Never cared for Primal Scream even with the Weatherall treatement. So Blue Lines all the way for me.
Screamadelica was where it all started for me. 
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Don’t fight it, feel it (the Scat mix)
I mean, come on! 
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Screamadelica was massive for me, that covered both the dancing and after dancing moments. For me, PS were/are a pretty average band that crossed paths with AW at a special moment in time to produce a classic.
Blue Lines is an LP that has definitely had a much longer impact on me and will always be somewhere about my top 20 of all time, so it is a much better LP imo, but Screamadelica had a bigger impact at the time and started my love affair with Lord Andrew of Weatherall.
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Come Together with all the analogue synth filter noises and dubby delays is the winner for me. And similar for Higher Than the Sun, in my teens, coming up to Higher Than the Sun at Brixton Academy, just sounded amazing.
I listen to Blue Lines much more often than Scremadelica now but I discovered it later. Primal Scream was easier to get into as a teenager with a rock music background.
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Bit ambivalent to them both really, I know sacrilege 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvtlt-p7vB4
…and if you can’t do it better don’t bother 
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Sounds like a new thread @Gavin 
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Blue Lines, no contest.
I sold my original copy a couple of months back, which was one which came in a branded mailer as well. Was surprised how much it was worth, considering how popular it was, and must have sold a stack at the time.
Screamadelica for me. Blue Lines wasnt really on my radar until much later
Although a lot of the music I’m DJing with now you could probably draw a direct line back to Blue Lines with.
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Blue Lines no question.
Screamadelica perfectly embodied a specfic moment in time, but has not aged well IMO.
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Screamadelica is the sound of dancing in a field all night and into the sunrise.
Blue Lines is the sound of Sunday afternoons in Clissold Park.
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I hammered both at the time. Probably Blue Lines more at first, but Screamadelica had much more of a lasting impression. Was never into Primal Scream but that that sprinkling of Weatherall magic perfectly captured the cultural change and optimism of the moment which is probably why I have revisited it more over the years.
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Yeah I got that one too on CD. Bizarre eh???
Blue Lines for me too, couldn’t say why really just like it, in my naive youth used to think Scream were just another bunch of bandwagon jumpers… I was all about the 4/4 ideally with an import shrink wrap. I like Screamadelica now but it’s never really hit me right there like it has with lots of people.
Damaged is a great song to sing along to when intoxicated… Used to love trying to reach those notes (not sure anyone else was that keen).
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Screamadelica has to be one of the most overrated albums ever, by one of the most overrated bands ever. With the exception of Come Together it’s lumpen, derivative tat, pure pastiche. The sound of desperate bandwagon jumping and reinvention by an already irrelevant band. An NME readers idea of acid house 3 years too late. ‘Loaded’ is the most god awful student disco fodder.
I don’t remember anyone at the time paying it much mind, why would you with all the exciting, innovative sounds coming out of Chicago, Detroit, London, NYC, etc, etc…basically anywhere other than Primal Scream’s studio.
Blue Lines, for all its faults and rip offs, at least felt connected to the time and like something uniquely from the UK.
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My guess is anyone under 45 won’t remember a time when the assorted indie and dance tribes viewed each other warily across school canteens. I dunno if Weatherall was the first to broker a truce but certainly the most successful, before the Chems and the rest
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Indeed, was a guy lived just around the corner was mates with them, used to see them going into his flat. Remembering thinking he was okay before that To me really did seem like a last gasp bandwaggon jumping exercise for the ‘Primals’ whom I’d never heard of as I didn’t read NME.
Yes this. Literally never heard PS out, or for that matter any of the ‘Baggy’ stuff or the ‘Bristol’ sounds…
Both albums are a little bit overrated although I like them both. Screamadelica is marginally better I would say, even if it is patchy and doesn’t have the best version of Come Together on it (one with the vocals) but it does have Don’t Fight It… , Slip Inside This House and Higher Than the Sun, all of which are great. Plus Damaged is great to sing along to when pissed. Primal Scream have always annoyed me though and I have more respect for Massive Attack.
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It worked in my shared student house at the time. Finally, common ground.
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Oooooooof
Blue Lines by a gnats chuff