Spiritualized

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shalloboi wrote:the verve- 'a storm in heaven' plus those live tracks from the 1998 tour video and a few from 1993.

The version of Stormy Clouds/Reprise from that video is epic. Pity that one didn't get played more live.

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Full album now streaming at itunes.

The more "creative" among you may be able to find by other means as well.

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Been on another country music jag, filling out my Merle Haggard collection Webb Pierce - A Proper Introduction To... Merle Haggard - 1994 Merle Haggard - 1996 Merle Haggard - What A Friend We Have in Jesus Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price - Last of the Breed Merle Haggard - Blue Jungle Th...

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I find it gimmicky that they so frequently play entire albums by other artists -- You mean like The Flaming Lips did with "Dark Side Of The Moon"? Yes, and I didn't much care for the Lips' version either. Wretched excess. It's hard to cover an entire album well, though it can be done. I d...

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Apparently the hardcore Phishheads dismiss it as too mainstream, but the Farmhouse album is pretty good. I've never really listened to any of their other stuff -- the whole vibe seemed a little goofy and I find it gimmicky that they so frequently play entire albums by other artists -- but Farmhouse ...

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I put together a Verve one at some point, and have written about it on the forum, but over time it's become bigger and more idiosyncratic as I've added more material. Maybe eventually I'll get around to making a condensed version.

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I always disliked Pearl Jam so Iâ€™m probably a little biased here... to my untrained, non-musician ears PJ sound like theyâ€™re just thrashing through it with no subtlety and they sound a bit monotonous after a while. I also think the drumming is poor on this, thereâ€™s a few of the rockier tracks...

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I also played Mirrorball that night for the first time in years, I think there are some great songs on this record but Pearl Jam whom play on it are awful. For some reason this LP goes for a lot of money on E-Bay, last week a copy went for over Â£60! Mirrorball ... I dunno about Pearl Jam being awf...

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There are disadvantages, too, but that's one of the nice things about living in college towns. There's a big financial incentive to stock product for a hungry and diverse clientele. In this day and age you have to sell the "lifestyle" almost as much, or more, than the music itself.

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half expected/wished that it was gonna be about the next in the bootleg series- the complete basement tapes would be amazing!! I think I read somewhere that the record label is reissuing The Basement Tapes in audiophile sound, but only the original 2-LP release. And, given the limitations of the so...

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But yeah super cool. Stayed up really late last night with some friends, all of us laying on the floor in silence, listening to the double LP while watching the old Star Trek movies on TV with the sound off... all night long. Also scored em with Harmonia's Musik von Harmonia later on. It was pretty...

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I'm still trying to get into Nowhere. I like a lot of the music itself but something about the singing has always put me off. Would Going Blank Again be worth a try or am I better off giving Nowhere another spin?

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One's collection is not complete without that version of sway and the 11 minute walking with jesus. Classic show.

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I assume that this, Live at Magasinit-Goteberg, Sweden 2-5-93, is the same show?

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3qmvm2

Mods, if the Spaceman would prefer links not be shared, please remove!

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Simon and Garfunkel - America One of their greatest songs! I often feel a little bad for Paul Simon -- if not for Bob Dylan, I suspect he'd be the one in the history books rather than a footnote, albeit a best-selling one. Unlike some other classic artists of his generation, I don't get the sense Pa...

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I've always liked that version of All of My Tears... would love to see that project come to fruition.

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redcloud wrote:100,000 Spiritualized Forum posts can't be wrong.

What I really want to know is how many of those are squabbling about whether Urban Hymns is worthless or not.

How many posts were there on the old forum, and when did it switch over anyway?

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re How You Satisfy Me - I remember when the single came out - it was a massive stomper and seemed to confirm PK's new direction on the heels of the Big City and I Love You pristine pop of Recurring. Seemed completely out of place from the rest of Soul Kiss. That's how I feel about Hey Jane. I reall...

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Thanks, Flokie! I don't really understand excitement over an instrumental version of a song already released - give me a session version of a song or dare i say a new song or something different - a cover Did you not like all the instrumentals in the Complete Works? Granted the instrumentals of Feel...

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I had been a big fan of Radiohead (now not as much) and a fan of the Verve (now more than ever), and found that I kept reading references to a band called Spiritualized as the gold standard in space rock. The recommendations were gushing and frequent enough that I bought the albums I'd heard praised...

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redcloud wrote:Have to say that I'm not a big fan of the 'Potato Land' record though. The silly storyline, sound effects and goofy conversation throughout the songs totally ruins it.

Haven't heard any Spirit but I would be disappointed in an album called "Potato Land" that DIDN'T have those things!

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Another vote for Highs Lows as Pete's best solo LP. They all have their charms, but Forever Alien is weighed down by several experiments that are interesting but a little too mad scientist for their own good. Also love the Spectrum album -- Angel and Rock 'n' Roll is Killing My Life are particular f...

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I think there's also obviously a real intellect behind the music. To construct the soundscapes and as deftly weave together a the influences he does takes patience, wide-ranging knowledge, etc. There's a studiedness and craft to his work that's out of the ordinary -- he's thought a lot about wide ra...

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Bob Dylan - Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?}

Extremely underrated opening track to the somewhat underrated Empire Burlesque album.

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Great version of the song! Do you happen to have the whole gig?

And, does anyone have the free-from freakout with the Peter Gunn Theme?

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all the signs are good- however I take what Allan Jones says on Dylan with a pinch of salt- he always seems overly positive and if i remember correctly, wildly overrated Together Through Life. as a big fan of Time out of Mind, the signals that this is returning to the spooky and sombre mood of that...

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I think it's well done, and connected enough to the themes of the song, but for me personally it makes more sense when J himself is featured in the video in some way. In general, I tend to think the artist or band should appear in the video. For me the music and performance should be the heart of a ...

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I've been playing tons of Dylan the past week or so. Re-watched No Direction Home last weekend. Re-reading Chronicles. Not really interested in any new albums though. I'm just a sucker for his 60's to mid 70's era. My fave of those albums change daily - Freewheelin', Blonde On Blonde, Highway 61, B...

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A 12" of Verve's She's A Superstar is one of my prize possessions. It's a more satisfying object than a 7".

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Superb! Lovely to see Jason playing a more obscure SP3 song. Odd that Come Down Easy is one of their more obscure songs, but I've got 6 versions of it (if you include Fixin' To Die from the first demo) totaling over 45 minutes. Gotta love alternate takes, every one is good in a different way. I als...

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The problem with the U.S. constitutional system, which I generally think is pretty brilliant (to the degree it's been followed) in the separation of powers and so forth, is that so many votes are simple majority so structurally the system encourages there to be exactly two sides to every issue, with...

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Yeah, the last performance of Come Down Easy that I'm familiar with was in 1987, and they didn't tend to play it very much as far as I know.

In general, I would like to see J revisit a lot more Spacemen 3 material, and this would be one of my top picks!

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Good news! I am cautiously optimistic. Most of the songwriting in Together Through Life was a significant step down from his previous three records, but it was a quickly put together collaboration with that guy from the Grateful Dead. I'm hopeful that this album will be a little more thoughtful and ...

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Good news! I'd much rather an instrumental, as with past singles, than the random radio session tracks that have been b-sides for the last few records.

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Finally listened to some of this album and I am impressed! For all that I love Big Star, i sometimes find them a little too ragged, at times to the detriment of some great songs. This is just a little more polished, closer to Raspberries, but still retaining enough of that darkness and idiosyncracy ...

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Spiritualized is on the Onion AV Club's list of "Songs We Want To Live Inside": http://www.avclub.com/articles/songs-we-want-to-live-inside,82374/ Josh Modell Iâ€™ve got a confession to make: Iâ€™ve never used heroin. I know, I knowâ€”Iâ€™m losing a lot of cool-guy credibility by admitting...

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Fantastic pick for the single!

Something a bit different and one of the highlights from TDTMMTTDT. I'll have to give it another listen.

As much as I love Playing With Fire and Recurring, for me the REAL Spacemen 3 live in the time between For All The F-d Up Children to Dreamweapon.

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I find that Hurricane is the song I listen to least from Desire. It feels like the single, but not of quite the same vibe. I usually start with Isis, which is certainly one of his best songs, but a lot of the album is incredible. Joey and Black Diamond Bay are probably my two other favorites. I was ...

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It's a while since I listened to it, but Paul McCartney's new mix of 'Let it Be' stripped back most of Phil Spector's production, to produce a fresh-sounding alternative mix of that album. I'm a big Beatles fan and had previously loved the 'wall of sound' treatment he gave when producing that album...

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Sadly, once the 'Eliminator' album went gold/platinium etc. they decided to reissue their back catalog for a new 80's generation and remastered them with an 80's style reverb on the drums and layered some new vocals on. Fucking horrible. I generally hate when things are added on to reissues or post...

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olan wrote:
spzretent wrote:As always, it seems those who can afford it the least blow off the most.
Sadly that is not just true for firecrackers it is a universal truth.....

This universal truth has profound implications for public policy, in depressing but sobering ways.

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I'm not saying that MC5 weren't a great act that felt more threatening to parental mores, certainly they crystallized a mood and a moment in a really exciting and influential way with more energy than most have had, but did the self-righteous sloganeering really amount to much other than a cool mome...

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I agree that rock 'n' roll was dangerous -- certainly Elvis had a raw sexual energy at the beginning that I wouldn't have wanted any daughter of mine near -- but that doesn't mean the people threatened by it didn't have a point of view. Parents have always wanted to protect their children, as mine d...

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now spinning the acoustic black crowes anthology and it hits the spot every time. especially now, sitting on the porch, in the shade, sipping some wine 8) Agreed. Also worth checking out Chris Robinson Brotherhood's "Big Moon Ritual" and Rich Robinson's "Through A Crooked Sun" s...

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Also, keep in mind, before 1961/62...Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee etc. were subversive. This raw rock and roll is what fuels the MC5 and in particular, 'BINTUSA'. So, subversive in fact, that the conservative white radio stations needed to tame things down and rock and pop music went thro...

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For various reasons today was a pretty shitty day (with the exception of the supreme court's ruling - good stuff). With all due respect, not sure how it's good to entrust Americans' health care to the same jokers who make the Post Office and DMV such dreadful institutions... http://www.allmusic.com...

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I had downloaded, just getting around to putting it on the ol' ipod now. Always up for some good power pop.

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I have Sway and similarly picked it up at a substantial discount, a number of years ago. Some really good tracks on there, notably Sway, Sweet Marie, Would You Believe, and a few others. Definitely a strong Spiritualized influence, with a bit more of a country flavor. I think Phaser only had the one...

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The Stone Roses- Turns Into Stone. mixed bag for me, this. I'm not so keen on their janglepop/Britpoppy side which means I don't enjoy, say, Mersey Paradise or Going Down so much. but this collection also includes some of their greatest moments- Something's Burning is sublime and so is the outro to...

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Merle Haggard - Roots Vol. 1
Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson - Pancho & Lefty
Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson - Seashores of Old Mexico
Merle Haggard - If I Could Only Fly
Merle Haggard - The Bluegrass Sessions

I might have a theme going...

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I'd say that Second Coming is far more disciplined than Give Out, but maybe it's just that I like the songs on Second Coming way better. Aside from Rocks and Jailbird, Give Out is pretty much a dud. I don't have any problem with the classic rock approach, production, etc., but for me most of the so...

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Inspired by Erik Morse's remarks mentioned in another thread, I finally got around to listening to Primal Scream's Give In But Don't Give Out. I had never bothered because the reviews were so bad, but am actually really enjoying the album. Lots of great songs and a cool mix of the 90s ecstasy thing ...

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The Beatles- Sgt Peppers I've always maintained that this is one of the most overrated Beatles albums but it was sounding pretty fine last night.. perhaps a few fluffy and insubstantial songs that I don't care for (Good Morning, Fixing a Hole..) but the production is fantastic and it hangs together...

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the song actually does have a p nice msg... it's just a really boring song... by quite a distance the song i like least in the entire spaceman catalogue. a pastiche too far, & of too many other crap songs. but i did at least have something positive to say about Little Girl - i do think it's a l...

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Speaking from long ago experience... I think in my early days of such things I would tend to go for the cultural touchstones: Pink Floyd, latter-day Beatles, Hendrix, Bob Marley, etc. Later on, I moved on to other acts that do amazing things with sound -- Verve, early Spiritualized, the Spacemen, St...

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I was impressed with the research in Dreamweapon, but felt the extensive and overwrought exposition about music theory was unnecessary and a bit dubious. It's not surprising to me, then, to learn that he wrote the book as an undergraduate. The actual bits about the Spacemen are really well done, tho...

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People from different areas can have different senses of humor -- for instance I know very liberal people who will say off-color things. I don't think anything in this thread has been on the level of news comments.

Let me add an R.I.P. Davy Jones to our mournings.

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Elvis Presley - Runaway

An awesome cover from Elvis' "On Stage" album. There are a lot of gems buried across his many live albums.

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Let me first say that I appreciate the civil tone of this discussion. It's nice to air ideas without vilification or insult! On a side note I think Jason would vote for Obama if he could. :) My reasons for thinking this is that the Spacemen 3 had a song praising Che and in 2007 Jason did a tour to r...

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I oppose censoring this or pretty much any thread. It doesn't take long for a thread to sink into the murky deep once people stop responding.

RIP to anyone a board member is mourning!

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I love Little Girl, it's one of my favorites from the new record. Like Do It All Over Again after On Fire from Let It Come Down, it's kind of a palette-cleanser after an opener that isn't as orchestral as much of the rest of the album. I think it's a great Spiritualized pop song. Perhaps it's a past...

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I feel like Pitchfork kinda messed with my head in my teenage years when I thought their overblown Radiohead reviews "meant something." When I finally realized how big a pretentious scam it all is I pretty much stopped paying attention at all. I assume that most of what they hype at any gi...

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I haven't been around for nearly as long as some, but it's weird for me in that when I started listening to the Spacemen almost 10 years ago, Pure Phase and Ladies & Gents felt like really recent albums that were still organically part of what was going on in the music scene. It's amazing to me ...

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Romney's actual record in office is overall pretty moderate, a big reason why there was such a lack of enthusiasm for him in the primaries. I think all his instincts as a politician run against alienating popular opinion on big social issues. Plus, the beauty of the first term is that presidents alw...

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My 90s mix - smashing pumpkins, black grape, dave matthews, pearl jam, etc.

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I have a generally favorable opinion of Romney. He's not exactly a courageous or provocative candidate, but the truth is that America is too big and diverse a country for a president of strongly left or right views to represent a critical mass of the population. He's not a culture warrior, he's midd...

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