Primal Scream - Slip Inside This House

You think you can't. You wish you could. I know you can. I wish you would.

Album: Screamadelica [3rd album]
Recorded: London, England
Genre: Alternative Dance, Neo-Psychedelia, Acid House
Album Release: September 23rd 1991
Length: 5.16
Producer: Andy Weatherall & Andy Innes
Vocalist: Bobby Gillespie [age 30] or Robert Young?
Label: Creation Records

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Music Video (Australian Version)


The song is a cover of The Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 4 million
YouTube Music: Over 750 thousand

Credits

The drums are sampled from Mantronix - King of the Beats (1988) and Ice Cube - Rollin' Wit' the Lench Mob

Details

• Frontman Bobby Gillespie started off as the drummer for Jesus and Mary Chain. He couldn't play very well so instead of a full kit he just had two drums.
• The song is a loose cover of the sixties psychedelic track 'Slip Inside This House' by The Thirteenth Floor Elevators. To make it a better fit for the rave scene, the cover version changes the lyrics from 'slip' to 'trip inside the house.' It's interesting that both dominant periods of British drug culture had people getting high to different versions of this track.
  
  The lyrics are practically dripping in LSD 'if your limbs begin dissolving' is sang happily. There is some contention as to who is actually doing the singing. Bobby Gillespie claims he was too wasted to record and guitarist Robert Young had to step in but the vocals do seem to have Gillespie's distinctive twang so I'm uncertain. One things for sure though, when the sitar introduces itself towards the end things get elevated to a higher level. As the second track on the album, it's clearly a part of the 'coming up' phase and was made for people to have a good time dancing.
  
  

"Instrumentals in Primal Scream were fantastic and the melodies and the gospel singers and the strings and the slate guitars, we played lot of synthesisers as well. We got a lot of good synthesiser sounds, and he was really great at taking all this stuff and rearranging it and making it into this fantastic music. Acid house gave him this opportunity to work with a band like us, and acid house gave us, this rock’n’roll band, an opportunity to find this raw talent like Weatherall, and together we made 'Screamadelica'.

To me, I thought, this is total punk. The guy’s never worked in a studio, he’s never recorded a band, he wouldn’t know where to put a fucking microphone if his life depended on it. But he was genius arranger and a visionary, a sonic visionary." (Bobby Gillespie talking to The Face Magazine)

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