mark iv otm, imo
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 April 2012 02:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep
also sup
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
bad rap? http://www.metacritic.com/music/sweet-heart-sweet-light
― caulk the wagon and float it, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think So Long... will definitely become one of my favourite Spiritualized songs. There's just something infectious about it.
Nice live version here:
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm seeing them in a week and a half and am gonna spend the time re-listening to everything. I just got my hands on the 3CD "Ladies and Gentlemen..." set and all of the "I Think I'm In Love" demos are so fucking gorgeous.
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
word. i really love the straight acapella demo of the "suuuuuunnnnnn, so bright that i'm nearly blind" vocals from the first half.
i'm seeing them (for the first time!) on monday and i am so fuckin excited.
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
that 'Pretty Things' video weirdly makes me a bit nervous about the show though. i love the new album and i love that song, but it seems a little flat or phoned-in there.
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
seen them over half a dozen times and it's usually a great show. there was only one set I was disappointed by, and that was on the Let It Come Down tour and things just seemed sloppy (drummer missed cues, Jason forgot lyrics, etc.)
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
did you ever see them with the full array of guitars/synths/strings/choirs etc?
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep - both the LAGWAFIS and the LITC tours were like that. LGM tour was a five-piece augmented by a sax/flute player iirc. And then the Pure Phase tour was just a quartet, and that was honestly the best version I think. Also saw the recent small tour he did with just Dogen on piano plus trio of backup singers and a string quartet. It's always a little different. The light show does a lot of work lol.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Loved the Pure Phase tour, which might as well have been called the small clubs and strobe lights tour. I saw them a couple of times behind LAG, once opening for Radiohead at their "OK Computer" peak. Seen them a few times since then - a surprising number, actually - and will see them again tomorrow night, though of course every show has been more or less the same.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol I left after Spiritualized's opening set for Radiohead (who I have never cared for fwiw). It was weird seeing Spz play truncated versions of all their songs.
Pure Phase tour was really special, feel like that was the one time I really just could not figure out how such a small group of people were making all that sound
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Radiohead tour was also the peak of their internal discontent, iirv
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I never realized the song "Pure Phase" was just a milder "Ecstasy Symphony" until just now. I always assumed Sonic Boom was the one behind that one.
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 7 May 2012 18:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
On Letterman tonight...
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
He was. There's some minor differences and FWIW, "Symphonic Space" on LGM is Jason (but using the same principle)
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sounds good! Solipsism.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Better than I expected. Wanted the all-too-brief noise break at the early 3:00 mark to keep going, though.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
NPR is streaming live video/audio from their Washington DC show right now: http://www.npr.org/event/music/152291064/spiritualized-in-concert?ps=mh_frhdl1
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
They were pretty good last week, but I have a feeling the band can do this in its sleep. I wish it were a bit ... free-er.
Funny admission: it was not until last week that I realized, all these years later, that the title "Cop Shoot Cop" was a drug pun. I just always thought of it like "Spy Vs. Spy" or "Man Bites Dog."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 May 2012 01:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
huh I never got that either. I thought it was a reference to cop-on-cop violence.
I like this record pretty well. Sometimes I feel like the bass is missing, it feels a little thin in places. Like you can hear basslines but it doesn't have any punch. I'm sure that's an aesthetic choice in how they mixed it but I wish there was more low end.
― dmr, Friday, 11 May 2012 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
So Long is pretty good...
― calstars, Friday, 11 May 2012 18:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh my GOD! We got to hear "Ladies and Gentlemen...", "Come Together", "Electric Mainline", and !!!"WALKING WITH JESUS"!!! Plus a near-30 minute encore with "Cop, Shoot, Cop" (which I was never crazy about on the album but was transcendent live), and at the 15 or so minute mark they did one of those end-of-show freak outs where all the musicians play their instruments all crazy for like five minutes, except instead of ending the show they abruptly went back into the mellow part for another 2 or 3 and ended really gently. It was such a brilliant and incredible thing.
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 May 2012 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I seriously was not expecting them to be as incredible as they were. I don't think I've seen a show that good since LCD
Yeah, I never noticed the "Cop Shoot Cop" pun until right now. Clever.
― !Alicia!, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't feel so bad for not figuring that out until about three months ago, and this is after me owning albums by the band with said name for years.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Super psyched to get to see them tomorrow in Austin...I dig the new record a bunch.
― kiboko17, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jason on the cover, writing the album, etc. etc.
― H.P. Hovercraft and the Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
@SteveDeux you know that's exactly how Cop Shoot Cop is on the album, right?
― caulk the wagon and float it, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I never really cared for/paid close attention to the album version
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
saw them last night in SF, they were fantastic. I haven't seen them since the Rollercoaster tour in the US, and I thought they were super boring then.
― akm, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
also we had cute backup singers
― akm, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
i still don't get the pun
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
cop heroin shoot heroin cop heroin
cop shoots another cop with a gun
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
rmde at you people
lmfao@upeeps
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 10:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
New Jason interview: http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4145686-i-think-festivals-are-the-death-of-art-dis-meets-jason-pierce-from-spiritualized
Worth reading. Nice to have Jason fully back again
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 November 2012 02:25 (6 months ago) Permalink
Apparently he played new songs and keyboards at last nights show. Maybe I should go when he hits Brighton...
― insert witticism here (hypehat), Friday, 2 November 2012 13:13 (6 months ago) Permalink
interesting interview. he has funny opinions.
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 November 2012 16:02 (6 months ago) Permalink
New songs - one a drippy sounding waltzy ballad which had a few zingers and got progressively less lovely as it went. Not bad, called A Perfect Miracle iirc.
Other one was this insanely heavy one chord blues which lasted about 8 minutes and lyrics revolving around 'one man's x is another man's y' and I could have sworn he was saying 'hoo-rah' a lot. But they were playing so loud his wittering was hard to make out.
But he ended up playing most of the new record (which gets a bit dull live), with the exception of Take Your Time, Ladies & Gents, and a version of Electric Mainline that was the loudest thing I've ever heard. Ever managed to drown the drummer out towards the end, just this massive sound/huge bass. But J was playing tonnes of intricate guitar stuff and keyboards, and even got his daughter out onstage to sing that song she's on on the new record.
― insert witticism here (hypehat), Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:24 (6 months ago) Permalink
Saw them tonight, they played COME DOWN EASY in the encore.
Agreed about the new songs, "A Perfect Miracle" is corny but still all right, but the eight minute one chord blues thing was a major highlight of the concert.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 12 November 2012 00:57 (6 months ago) Permalink