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The Primitives

Everything's Shining Bright - The Lazy Recordings 1985-1987

    Compiled with guitarist PJ Court, this 2-CD compilation boasts re-mastered music as well as a beautifully annotated booklet boasting rare photos and personal memories from the band.

    Back in the mid-80s, The Primitives combined the fuzz guitars of The Jesus & Mary Chain with the pop sensibilities of Blondie and a nod to cult heroes The Velvet Underground. They swiftly rose from being a popular Indie guitar outfit to charting worldwide with “Crash”, kickstarting a craze in bands fronted by blonde female singers (Transvision Vamp, The Darling Buds et al).

    Between 1985 and 1987, the band issued five singles/EP’s on independent label Lazy Records (also home to My Bloody Valentine and later Birdland) before signing with RCA.

    This 2-CD set also boasts their promo-only live album at the ICA; as such, it offers their entire Lazy output from that period.

    TRACK LISTING

    Disc 1
    1. Thru The Flowers
    2. Across My Shoulder
    3. She Don't Need You
    4. Lazy
    5. Really Stupid
    6. We Found A Way To The Sun
    7. Where The Wind Blows
    8. Stop Killing Me
    9. Buzz Buzz Buzz
    10. Laughing Up My Sleeve
    11. Ocean Blue
    12. Shadow (Guitar Version)
    13. Thru The Flowers (New Version)
    14. Everything Shining Bright
    15. Nothing Left
    16. Across My Shoulder
    17. Crash
    18. Spacehead
    19. Nothing Left (Sounds Version)

    Disc 2
    1.I'll Stick With You
    2. Dreamwalk Baby
    3. Buzz Buzz Buzz
    4. Nothing Left
    5. Out Of Reach
    6. Carry Me Home
    7. Don't Want Anything To Change
    8. Think I'll Stick With You
    9. Dreamwalk Baby
    10. Run Baby Run
    11. Thru The Flowers
    12. Nothing Left
    13. Where The Wind Blows
    14. Out Of Reach
    15. We Found A Way To The Sun
    16. Don't Want Anything To Change
    17. Across My Shoulder
    18.Everything's Shining Bright
    19. Buzz Buzz Buzz
    20. Stop Killing Me
    21. I Wanna Be Your Dog

    The Primitives

    Let's Go Round Again: Second Wave Singles & Rarities 2011-2015

      There are two different periods in the history of The Primitives. The first is the era of Lazy Records and RCA, the era of 'Crash', of the breakup in 1992. But 2011 saw the special release of a new single from the band formed by Tracy Tracy, Paul Court and Tig Williams on the prestigious indie label Fortuna Pop! That becomes the starting shot of the second period, which is marked by their signing with Elefant Records and the release of two albums, 'Echoes And Rhymes' and 'Spin-O-Rama'. One of the group's defining qualities, in honor of their indie spirit, is the number of collaborations, participations, singles and lost songs that have been released in this second period. For those of you who are desperate to get their hands on some of them, we are releasing 'Let's Go Round Again o Second Wave Singles & Rarities 2011-2025', a double vinyl album with twenty-eight songs including previously unreleased tracks, rarities and A and B sides of vinyl singles, the majority of which are out of print.

      There have been so many releases these last 14 years. From the four songs that made up that now legendary EP in 2011, 'Never Kill A Secret', to 'Sweet Sister Sorrow'. From the song that came out on the Girlsville compilation cassette to the singles released on the Georgia-based Happy Happy Birthday To Me (HHBTM) label, to the Part Time Punks radio session that they released themselves on an EP (and which also came out as a commemorative vinyl single for the 30th anniversary tour in Japan for their album 'Lovely'). And of course, there are countless singles, maxis, vinyls and other songs (like that gem for the Christmas album we put out in 2012) released on Elefant Records.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Rattle My Cage
      2. Never Kill A Secret
      3. Turn Off The Moon
      4. Lose The Reason
      5. Spin-O-Rama
      6. Purifying Tone (Reworked By Modular)
      7. I'll Trust The Wind
      8. Oh Honey Sweet
      9. Stop Killing Me (Live Part Time Punks Radio Session)
      10. Don't Know Where To Start
      11. I Won't Care
      12. Sweet Sister Sorrow
      13. Need All The Help I Can Get
      14. Breakaway
      15. Can't Stop The Want
      16. Always Coming Back
      17. Up So High
      18. You Trashed My Christmas
      19. Lose The Reason (Reworked By Modular)
      20. Squeak 'N' Squawk
      21. Same Stuff
      22. Been Hiding
      23. Rattle My Cage (Paul Vocal Version)
      24. Till I'm Alive
      25. Don't Know Where To Start (Acoustic Fuzzed Version)
      26. Panic (Live Part Time Punks Radio Session)
      27. Everybody Needs Somebody To Hate
      28. Sweet Sister Sorrow (Symphonic Dream Pop Version)

      The Primitives

      Spin-O-Rama - 10th Anniversary Edition

        10th anniversary reissue with three extra tracks - the two B-sides of the two singles that came out before the album was released (the cover version of 'Up So High' from The What's New and 'Always Coming Back') and an acoustic, previously unreleased version of the title track, 'Spin-O-Rama'.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Spin-O-Rama
        2. Hidden In The Shadows
        3. Wednesday World
        4. Follow The Sun Down
        5. Purifying Tone
        6. Lose The Reason
        7. Petals
        8. Working Isn't Working
        9. Velvet Valley
        10. Dandelion Seed
        11. Let's Go 'Round Again
        12. Always Coming Back
        13. Up So High
        14. Spin-O-Rama (Acoustic Version)

        The Primitives

        Best Of

          The Primitives emerged from the UK independent music scene of the mid-1980s, with a sound that distilled the shimmering guitar chime of The Byrds, the buzzsaw style of The Ramones and 60's girl group melodies into two-and-a-half-minute pop gems. After topping the indie singles chart several times, their widely acclaimed first album, Lovely, made them one of the UK's most revered alternative rock acts, while the international success of the single "Crash" saw them cross over to a mass audience. Further chart success followed, along with two more studio albums, Pure and Galore, plus extensive tours of Europe and the US, before the band called it a day in 1992. The band were reunited in 2009. The Best Of The Primitives is available on vinyl for the first time and features the hit singles "Crash", "Put Of Reach", "Way Behind Me", "Sick Of It", "Secrets" and many more classic hits.

          TRACK LISTING

          Side A
          1. Crash
          2. Spacehead
          3. Shadow
          4. Thru' The Flowers
          5. Nothing Left
          6. Out Of Reach

          Side B
          1. Summer Rain
          2. Sick Of It
          3. All The Way Down
          4. Secrets
          5. Can't Bring Me Down

          Side C
          1. Way Behind Me
          2. Noose
          3. I Almost Touched You
          4. You Are The Way
          5. Lead Me Astray

          Side D
          1. Slip Away
          2. Give This World To You
          3. Empathise
          4. Earth Thing
          5. All The Way Down (Beat Version)

          The Primitives

          Lovely

            First released in 1988, ‘Lovely’ is the debut album by English indie pop group The Primitives. The album features the international hit single ‘Crash’ which was a top ten hit in both the UK and the US. The timeless song has gone on to be covered by artists including Johnny Marr, Belle And Sebastian, The Vibrators, and The Wonder Stuff. Other highlights on the album include the singles ‘Out Of Reach’, ‘Thru The Flowers’ and ‘Ocean Blue’.

            TRACK LISTING

            Side A
            1. Crash
            2. Spacehead
            3. Carry Me Home
            4. Shadow
            5. Thru The Flowers
            6. Dreamwalk Baby
            7. I’ll Stick With You

            Side B
            1. Nothing Left
            2. Stop Killing Me
            3. Out Of Reach
            4. Ocean Blue
            5. Run Baby Run
            6. Don’t Want Anything To Change
            7. Buzz Buzz Buzz

            The Primitives

            Spin-o-rama

              The Primitives have a new album, and this time, it's completely new material, which they've been letting us in on bit by bit. Time hasn't passed for this group, whose sound is just as fresh as ever and whose contagious melodies take us back to the end of the eighties, beginning of the nineties.It is an urgent album, and it goes by in a heartbeat, putting us in "the-album-you-want-to-listen-to-again-as-soon-as-it-ends" situation, and getting the songs stuck in our head for months.


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