Limited Edition Japanese 2 x CD pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Includes five bonus tracks on the first disc, 'Jesus', 'Know Your Rights', '96 Tears', 'Rebel Dub' and 'How Does it Feel to Belo... more »ng'. The bonus disc features another nine more rarities, 'Full Strength Fortified Dub', 'Electric Soup Dub', 'A Jake Supreme', 'Kowalski' (Automator Dub), 'Stuka' (Two Lone Swordsmen Mix), 'Burning Wheel' (Chemical Borthers Remix), 'If They Move, Kill 'em' (12-inch Disco Mix), 'Darklands' and 'Bad Lands'. Packaged in a beautiful gatefold sleeve, includes a bonus lyric book in English. Sony. 2008.« less
Limited Edition Japanese 2 x CD pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Includes five bonus tracks on the first disc, 'Jesus', 'Know Your Rights', '96 Tears', 'Rebel Dub' and 'How Does it Feel to Belong'. The bonus disc features another nine more rarities, 'Full Strength Fortified Dub', 'Electric Soup Dub', 'A Jake Supreme', 'Kowalski' (Automator Dub), 'Stuka' (Two Lone Swordsmen Mix), 'Burning Wheel' (Chemical Borthers Remix), 'If They Move, Kill 'em' (12-inch Disco Mix), 'Darklands' and 'Bad Lands'. Packaged in a beautiful gatefold sleeve, includes a bonus lyric book in English. Sony. 2008.
"Along with Radiohead's "OK Computer", Prodigy's "Fat Of The Land" and The Verve's "Urban Hymns", Primal Scream's "Vanishing Point" is truly music for the next millenium. From the sitars of the opener to the final sonic chaos of the last track this truly is a great album. This is not to say, however, that it is everyone's cup of tea, far from it. As with most great recordings it takes a few listens before the music really grips you. This is a highly recommended CD for the person who thinks a little bigger than college radio!"
Their Best Album!
Dutch | Michigan | 06/16/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"In spite of the overwhelming praise lavished upon XTRMNTR, this one is better. Combining house and techno with traditional blues/rock and unique sound bytes, Vanishing Point is the Dark Side of the Moon for Primal Scream. "Kowalski," "Star," and "Medication" are each extremely different and somehow they all fit. Still, singles lovers should be warned that this album is a mood piece, and the mood is paranoia. "Star" encourages resistance against oppression with a constant look over the shoulder. Anyone who doesn't like to invest time in listening to something that builds and builds but never comes down should stay away. This is a post-industrial warning that probably came a little too late."
Killer waves
Trip Cannon | A long time away in a galaxy far ago | 01/15/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"When I popped this CD in for the first time my head literally exploded in deep-seated audio delight! Burning Wheel is a masterpiece of spatial sound and music being combined into one super smooth burst of energy. It only gets better from there, trust me."
Very, very interesting
J. Brady | PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC United States | 02/09/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"And a damn sight better than their Rolling Stones "tribute" album that preceeded it, Vanishing Point is a return to what Primal Scream do best. A marriage of guitars, synths, twisted vocals, drugged out rhythms ( both fast and slow - you get the idea that some songs were recorded under the influence of speed, some while on heroin) and psychedelic production touches. One minor gripe: when I first popped this into my cd player, the opening track "Burning Wheel" caught my attention. "I've heard this chord sequence, these sounds, before." After listening a few times, I thought I'd thumb through the cd booklet and find sampling credits for Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" only to discover that this track is listed as a band composition. For shame!!!! Otherwise this is agreat cd. Highlights include the cover of "Motorhead", done as electronica, and the title track to "Trainspotting" ten-plus minutes of slowly unwinding, euphoria inducing, trance like psychedelia. A keeper, for sure."
Speed..........
J. Brady | 08/14/1998
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This band is named Primal Scream in honour of the the last american to whom Speed means freedom of soul, the question is not when you gonna stop, but whose gonna stop you ...... get your head round that and this albulm KICKS....."