Riot City Blues (studio album)
by Primal Scream

Riot City Blues by Primal Scream
Year: 2006
Release date: 2006-05-31
Overall rank: 16,837th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 37 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2006 (302nd)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (3,093rd)
Award Best albums of all time (16,837th)

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Primal Scream bestography

Riot City Blues is ranked 8th best out of 26 albums by Primal Scream on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Primal Scream is Screamadelica which is ranked number 326 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,266.

Primal Scream album bestography « Higher ranked (16,837th)
Riot City Blues
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Riot City Blues
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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 37 votes)
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11/23/2024 22:42 mash  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,38088/100
 
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11/30/2023 07:23 cicadelic  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 11,06473/100
 
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11/15/2022 02:59 Arthurknight  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 9,59672/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.0/100, a mean average of 70.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.

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85/100
From 03/31/2024 21:43
The great thing with Primal Scream is they have such a mix of styles but it can all come under the same umbrella. This boasting a heap of very catchy rock, bluesy rock n roll, psychedelia but all with a country tinge. My favorite Scream album and one I feel is majorly overlooked
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From 08/25/2022 02:03
Riot City Blues is probably Primal Scream's most authentic rock record channelling The Rolling Stones throughout.
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70/100
From 04/06/2021 07:17
Each song is pretty irresistible and feel-good but it's all a bit cliched and Gillespie's drawled slurred vocal (often with an American accent) gets a bit tiresome.
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From 10/24/2018 00:56
Feels like a huge regression in comparison to their stomping great LPs "XTRMNTR" and "Evil Heat". This is Primal Scream at their weakest.
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From 04/05/2018 18:54
Not good, but also not bad. "Riot City Blues" may have reverted back into forgettable garage-rock territory after the interesting electro-industrial of their underrated "Evil Heat", but a good proportion of it is catchy & feel-good (especially the country-pop diversions). Just don't expect any complex arrangements or experimentation of any sort.
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45/100
From 01/06/2018 01:07
I didn't really dig this album unfortunately.
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