Spiritualized

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Here ya go. One for the interview bingo/drinking game. A new interview with "Mr Pierce" in the NY Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/arts/music/spiritualized-jason-pierce-and-nothing-hurt.html But the songs for the album weren’t yet written or arranged ; there was no way to simply ...

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Wow, my cheap headphones really flattered that stream. I've burned up a CD, but it sounds really flat and lifeless on the monitors. There's no sparkle on the top end (almost like an aggressive low-pass filter from around 12kHz) whilst the bass is limp, with no depth (I can barely hear the fundamenta...

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I don't do a lot of ripping, but when I do I normally find it quite easy. By contrast finding something that worked for NPR was quite hard. Ended up having to download some new software, then find a crack. Now I see the program has credited I'm Your Man to Leonard Cohen, but correctly identified A P...

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Not sure what to make of Let's Dance, but the rest is rather good, really nice.

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Haha, love the Spaceman bingo notion, and you're quite right too. That written KEXP interview covered the same ground, but also went into far more detail than Jason usually provides. I was particularly hopeful about the "old Columbia" reference. It immediately made me think of the last Sim...

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When I heard that part of the interview, it made me really sad I can't get to the London gig. Spz with a larger ensemble of strings and / or brass is always really something special. I wish I'd had more notice, plus time to save and make plans to get to the Apollo - now I've heard about that element...

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Yes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00007z8 It was interesting, in spite of the presenters, rather than because of them. I barely recognised Mark Radcliffe, though I've never really listened to him since I worked in an office where we had R1 on all day, and Mark & Lard were so refreshing com...

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...and just ordered the new record :D I have too, though via a local independent shop because I have vouchers to use up. It was cheaper on the nice new Spz site, though with p&p likely a bit more. Anyway I'm really looking forward to getting the call when it comes in, though if it arrives early...

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I'm not going sadly, but You Lie You Cheat really deserves to come back as a barnstorming live standard!

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^ They look really nice! Interesting designs too, compared with various unofficial Spacemen 3 (and related) shirts I've seen over the years (mostly on eBay). A long while ago I bought a really nice looking deep blue shirt, with thick silver Spacemen 3 logo there. Sadly the print began to flake after...

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It was a good interview. I think Jason is right that he will regret his casual mention about making some of this album at home. I suspect lazy interviewers will continue to focus on this, just like they did in asking about his breakup with Kate for the LAGWAFIS promos. I really hope he was hinting t...

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Unless he really needs cash, then reforming spacemen 3 makes more sense. Do folks really want to see some financially motivated quasi-reformation of Spacemen 3, or even any kind of "reunion"? I think both main artists have moved on significantly, and there is nothing I'd want to see there...

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I quite fancy the Recurring cover too, though I guess it could be quite bright! I'm only able to look on my phone right now, but those images look cool - especially the spaceman photo (hope you don't mind I've downloaded it). How well did that transfer as a print on to t-shirt? I've thought about se...

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Didn't some folks here report that those nice white shirts PK did a run of a few years ago (around the time of his epic Benny's Trip remix for Magnétophone + playing some gigs alongside Matt & John) were occasionally selling for silly money on eBay? I vaguely recall the observation that the high...

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It is cool to see The Guardian including Spacemen 3 relatively prominently, alongside names like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin! It's nice they chose the interesting t-shirt angle, over more obvious subjects like hipster-driven hyper inflation in the vintage vinyl market. Sadly the decreasing sustaina...

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Not Spacemen 3, but reading this resurrected thread reminded me I saw Randall Nieman recently reposting a PK Facebook post (I somehow managed to miss the original, despite both the friends thing + following "Spectrum") advertising 2 new Spectrum t-shirts. They were both nice, plus slightly...

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Has anyone else noticed the websites linking to a download of this album title, but with a totally different tracklist of supposedly instrumental tracks, with titles I've never heard? All the sites linked to the same download site, which requires free registration. I couldn't be bothered to even use...

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Agreed! Just offering the streaming right now would sustain the momentum, driving more folks to pre-order the physical product.

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Not sure what to make of all this. The production on these 2 tracks is very nice. It certainly introduces dynamic elements that were not present in any of the live versions we heard. On the other hand, it all sounds a bit "safe". Perfect Miracle has lost the dramatic 7th on the 4th beat of...

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I listed to SHSL a few times recently and "So Long You Pretty Thing" is incredible. I found myself getting a bit emotional over it. Powerful track. I've always found that epic track similarly affecting! It really took my breath away, when it closed the unveiling of the last album at the R...

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On the last album there were some lovely mellow compositions. Unfortunately there also was that real clanger Won't Get To Heaven, with such dreary, trite and unimaginative lyrics bolted on to an offensively generic tune! Are you thinking of "So Long You Pretty Thing"? Certainly not, that'...

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I have a feeling the mellow tracks will be divisive again. I really like "A Perfect MIracle" and "Let's Dance," based on the live versions. I think it depends on the production, plus how much variation is on the album. Whilst rough and ready, I thought Perfect Miracle, Here Come...

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FM Spaceman wrote: ↑Sun Jun 03, 2018 2:25 am A Super Shiny Piece Of Polished Pop ? ...

xx xx ...

Whatever it is, I doubt it will be 17 years old...

(Ironically that sounds as good, if not quite a bit better than PSB in their heyday!)

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Thanks for the interesting link. I didn't realise the Pet Shop Boys were still going! I'll always remember the musical Pet Shop Boy getting quoted in NME in the late '80s. He said he didn't trust MIDI and didn't think it accurately sync'd precisely with his perfect timing requirements. I'd be fascin...

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sunray wrote: ↑Sun Jun 03, 2018 12:28 am A Perfect Miracle? I hate that song. This album's shite. Bah!

I thought all the albums were shite? Otherwise I wouldn't have spent all that money on obscure vinyl, with no means of any future prospects of playing it!

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veiko wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 9:38 pmNext eight, fuck being straight.

...as Trump said to the actress and/or nearest Bishop!

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That acoustic Perfect Miracle is ... err ... perfect. And that's the version before he changed the last verse to drop to a more dramatic 7th interval on the final "changed my address" vox! Did I miss that YouTube video when it originally appeared? It's like 5 years old, and I'd love to hea...

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I came late to the Yo La Tengo party, but after repeatedly reading good things here - I was richly rewarded in buying I Am Not Afraid Of You And Will Beat Your Ass on spec! I was unsure how they managed to translate their rich and incredibly impressive diverse recordings, to the live stage, hence ha...

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moop wrote: ↑Thu May 24, 2018 11:37 pm
This makes me wonder if spaceman will ever write a spherical song.

Probably only if his arms end up feeling like a couple of fortnights in a bad balloon.

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Thanks for that! I used one of those online ripping sites, upconverted to wav and burned a CD to listen properly (still haven't moved into the streaming age with my hifi/monitoring system). It's a shame there was so much talking, but otherwise it sounded really nice. I noticed when it got really roc...

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I wonder if Gerald Palmer used his legal muscle man to threaten Pete, causing him to take them down?

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Shame those posts have now gone. Anyone got a rough idea what they pertinent points were? Pete Bain seems prone to airing grievances, though they may be thoroughly justified. I wasn't entirely convinced of his complaints about not getting paid for artwork and a recording session he funded. Artwork i...

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angelsighs wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 4:33 pm
he likes a good pun, no? as evidenced by some of the lyrics on LICD

Knowing A+E, Knowing You - Aha!

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angelsighs wrote: ↑Tue May 08, 2018 1:14 pmcan't see him on the tour bus exchanging zany Vic & Bob quotes with the band??

Me neither.

I suspect more of a dry, wry wit - probably mostly Partridge, with some Chris Morris thrown in for good measure!

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This long form conversation popped up via @Spacemen3 on Twitter recently. Includes nice photos of Pete's new home in Portugal, including his impressive collection of sunglasses!

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As a teaser for the new album I sugest a 12" release of the 2 Kenzo tracks. Been listening to them lately and they are truly hypnotic! Agree, but my guess is that they're going to be incorporated into the album somehow. You think? I loved both of those, plus other recent output like the amazin...

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interesting stuff, Good research. - I wonder if HMV had a title for it, when it was on pre-order? . the lady said she thought it had been 'burnt wings' but had been relisted as Spiritualized New Album. she was a fan of the band preorder from september i think she said, but i was too stunned to catc...

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I think Of Montreal are 'bigger' than Spz now I'm sure that's the case! If you mentioned a band Of Montreal, I'd probably assume you were talking about Arcade Fire... a band I swore I never heard of, until they played an impressive headline set at Glastonbury - then I discovered I owned their debut...

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The other day I was speaking to a friend about the kind of fees bands get for festival performances. He used to live in Indianapolis and was involved in booking acts for a festival (considerably smaller than something like Primavera). He and his team were attempting to book Of Montreal and the band...

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These big festival shows with orchestra are probably quite lucrative, so like last year, it may be they do just a couple of big festival dates, to allow the album to get completed? If he needs the money to put out the album, then why bring an orchestra and a choir? It makes no sense. He could easil...

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Will: The liner notes will basically be a list of every greivance i hold with each individual member of the band
with incriminating pictures

Possibly the funniest and most appropriate liner note for any reissue I've ever read!

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I just found a hidden gem on BBC iPlayer, with B&S playing several songs for a live session just before Christmas. I found it by sheer chance, but thankfully not too late - it's still up for 11 days. Seems daft to hide away such valuable material, it wouldn't have happened back in John Peel's da...

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D'oh! Shows how much attention I've paid to this year's music... :lol: It is a very good album though, some of their strongest songs in many a year. For me, Nobody's Empire and Enter Sylvia Plath are all-time top 10 B&S songs without a doubt. Regarding their new material, I was passing through ...

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B&S are releasing a CD in Feb next year with all three EPs on it. How to solve our human probelms is the title. Thanks for clearing that up. I've been looking for that but all the info seemed to involve the vinyl releases. I guess CD collectors are dying out these days. There's a couple of revi...

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Mojo: That B&S album came out in 2015. They did release a new EP last Friday, though: How To Solve Our Human Problems (EP1 out of 3). D'oh! Shows how much attention I've paid to this year's music... I even saw that tour and bought the brilliant recording of their SECC gig. Am surprised how litt...

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I've not really found much of interest in terms of 2017 releases, so most of my musical energy has been devoted to the back catalogues of artists I've only recently discovered. I think I've spent more time listening to podcasts than music this year! Off the top of my head I can only think of 2 new a...

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https://nebula.wsimg.com/obj/RDFDNUYwNjE1RjlENDUwNDA2Njc6NWZjZTNlMWNjNzg1NmUxNmNiYzRiN2NiMTFjNGNhMzA6Ojo6OjA= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM0IOHiZSl4 xx xx ... Phenomenal documentary! FYI the film is often called "The 7 5" or "Seven Five", for those looking for it on streami...

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Lord of loving you dance so sweet!

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Happy birthday Pete and Jason!

Please keep it real, no reunion bollocks please?

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FM Spaceman wrote:

"No good?"

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Indeed, very sad news.

I wonder how long before this ends up in a Mark Kozelek lyric?

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I see what you mean, like basically because these were crossfades between tracks they were short - so trying to splice too many times in a short period, you'd potentially end up splicing into a splice using a normal block. In that case I'll reappraise my applause for his ingenuity, but much as I lov...

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I thought it was a pretty interesting read, although it does strike me as pretty weird that he felt it necessary to completely eliminate computers from the remastering process when some of the work on the original album was done in the digital realm. Still, I will be buying the reissues for sure. I...

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ABOCA, those two are the only Fillmore show posters for SPZ : head filled w/ drugs and the awful one. Angel Sighs, I'm not familiar with the other two musicians ? so it's Doggen and Kev, but we don't know the bass player or second (well, third..) guitarist? Just listening to this show and its one o...

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It really is a great lyric. And --as with all those early compositions-- I'm left wondering where they might have stolen it from ;) Do folks really think such Spacemen 3 lyrics are especially great, in comparison with the more recent output from Jason and Pete? Sometimes they have an unwitting matu...

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Really good. Love the high production values and the slow burn, TV that takes its time and deliberately delays gratification. I have a perverse preference for shows that alienate audience members with no fucking patience! Furthermore it was such a compelling and effective account of the birth of the...

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Thank you very much to all the good people who put so much effort into making these recordings, so we can all enjoy these gigs - very kind indeed! I'm assuming these are two different sets of recordings? I hope so - while I could easily import the Google drive docs direct to my own Google drive, I s...

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Love this. My four year old daughter's favourite song is "So Long", she knows all the words and sings along to it. She also loves Spectrum's version of "True Love Will Find You in the End" and calls it "my pretty song". Her favourite band is The Lovely Eggs. [/b] Learn...

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Yeah, the font works and that's about it. What's with the sunglasses ? No forethought on the design. As if, just put something on it and print it. Either put it on ebay or in my closet. :cry: To me, the artwork says: early-to-mid '70s smooth deep cuts of FM rock / cocktail lounge jazz fusion combo ...

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Ugggh...the font works, but that's properly fugly artwork underneath! Perhaps efforts of a local promoter?

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Several clips up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spiritualized+desert+daze I found three songs. There's some weird sound artifacts going on with Ladies and Gentlemen... plus adding the drums with their plodding 3/4 waltz (rather than the original 6/8) then the female singer...

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Cheapster / She Kissed Me / Electricity sounds amazing. Oh Happy Day is nice for beating the crowds.

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Yup, I get the "black ain't always white" bit i.e. things are not always as clear cut as some might think. But "without sure ain't within"?? Without what? I assume it's just wordplay, ie "without" as the opposite of "within". I don't think there's a literal m...

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Yup, I get the "black ain't always white" bit i.e. things are not always as clear cut as some might think. But "without sure ain't within"?? Without what? I assume it's just wordplay, ie "without" as the opposite of "within". I don't think there's a literal m...

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I'm surprised he chose So Long as the only SHSL song. It's a great song with strings and so forth, but I didn't like the electric band version. Hey Jane seems more obvious.

Lots of LAGWAFIS, perhaps too much... And Oh Happy Day, without a choir?

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