Maximum Rock 'n' Roll: The Singles [Japan Deluxe Edition]

by Primal Scream

Overview

Arriving 16 years after Dirty Hits, the 2003 compilation that closed out Primal Scream's glory years on Creation/Columbia, Maximum Rock 'n' Roll: The Singles naturally covers later ground but it's also noteworthy for starting with 1986's "Velocity Girl," the flipside to their second single. "Velocity Girl" provided the foundation of Primal Scream's career, a slice of jangle pop that established them as major players within the U.K.'s C-86 scene in the mid-'80s, a single that propelled them into the acid house pioneers of the early '90s. Adding it and its companions "Gentle Tuesday," "Imperial," and "Ivy Ivy Ivy" helps flesh out Primal Scream's unwieldy history, adding a first act to the one Dirty Hits chronicled very well. Maximum Rock 'n' Roll covers the '90s in fine fashion, too, sometime substituting single versions for album tracks -- "Higher Than the Sun" is here in the Orb Mix, there's a 7" version of "Don't Fight It, Feel It," a Brendan Lynch edit of "Kill All the Hippies" -- before sliding into Primal Scream's 21st century output with a kaleidoscopic second disc that begins with 2000's "Accelerator" and ends with 2016's "100% or Nothing." This additional length doesn't cover up the fallow points in the band's discography -- if anything, the swing between dark futurism and celebratory nostalgia is cast in sharper relief -- but it does help convey what an odd, frustrating, and frequently wonderful band Primal Scream is, which means this is the kind of compilation the band deserves. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	06/14/2019
Label:	Sony Music
UPC:	4547366405729
Rank:	213187

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Primal Scream   Primary Artist
Kate Moss   Primary Artist
Sky Ferreira   Primary Artist
Denise Johnson   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Terry Farley   Producer
Andrew Innes   Composer,Producer
Andrew Weatherall   Producer
Jimmy Miller   Producer
Bobby Gillespie   Design,Composer,Producer
Kevin Shields   Producer
Jagz Kooner   Producer
Gary Mounfield   Composer
Two Lone Swordsmen   Producer
David Holmes   Producer
Lee Hazlewood   Composer
Jeffrey Lee Pierce   Composer
Primal Scream   Composer,Producer
Martin Duffy   Composer
Mayo Thompson   Producer
Bjoern Yttling   Producer
David Bianco   Producer
Brendan Lynch   Producer
George Drakoulias   Producer
Youth   Producer
Kevin Bacon   Mixing
Paul Epworth   Producer
Clive Langer   Producer
Jonathan Quarmby   Mixing
Robert Young   Composer
Pete Heller   Producer
The Orb   Producer
Tom Dowd   Producer
John Davis   Remastering
Grant Fleming   Photography
Jim Beattie   Composer
Matthew Cooper   Design
Marco Nelson   Composer
Hugo Nicolson   Producer
Claire Dougherty   Marketing
Sister Anne   Producer