Spiritualized

Just wanted to pop in and say I've thoroughly enjoyed listening to all the episodes of this so far. Wonderfully in-depth and well-informed discussions!

Hi all! Posted a bit here some years ago before I lost track (I even thought the forum disappeared for a while? But that was probably just me disappearing..). Hope a bit of shameless self-promoting is not against forum rules or too frowned upon -- if it is, don't hesitate to delete the post after sc...

see the last few pages :wink: Oh, right! :oops: That's what I get for storming in, assuming people around here won't have heard of fairly obscure swedish acts.. :lol: As I said, I'm certainly not convinced this is a conscious homage/lift on Jason's part, but if it was, I don't think Silverbullit ha...

I first heard "Hey Jane" today. I liked it, especially the second part. It instantly struck me how similar the second part is to the song "Joy" by the swedish band Silverbullit (known in the US as "Citizen Bird" for trademark reasons apparently) - the song is available ...

Sorry if this has been mentioned already, but if anyone's using Spotify the 3 disc version is now available via that service. Start here: http://open.spotify.com/track/4aUCovTNe98WnwE6AIl0pU ..

It's definitely a lot more lush and layered in sound than the previous two albums. More melancholy as well. Album of the year for me so far, by quite some margin. (I also agree that their first album is very unimpressive.. love "Axis of Evol" though)

Amazing Grace/You Lie You Cheat Shine a Light Cheapster Soul on Fire Sweet Talk Sitting on Fire Walkin' With Jesus Oh Baby Rated X I Think I'm in Love Lay Back in the Sun Death Take Your Fiddle Life Is a Problem Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space She Kissed Me (It Felt Like a Hit) Come To...

I've only got the time and money to do Göteborg, unfortunately. It's my first time seeing them, I can't wait.

Thanks for sharing this, great bootleg.. I love the audience reaction to "Lay Back In The Sun", anyone on the board feel like owning up to that one?
(I'll be doing exactly the same if/when they play it in Sweden in a week)

I just found out support on the Swedish dates will come from the excellent IKONS. They play largely instrumental drone rock, pretty traditional stuff in the early Spacemen/Loop style but really good IMO. http://www.myspace.com/1kon5 .. Just when I thought I couldn't look forward to the Gothenburg gi...

As a massive fan of the mighty Let It Come Down album I would hope so as well, but On Fire sounded poor live when it was on the setlist a few years ago - the arrangement was far to simplified into chord progressions, without the nuance of the superbly produced album version. I really don't think th...

On Fire I can't for the life of me figure out why they haven't already included this as it seems perfect for the current lineup, with the backup singers and all. Also I don't think it's too much to ask for that LICD is represented by at least one song ("Lord Can You Hear Me" doesn't reall...

Surprised no one's commented on this yet (or did I just miss it?) considering it's on tomorrow (August 5th). Hope this goes up online somewhere and thought this might be a good place for a link if anyone could provide one.

Look what they've done to 'Walkin' With Jesus' - it's now a country-soul-blues shuffle! Yeah, that was awesome. They've really picked up a song that had almost literally been done to death and breathed new life into it! This version is in my book second only to the "Out of It" demo with t...

hey, when did they start sneaking "Electricity" back into the set?

is wrote:Joke?

If so, I assure you that I'm posting in good faith - people are checking it out as we speak; I was so excited I had to share it with the group!

Then this is great and slightly bizarre news!

I love LOOP, think they're hugely underrated and overlooked. The Spacemen 3 comparison is inevitable I guess - especially given the historical circumstances - but ultimately I think the differences were crucial. The Spacemen to me always felt like they were grounded in the blues, some kind of earthy...

alan_cohaul wrote:Springsteen? That's.....interesting. Had no clue that he's a fan.

I think I read somewhere that Suicide was the main influence when he did "Nebraska". I'm not a Springsteen fan, haven't heard the record (maybe I should?) so I couldn't tell.

YES! Fucking Gothenburg date - how unexpected is that given Spz haven't been the most frequent visitors to Sweden? I might do Malmö or Stockholm too, who the hell knows when they will be back again?
I love the world right now!

Confirmation on the official Sonic Boom myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sonicboom

spazed99 wrote:Tue 10 Estonia, Tallin, Saku Arena

Sun 15 Norway, Oslo, Norwegian Wood Festival

Ample space to fit in at least one date in Sweden!

i was in contact with the organizers here and it's as sure as a sunset. posters are all over the city - "special guest is Spiritualized". here's further official confirmation for anyone who's as baffled as I am about this - http://www.livenation.fi/event/getEvent/eventId/318860/ ... :shoc...

1st Voices album is realy good too - arrived yesterday. Some really haunting Jason-esque stuff and some real thumpers too. The Voices are excellent.. The first album sports (at least) a blatant rip-off of almost Spacemenesque proportions - "Take The Pain Away" = "Lord Can You Hear Me...

ain't rumour. that will happen - Kravitz is planned for chilling the Spiritualized in Tallinn on the 10th of june. same "company" will be together in Turku, Finland on 7th of june and in Helsinki, Finland on 8th of june. weird indeed that it has not been mentioned on the News/Gigs page. m...

We need at least one Scandinavian date.. The fact that I seriously considered going when I heard that strange rumour about Spiritualized supporting Lenny Kravitz in Estonia (?!) speaks volumes about my desperation I think.

Haven't got the album yet (it's supposed to arrive today! ) but "Soul On Fire" can't be right. If it's in E, then the chord progression is rather E A B A ..

From Anton's Myspace.. Finally, I get worried when they don't announce a new European tour every three months or so.. :D DATE VENUE CAP 21/06/2008 Copenhagen - Pumphaset 600 22/06/2008 DAY OFF 23/06/2008 Norway - Hove Festival 25,000 24/06/2008 Gothenburg - Sticky Fingers 400 25/06/2008 Stockholm - ...

Ah, I was wondering what had happened to the homepage and the forum. Such a shame, and not the smartest move in the world if Anton is really involved, as both the page and forum were great resources that really seemed to attract a lot of people and work as a great "word of mouth" type of c...