Spiritualized

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Thanks for this! been intrigued since the first time you mentioned it.

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In this day and age, everything should just be made easily available for commercial purchase. If it's not for sale, it just encourages piracy.

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When it comes to command of sonic texture, I place Kevin Shields in the top rank alongside people like J Spaceman, Sonic Boom, and Nick McCabe. The dense and organic sound of Loveless is fantastic. The problem is that I don't think My Bloody Valentine was very consistent when it came to producing gr...

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A friend of mine finally convinced me to make time for the "Skull and Roses" set. I've had American Beauty for years, which I like, but given the band's over-the-top psychedelic reputation I was somewhat surprised that most of the album was pretty low key folky country-rock, pretty similar...

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Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street

The best song from Darkness on the Edge of Town, and possibly Bruce's whole career. The organ solo at the end is exquisite.

Such a shame that his career is in the privy!

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We saw Dark Star Orchestra last night. This is a Grateful Dead tribute band - I know that sounds potentially full of disaster but it was anything but. These guys are so damn authentic they sound almost identical to the real thing. The lead guitarist even sings like Garcia and he has captured Garcia...

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This Roskilde boot (also mentioned in the other thread) is incredible stuff. I'll have to listen further to decide where it falls in my overall ranking, but this is way better than the Royal Albert Hall show.

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current lineup is very good although if pressed I would go for ladies and gents era. Could you recommend a Ladies & Gents era boot that best encapsulates why that era is your favorite for the band? I have a few of them, but the only one I've listened to with particular attention has been the of...

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It ain't just bass, either. I'm listening to freelovebabies' written in sand right now and will is also a really good songwriter with the perfect voice for the material.

(sorry to go off topic)

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Pink Floyd - Marooned

A track from deep into their dinosaur rock period, but yet strangely good. It's an elegantly wasted instrumental.

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Haven't caught a show or boot yet, hope it is the best. I'd probably have to go with the space cadets around 1994-1995.

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Once again I mistyped... I think I need a vacation.

I meant Shake It Off, is the one I always skip.

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The studio version is fine and the solo is OK but live I it seems to be Nels' moment. And I find those solos pretty pedestrian. Fair enough I suppose, to each their own. I just got around to listening to the live version on the Sky Blue Sky bonus EP for the first time, and I agree that the solo (an...

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To be honest, I was disappointed with the live show I saw on the A+E tour -- it was song after song of bone-crunching noise with little nuance or variety. :shock: Eh? Which gig was that? I didn't get that from the set I saw whatsoever - in fact my criticism would be that there wasn't nearly enough ...

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Ian -- it seems to me that socialism is only as good as the politicians and bureaucrats you entrust to administer the system. In America, there is not a critical mass of people to run such a system sustainably or intelligently -- do you think it's different in the UK?

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As someone who has been critical of the album artwork and generally less than giddy for the new record and tour, I hope I'm not one of the people you've had issues with. I've been listening to J Spaceman for a decade now, less than plenty of people around here but enough to be very familiar with eve...

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Ouch, very sorry to hear about that. Hope Jason isn't living the same lifestyle as the characters in his songs!

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Broc wrote:
jadams501 wrote:Interesting -- Impossible Germany is one of my very favorite Oasis tracks! I generally agree that there's been a decline in quality over the past few albums but that one is untouchable imho.
Oasis?

Oops. I meant Wilco of course. Long day...

I do love that solo.

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I don't really blame Cline for the de-Cline (!) but I just don't see what he brings to the band at all. For example I find his guitar part on Impossible Germany totally uninspiring, they nearly always play it live, it's my bar/toilet/smoke break. Interesting -- Impossible Germany is one of my very ...

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Right now... Spectrum - Touch The Stars One of my favorite Pete songs. I cannot come up with a single release, or any Unreleased items of the Floyd that I do NOT like![/b] Does that include Delicate Sound of Thunder, Division Bell, Pulse, etc.? I find that the stadium rock period is not offensive to...

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Any big Tim Buckley fans on here? He came up a bit in the Jeff Buckley thread but he seems worth his own. I've always thought that his career was a real mixed bag, but lately I've enjoyed Look At The Fool and other underrated gems from his sex funk period. I don't care for some of his early albums o...

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Wow, that is hilariously egregious!

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i really cant listen to any floyd except pre dark side material anymore That I do not understand. While I'd say that things were getting pretty ripe by the time The Wall came out, Gilmour's amazing guitars in Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Dogs are surely worth your attention? Though lately I've be...

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I for one would be thrilled for the opportunity to legally get a copy of "Highs, Lows..."

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Plain and simple: Obama should be reelected because of the fucking nutjobs he's running against. There's seriously nothing here to discuss. With all due respect, toomilk, that kind of thinking and discourse is a huge problem. To swoop in and say "Vote Obama because the other guys are 'fucking ...

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My political evolution was winding enough that I've held a lot of different positions before arriving at where I seem to have settled. But I think I tend to understand where people are coming from and why it is important to them. The only hope in slowing the decline of civilization is to act like ad...

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The thing about liberalism, and I say this as the child of two 60s activists, is that it paints a picture of the world in which the liberal/progressive agenda is a clear moral imperative. The problem is that the world doesn't always work the way the picture suggests, sometimes with disastrous result...

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Whoops, I thought Chimes of Freedom had been mentioned in a previous thread (and that I had commented) but I couldn't find it the other nightl Perhaps the threads should be merged? As for I'm Not There, the movie was like nails on a chalkboard for this Dylan fan. I felt that the filmmakers took the ...

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I broke my vow of waiting until album release and listened to Hey Jane. I'll be honest, the song itself compositionally didn't really grab me. I'm hopeful that, as with a number of other Spz songs, it grows on me over time. What did impress me was the production. I've said many times that I thought ...

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Somebody gave me the new 4-disc set "Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan" from lots of people for Amnesty International's 50th anniversary. Dylan covers have always been an inherently dodgy proposition, but this was worst than most! 17 out of 75 tracks were worth salvaging, and even ...

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Ian Brown - Time Is My Everything

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Played The Monkees 'Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd.' last night in memory of Davy Jones. A few rather ininteresting tracks mingle with some really excellent pop songs. I rarely see this album mentioned but it's pretty damn good. I too have been listening to a lot of Monkees. For me Pisce...

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Wow! Really? I will relate a story I have before on this message board before. I called Dedicated Records office in Notting Hill Gate when I was over for a buying/trading trip. Told them I owned a shop in Detroit and we were HUGE Spriritualized fans. They told me to come and hooked me up with 5 fly...

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Other candidates include Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream and Other Delights, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run, Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, and Abbey Road.

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She's A Superstar is my all time favorite record cover. It's the first vinyl I ever bought and the first I ever framed. How Brian Cannon went from that to the yawn that is the cover of Urban Hymns is inexplicable.

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I like all of the Spacemen 3 artwork. Recurring is horrendously ugly but strangely appropriate.

Sadly, the Taang reissues most easily found in the U.S. botched some of the artwork.

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When I buy the CD of SHSL, I'd ideally like as much of the purchase price to go to Spaceman as possible. I'd think that would be this site, but I think I remember reading that some people had trouble with their orders. What would you all recommend as the best place to order the album online?

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I think Lazer Guided Melodies has the best cover art by a country mile. I'm not planning on getting any tattoos but if I did one of those figures would be a top choice. I also like the Amazing Grace art a lot -- interesting that the arm has no track marks given the themes of the album, and it also s...

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did they have loads of energy 'cause they werent singing or playing instruments? Har har. They did all of their own singing (and sounded fantastic) and contributed some instrumental parts. Their band had a lot of chemistry. FWIW, I don't see why the Monkees get attacked for not playing their instru...

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First off, higher education is not an appropriate choice for everyone. U.S. education policy currently assumes that everyone should just go to Yale and everyone will be upper middle class. That's simply not realistic since people have different strengths and weaknesses. And how many cases are there ...

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I was just coming here to post about this terrible news.

I saw the Monkees on tour last year and his performance was incredible. Very high energy and it was hard to believe he was in his 60s.

Very, very sad.

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I am really sick of Ladies & Gents getting all of the attention for Spiritualized! Beyond that it's my least favorite Spiritualized record (maybe tied with Songs in A&E), Spaceman has released a bunch of other great albums. Everytime some music journo mentions Spiritualized it has to be the ...

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I got into spiritualized about 10 years ago, when on the strength of rave reviews i bought Ladies & Gents and Lazer Guided Melodies on the same day. I liked Ladies & Gents immediately, and didn't really get LGM, but over time i came to think LGM was a far better album than its more famous su...

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the library, of the ones mentioned, has Layla and other assorted love songs and also clapton unplugged as the only live album. either of those worth trying? it also has his latter albums. i would get the live 80's album but can't justify spending on cds i think i may not like at the moment! bloody ...

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Dylan's Forever Young? There's a great, simple arrangement in the demo on the Biograph box set.

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i've never 'got' him. i don't really think his sound is special and whilst i'll grant that he is very tallented and much appreciated i still prefer the blues originals as to his 'versions' (then again most of the stuff of his that i've heared has been covers and the famous songs) I would start with...

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I haven't listened to either song, so can't weigh in about any similarity, but creative borrowing from others has always been at the core of the Spacemen's work. Sound of Confusion may be my favorite Spacemen 3 album and lord knows every song on it is either credited as a cover or should be.

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I've been listening to loads of Eric Clapton lately and finally got around to listening to Cream. I've had their greatest hits for a long time, but for whatever reason had been turned off by the heavy-handed 60s vibe of it. But today I've been listening and have been really grooving off of a lot of ...

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Hope it's true -- a fine record which more than deserves to be in print.

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Worry not, chums, if Domino is dumb enough to give Americans an abridged release (which I find highly unlikely), surely some of your pals in these parts can help make sure you hear the whole album.

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Disappointed about the artwork, but I guess it saves me the cost of buying the vinyl. Not that I don't usually like supporting Spaceman, of course.

Glad to hear you all like the song -- I'm going to try to wait to release date so I can hear everything in one piece.

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I feel bad for Adele... the Mastercard British Album of the Year isn't as prestigious as the Visa English Record of the Last 12 Months.

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I appreciate all of the mental effort that has been expended attempting to rationalize a decidedly poor album cover, but i hope it's a silly placeholder.

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I wish I could describe it better, but something about the texture of Songs In A&E feels very Arcade Fire or some other Pitchfork band circa 2008. There are some great songs on there, but something about the sound of the record just doesn't feel timeless to me like their previous several records...

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As for the remixes - those are the only records Jason has ever made that appear to 'cash in' on what was going on on on the music scene, and I think they have dated very badly. Didn't like them much at the time either - way too obvious. Listening to them now, I'll agree that two of the three remixe...

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Interesting about the "dated" comment -- to me the most dated Spiritualized is Pure Phase, which has "mid 90s college indie" written all over it, not that that's necessarily a bad thing. I also expect that Songs In A&E will date rather quickly. I love Anyway That You Want Me,...

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Odd that we haven't seen any artwork, info about a single, details about packaging, etc. Methinks there might be a bit more of a delay than the last announcement admitted. I didn't particularly like the packaging for the last album, so I eventually gave up on the long-delayed deluxe CD edition and w...

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Derek & the dominoes - Live at the fillmore

the version of "why does love got to be so sar" is incredible, with some of clapton's all time best soloing.

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Another, slower but free option would be to pull a group together and share a series of Sendspace links via PM. Even for archival purposes, it's useful for many people to have copies of this material in case of solar flare or some other disaster.

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I almost never follow professional sports because I get tired of the exploitation of fans, all the advertising, and particularly the loutish behavior of so many players. I'm more interested in real teamwork than the self-centered antics of many players these days. But watching Jeremy Lin play has be...

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Oh man, I think it's a must. Many will disagree, but I think that first demo is as good as anything they did and really captured how much they were influenced by blues as well as the Velvets, etc. I think it's still in print -- well worth a couple of bucks. The CD I have has pretty interesting packa...

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I know nothing about hockey so I clicked on this expecting to see something about chicken wings.

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noOne wrote:5. Spacemen 3 - Things'll Never Be the Same - Forged Prescriptions

My favorite version of this song, except for maybe the original from F'd-Up Children of this world.

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Stone Roses Mix: Shoot You Down Ride On Fools Gold I Am The Resurrection Ride On is a b-side from the Second Coming sessions that beats a lot of the album tracks. It's a grimy jam with a bit more of their early stuff than a lot of what made the album. Second Coming as a record was a lot like Verve's...

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I've listened to Shot of Love, his underrated 1982 classic, a couple of times these last few days. Really passionate and immediate. Almost every song is a highlight.

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What?! Those are some of my very favourite moments! I love how they stand out a little compared to the uplifting gospel songs and more straightforward ballads and garage rockers! The middle part of Hey Jane actually had me quite excited when I first heard it. LAGWAFIS must be a bit of a struggle th...

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