In 1968, the Primitives released a very rare album in Italy called Blow Up; the famous film by Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni called Blow-Up had come out two years earlier. The album mostly features other Italian-language versions of American and British hit songs of the period. Their cover of the Strangeloves classic “Cara-Lin” from this album is included on the English Freakbeat, Volume 1 CD.
The 2003 CD on Castle called Maladjusted collects all or almost all of the songs by the Primitives plus some of Mal Ryder’s early recordings like “Forget It”. Besides the early singles on Pye Records mentioned already, there is an unreleased demo called “Oh Mary”, the entirety of the Italian album Blow Up, and a four-song EP that was released in France.
(May 2015)
