Loaded

Loaded is the Weatherall remix of I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have, a ballad from the band's 1989 album. Press officer Jeff Barrett gave the album to Weatherall, then a club DJ who wrote for the Boy's Own fanzine, and he picked that song. His first attempt was rejected as too reverent. Andrew Innes told him to destroy it, and the second version kept only a seven-second sample of the original. Weatherall was reportedly paid 500 pounds. The mix on Screamadelica is credited to him alone.

Weatherall already knew the band's music. He wrote in Boy's Own in summer 1989 that he loved the ballads on the album, and he had reviewed a Primal Scream gig for NME under the pen name Audrey Witherspoon. Gillespie recalled that Loaded was only his second time in a recording studio, and that he was the first person to play it in a club.

Gillespie described it as a dub record, in the manner of Joe Gibbs's Jamaican reconstructions. It opens with dialogue from the 1966 film The Wild Angels, in which Peter Fonda's character interrupts a minister at a funeral. Other ingredients include a vocal from the Emotions' I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love and a drum loop from an Italian bootleg remix of Edie Brickell's What I Am. Gillespie sings a line from Robert Johnson's Terraplane Blues. He told NME in 2011 that they had done it as an experiment.

The single had more than 7,500 advance orders, credited to clubs and raves rather than airplay or press. It reached number 16 in the UK in 1990, the band's first top 40 hit and their first appearance on Top of the Pops, and went gold. The 7-inch ran 4:15, while the 12-inch and album versions run about seven minutes. Muzik listed it among the 50 most influential dance records, NME ranked it number 59 on its 2014 list of the 500 greatest songs, and Simon Reynolds called it a house update of the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil. Lisa Verrico wrote in 1994 that the remix launched the remix industry. It opens the film The World's End (2013).

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