Primal ScreamBest Primal Scream Albums Ranked
7.0
Avg Score
21
Opinions
16
Albums
9
Reviewers
Summary from 21 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Primal Scream’s catalog across 16 albums from 21 opinions, with an overall average of 7.0/10. The top-rated Primal Scream album is Xtrmntr (1999) with a 9.1/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Screamadelica and Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll: The Singles. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1987 to 2024.
Screamadelica
“The meeting of unashamed, celebratory club music and rock star fandom is what gives Primal Scream's 1991 album Screamadelica its particular mood, half strutting with confidence, half yearning for transcendence. It’s a full-length manifesto not just for the brotherhood of clubbing but for the syncretic approach to rock Primal Scream were exploring.”
Xtrmntr
“The instruments of war have always been percussion. I'm not referring to tanks, battlerams and firearms, but musical instruments. Granted, the incessant thunder and crack of explosives is percussive, albeit erratic. The quick history lesson on the Bicentennial quarter reminds us that suckers with snares kept the beat of destruction. Tolkien's trolls thumped skin timpanis. Genghis had gongs. War ha”
Come Ahead
“funk meets punk, with grenades in the trunk”