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Track Listings
| 1. Beautiful Future |
| 2. Can't Go Back |
| 3. Uptown |
| 4. The Glory Of Love |
| 5. Suicide Bomb |
| 6. Zombie Man |
| 7. Beautiful Summer |
| 8. I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt) |
| 9. Over & Over |
| 10. Necro Hex Blues |
| 11. The Glory of Love (single version) |
| 12. Urban Guerrilla |
| 13. 13 Time Of The Assassins |
| 14. Can't Go Back (Video) |
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Beautiful Future--a hopelessly optimistic moniker for their ninth album, no matter which way you approach it, since Primal Scream are almost universally accepted to have strutted past their zenith around the same time they helpfully mislaid their vowels (on 2000’s unrelentingly anarchic Xtrmntr). To claim any future, especially after the all-too-brief successes of 2006’s turgid Riot City Blues, let alone a handsome one is foolhardy to say the least. But, you see, they’re actually being cuttingly sarcastic, or so we ascertain from Bobby Gillespie’s ham-fisted sloganeering on the title track’s tirade against modern ills ("you live by the sword, you die by the sword, you’re only free to buy things you can’t afford", etc.). If anything in particular is exposed as a spent force here it is he and his pen, sense disregarded to the point of parody, words drifting like flotsam amid the band’s systematic attempts to reinvent themselves. The small miracle is that they just about manage. "Beautiful Future" leads into the album with a curious and eventually overwhelming infectiousness, gleaming like CSS delivering a Shirelles pastiche complete with cheesy bell-ringing and an effeminate vocal delivery that almost clouds over the lyrical content. "I Love to Hurt (You Love to Be Hurt)" actually features CSS’s Lovefoxx as this album’s Kate Moss and holds its own with some minimalist malevolence. As an album it jerks and it stumbles, lacking a definitive identity, but it at least ensures they’ll live to see another day. A future of some sort is assured. --James Berry
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Primal Scream - Beautiful Future (Digi Packaging)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By J. S. Meins
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Format:Audio CD
Absolutely have to agree with Mark Astons review here over the missing-middle-eight-repetitiveness of this album. At first listen it sounds like a glorious sugar coated update of the Screams first album, "Sonic Flower Groove", with "Beautiful Future" and the "Glory of Love "(in both forms) particularly brilliant in a second-summer-of-pop type way. "Uptown" is good in the same way that "Trainspotting" and "Screamadelica" (the track not the album) were, and cover "Over & Over" is another Broken Bobby (TM) version of "Damaged". But it's true, all these songs sound unfinished and either repeat themselves adnausium in some sick loop after about 20 seconds, or else take the cursed fade out route at the end. Criminal stuff because this could have been once of The Screams best albums. As it is it bores you senseless after a couple of listens.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I have to admit that, on first listen, I was really quite taken aback by this album - it isn't what I was expecting at all. Even though Primal Scream have, throughout the years, been musical chameleons, 'Beautiful Future' is different enough from their previous releases to be a genuine surprise when you first hear it. I have noticed that this album has pretty much split the fanbase down the middle and I can't say I'm shocked - this album has probably the most catchy, shimmering, near-mainstream pop Primal Scream have ever released with only glimpses of the hard-edged dirtiness which have characterised some of their most loved releases in the last decade or so.
In fact, when the opening, title track starts, complete with chiming bells, bouncy beat and radio-friendly sing-a-long chorus, you wonder if they're joking but, as it turns out, they're not - they're serious and, quite honestly, it's seriously good. The single 'Can't Go Back' is a raucous piece of brilliance which, along with the menacing 'Suicide Bomb' and the brilliant Josh Homme collaboration 'Necro Hex Blues', provide the edge and character which makes the album distinctively Primal Scream, but the album is equally as good for songs such as the mellow, chilled out 'Uptown' and the understated but catchy 'Glory Of Love'. There's even a quietly superb break-up ballad, a cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Over & Over' featuring Linda Thompson. Not everything on 'Beautiful Future' is exactly fantastic, in fact there is a distinct mid-album lull, but it's all very listenable and, on the whole, a very good album.
Leave your pre-conceptions and reservations behind - Primal Scream have made an album to be enjoyed, so just buy it with an open mind, play it, go with the flow and enjoy it but, be warned, if you want anything similar to 'XTRMNTR' or 'Evil Heat', you're likely to be very disappointed.
In fact, when the opening, title track starts, complete with chiming bells, bouncy beat and radio-friendly sing-a-long chorus, you wonder if they're joking but, as it turns out, they're not - they're serious and, quite honestly, it's seriously good. The single 'Can't Go Back' is a raucous piece of brilliance which, along with the menacing 'Suicide Bomb' and the brilliant Josh Homme collaboration 'Necro Hex Blues', provide the edge and character which makes the album distinctively Primal Scream, but the album is equally as good for songs such as the mellow, chilled out 'Uptown' and the understated but catchy 'Glory Of Love'. There's even a quietly superb break-up ballad, a cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Over & Over' featuring Linda Thompson. Not everything on 'Beautiful Future' is exactly fantastic, in fact there is a distinct mid-album lull, but it's all very listenable and, on the whole, a very good album.
Leave your pre-conceptions and reservations behind - Primal Scream have made an album to be enjoyed, so just buy it with an open mind, play it, go with the flow and enjoy it but, be warned, if you want anything similar to 'XTRMNTR' or 'Evil Heat', you're likely to be very disappointed.
By malmac
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
reasonal album from post-punk but little known group, everybody should buy and listen to at least one of their albums and this a good one to start with. You never know, maybe you become fans and buy a few more, which will help them reform
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Played it Over & Over
This Primal Scream album is one which takes a little getting used to, and repeated plays on the ipod have convinced me of its quality. Read more
Published on 26 Aug 2008 by Martin Mckenna
2.0 out of 5 stars
IN A WORD : YAWN!
god knows what the scream were thinking when they made "beautiful future"; this album is so blatantly commercial, it could make you scream (pun intended). Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2008 by donkey_shot
2.0 out of 5 stars
IN A WORD : YAWN!
god knows what the scream were thinking when they made "beautiful future"; this album is so blatantly commercial, it could make you scream (pun intended). Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2008 by donkey_shot
5.0 out of 5 stars
Which Primal Scream?
OK so there are two Primal Screams. The Scream that did XTRMNTR and EVIL HEAT, and the band that produced RIOT CITY BLUES. Personally I love RCB, but not everyone does. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2008 by G. M. Dobb
1.0 out of 5 stars
not even bought it
After reading the other reviews on this page I have decided not to buy this album.....I have been a loyal scream fan for many a year but riot city blues was absolutely awful and I... Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2008 by Mr. David Critchley
2.0 out of 5 stars
Hmm...
XTRMNTR. There, I've mentioned it. It had to be brought up at some point, so why not at the start? Essentially, this album will never hit the heady heights of that album. Read more
Published on 30 July 2008 by Ludek Miklosko
5.0 out of 5 stars
it's all too beautiful
The new scream album is here and very 'now' and is a real delight to listen to . not a case of an album with a few good tunes on it a whole album ! . Read more
Published on 27 July 2008 by Jane Sez
5.0 out of 5 stars
What An Album !
A STUNNER.
love the versions of Urban Guerilla and Over and Over !!!
This is a Classic In the making.
If you like the primals from Start to Now - Enjoy ! Read more
love the versions of Urban Guerilla and Over and Over !!!
This is a Classic In the making.
If you like the primals from Start to Now - Enjoy ! Read more
Published on 26 July 2008 by P. Anderson
2.0 out of 5 stars
beautiful future... meagre present
I became a Primal Scream fan in 2000 with the release of XTRMNTR, and then after investigating their back catalogue from there, rejoiced that Evil Heat was exactly what I wanted... Read more
Published on 24 July 2008 by P. Cox
4.0 out of 5 stars
A different viewpoint on Primal Scream
Reading through other peoples reviews, it seems that the previous few albums are prefered to "Beautiful Future". Read more
Published on 22 July 2008 by drwols
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