On the 31st January 2000, Primal Scream’s sixth studio album ‘XTRMNTR’ was released. The critically acclaimed album included tracks ‘Kill All Hippies’, ‘Accelerator’ and ‘Swastika Eyes’.
“Weirdly, people always say that ‘XTRMNTR’ is political, but I don’t know why the fuck they say that. I think I must have been mouthing off in interviews at the time. I was probably moaning about NATO and ranting about ‘Swastika Eyes’, maybe I said a few things a bit strong, but it’s a rock ’n’ roll interview and I think you should say things to get attention.
But if you actually look at the work then it is really about what we were embroiled in at the time – which was UK drug culture. It was about how we’d bought into outsider drug culture as rebels, being anti-authoritarian, but really we got into it so deep we were just mutilating our lives.”
– Bobby talking about ‘XTRMNTR’ in 2016 for Vice.
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