Song · Primal Scream
“Higher Than The Sun” by Primal Scream
From the album Screamadelica (1991)
“Higher Than The Sun” by Primal Scream appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1991. It was first released in 1991 on the album Screamadelica. Its best result is #11 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty'). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #99 alternative song of 1991.
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"Higher Than The Sun" floats out of Screamadelica, the album Primal Scream released on Creation in Britain in September 1991, the record on which the Scottish band shook off their early indie-rock sound and chased the house music scene and its chemical fuel, LSD and MDMA among them.
Bobby Gillespie sings it and wrote it with guitarists Andrew Innes and Robert Young, and the players are all accounted for: Martin Duffy on piano and keyboards, Henry Olsen on bass and Toby Tomanov on drums and percussion. The Orb produced this one, while DJ Andrew Weatherall and engineer Hugo Nicolson shaped much of the rest of the album by remixing the band's recordings into dance tracks. Screamadelica became their first commercial success and in 1992 took the first Mercury Music Prize.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 11 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty') | 50 |
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