BANISH THOSE MONDAY MORNING BLUES

There's a few ways you can do it.  My suggestion for today is that you very loudly play any or indeed all versions of today's track and throw yourself into a frenzy as if you were on a hot and sweaty dancefloor or under a canvas tent at some truly detestable summer festival (copyright Mr Edwyn Collins).  It really is a banging tune best played through a proper set of speakers and not the tunny things you have on the PC or laptop.

mp3 : Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes (Chemical Brothers remix)
mp3 : Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes (Spectre mix)
mp3 : Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes (edit)

I don't know about the rest of you who remember this particular piece of music but I was stunned to realise that was released in the last century......November 1999 to be precise.....and it reached #22 in the singles chart - it just doesn't seem that long ago

It was the lead single from XTRMNTR, the LP that received an incredibly positive critical response on its release in January 2000.  It's certainly my favourite work by the band - I came a wee bit too late to the party to fully appreciate Screamadelica.  It was an album I really got to know from listening to sitting on a beach and by the pool....not the sort of thing to make you relax all that much but it was perfect for my mood and state of mind at the time.  I was frustrated and angry at a few things going on at work at the time, but I got away for a break at just the right time to stop being doing anything really stupid that would have led to the sack.  Listening repeatedly to the loud, repetitive and hypnotic nature of XTRMNTR helped a lot.......you could almost describe it as a bit of Primal Scream therapy.

Here's the promo....which I can't ever recall seeing on telly at the time



Happy Listening