Riot City Blues

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Riot City Blues
Riot City Blues cover
Studio album by Primal Scream
Released June 5, 2006
Recorded June, 2005
Genre Indie Rock
Length 41:28
Label Sony Records
Producer(s) Youth
Professional reviews
Primal Scream chronology
Dirty Hits
(2003)		 Riot City Blues
(2006)


Riot City Blues is the eighth studio album by Primal Scream, released on June 5, 2006. On this album, Primal Scream had left its electronic element behind and returned to more traditional rock and roll. The album features Will Sergeant (Echo and the Bunnymen) on "When The Bomb Drops", Warren Ellis (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dirty Three) on "Hell's Coming Down" and Alison Mosshart (The Kills) performing backing vocals.

The album was released to varying reviews. A particularly scathing review by Pitchfork claimed that the album was "...flat and dead. It's as if Primal Scream have run completely out of ideas and so they've reverted to the detestable fallbacks of honking harmonicas and bar-band choogles, acting like college freshmen who just discovered blues." While The Guardian said "...Primal Scream are the kind of band that would probably snap there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure, only good music and bad music. But their eighth album undermines that claim. On the one hand, it is conservatism dressed up as rebellion, derivative, self-parodic and very, very, stupid. On the other, it boasts an energy and a shamelessness that demands you abandon your vast array of reservations. No mean feat." The debut single, "Country Girl", became the band's highest charting in their career, while the album charted at #5 in the UK.

[edit] Track listing

  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 (US bonus track)"
  12. "Gimme Some Truth (US bonus track)"
  13. "Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar (Live) (US bonus track)"
  14. "Country Girl (Non Censored) (CD-ROM Track) (US bonus track)

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Singles

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