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Vanishing Point is a 1997 album by Primal Scream. After their hugely successful 1991 album Screamadelica they mostly stagnated for the subsequent 6 years. However in 1997 they returned to form . They were enforced by Mani, the bass guitarist of The Stone Roses, and released one more eclectic LP mixing every influence and genre imaginable. They melted dub, kraut, funk, and rock'n'roll together.
Tracklist
- "Burning Wheel" – 7:06
- "Get Duffy" – 4:09
- "Kowalski" – 5:50
- "Star" – 4:24
- "If They Move, Kill 'Em" – 3:01
- "Out of the Void" – 3:59
- "Stuka" – 5:36
- "Medication" – 3:52
- "Motörhead" – 3:38
- "Trainspotting" – 8:07
- "Long Life" – 3:49
Vanishing Screams
- Bobby Gillespie – vocals
- Andrew Innes – guitar, bass
- Robert Young – guitar, programming, keyboards
- Martin Duffy – keyboards, programming, melodica
- Gary 'Mani' Mounfield – bass
- Paul Mulreany – drums
Get Troppy
- Cool Plane: Stuka or Ju 87.
- Cover Version: Song Motörhead no less, an eponymous track for the band Motörhead
- Creepy Monotone: The vocals on Stuka
- Darker and Edgier: The 1991 summer of rave and love is over long ago. The mood is not desperate but pretty somber
- Darth Vader: Gillespie sang the first verse of the track Motörhead throught the mask of this character.
- Design Student's Orgasm: The cover indeed.
- Echoing Acoustics: On Stuka.
- Also the vocals of Gillespie on Star
- The reverb is up to eleven on the track Vanishing Dub, Echo Dek remix of Out of the Void.
- Epic Rocking: The opener "Burning Wheel" at 7:06 sets the mood for the whole record.
- "Trainspotting" lasts 8:07.
- Fading into the Next Song: "Get Duffy" → "Kowalski".
- Gratuitous German: The name of the track Stuka is the other name of the German airplane Junkers Ju 87
- Inspired by…: Vanishing Point, the road movie whose main character was called Kowalski.
- Instrumentals: Trainspotting.
- Also Get Duffy and If They Move Kill Them.
- Krautrock: Thrown in for good measure. Primal Scream also sampled Can
- Lyrical Dissonance: On Star which sound as a laidback dub track but is actually a protest song.
- Mood Whiplash: Medication is a tight rock track after several laidback songs.
- No Ending: Get Duffy ends pretty suddenly.
- No Medication for Me: Subverted by the track Medication where the lyrical hero asks for some.
- Protest Song: "Star".
- Sampling:
- "Kowalski" samples the drums from "Halleluhwah" by Can's and the opening guitar solo of Funkadelic's "Get Off Your Ass and Jam".
- "If They Move, Kill 'Em"'s bassline is based on that of Bill Withers' "Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?".
- Stuka samples the drums from Lee Scratch Perry's "Upsetting Dub".
- Self-Deprecation: The lyrics to Out of the Void.
- Shout-Out: to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in Star
- One of two Echo Dek remixes for Stuka is named Wise Blood
- Singer Namedrop: Get Duffy is named after Martin Duffy
- Spoken Word in Music: At the beginning of Kowalski there is a sample from Vanishing Point
- Title Drop : on Kowalski Gillespie whispers "Vanishing Point".
- The Topic of Cancer: Cancer is mentioned both in Out of the Void and Medication.
- Urban Hellscape: "Medication".
