians and lack of a cohesive sound. It does, however, feel like the first recording to fit the band's name -- XTRMNTR sounds like it could have been recorded while the group was in their first week with Arthur Janov. The songs are filled with rage, paranoia ("eterminate the underclass, exterminate the telepaths") These definitely aren't the free, fun loving guys I remember from high school. There's no "Come Together" or "Higher than the Sun" here. Instead there are raw, thudding tantrums like "Swastika Eyes" and "Kill All Hippies." I guess they're catchy enough to stomp along to, though some go on a bit too long. The opener, "Kill All Hippies" uses an effective sample from the Dennis Hopper film "Out of the Blue." Not exactly "Animal House." My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Skields contributes some guitar work and production to "Shoot Speed/Kill Light" as well as an unusually sibilant remix of "If They Move Kill 'Em," a track from their album "Vanishing Point." The songs Shields contributes to are probably the album's highlight -- loud, fuzzy distorted guitars that had me feeling like I was ripping through to another dimension, when I was just opening a bag of Sun Chips. I think New Order borrowed Bobby Gillespie and the guitar riff from "Shoot Speed/Kill Light" for a song on their "Get Ready" album.
All and all, if having the sun really sounds like this, I'll probably just buy a vowel.
Don't Catagorize.......2007-02-01
I wouldn't even begin to put Primal Scream in a genre; it would be disrespectful. But whatever catagory you wanna put them in they are accomplishing the very core of what most of that kind of music started out as. Nor would I compare them to another band but much like Rage Against the Machine (A band that has been ripping at the government and all establishments and doing a very good job at it) Primal Scream continues this long waged battle against those who would attempt to lie and cheat the common man (or woman). As previously referenced in many reviews this album spits acid and doesn't stop until all the lies surrounding us have been exposed for what they are. With a clever use of wit and irony most songs start out to take the opposite stance of what Primal Scream is about. I won't pretend to be an expert as this is the first album from them I've ever heard but I do know that XTRMNTR is politically charged, energetic and tenacious enough to grab your attention and never lets go. I've had this CD for over 3 weeks and I still listen to every track as if I've heard it for the first time.
A Superb Record........2006-10-09
This is a truly excellent alternative record in every sense of the word. Like another reviewer on here I tend to agree that this type of record has been attempted by many, with only limited success. That is until the Primal Scream came along, shed the Rolling Stones covers and finally did what they are good at, creating definitive angst-ridden music, with the help of some true geniuses: Kevin Shields, Bernhard Sumner, Brendan Lynch, Tim Goldsworthy (of the freakin' DFA) and Dan Nakamura (before he went lame w/ Head Automatica). I am a big Jesus and Mary Chain fan and I can't help but liken this record to Psychocandy; hard, abrasive, excellent hooks and not to sound cliche, but more grown-up and refined than other stuff out there. This is such a cool CD, and its a reminder to fans of Gillespie and the rest that while they may underwhelm us with canned fodder like Riot City Blues, on occassion, they are still capable of the brilliance captured here and in Screamadelica. Now here it is, the autumn of 2006, 6 years after this disc's release, and this record might still be 5 years ahead of its time.
Aggressive, Danceable Punk.......2006-01-21
Really 4.5 stars. This album blew my mind when it first came out. It still sounds great 5 years later. A lot of bands have tried to combine rock n roll and dance music and just ended up sounding silly. Primal Scream invented this genre and still no one else is even close.
If it wasn't for a few really weak tracks, I would give XTRMNTR 5 stars. The first half of the album is ridiculously good-- it rocks harder than just about anything you're likely to hear. Imagine a modern day "Physical Graffiti"
But for some reason, even though Primal Scream always manages to put out 4 or 5 brilliant songs with each release, they're always balanced out by a few tracks that are just awful. I guess this is what you get for trying to push the envelope.
The middle of XTRMNTR is really not worth listening to. It picks up by the end with a couple of songs that have a heavy "On the Corner"-era Miles Davis debt. This is what's great about Primal Scream--- they don't recognize boundaries between different genres of music. If it's funky, if it rocks, it's in there.
all in all, this is a must have for those who like hard, funky music that takes chances.
They scream again (but now a lot louder).......2005-08-09
Everyone puts 1991's "sceamadelica" on every "classics" list but this 2000 release surpasses it with all the style. Theres no trace of the band who recorded the lame "give out but dont give up", its almost as if they pick again their dance-rock combo from screamadelica and infused it with a dark, punk-angry attitude, and the result was a total bomb! So say goodbye to the rolling stones impressonators...
Try to imagine the stooges, my bloody valentine and new order all mixed up on a car crash and you get a somewhat vague clue of this record, this is the kind of sound that puts itself on the border between masterpiece and pointless annoying noise, and eventually falls on the right side of the fence. Its the kind of music suited for our era, noisy, agressive and explosive, everything orks fine in here, even bobby gillespie's rapping on "pills"! No weird sound turns to be superfluous in the songs, theyre all necessary to their structure, as weird as cut-up as it may sound on a first listening. So, if you liked the give out but dont give up-period primal scream, keep away from this record, this is the punk rock version of scremadelica. Some of the lyrics may sound a bit clicheed but they suit the sound like a glove, mr gillespie isnt reaching for no gospel "movin on up" kind of thing, this is the dark and dirty side.
And, Kasabian, i bet you guys loved to be Primal Scream...but you cant.
Average customer rating:
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XTRMNTR
Manufacturer: Creation/Epic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| British Alternative
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Dance & DJ
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B00079DZAG |
Product Description
Japanese issue with bonus cut. Tracks: 1. Kill All Hippies 2. Accelerator 3. Exterminator 4. Swastika Eyes 5. Pills 6. Blood Money 7. Keep Your Dreams 8. Insect Royalty 9. MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill 'Em) 10. Swastika Eyes 11. Shoot Speed/ Kill Light 12. I'm Five Years Ahead Of My Time* bonus cut.
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