Spiritualized

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It seems to me that the sequencing could be improved significantly by moving "City Lights" back one track from the end of Side 1, putting it ahead of "Looking For Love," the more natural side-ender. This has the immediate effect of offering some relief from relentless string of h...

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Lou Reed - The Bells Admittedly I haven't had the time to sit with this album (as I believe that initially this is what it requires) but it is the most difficult Reed album I've come across yet. Perhaps something to do with the introduction (to me anyway) of sax in his work. Another element that I ...

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you are either just a newspaper boy or you're either Babe Ruth. It just sounds uncomfortable. Aside from that, I'm really enjoying this record so far. Could be worse, like on White Light where on several songs he seems to be under the impression that "whom" is just a fancy way of saying &...

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Correction: 15th April
EDIT: Correction: 13th May ???!!??

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/art ... 1003701480

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A source tells me that a deluxe, 2CD "Legacy" edition of Dennis Wilson's long out-of-print Pacific Ocean Blue is due for the last week of March of this year. Disc one will include a remastered version of POB (prepared by a reliable mastering engineer - not super-compressed, in other words)...

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Cool! I'm a long time Sadies fan being Canadian and all.....good to see that they're reaching other parts of the world. Well, maybe I don't count, since I'm originally "Canadian and all" too! - and have been following them since the very late '90s, through friends on the 'scene' at first....

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How profoundly weird is it to find ourselves in 2008, with new Spiritualized, Verve and My Bloody Valentine records due within weeks of one another?

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Ahem. Same question but with 'Cowboy Movie' and 'Down By The River' (the song titles distracted me - and I had to remember the sounds of the Neil Young album)? The guitar sound, the riff, the rhythmic feel? More than the structure in that case, no? (Throws up hands) I dunno. A lot of/most Crosby so...

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Recent discoveries: The Sadies - New Seasons (see 2007 thread - the best pop album of the new millenium, no hyperbole) Really?! Cool, I'm seeing them Thursday...I hope they'll bring the album to sell too. What is it like, do you have a minute to give me a short description? :D Parsons-White Byrds m...

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I suppose there's a reason you haven't addressed my inquiry about the similar sounding songs about cattle hands by Crosby and Young, but I hesitate to guess what it is now. I feel it would be impolite, for one thing. Well, I don't mind speculation, but I didn't feel I had anything to add! I don't r...

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Recent discoveries: The Sadies - New Seasons (see 2007 thread - the best pop album of the new millenium, no hyperbole) Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Run Down (a shamefully underappreciated flirtation with the avant-garde, on side A at least; side B is unadulterated pleasure in the sure-handed Rollin...

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Speaking of which (and it's a shame you don't know If I Could Only Remember My Name - I was pretty much counting on you), are Cowboy Movie and Gowgirl in the Sand related? There's nothing in the internet about it... Oh, come on now, you really ought to give me more credit than that! I meant "I...

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I don't know about Slade (or Croz for that matter), but New Seasons and Buffalo Springfield make fine bedmates. The latter in particular has my favorite Neil Young song ever on it ("Flying on the Ground Is Wrong"). Come to think of it, it has most of my favorite Neil Young songs that aren'...

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runcible wrote:That Sadies album is rather good actually.

Yes. Yes it is.

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It absolutely is:

http://www.amazon.com/New-Seasons-Sadies/dp/B000VDDB8O/

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After much deliberation I'm ready to call The Sadies - New Seasons album of the year 2007 and in fact the best new album I've heard in maybe five or six years. I don't know if I've had quite enough time to assimilate it, but I think I enjoy it more than any other album I've heard since Let It Come D...

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...the who - live at leeds magic bus live................i could die and go to heaven if i found a time machine to witness this song played. plus everything else is electric. Hm. That's another one I probably played a thousand times in my younger days - though hardly ever since! This was the old ve...

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The other day I had to head out on my lunch break to buy yet another copy of Coltrane's Impressions - $9.99 this time so phew. As I mentioned in my post to the Soundtrack thread, this was one of my first ever jazz albums - to be exact it was either number two or three, I've forgotten which. By no me...

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Looking for guitar tabs for spiritualized I found that one fan website, can't remmeber what it was called, and from there was lead to the old official Spiritualized website and stuck with it when this one replaced it. Probably it was Chris Barrus's (fan site I mean). It's certainly missed, though t...

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Looking forward to it. This is a really fascinating thread (and not just for my contribution).

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Wonderful idea for a thread - though I was this close to an irate post since I interpreted the subject line as an invitation to discuss my least favorite contemporary bombast-rock act this side of Sigur Ros! 70s. Very young, only the faintest memories - I liked what my older brother played for me on...

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The Valentines occupy a different area in that an actual split never officially took place - more an intense period of inactivity. That's not really true, unless you're of the opinion that Kevin Shields is My Bloody Valentine - a defensible position considering he played all the instruments on Love...

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BzaInSpace wrote: Sam Cooke - Night Beat [reissue]

Night Beat was reissued again? My version (in a luxe digipak) is from 2005! Was there extra material?

Apparently 37 (!!) Van Morrison albums are going to be reissued this year with bonus material.

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On the other hand... I remember Neil Young having a good old rant about 15 years back about the music of period mid-80s to mid-90s being fit only for history's garbage heap, on account of it being all digital, and therefore dead ( may not be actual quote ). The bloke who wrote Revolution in the Hea...

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Read that bit in Q. Along with Thaw Session, very encouraging. (Has Nick ever been this enthusiastic about - well - anything? And just look at Simon Jones, who, in Youtubed gig vids, is even singing along to "Velvet Morning".) The Weirdness is, indeed, pretty disastrous. But does not Raw P...

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The popular and critical embrace of the Arcade Fire is the most baffling and dismaying development the recording para-industry has produced in recent memory, and that includes Radiohead.

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Apropos of nothing, call it Two Degrees of the Byrds. I figure anything made anywhere near California passes the test, but last night I was watching The (original, 1984) Terminator with the wife and stayed awake for the credits, long enough to find the name of the person responsible for that super-c...

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Another thought inspired by the fusillade of hatchet-buryings that was 2007: I see no reason why the reunited Verve shouldn't be extraordinary, but it's true that reunion albums tend to be (and are almost proverbially) disappointing. It seems to me, oddly enough, that Urban Hymns might be the best o...

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Jason Pierce is actually a devout Mormon, which he has been since 1987. In fact, the title The Perfect Prescription is a play on the similarity of the acronyms LSD (the hallucinogen lysergic acid) and LDS (i.e., The Church of Latter-Day Saints - the mainstream Mormon organization). Other famous prac...

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Albums where your favorite cut on the album is the outtake included as a bonus track. Non-LP singles and their flipsides do not count . So even if "Soul 1" or "May the Circle Be Unbroken" are your favorite Spacemen 3 recordings, since they were non-LP b-sides Perfect Prescription...

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I've been listening to the Back to Mono boxed set too and I've decided that my favorite track is probably the Ronettes' 'I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine' (unreleased at the time), which is part of the pre-show mix for the Acoustic Mainlines shows. The odd thing about the boxed set is that since the...

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Yeah.

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Shonn - you should log out, and then click log in, and then click "I forgot my password". It will generate a new one and then you should be able to go back to being a beautiful noise.

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Mind you, Dion is good and the Spector album is OK if a little lugubrious. I just don't think Spector brought much to it.

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For question 1, try Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man.

For question 2, try a comprehensive Best-Of.

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The only thing Phil ever had on Brian Wilson (or anyone else for that matter) was a .38 pistol. Screw him. There were better and more restrained 'girl group' productions elsewhere - sure, the 'Nettes and the Crystals had the best tunes, but it's not like Spector wrote them - and his latter-day mate...

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The Beach Boys - "Time to Get Alone". It doesn't make explicit mention of Christmas, but it has wintertime scenes.

I always listen to Sweetheart of the Rodeo around Christmastime. And Coltrane's My Favorite Things.

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The only thing Phil ever had on Brian Wilson (or anyone else for that matter) was a .38 pistol. Screw him. There were better and more restrained 'girl group' productions elsewhere - sure, the 'Nettes and the Crystals had the best tunes, but it's not like Spector wrote them - and his latter-day mater...

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That's some serious undertaking, is it not. I have a fair bit of electronic music that comes in at about 4 - 6 albums per artist but i'm not into double figures with any 1 artist and i'm simply not ready for names like Coltrane and Davis or even the Beach Boys. Mostly you get collections as big as ...

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Whilst you're hear $26, you've been a starter of threads on Marvin and commentor on Ruffin and various other 60's pop/soul artists...I know of and have a fair bit of soul...mainly motown but it's the usual compilation albums...point me in a new direction or a direction I haven't been in...really lo...

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This sounds like an interesting project, by the way - though it's something I haven't done in a long time (playing the entire Byrds catalogue from top to bottom, even without solo projects, b-sides and bonus tracks, takes something like nine hours, and I haven't had nine spare hours since the late 9...

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eleKtroniK:musiK wrote: I like your nick name The Kwisatz Haderach;

I think it's actually from Dune (the Frank Herbert fantasy novel). It's very badly munged-up Hebrew, meaning "makes-the-path-shorter". A more proper transliteration would be Kfeesatz Ha-de'rech.

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From about 1400 to the appearance of Thomas Wyatt in the early 1500s there wasn't a single singificant poem written in English.

Sometimes innovation nods for a few decades.

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Mattock gotta eat. If he's good at what he does, more power to him. IIRC, members of the current (?) Spiritualized rhythm section can be hired as a wedding band.

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I suspect it's primarily the current tour he's promoing.

The album is finished but a label (probably from within the EMI family?) still has to get behind it, which hasn't happened yet and until then it's not going to get promoed on its own terms.

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ive been dying to get a hold of this or even hear it, but haven't had the chance since its so rare. I was hoping maybe someone can upload this? it would be greatly appreciated since its so hard to even find sound clips of the songs online, and everyone says its so good. If you want it badly enough ...

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Hey, no joke guys but i've had this in my mind for ages...wouldn't it be good if Spiritualized did a "stripped-down" session, y'know...remember all those bands that used to do Unplugged...think it was Mtv...Nirvanna, Oasis and other acts like Sting and Elton and my favourite Rod Stewart. ...

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I sort of doubt that - the verse lyrics (though not original) don't usually go with the chorus, and I think Peter did originate putting them together. Also, the title.

This guy sounds (and looks) like Balki.

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eleKtroniK:musiK wrote: I listened to "Soon" (correct me if i'm wrong..."Glider" EP)

Or perhaps Loveless, which I believe is exactly the same mix.

But you're quite right about how dated it sounds.

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warmgun. wrote:it looks like they might be resurrecting Let The Damage Begin (fantastic b-side from This Is Music) for the new album

Extremely unlikely, I think.

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Could be "Holy Are You" by the Electric Prunes.

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That doesn't really sound like chance-taking to me. But fans (of which I'm not one, although I, like everyone else, have pleasant memories of this act) should be satisfied to finally have access to this material. It would be ballsier to attempt to put together a whole new album a la Television, but ...

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Don Ayler - Albert's brother and one of the most extraordinary and individual 'free-jazz' trumpeters ever - died of a heart attack several weeks ago. He was 65, I think. Val Wilmer's obituary appeared in last Wednesday's Guardian. RIP. He's well represented on Spirits Rejoice and Bells so play loud.

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Haven't got a guitar handy, but if I hear it right in my head, it's descending chords in C:

Though my body gets [C]old [C/B; Am7; Am7/G]
My mind does it no [F] favors at all [F/E; Dm7; Dm7/C]
There's so little [F pattern again] time..
To do [Dm7/C]something. something. anything [C]more.

etc.

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Read this thread more carefully, Horrorflick. The point is that This Is Music is not representative of the Verve's recorded output, and is, in fact, in many senses a deliberate mis representation - in essence, an attempt to turn Verve into U2 as Runcible obliquely suggested has been the label's aim ...

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You don't know Tyner?

He was Coltrane's piano player from '60 to '66. That's everything from My Favorite Things to Ascension, both of which are probably reasonably well known here.

Robin Tyner from the MC5 took his stage name from McCoy.

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Oh Christ not this again.

(See FAQ)

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Holy shit. This was just reissued a couple of weeks ago, as part of the super-cheap Orrin Keepnews collection - complete with Orrin's hilariously self-congratulatory and condescending liner notes, and about five times as many photos of Orrin as of Tyner. But this thing has been out of print for, lik...

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Things'll is F->G G G, F->G G G etc. Slightly uptuned (depends on version).

Take me to is Bb...Db-Eb-Db-Bb for the main riff and Bb-Db-Eb-Db-Bb for the verses.

All power chords.

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Whoever said there was more of a difference in direction between A Storm In Heaven and A Northern Soul than between A Northern Soul and Urban Hymns is correct. Also: "Sonnet" and "The Drugs Don't Work" are both better than "On Your Own". With ten minutes shaved off (let...

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I'm not all that interested in the argument either, to be honest, but again, it's because I'm a release person rather than an artist person. Storm In Heaven is to me their finest album, and that's just a fact, but Northern Soul and Urban Hymns are about equally compelling and it is to the latter tha...

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So Rob goes thumbs-down on Bloemfontein but gets revved up by a Guardian article that likens The Flies' best tune to Pink Floyd-meets-Elton John? I put on the first Lupine Howl record yesterday for the first time in a while and it still sucks, "Vaporizer" and "This Condition" asi...

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Well I for one have been humming "The Thaw Session" all week and that's saying something for a fourteen-minute improvisation recorded by four guys who haven't played together in eight years.

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Admittedly, they probably only released this because it's unusable - the drums and bass are distorted beyond recognition. But at 9 minutes in, the old ocean can be glimpsed again. It's like it's 1994 all over again. Is Nick playing an organ at 11 minutes, or just doing amazing things with harmonics ...

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The intro riff for "This Little Life of Mine" basically involves G and A power chords. D: 5->7-7-7-7-7-7 A: 5->7-7-7-7-7-7 E: 3->5-5-5-5-5-5 The rest of it is a chooglin' A power chord (577XXX) that only turns into E major (022100) for a few measures after each verse: [E]Ain't gonna take g...

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FAO Burningwheel, here's a revised list of differences. 1. This Is Music - Compressed compared to the ANS version, slightly remixed but not dramatically. 2. Slide Away - Guitars are much louder. Vocals much more forward in the mix - at one point (second verse) it's clear that this is a different voc...

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