Track Listing

1. Kill all hippies
2. Accelerator
3. Exterminator
4. Swastika Eyes
5. Pills
6. Blood Money
7. Keep your dreams
8. Insect royalty
9. Mbv Arkestra
10. I'm five years ahead of my time
11. Swastika eyes (Chemical Brothers mix)
12. Shoot speed kill light

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5870 in Music
• Released on: 2002-08-05
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's seldom that a band's sixth album is their best, but Exterminator is nothing less than a radical new dawn. Only a few years before, Primal Scream seemed spent--a smack-addled joke, numbing the pain with the idle comfort of rock & roll cliché. Exterminator is the Scream's baptism of fire--an album with a righteous social conscience, it rages against apathy and injustice with all the funk-fuelled indignation of Sly & The Family Stone's There's A Riot Goin' On. Musically, too, Exterminator is shackled together with a coherence that's eluded them since 1991. From the tense industrial trance of "Swastika Eyes", to the scurvy-thin hip-hop of "Pills" and the exultant Krautrock of "Shoot Speed Kill Light", one minute the 'Scream are diseased and desperate, the next they're basking in glorious, righteous euphoria. Thank the guests, certainly--the Chemical Brothers, New Order's Bernard Sumner, My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields--but when you hear Bobby Gillespie screaming "from here to where?", on the hyper-distorted pedal-to-the-metal drag-race of "Accelerator", you'll know he's the one with the road map to a terrific rock & roll future. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Classic
My favourite album without a doubt. Put simply, every home should have acopy. The scream team made a quite dazzling album with this one. Spanninga huge number of genres such as electronica, punk, free-form jazz,krautrock and hip-hop this album is breathtaking from start to finish. Atotal masterpiece.

ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL.......
.....this album is a collection the the most half-baked, uninspired rabble of tunes I've heard in a long time. "Vanishing Point" was a good album. This is not. For example...."Pills". A poor rap from Gillespie, a bit of swearing. Visceral ?! I don't think so. A couple of remixes thrown on at the end as filler. "Swastika Eyes" is just a dodgy techno record. Underworld anyone ?

And new album "Evil Heat"'s not much better either.

May be the best album of the last ten years
2000 was a pretty good year for music, one that unleashed masterpieces such as Air's 'Virgin Suicides Score,' Badly Drawn Boy's 'The Hour of Bewilderbeast,' and Radiohead's 'Kid A.' However, not only does this album blow everything else away from that year, but it could be the best album since R.E.M.'s 'Automatic For The People.' This album is unlike anything I have ever heard, and it truly mindblowing. From the opening cell phone ring of 'Kill All Hippies,' one knows that there's going to be a revolution, one that completely rewrites the book on music. There is so much here, but underneath it all is the truly amazing bass of one Gary Mountfield, aka Mani, formerly of the Stone Roses. His bass truly is the heart of this record, and it carries every song through it's murky, body moving throb. On 'Hippies,' for example, his Kraftwerk-like computer-programmed-sounding bass steals the show, as this reviewer had a sudden urge to GET DOWN when hearing it. On 'Accelerator,' an MC5/Stooges-thrash of proto-punk, a wall of Kevin Shields-programmed guitar noise has the power to incite a rock revolution alone. 'Swastika Eyes,' a self-described, by Bobby, 'gay disco' masterpiece truly is what they should be playing at raves, not that Oakenfold business; it puts you in a trance. On the David Holmes assisted 'Blood Money,' and 'Shoot Speed Kill Light,' the listener is subjected to jazz that turns into a war riot, and a psychedelic haze that lifts the soul out of the body (it reminded me U2's 'Zoo Station' off 'Achtung Baby.') However, the real kicker is the Sun Ra/MBV influenced 'MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill Em),' a song that, with pounding and scorching rhythm, unleashes a riffy, distorted guitar lick, and adds a wall of feedback, and adds more feedback, and ... soon enough, you truly feel like you've just been transported to a whole new world of music, one where anything is possible. And XTRMNTR is the doorway to the sonic revolution.