Spiritualized

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However in respect of the old Spiritualized website that disappeared some time ago - I wonder why in years gone by it was possible to view deceased websites via some (presumably automatic) cache that would turn up via simple Google searches. in case it's interest - archive.org has an archive of web...

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https://www.facebook.com/MartinYouthGlo ... =1&theater

things are progressing it would seem......

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My reissue FUI has arrived from the US, unfortunately the disc has been bouncing around inside the sleeves as it has caused a split in both the top and bottom of the outer sleeve as well as obviously the inner sleeve. Arse. Great pressing though, but im not sure if its massively quiet volume-wise. W...

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now playing on BBC6 Music.........

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I am looking forward to it immensely, but i hope it's not mastered ear-splittingly loud...... i dont hold much hope though. Ibuprofen ahoy!

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Im really enjoying this album which has just had its UK release, having dropped in the US last August Soulful, funky and heartfelt, and some cracking production. Apparently the backing comes from the house band from the new-startup label Spacebomb records. I look forward to hearing more stuff from t...

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So, not only did you have the best drugs in the late 80s and early 90s, you had the best gigs as well.

Hurrumph!!!!! im not playing!

Spz Glasto 2004 is mine, but i dont know how that compares to ''back in the day'!

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I had to turn off my pop-up blocker to get the purchase completed - normally i get warnings that pop-ups are blocked but that didnt happen on this occasion no complaints about the bandwidth available for the download - i opted for 24-bit / 96khz and my DSL connection was going full-chat all the way ...

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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/ ... eview.html

This is fairly good account of the gig

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Glastonbury 2004

it was then that i started to realise just how amazing a Spiritualized live show could be, and thereon opened up a deeper awareness and connection with music in general from that point on.

There may be better versions out there, but this will always be my favourite.

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only new track they did was the first one, i believe.

i seem to remember it sounded quite good, although the drummer missed the ending, which didnt impress Mr Shields.....

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i was there and he definitely said 2 to 3 days but i'll believe it when i see it! Im not sure he was too comfortable about being politely asked the question by an audience member between songs early in the set..... it would be great if it's true though. But the impression i got was that he didnt act...

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Full album can be previewed on Spotify ahead of the UK release on Monday Doesnt disappoint, flavoured very much like the more reflective SFA (perhaps unsurprisingly but no bad thing), also shades of Dennis Wilson and at times, early 70s 10cc. Will be adding this one to the collection, there is much ...

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thats a huge set!

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I wouldnt say that the discs were bad because the vinyl was white. Ive got a few discs on white vinyl that all sound much better, acceptable at the very least. The problems would have been with either the vinyl product itself or the process administered. Maybe someone who works in a plant and knows ...

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Thanks for posting, i rather enjoyed that.......!

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Went record shopping in London after work today, at Sister Ray i overheard a guy purchase the album, and it was also being played in the vinyl section at HMV. Good to hear it getting out and about!

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Album arrived yesterday! Haven't had chance to play the vinyl as I need to fix my turntable, but already the download sounds ace. Small world time - Finn Peters, guy who plays tenor sax and flute on this album, teaches my flatmate saxophone! Might ask her to get details.... Now it's out, I am getti...

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I found that the CD didnt exhibit the serious problems that the vinyl does, so i can only assume that the fuckup has been at the vinyl transfer stage rather than the original mastering The mastering was done by Bob Ludwig and he is no mug. On the CD i find that the sound quality of the songs does fa...

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i downloaded the WAVs using the promocode, and burnt a CD

This is more like it. I can hear everything properly now....

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shame you got some rough looking discs. great news about about the WAV option though!

as for the vinyl - how did you find it sounded?

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Well, as for pressing quality of disc 2, it's still crap in my opinion although nowhere near as crap as disc 1 Its a shame because underneath the messed up treble there is definitely a good sound. Will be contacting Domino about it next week. Hope the US pressings are much better than these. As for ...

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From the download of the CD I heard I'm not surprised. It sounds pretty bad, especially compared to the rest of J's releases. I just got the 7" in the mail today. Sounds slightly better, but still no up to snuff IMO. I was thinking of ordering the UK version...but if it's sounds like crap I mi...

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Got home to find the vinyl waiting for me, result!

Im on track 4 and Im enjoying the content, but i think this is a bad pressing. It sounds like it's being played through an old tin box

the treble is washy, distorted and extremely tiring on the ears. Gutted.

Hope Im just unlucky here.....

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i felt, that if anything, the problem with the lighting was that the audience area had too much ambient light, so you had to really focus on the stage.

I thought the lighting was pretty good during the final wig-out, all things considered.

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Brilliant, brilliant gig. The new album (or what must be most of it) was wheeled out in it's entirety with backing for most tracks from the orchestra and choir. Thats just utterly audacious???? To turn up at the Royal Albert Hall and do that?? You've got to admire the boldness there. The thing is, t...

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[quote=]"Tonight was just a succession of portions of interminable shapeless loud noise."[/color]
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That sounds alright to me

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Absolutely awesome Spiritualized gig tonight in Leamington...ears still ringing though. New material is incredible and #LOUD @officialSpzd

I've just seen Spiritualized live at Leamington Assembly and think it could quite possibly be the best gig I've seen all year

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judging by a twitter post i've just seen (using http://www.monitter.com as a search engine!) looks like the band played a lot of, if not all, the new stuff again

Spiritualized just played their (apparently) entire new unreleased album at The Assembly. Incroyable!

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A review up already

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/revie ... 6850664.jp

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new bass player!

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Yikes. This all sounds marvellous!

Thanks for sharing your experiences, all.

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Im astounded, so much new stuff, wasnt expecting that. Looking forward to hearing it all!

What was the band line up? I see John Coxon is there.

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made a late call to come to this one. Very much looking forward to this! I want the band to come out and hit me HARD. Having googled around it would appear that the band line-up is down as having John and Thighpaulsandra present (not sure the source, maybe the wikipedia page) I hope this is the case...

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'There's a Riot Goin On' - Sly and the Family Stone

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LPs bought from London today:

'Small Talk' - Sly and the Family Stone
'Sweet Exorcist' and 'Roots' - Curtis Mayfield

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Well they've obviously introduced a fade to the end of Home of the Brave and a fade-in for The Individual for the other side, but nothing to suggest that it wasnt done using the CD as a source. As for elsewhere in the album, just didnt notice any real differences from the CD... fades, mix, and so on...

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OK, I bought this. Doesnt sound much different to the CD, in my opinion. I reckon it's come off a CD. My turntable setup seems to be able to dig out a bit more high end detail but this quite simply could be due to this being a good pressing of a CD-format playback from top quality source kit My cart...

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This would be awesome, im just listening to some of the caps on youtube and this is a proper, gritty Spiritualized on the rockier numbers. I always find that Electricity is a great measure of how well the band is clicking as the timing is so crucial and this is superb. And that bass, OMFG, what a so...

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ononist wrote:...and playing a free gig in my town (also being their hometown) in July I discovered not 60 seconds ago!

So that must mean you're from the same place as me

Who would have thought that there would be two Croydon geezers on these boards....

I'll see you there this weekend!

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some of these discussed at length elsewhere on these boards but i've really enjoyed recently 'Congratulations' by MGMT 'Beneath this Burning Shoreline' by Cherry Ghost 'No: 2 Abyss in D Minor' by Serena Maneesh 'Shadows' by Teenage Fanclub and most recently - 'We Went Riding' by Richard James (forme...

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I wish labels would be open and honest about the mastering source, I really dont want to spend Â£30 having to find out with my own ears whether the label have just bought a Â£5 CD off amazon and pressed a vinyl from it, when there potentially are in existence much higher resolution (albeit digital) ...

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I'm really enjoying this album - perhaps a bit lightweight and twee for some, but some cracking moments. 8/10.

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Definitely go and buy it mate, if you think it's shit, I'll buy it off you!

yep, that lineup sounds pretty ace - enjoy!

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Anyone else got or heard this album? Seriously impressed - if not the most accessible music there is some pretty amazing stuff going on and the album seems to flow perfectly through various movements, with an overriding air of disjointness throughout. It really looks like a lot of work has gone into...

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im also rather intrigued....
So much so that i started a thread, but deleted it when i saw this.

So - anything anyone?

I cant talk - I've been working on my solo album for years, but havent finished writing any songs yet. Immovable writers block. I hate it!

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Wow, as if we needed reminding how beautful the acoustic stuff is...

Talking of beautiful, there happened to be one or two rather attractive members of the backing band as well

Thanks for sharing, kind of took me by surprise that they'd be doing any more Acoustic stuff.

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I absolutely loved it this year - yeah the younger generation being there makes me feel old nowadays but im happy to be around the youngsters when they're having the time of their lives! The atmos at the campsite where we were was so playful - nothing unpleasant at all, maybe we were lucky. I seem t...

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PS discussion re: lagwafis vinyl here http://ideensynthese.de/spiritualized/v ... f=3&t=7722

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I managed to find a nice copy of Pure Phase on vinyl for just under Â£20 on ebay about a year ago, which I thought was an absolute steal! I know people have said that it doesnt work as well as CD due to the side breaks, but I think it's a brilliant pressing, absolutely fantastic sounding. Love it. I...

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looks lovely!

some more vids have appeared on youtube.....

Latest Spz vids
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_t ... %2C1&uni=3

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re: San Diego 1998 I did a DIY remastering job on that bootleg, will upload if people are interested It certainly brought the detail out of what was a good recording, in fact it is extremely loud, although, unforgivably, there is some nasty distortion at the beginning of Electric Mainline due to my...

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re: San Diego 1998 I did a DIY remastering job on that bootleg, will upload if people are interested It certainly brought the detail out of what was a good recording, in fact it is extremely loud, although, unforgivably, there is some nasty distortion at the beginning of Electric Mainline due to my ...

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cars are alright...... but motorbikes are f*ckin great

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I thought J was giving someone some serious daggers at the end there

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yet another new bass player The last one was asked to leave. He did backing vocals for the Blur gigs while he assumed Spiritualized were in down time. The way I was told the story it was implied that the former was as a result of the latter. So he went to Glasto on a weekend off (so he thought) and...

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Excellent, thanks very much, look forward to hearing that!

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yep... that is a damn fine recording....

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it's a sloooooooooooow download, sounds like the wait is worth it though!

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was just gonna post that myself, but you took the glory

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Greeny wrote: If I can get it sorted tonight I'll stick it on Savefile or Megaupload and post you guys a link...

that would be grand, sir!

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Almost wanted to strap myself in for Cop Shoot Cop, which was incredible, felt the choir were the light that I needed to head towards!!! very very well put I felt the same about what the brass section were playing - and then the sound of the choir came sweeping through..... it was like musical apoc...

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was it deliberate that they played Kate's spoken intro at the end rather the beginning? Not sure.... but if you remember, as soon as the band came on stage, it went very very quiet for what seemed like an eternity....so something might have broken? Only seemed to add to the mystique surrounding wha...

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i thought i'd try recording it on my mp3 player.... unfortunately, it really is completely unlistenable! never mind, i knew someone else would come up trumps :D Agree re: Electricity, one of my big favourites but never always worked that well live, but this was superb, i think having the two drummer...

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Back from the gig...... I wont give too much away - but i guess we will all be talking about it...... Jaw droppingly amazing stuff. Perhaps a bit nervy at times early on, but my God...... when it was good, it was soooooo fucking good... Coxon in Over 30 people on stage - i counted 8 strings, 6 brass...

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