Primal Scream: Screamadelica

I bought this in 1999, eight years after it came out, in the first phase of CDs being available in Fopp for a fiver. I thought this was too good to last — little did I realise that it would become not just permanent but pervasive — so I saw it as an opportunity to pick up albums like this, which had been canonised by the first Mercury Music Prize.

I don't like it at all. It sounds terrible dated now, and an awful bastard pastiche of old Rolling Stones and dance beats.

I was going to say that 1991/92 was a bad year and maybe there wasn't anything better around that year, but checking the shortlist shows that it includes Foxbase Alpha and The Protecting Veil, as well as U2's best album, all of which are vastly better than this crud.

MusicBrainz entry for this album