Riot City Blues

Riot City Blues is the eighth studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream, released on 5 June 2006 by Columbia Records.[1] It peaked at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart.[2] With this album, the band left behind the electronic elements they had used on their previous albums XTRMNTR (2000) and Evil Heat (2003), returning to more traditional rock and roll. The album features guest appearances from Will Sergeant, Warren Ellis, and Alison Mosshart, and was the last album to feature guitarist Robert "Throb" Young, who departed before the album's UK tour for personal reasons.

Riot City Blues
Studio album by
Primal Scream
Released5 June 2006 (2006-06-05)
Genre
Length41:28
LabelColumbia
ProducerYouth
Primal Scream chronology
Live in Japan
(2003)		 Riot City Blues
(2006)		 Beautiful Future
(2008)
Singles from Riot City Blues
  1. "Country Girl"
    Released: 22 May 2006
  2. "Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)"
    Released: 7 August 2006
  3. "Sometimes I Feel So Lonely"
    Released: 18 December 2006

The album's first single "Country Girl" became the band's highest charting in their career. "Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)" and "Sometimes I Feel So Lonely" were also released as singles.

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic59/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
ARTISTdirect[5]
The Guardian[6]
Pitchfork2.3/10[7]
Q[8]
Rolling Stone[9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59, based on 19 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3]

The album was released to varying reviews. A particularly scathing review by Pitchfork claimed that the album was "flat and dead. It's as if Primal Scream have run completely out of ideas and so they've reverted to the detestable fallbacks of honking harmonicas and bar-band choogles, acting like college freshmen who just discovered blues." While The Guardian said "...Primal Scream are the kind of band that would probably snap there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure, only good music and bad music. But their eighth album undermines that claim. On the one hand, it is conservatism dressed up as rebellion, derivative, self-parodic and very, very, stupid. On the other, it boasts an energy and a shamelessness that demands you abandon your vast array of reservations. No mean feat."

Riot City Blues was listed among the ten worst Scottish albums ever made in a 2007 online poll of music fans.[10][11]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Country Girl"4:31
2."Nitty Gritty"3:38
3."Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar"3:14
4."When the Bomb Drops"4:34
5."Little Death"6:22
6."The 99th Floor"3:50
7."We're Gonna Boogie"2:52
8."Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)"3:58
9."Hell's Comin' Down"3:27
10."Sometimes I Feel So Lonely"5:06

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Primal Scream

Additional musicians

  • Alison Mosshart – additional vocals (3, 8)
  • Will Sergeant – guitar (4, 5)
  • Chris Allen – hurdy-gurdy (5)
  • Warren Ellis – violin (9)
  • Juliet Roberts – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 10)
  • Sharlene Hector – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 10)
  • Sylvia Mason-James – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 10)
  • John Gibbons – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 10)
  • Richard Beale – French horn (10)

Charts
Chart Peak
position
French Albums (SNEP)[12] 74
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[13] 15
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[14] 81
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[15] 18
UK Albums (OCC)[2] 5

References
  1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/riot-city-blues-mw0000779322/releases
  2. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  3. "Riot City Blues by Primal Scream". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  4. AllMusic
  5. ARTISTdirect
  6. The Guardian
  7. Pitchfork
  8. Q (July 2006. page 110)
  9. Rolling Stone
  10. "Texas Album is 'Worst Scottish Record'". Daily Record. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  11. "Texas top chart.. of bad CDs". TheFreeLibrary.com. Mirror. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  12. "Lescharts.com – Primal Scream – Riot City Blues". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  13. "Norwegiancharts.com – Primal Scream – Riot City Blues". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  14. "Spanishcharts.com – Primal Scream – Riot City Blues". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  15. "Swedishcharts.com – Primal Scream – Riot City Blues". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
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