Swastika Eyes

"Swastika Eyes"
Single by Primal Scream
from the album XTRMNTR
Released	1999[1]
Genre	Electronic rock, Dance rock
Label	Creation
Writer(s)	Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes
Primal Scream singles chronology
"Swastika Eyes" (1999) "Kill All Hippies" (2000)

"Swastika Eyes" is a 1999 single by the band Primal Scream from their then-upcoming sixth album XTRMNTR. Different mixes of the song form the fourth and tenth tracks of the album.^[2][3]

The attention-grabbing title is an example of the band's confrontational style in this period; the next single from the album was titled "Kill All Hippies". The band claimed that the song was an attack on corporations and governments.^[4][5]

Reviewing a live show from the XTRMNTR tour, Guardian critic Dave Simpson compared the song to the work of D.A.F.^[6]

References

1. "Chart Stats - Primal Scream". Chart Stats. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
2. Stubb, Dave. "Primal Scream: Swastika Eyes". NME. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
3. DiGravina, Tim. "Swastika Eyes review". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
4. Basham, David. "Primal Scream talks controversial 'Eyes' track". MTV. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
5. King, Simon. "Everybody's Fucked..". Jockey Slut. Retrieved 19 January 2007.
6. Simpson, Dave. "A Dose of Castor Oil". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2016. Snatches of lyrics…struggle to be heard amid an aural cacophony, complete with wailing saxophones, guitars like electric drills and PiL-esque soundscapes like walls of sheet metal clattering from a tower block. It comes to something when the jazz terrorism of If They Move, Kill 'Em (from their previous album) comes as light relief…only the DAF-prototype electronic funk singles, Swastika Eyes and Kill All Hippies, escape a sonic mauling.

External links

• Music video (band YouTube page)