Project 1001: Screamadelica by Primal Scream; June 18, 2024

I'm movin' on up now / Getting out of the darkness / My light shines on

Jun 18, 2024

Primal Scream is one of those artists who I have a vague awareness of but no real memory of the music. This genre of music isn’t on my go-to list. But this album is excellent at what it sets out to do. I like Movin’ on Up a lot. Very peppy and a real toe-tapper.

My Rating:

Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote, “There's no overestimating the importance of Screamadelica,” and “…they burst everything wide open here, turning rock inside out by marrying it to a gleeful rainbow of modern dance textures.” And he called it “an album that transcends its time and influence.”1

Melody Maker named it their album of the year.2

Pitchfork had this to say: “A clarion call for rock fans to stop fighting the future” and “Screamadelica 's atmospheric and imaginative hybrid of past, present and future captured its moment in vivid color and splendor, and it still radiates with a kaleidoscopic glow.”3

The single Movin’ on Up peaked at number 2 on the alternative airplay chart.4

Pop Culture

• Number one song: I Adore Mi Amor by Color Me Bad5

• Number one album: Metallica by Metallica6

• Number one movie: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare7

• Most watched TV program: 60 Minutes8

• NYT bestseller, fiction: The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy9

• NYT bestseller, non-fiction: ME: Stories of My Life, by Katharine Hepburn10

Other albums released that month

• Roll the Bones by Rush
• Nature of a Sista by Queen Latifah
• Naughty by Nature by Naughty by Nature
• Travelers and Thieves by Blues Traveler
• On Every Street by Dire Straits
• Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks
• Showstoppers by Barry Manilow
• Use Your Illusion I by Guns N' Roses
• Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses
• No More Tears by Ozzy Osbourne
• Emotions by Mariah Carey
• Pretty on the Inside by Hole
• Trompe le Monde by Pixies
• Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Waking Up the Neighbours by Bryan Adams
• Ceremony by The Cult
• Face the Nation by Kid 'n Play
• The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest

Sport

• Sep 4 MLB Statistical Accuracy Committee votes to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris' 1961 home run record of 61 (passing Babe Ruth's 60) & determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings.
• Sep 7 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics.
• Sep 7 US Open Women's Tennis: Monica Seles of Yugoslavia wins her first US title; beats Martina Navratilova 7-6, 6-1.
• Sep 8 US Open Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins his first US title; beats American Jim Courier 6-2, 6-4, 6-0.
• Sep 9 Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington.
• Sep 11 Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0.
• Sep 13 Joe Carter 1st baseball player with 3 consecutive 100 RBI seasons with 3 different teams (Indians, Padres, Blue Jays.
• Sep 13 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, winning the gold medal.
• Sep 14 San Diego State freshman running back Marshall Faulk rushes for NCAA record 386 yards and scores 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific, 55-34.
• Sep 15 US women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver).
• Sep 21 USA Basketball announces "Dream Team" for the 1992 Olympics.
• Sep 22 Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory.
• Sep 25 3rd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m.
• Sep 29 Ryder Cup Golf, Kiahwa Island GR: US beats Europe, 14½-13½.11

Notable Births

• Sep 4 Dwayne Verheyden, Dutch conjunto and Tejano accordionist (TexMeXplosion), born in Montfort, Netherlands.
• Sep 5 Skandar Keynes, English actor (The Chronicles of Narnia film series), born in London, England.
• Sep 9 Kelsey Asbille, American actress (Yellowstone), born in Columbia, South Carolina.
• Sep 21 Ingrid Andress, American country music singer ("More Hearts Than Mine"), born in Southfield, Michigan.12

Notable Deaths

• Sep 3 Academy Award-winning film director (It's a Wonderful Life; It Happened One Night; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 94.
• Sep 4 Dottie West [Dorothy Marsh], American country singer ("Here Comes My Baby"; with Kenny Rogers - "What Are We Doin' in Love"), dies from internal injuries sustained in a car crash at 58.
• Sep 4 Tom Tryon, American actor (The Cardinal, All That Glitters, The Longest Day) and novelist (The Other), dies of stomach cancer at 65.
• Sep 8 Brad Davis, American actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41.
• Sep 9 Edwin M. McMillan, American physicist and discoverer of plutonium (Nobel 1951), dies at 83.
• Sep 10 Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles), dies at 83.
• Sep 13 Paul Thompson, Canadian ice hockey forward (1926-39), won 3 Stanley Cups (1928 with NY Rangers, 1934 and 1938 with Chicago Black Hawks), and Black Hawks coach (1938-45), dies at 84.
• Sep 17 John Thomas, American co-inventor of fiberglass, dies at 83.
• Sep 18 Rob Tyner [Robert Derminer], American hard rock singer (MC5 - Kick Out The Jams), dies of a heart attack at 46.
• Sep 23 Patrick Hamilton, English author and playwright (Gas Light, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 58.
• Sep 24 Dr. Seuss, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham), dies of cancer at 87.
• Sep 24 Peter Bellamy, English folk singer, commits suicide at 47.
• Sep 25 Klaus Barbie, German Gestapo chief (Butcher of Lyon), dies of cancer at 77 (the cancer failed to do its job fast enough.)
• Sep 28 Miles Davis, American jazz musician, trumpeter and composer (Kinda Blue; Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet; Sketches of Spain), dies of pneumonia at 65.
• Sep 29 Sam Ntuli, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, assassinated.13