I was digging through my albums the other day and I noticed the eclipse-of-the-sun cityscape album cover for Primal Scream's Vanishing Point. I hadn't listened to it for a while. I remember calling my local record store a couple of years ago and asking about. The clerk said, "Yeah, we've got a used copy. That's the one nobody wants." Literally. I still don't know whaddafuc he was talking about. Long considered one of their also-ran albums next to Screamadelica and XTRMNTR, I think it gets roughed up unnecessarily. There's more here than just "Trainspotting," though admittedly that is the landmark of the album. Between the bouncy opener "Burning Wheel" and the nails-on-the-blackboard of "Kowalski," it keeps moving without getting too rough or caustic. Sure, I can do without "Medication," but to finish off with two straight tracks as compelling as "Trainspotting" and "Long Life," for my money, it's more interesting than XTRMNTR. It lacks all of the keyword cache of the other albums, but it'll always manage just fine in my own private circulation.