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it still begs the question...what record label will be releasing said album? Absolutely. The collapse of Sanctuary, and all of the resulting mess that likely has to be cleared up before Spaceman can get back in action with releasing stuff, has to be a major factor in the delay here. We should be gr...

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This show is superb. The band are really enjoying it thanks to the energy coming from the crowd. I'd loved to have been there. I love the bit where the crowd are humming Ode To Street Hassle , to try and prompt the band to play it. When they start playing the song it's such a beautfiul moment! You ...

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Thank YOU, good sir!

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It's obviously a case of "one man's poison", although I'm really wondering if 26$ even likes Spzd at all. :lol: Me, I wouldn't change a thing on LGM, aside from bringing it back to 4 tracks. Granted, there are superior versions of some of the tracks elsewhere, and when listened to in isola...

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The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

Maybe really only upbeat for the chorus, but underrated and undervalued in general so it merits a mention.

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Obvious really, and possibly a bit open to ridicule, but I really do have to shout for:

Hawkwind - Space Ritual

Ignore the naysayers, this is 2+ hours of wonderful chugging hypnotic groove rock that all SP3/Spzd fans should be aware of.

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Or even if we can't have an official AM, how about an "unofficial" one in Complementary Medicines?

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Hearing Hypnotized on the radio around about the time it came out, I was totally enthralled by the overall sound. Like nothing I'd ever heard before. Shortly after (or was it before?) I saw some Spacemen stuff on Rapido, but it didn't really click with me. Time marched on, and via an "Indie Top...

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Well, it was also 4 years between LGM and Pure Phase, and also 4 between Ladies & Germs and LICD, so maybe there's a tendency to give the guy a hard time this time round?

I'm just grateful that he's still around to make fantastic music after everything that's happened recently.

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Steady on! The Complimentary Medicines stuff was made available in AIFF format too, and was a free download. This is an ideal avenue for all that extra good stuff that the genuine fans want but that doesn't get the chance to slip out through regular (record label) channels (and even when it does, it...

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Perhaps Jason just got annoyed at Will selling these? Still though, I think it's pretty cool that they're now more widely available, and even though they're free, those who did pay for them have the collector's items. This would be a nice thing to do for Acoustic Mainlines, if an official "in t...

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Spamuel L. Jackson wrote:...but I have to grab my crotch to hit the high F...

And the difference between that and Michael Jackson is...?

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It's not the best track on Parable... to be honest. Hurricane Fighter Plane is! No - "Pink Stainless Tail". No, "Hurricane Fighter Plane", which is more than enough reason to buy it! :D Then listen to Alien Sex Fiend's version, which is about 25000 times better (no joking).

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I think "without acknowledgement" is definitely a bit much. I definitely remember seeing "Kember/Pierce" credits on Albert Hall and Let It Flow (and also different publishing being listed), and have no recollection of where TMTTOS appeared on a Spz record.

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Only get both if money is absolutely no object. The only thing that the TAANG! version has to recommend it is having all of the tracks on one CD. And anyway, once you've heard one live version of Revolution, you don't really need to hear any more (aside from the Spectrum version that runs into "...

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A wave file created from a pure digital rip of a CD, reading all of the little binary 1s and 0s, will be as exact a copy of the original as errors in the reading process will allow for. Other methods (such as analogue recording through a PCs "line in" socket) will be subject to noise, inte...

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It does have Any Way, though, it's sequences as one track with If I Were With Her Now, and has a gloriously dumb wig-out rockist guitar solo.

I can't help but approve.

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I can't fault the production either as the pair of them did a supreme job which I have trouble finding fault with. The production is perfectly fine, agreed, but the mastering of all CD versions is just plain atrocious. The best sounding version of TPP is the original Glass vinyl. Beyond that, the T...

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Or to put it another way, Recurring may be an extremely pleasant listening experience, but TPP is the kind of record that can genuinely change how you think about your life.

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Hypnotized dates from 1989, remember, and is actually more contemporary with PWF than it is with Recurring. I doubt if it was even recorded in the same batch of songs as the rest of Jason's side, so in this case the Recurring credits may be more than a little misleading.

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I recommend both of the "Switched On" comps. Where to go from there depends on whether you prefer the chugging groove machine or the gurgly bubble bath.

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Well, I tried to construct an answer to the above stuff, posted it, deleted it... Suffice to say, I think you've just got the wrong end of the stick. I wasn't having a go at you, Sonic. I can see now where the ambiguity in the other guy's post came from, but I think that that my interpretation of i...

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Wow!!!

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That would be our friends at TAANG getting the track list wrong, I reckon.

Trying to guess between Ecstasy Symphony and Esctasy Symphony/Transparent Radiation (Flashback) was the real fiendish one though!!!

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http://chthonicionic.net/whatsthatsong/ ... Spacemen+3

Groovy...

(Bleedin' mislabelled TAANG reissue of PP caught me out!!!)

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Nah, not a hope.

The work environment at JobsFront is very professional but cheerful and team orientated with the feeling of all helping to 'pull' together

But here's another candidate anyway...

http://www.glaister-ennor.co.nz/new_sit ... oct.html#7

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New Order are due one in Feb. Should be cool.

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TMTTOS is easily the best - garage rock at it's finest!!! And as a pure statement of intent it's utterly peerless.

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Never mind Jason sitting down and to be honest, I don't care if Spz never make a new LP.

BEEF MONSTER MUNCH ARE BACK!!!!! WHHHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

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There really is no "definitive" SOC release. The TAANG CD is as good as anything else although the bonus tracks (WWJ 12" + a 2:35 demo) appear elsewhere, but if you can't get the proper Translucent Flashbacks (i.e. with the unedited Rollercoaster) it's what you want. Sound quality is ...

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Read and finished. Got mine in Waterstones actually, so there's some regular retail copies out there too!!! There's some discussion on the SP3 forum.

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I've just finished too, and it was a cracking read even if it didn't really add much to what we already know (and even left out some stuff I remember from first time round) about the part people are probably most interested in (the split). Must say, nobody really comes out of this one covered in glo...

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Should we read anything into the use of the present tense in this quote: "How could I be friends with Pat (drinks like a . . .) Fish, Goff or Jason . All of whom are big drinkers"???

Or just wishful thinking...?

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Works perfect for me. Nice to have a decent copy of this.

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Spaceage seems to have better quality to me. Go for that one cos of the Transparent Radiation (Organ Version) bonus track - even if you have to pay more. It's quite different to any other version of the song, and well worth having.

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Just bought it in Tower (for a little bit more...)

Nothing on there I haven't already got, but it's nice to have them all together, and very nice to have the extended Angel on CD. Pity it was dubbed off a slightly worn vinyl though.

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This was posted on here a while back. What I can work out, from various versions, is something like: Her sweet kiss it elevates my soul Honey I ain't blind It's lit up all around my soul Left me hypnotized It's sweeter than honey Lord Sweetest thing that I've known or saw Jesus sweeter than the life...

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My ears say they're identical. Jason being lazy again? Perish the thought...

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1) Haven't heard the Big City version so I can't say. 2) None that I can detect anyway. (It's labeled as Honey part 2, by the way) 3) Sonic. I've always placed the Hypnotized stuff with the Playing With Fire era myself, so maybe they would have been more appropriate on that CD than on any 2 CD recur...

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It was originally the B side of Big City. I imagine Jason just got lazy...

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Funny, my Glass PP is probably the best quality copy I own. A bit worn by now, of course, but the overall sonic and tonal balance is far more spot-on than any of the others. Still far from perfect, and nowhere near the quality I know can be had from this LP (listen to the versions on Translucent Fla...

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"Volume" it was I said... Your "Original" has a maximum volume level of 0.1267, which is kinda one eighth of normal. Another forum I frequent is full of complaints about traders deliberately mutilating stuff to "keep it rare". I'm not making any specific allegation here...

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Did you really have to mutilate the volume of the song so that it's no use to people who don't have a copy?

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Lossless compression formats will always be needed for the more specialised requirements of trading, etc, but I still say that the advantage of MP3 is sheer portability, by which I mean that you can open it with anything

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My Taang! PP has no silence, and my Fire one has the 2 sequenced as one track (i.e. the album is a 10 tracker when it should be 11). Unfortunately, the warnings about sound quality are very very relevant. Basically, you will not find a PP out there anywhere with optimal sound quality (just compare t...

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OK, we've drifted completely off topic and gotten into another row over why 26$ doesn't like Amazing Grace, and I don't think anything is being said here that hasn't been said loads of times before in loads of other places. Can we stop now, and help out someone who has heard some SPZ and wants to he...

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Mmmmm, I remember putting "Let It Flow" on a regular pub jukebox once (it was lurking on some indie compilation) and everyone loved it.

I think there are people crying out for this kind of music who don't even know it exists.

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I have Bo's original somewhere, it's nothing really special.

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Probly just the packaging as usual. To be honest, for a compilation that's unlikely to be of any interest to anyone (and CWV1, for all it's faults, at least had that much in it's favour) I'm surprised they bothered.

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The Anti-Piracy on CWV1 works by introducing invalid data into the music waveforms which the error correction on domestic CD players can fix, but PCs, having no error-correction, can't. The upshot of this is that the error correction chips on your CD player will be working overtime, so sound quality...

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That's Just Fine with the fully re-recorded vocals springs to mind as the most likely candidate.

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I think I'm in love with Scarlett Johansson. Hands off! She's mine!!! Just hearing "Sometimes" pounding out of a Dolby 5.1 cinema sound system is worth the admission alone, but it is one groovy movie. Back on: I don't think originality is that important really. Half of Sonic's own inspira...

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Hypnotized (I count it as SPZ, it's really where it all begins) Feel So Sad (Rhapsodies) Shine A Light (Live) Let It Flow Electric Mainline (KCRW Session - it's the longest I have!!!) Stop Your Crying (KCRW Session) Lord Let It Rain On Me Loadsa stuff left out here, but that should so it in about 50...

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Funny, I always thought he was paid to write the song specifically for Toffee Crisp, and being "with her now" was actually a metaphorical allusion for munching on a chewy crunchy chocolatey Toffee Crisp.

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Hmmmm. Says on the News page it's a "special edition" of the single - does that mean we'll also get a regular release?

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I'd see Out Of Sight as being more in a 71/72 Floyd style, say Obscured By Clouds, or some bits of side 1 of Meddle.

Actually, Obscured By Clouds it is.

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I like MP3s for much the same reasons as Spaceline. Portability is key here, and being able to fit an entire show on a USB memory stick is definitely a plus. As for the sound, again I'm with Spaceline, on any hi-fi you will always notice the difference. Any CD burned from MP3s sounds dull, flat and ...

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They weren't bad at all. Heaven's End was a pretty fine LP, Fade Out was cool, A Gilded Eternity was quite good as well but I found it slightly dreary in places. I would take the point about I'll Take You There (and This Is Where You End, for that matter) bearing more than a passing similarity to Th...

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Very tiresome this, isn't it?

I think some people just need to be put in a room with each other and not be let back out until they've settled their differences.

Remember - every argument needs 2 parties. One to start it and the other to continue it.

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Ugh!

Horrible hostile desktop takeover site - now I'll have to resize all my browser windows just the way I like them all over again!!!

Hopefully we'll have a bit more than the feeble "She kissed me" effort - perhaps a clutch of live tracks?

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Outside the UK so I can't go, but just out of interest - is that the same "dirty duck" mentioned on the "For all the fucked up children..." sleeve notes?

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There's a Bradford '90 recording available, sound quality is so-so but it's a mixture of SPZ and Spacemen stuff, Feel So Good is there in part, Hypnotized, a long version of Drive. The only thing to be aware of is that when I grabbed it off Soulseek it took 2 weeks to come down (with an always-on co...

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I've always thought LICD was a decent enough album. Some of the more stripped-down radio session versions that are available really allow the songs to shine through, Stop Your Crying can raise goosebumps if heard in the right context. For my money, the songs worth retaining on it are: - On Fire - Do...

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Well thought-out objections there Ian. As always with Jason, one has to come to expect some kind of half-assed effort in instances like this. Another benchmark box set is The Cult's (yeah, I know) "Rare Cult" - choc full of demos, radically different alternate versions, B Sides, etc. The r...

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For me, the first 2 Spacemen LPs are where it's at, particularly in their "alternate" forms (Taking Drugs and Forged Prescriptions). These represent an almost peerless collection of songs. With Spz, the missing ingredient is Pete - Jason really needs someone else to spark off and inspire h...

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The Space Age reissues have generally tended to have better sound quality, but it's really dependent on the original source - in this case, I wouldn't imagine there would be that much of a difference. I only have the SFTRI one so I can't say any more. The Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music is a bea...

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