Number 49'XTRMNTR' by Primal Scream
Trotter's Top Ten Position : Top Ten in 2000
UK Chart high: 3 in 2000
From an album taking its influence from My Bloody Valentine to one having a member in the band, this is Primal Scream’s ‘other’ classic album. Here they metaphorically steamroller over the trippy-hippies they courted on ‘Screamadelica’ under a military manifesto drawing on conspiracy theories, revolution and...Bernard Sumner and the Chemical Brothers. Creating a completely darker Wall of Sound this pummels you into submission and, ten years on, shows Pendulum up for the lightweight copyists that they are. They would continue to flip flop between dance terrorists and bluegrass rockers on future releases but this caught them at their angriest and mightiest.
Look at Accelerator ; Kill All Hippies ; Swastika Eyes
Listen to a sampling of the Top Fifty on Spotify as we go
Number 50Trotter's Top Ten position : 9 in 2003
UK Chart high : 7 in 2003
Drawing comparisons to Limp Bizkit is never a good thing, but considering their breakthrough hit ‘Back to School’ (unfairly) put them in the nu-metal or ‘long shorts, baseball cap-wearing 30+ year old rocker complaining about their mom’ category, this self-titled 2003 album served to move them as far away from Little Fred and the likes of Good Charlotte as was physically possible. There’s always been as much My Bloody Valentine in their tunes as there is heavy rock and ‘Deftones’ shows this off expertly. Album opener ‘Hexagram’ is as good a statement of intent as any on this Top Fifty list and lead single ‘Minerva’ actually is epic enough to mean a video of the band performing in the desert doesn’t drop into Spinal Tap territory. But please do turn up to 11.
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