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Can't Go Back (Primal Scream song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Can't Go Back
| cover = Can't_go_back.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Primal Scream
| album = Beautiful Future
| B-side = Urban Guerrilla
| released = 14 July 2008
| recorded = 2007
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
| length = 3:44
| label = B-Unique
| writer = Martin Duffy, Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, Gary Mounfield
| producer =
| prev_title = Sometimes I Feel So Lonely
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = Uptown
| next_year = 2008
}}
"'Can't Go Back'" is a song by the band Primal Scream. Released on 14 July 2008, it was the first single to be released from the band's ninth album, 'Beautiful Future'. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 48 on 26 July 2008. The song was featured in the video for the 2008 British Grand Prix at the Formula One website. The song is also featured in the 2010 film 'Kick-Ass', its soundtrack album, and trailers for the 2011 film 'Johnny English Reborn'.
The single was engineered by Mark Rankin and produced by Paul Epworth and Bjrn Yttling (of Peter Bjorn and John) at Primal Screams North London studio.
As the first taste of 'Beautiful Future', Cant Go Back heralded Primal Screams latest sound, a fusion of pop, new wave, and traditional song structures with the punk aggression and electro production qualities that distinguished their 2000 album 'XTRMNTR'. It is a more straightforward rock song that plays up the bands bombast and immediacy rather than an attempt to innovate.
This approach was referenced in the sometimes self-contradictory reviews for Cant Go Back, which reflected a growing critical ambivalence towards Primal Scream. The 'NME' equivocated, With a dental-drill hook and Bobby muttering about how he Stuck a needle in my armstuck it in my babys heart, Cant Go Back rockets straight from the 'XTRMNTR' school of propulsive, night-streaked electro-rocknroll. In anyone elses hands itd sound try-hard, but its impossible to call them a clich when they invented so many.
Track listing
;CD
#"Can't Go Back" - 3:45
#"Jesus is my Air-o-plane" - 3:07
;7"
#"Can't Go Back" - 3:42
#"Urban Guerrilla" - 3:43
References
Category:2008 singles
Category:Primal Scream songs
Category:2008 songs
Category:B-Unique Records singles
Category:Song recordings produced by Paul Epworth
Category:Songs written by Bobby Gillespie
Category:Songs written by Andrew Innes
Category:Songs written by Martin Duffy (musician)
Category:Songs written by Mani (musician)
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