Somewhere in our hearts, results won't be the same (Spacemen 3 & etc. ballot results - ILM poll #57)

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Album #3 - LAZER GUIDED MELODIES
290 points, 8 votes, 2 number ones

this album is pretty amazing and i still shake my head that this is a debut album. impressive start.

Both the Friendly Fire and Blue On Blue bootlegs are a great window into just how much work went into LGM.

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Album #2 - PLAYING WITH FIRE
417 points, 12 votes, 4 number ones

(my #1)

should be an "i love rugby" board for that font

That's basically my blog at this point: http://www.quartzcity.net/?s=rugby

When I was working for BOMP in the 90s, I ended up creating my own Rugby font package. I haven't updated it to OpenType, but you can d/l the existing one here http://www.quartzcity.net/rugby-font/

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Album #1 - The Perfect Prescription
426 points, 12 votes, 4 number ones

the lp/cassette 10 track version of recurring is great... the extra tracks on the cd dilute the album somewhat.

with "when tomorrow hits" being rather incongruous.

    TITLE                                          PTS  VOTES  #1
 1  The Perfect Prescription                       428     12   4
 2  Playing With Fire                              417     12   4
 3  Lazer Guided Melodies                          290      8   2
 4  Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space  243      7   2
 5  Recurring                                      200      6   1
 6  Let It Come Down                               166      5   2
 7  Pure Phase                                     157      5
 8  Dreamweapon                                    152      5
 9  Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To    137      4   1
10  Sound Of Confusion                             126      4
11  Soul Kiss (Glide Divine)                       118      4
12  Highs, Lows & Heavenly Blows                    66      2
13  Mesmerized                                      30      1
    For All The Fucked Up Children Of This World... 30      1
15  Beyond The Pale                                 28      1
    Sweet Heart Sweet Light                         28      1
    The Köner Experiment                            28      1

Track countdown starts tomorrow. Probably a slow countdown as I'm heading to NYC next week and I'm trying to wrap up a couple of work gigs before heading out.

i didn't vote in this, but i am excited to follow these results. how many ballots were submitted?

3 for 5. one, two and four.

i voted Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To as my number one.

you could possible add Taking Drugs and Sound Of Confusion together and that would be 263 points with eight votes and enough to jump ahead of both Recurring and Ladies And Gentlemen for fourth place.

When I was working for BOMP in the 90s, I ended up creating my own Rugby font package. I haven't updated it to OpenType, but you can d/l the existing one here http://www.quartzcity.net/rugby-font/

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 9:31 PM (32 minutes ago)

you made that?!? was looking at it just this morning, oddly enough. awesome work (again).

sound of confusion terribly underrated so sad

with "when tomorrow hits" being rather incongruous.

― sleepingsignal, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 9:40 PM (32 minutes ago)

it is yeah, but it's also my favorite track from the band's final days (though i fucked up its position on my ballot o well). might like the noise rockin' S3 best of all: "OD catastrophe", "2:35", "rollercoaster", "revolution", "suicide", "when tomorrow hits".

I didn't vote for any of the top five! (LICD, Pure Phase, Highs Lows and Heavenly Blows, Sound of Confusion, Koner Experiment)

Same top 3 as my ballot just in a different order:

1 Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
2 Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
3 Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
4 Spacemen 3 - Sound Of Confusion
5 Spacemen 3 - Recurring

Nice to see LGM do so well as I thought it would get beaten by S3 albums or LAGWAFIS

it's the best SPZ album!

I was the #1 vote for Recurring, Just ahead of Lazer Guided melodies, glad to see it place in the top 5. Love the breadth of styles on it; Sonic at his most pop-friendly, Jason basically making murky sketches of musical ideas that would fully fleshed out on LGM.

Also glad to see Perfect Prescription get #1. It's the best representation of the Pierce/Sonic partnership, seeing as they had already stopped talking to each by the time Playing with Fire was recorded.

whooh thx for the heads up about the font that is awesome

xxxp

LICD over PP is some kinda buttsiness.

If I'd have voted it would've gone:

1. PP
2. LGM
3. Hi Dere
4. Foo Bar
5. Baz

My ballot went:

1. Playing With Fire
2. Lazer Guided Melodies
3. Dreamweapon
4. Recurring
5. Soul Kiss (Glide Divine)

so i just noticed that i only submitted a Albums ballot. i had a Tracks ballot that i did make out but never did send it off.

More on the Rugby font. I used that to do a t-shirt for my son, changing the Take Me To The Other Side image to have his name on it in place of "Spacemen" and "side" to "slide." Anyway, went to have it professionally printed for fun, and they wouldn't do it without consent from the copyright holder. I emailed Sonic via his website, and got a very fast, very nice reply granting permission. The t-shirt turned out great. So thanks!

that's great!

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39 TIE - Don’t Just Do Something
76 points, 2 votes, 1 number one
http://youtu.be/XqA0mQHe9_U

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39 TIE - The Straight And The Narrow
76 points, 2 votes
http://youtu.be/XqA0mQHe9_U

is that imago's number one there

love the Straight and the Narrow - maybe his funniest deadpan lyric - definitely one of the best tracks on LICD

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38 - Lord Can You Hear Me?
79 points, 4 votes
http://youtu.be/qG504heY-UA

once had an aggravating, drawn-out argument about whether Spiritualized's version of this song constituted a "cover"

whoah

"Don't Just Do Something" and "The Straight and The Narrow" were my #2 and #9 respectively. They're probably the most singable songs that Jason has ever written. There's plenty of black humour in the lyrics and he somehow comes off sounding anthemic while also invoking pity. There's a lot of depth there that he never came close to approaching in early SPZ songs (e.g. "Lay Back In the Sun", which is straight up "drugs are cool"-style anthemic, to name just one of countless examples).

Live versions of "Don't Just Do Something" on the 2001-2 tours were just about the greatest thing ever, with the final section building and building up to the finish. I get a lump in my throat just thinking about it.

(youtube links are messed up there btw - its the Straight and Narrow for both)

agree that that's a fitting tie re: the LICD tracks (there is one song on LICD that's even better which I assume is going to place but we'll see)

Although I didn't vote for it, it's nice to see LICD get a bit of a critical resurrection here. It's funny to think how Amazing Grace was considered somewhat of a return to form after LICD, when in retrospect it's probably the worst Spiritualized record.

it is the worst, the songs just aren't there

Can't remember if Spiritualized led me to S3 or not but their cuts so far are just so...mopey. Lord can you Hear Me? is a similar emotion with all of that nonsense cut out.

^ otm. just listened to "don't just do something" for the first time since the release of let it come down. gak.

i like several tracks on amazing grace. so there. okay maybe not several but at least two.

Although I didn't vote for it, it's nice to see LICD get a bit of a critical resurrection here.

I'm still disappointed. The lead up to it was terrific: Jason fires the band, poaches Julian Cope's metal/Hawkwind group, talks about twenty minute krautrock jams, and then Mimi Parker guest on vocals. Instead it was a hour of mope. I'm glad "Rock And Roll" was shoved off onto a b-side because its one of his worst songs, if not, the worst to use "rock and roll" somewhere in the title.

Also: Will Let It Come Down be a Be Here Now or an Urban Hymns?

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37 - I Believe It
80 points, 3 votes, 1 number one
http://youtu.be/hhWLwJ3P_eI

(all images taken from drug abuse themed stock photo collections)

Also, TOO LOW!

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36 - Anyway That You Want Me
82 points, 4 votes, 1 number one
http://youtu.be/YleJPoKBqrw

Love "I Believe It," It's like an airplane crash survival kit equivalent of a Spacemen 3 song. No frills, just 2-chords, a farfisa organ and peons to the lord.

Lol

I'm always a bit confused when people say LICD is mopey. SPZ were always kind of mopey, I mean, didn't LAGWAFIS have "Cool Waves" and "Broken Heart" on it? If it's really about being a downer, musically, then LICD can rock out too -- "The Twelve Steps", "Out of Sight", "On Fire". I think it really comes down to favouring one approach over another -- free jazz/improv squawking and long jams, or full-blown Spector. In terms of lyrical subject matter I don't think LICD is too different than most other SPZ albums, although the lyrics themselves are far better than anything he'd written up to that point.

"Anyway That You Want Me" was my #1. It was partly a sentimental choice -- the first SPZ song I ever heard, and I was completely blown away.

xp Transparent Radiation hasn't placed yet

Mary Anne was always one of my favorites. I don't think it placed. I should've voted.

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2 - Transparent Radiation
337 points, 14 votes
https://youtu.be/B6M8Kdtm5Vs

haha waht

Thought that might have been the #1.

Has Walkin' With Jesus placed yet?

I dont get whats so special about this relatively faithful cover

I'm relieved it placed. I assumed Take Me To The Other Side would be higher, so thought it had missed out.

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1 - Walkin’ With Jesus
369 points, 13 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/NRuoXqpL6ZM
https://youtu.be/Yeb0zATtXu0

Not unhappy with that winning although I see TR actually had the most number of votes.

Nice one for doing this too. Some great pictures used.

My tracks ballot for what it's worth:

1 Spiritualized - Feel So Sad
2 Spacemen 3 - How Does It Feel?
3 Spacemen 3 -So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)
4 Spiritualized - Sway
5 Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation
6 Spacemen 3 - Billy Whizz/Blue 1
7 Spacemen 3 - Revolution
8 Spacemen 3 - Come Down Easy
9 Spiritualized - Medication
10 Spiritualized - Electricity
11 Spiritualized - Think I'm In Love
12 Spacemen 3 - Walkin With Jesus
13 Spiritualized - Good Times
14 Spiritualized - Lay Back In The Sun
15 Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (I Can't Help Falling in Love)
16 Spiritualized - Come Together
17 Spiritualized - Run
18 Spacemen 3 - Lord Can You Hear Me
19 Spectrum - Then I Just Drifted Away
20 Spiritualized - So Long You Pretty Thing

Thanks for running this, Elvis.

My ballot:
1 Come Down Easy
2 Losing Touch With My Mind
3 Smile
4 Ecstasy Symphony / Transparent Radiation
5 Take Me To The Other Side
6 Feelin' Just Fine (Head Full Of Shit)
7 Feel So Good
8 Sway
9 Electric Mainline
10 If I Were With Her Now
11 Suicide
12 Things'll Never Be The Same
13 Walkin' With Jesus
14 Call The Doctor
15 How Does It Feel?
16 Shine A Light
17 So Hot (Wash Away All Of My Tears)
18 Why Couldn't I See?
19 I Think I'm In Love
20 I Love You

Unless I missed it, Smile didn't place at all, did it?

Should have voted, might have given Step Into the Breeze a chance

(my ballot)

1. Hypnotized
2. Medication
3. How Does It Feel?
4. Shine A Light
5. Big City
6. Take Me To The Other Side
7. Undo The Taboo
8. Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
9. An evening of contemporary sitar music
10. I Believe It
11. If I Should Die
12. Honey
13. I Think I'm In Love
14. How You Satisfy Me
15. Transparent Radiation
16. Good Times
17. I Want You
18. Losing Touch With My Mind
19. Ecstasy Symphony
20. Revolution

1 Walkin' With Jesus                 369  13   1
  2 Transparent Radiation              337  14
  3 I Think I'm In Love                327  13   2
  4 Revolution                         276  12
  5 Take Me To The Other Side          240  11
  6 Big City                           235   7   3
  7 Shine A Light                      228   9   1
  8 Medication                         221   7   1
    Ladies And Gentlemen We Are F...   221   9
 10 How Does It Feel?                  214   8
 11 Come Down Easy                     201   8   1
    200 Bars                           201   8   1
 13 Feel So Good                       194   8   1
 14 How You Satisfy Me                 167   7
    Suicide                            167   7
 16 Out Of Sight                       165   6
 17 Lay Back In The Sun                158   8
 18 I Love You                         153   7
 19 Losing Touch With My Mind          152   7
 20 So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears) 149   7
 21 Hypnotized                         137   6   1
 22 O.D. Catastrophe                   127   5   1
 23 Broken Heart                       126   5   1
 24 Sway                               124   6
 25 Feel So Sad                        123   4   1
 26 Things'll Never Be The Same        117   5
    Honey                              117   5
    Come Down Softly To My Soul        117   5
 29 If I Were With Her Now             116   6
 30 Rollercoaster                      112   5
 31 An evening of contemporary sitar   104   5
 32 Electric Mainline                  102   5
 33 Do It All Over Again               100   4
 34 Come Together                       99   5
 35 Call The Doctor                     87   5
 36 Anyway That You Want Me             82   4   1
 37 I Believe It                        80   3   1
 38 Lord Can You Hear Me?               79   4
 39 The Straight And The Narrow         76   4
    Don't Just Do Something             76   2   1
 41 Ecstasy Symphony                    75   3
 42 Ode To Street Hassle                73   3
 43 Angel Sigh                          72   4
 44 I Want You                          66   4
    The Ballad Of Richie Lee            66   2   1
 46  Let Me Down Gently                 65   3
 47 Step Into The Breeze                63   3
 48 2.35                                60   3
    So Long You Pretty Thing            60   4
 50 Angel                               56   2
 51 Why Couldn't I See                  53   3
 52 When Tomorrow Hits                  50   3
    Run                                 50   3
 54 Stay With Me                        49   2
 55 Cop Shoot Cop                       48   2
    Feel Like Goin' Home                48   2
 57 Electricity                         47   2
 58 I Didn't Mean To Hurt You           44   2
 59 Feelin' Just Fine (Head Full...)    42   2
 60 Sound Of Confusion                  40   1   1
 61 Cool Waves                          39   2
    These Blues                         39   2
 63 Undo The Taboo                      37   2
    Mary-Anne                           37   2
 65 Hey Jane                            36   2
 66 All Of My Tears                     35   2
    Touch The Stars                     35   2
    Good Times                          35   2
    That's Just Fine                    35   2
 70 You Know It's True                  33   2
    Smile                               33   1
    Anything More                       33   1
    Then I Just Drifted Away            33   2
    Let It Flow                         33   1
 75 Pulse Drone (Neon Sigh)             30   1
 76 Drive                               28   1
    Set Me Free / I've Got The Key      28   2
 78 Billy Whizz / Blue 1                26   1
    Soul 1                              26   2
 80 Born Never Asked                    25   1
    Hey Man                             25   1
    Ché                                 25   2
    Take Me Away                        25   1
 84 Sweet Running Water                 23   1
    Oh Baby                             23   1
    No God, Only Religion               23   1
 87 Harmony 1 (Mellotron)               21   1
    If I Should Die                     21   1
 89 Life Is A Problem                   20   1
    I Gotta Fire                        20   1
    Don't Pass Me By                    20   1
 92 Lord I Don't Even Know My Name      19   1
    Spread Your Wings                   19   1
 94 The Twelve Steps                    18   1
    Symphony Space                      18   1
 96 Death Take Your Fiddle              17   1
 97 Take Your Time                      15   1
    True Love Will Find You In The End  15   1
    Fixin' To Die                       15   1
    Repeater                            15   1
    Neon Sigh                           15   1
102 Rock 'n' Roll Is Killing My Life    14   1
103 Baby I'm Just A Fool                13   1
    All Night Long                      13   1
    Delta 6 (Hydroponic)                13   1
106 Too Late                            12   1

poor "Angel", it was in my top 5 I think

surprisingly strong showing for "2:35"

No other love for Billy Whizz/Blue 1 then?

Love the stoned vibe on that track (which, admittedly, is not a particularly unique vibe when it comes to Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized)

I was hoping that something from Sonic's first "Spectrum" solo album would place.

Wait - I'm the only person who voted for Smile???

My ballot:

1. Spiritualized - Shine a light
2, Spacemen 3 - Big City
3. Spacemen 3 - Take me to the other side
4. Spacemen 3 - I Love You
5. Spacemen 3 - Feel So Good
6. Spiritualized - Angel Sigh
7. Spectrum - How You Satisfy Me
8. Spacemen 3 - Come Down Easy
9. Spacemen 3 - Come Down Softly to my Soul
10. Spacemen 3 - Feel So Sad
11. Spacemen 3 Walking with Jesus
12. Spectrum - I Just Drifted Away
13. Spiritualized - I Want You
14. Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation
15. Spacemen 3 - Why Couldn't I see
16. Spacemen 3 - Feeling Just Fine (Head Full of Shit)
17. Spiritualized - If I were with her now
18. Spacemen 3 - When Tomorrow Hits
19. Spiritualized - Broken Heart
20. Spacemen 3 - Hypnotized

My rationale for putting Shine a Light number one is that it's...pretty great? The build up to the freak out in the end is very satisfying, the best Jason has ever pulled that approach off in his many attempts in Spiritualized.

My ballot of shame:

200 Bars
Out of Sight
Medication
Lay Back in the Sun
Shine A Light
Suicide
Come Together
Electric Mainline
No God Only Religion
Revolution
Angel Sigh
These Blues
Spread Your Wings
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in
So Long You Pretty Thing

1. Anyway That You Want Me
2. Don't Just Do Something
3. O.D. Catastrophe
4. Walkin' With Jesus
5. Revolution
6. How You Satisfy Me
7. Take Me Away
8. If I Were With Her Now
9. The Straight and Narrow
10. I Think I'm In Love
11. Out of Sight
12. Don't Pass Me By
13. Mary-Anne
14. Do It All Over Again
15. Electric Mainline
16. So Long You Pretty Thing
17. Neon Sigh
18. An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music
19. 200 Bars
20. Lay Back In the Sun

I'm sort of surprised that Mary-Anne didn't do better. The live version off of Performance was my favorite song of theirs for a very long time. And Walkin With Jesus always stuck out as a little too poppy. Oh well.

Thanks for doing this Elvis T

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Tracks:

I Believe it
Walking with Jesus
Lord can you hear me?
Feel so Good
How does it Feel? (Alternate Version)
Take me to the Other Side
Come Down Softly to my Soul
Call the Doctor
Honey
So Hot (Wash Away all of my Tears)
Ode to Street Hassle
Suicide
Ecstasy Symphony/Transparent Radiation
Things'll never be the Same
Revolution
Calm Down Easy
Repeater (How Does It Feel?) (Live)
Soul 1
OD Catastrophe
That's Just Fine

Albums:

Playing with Fire
Perfect Prescription
Dreamweapon
Sound of Confusion

Great poll, Elvis T!

Strange results though -- two-thirds of the #1 votes were for songs that finished outside the top ten. OTOH, there's a sizeable increase in the total number of voters for everything in the top five, so it's hard to claim that there wasn't a clear consensus in the results.

Pretty sure we need more than 20 votes to get any kind of consensus, but I do like that there is a variety of #1 votes.