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

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Albums first, then the tracks. Drone on!

Great header! Bring it on!

^^^ on both counts

way stoked for this

Ladies and gentlemen, we are polling in space....

bring on the rollercoaster :D

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when

YEAH!

Think that track is number one! Probably not placin'.....

wubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwub

...anything yet?

stocked!!

thread title = A++

stocked!!

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Album #5 - RECURRING
200 points, 6 votes, 1 number one

my introduction to spacemen 3, so it has a very special place in my heart. didn't make my Top 5.

high smashingness bar set early in terms of the graphics wise

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

so what are people opinions on this one? what is the better side Sonic's or J. Spaceman? i remember at the time i liked Jason's better, do wonder if that would be different today?

of the original, 10-track LP/cassette sequence, i prefer side 1 (sonic), though really just for the first 3 tracks. disappointing album overall.

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Album #4 - LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE
243 points, 7 votes, 2 number ones

i thought this would be higher, thou we are only counting down five.

right where it belongs imo, assuming I know the other three

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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.

I just don't like Spiritualized v much. In S3 the 'downer songs' it actually leads them v non-rock paths (at times I feel like Revolution is the weakest track on Playing with Fire, although of course its an absolutely brilliant cover).

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

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, March 8, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was wondering :-)

I Believe it was my #1.

Revolution is not a cover....?

Xpost

Yeah, what I miss from early spiritualized is that the downer songs went on some non-rock paths as well; there's a lot of Steve Reich minimalism and new age ambient vibes on LGM. They were starting to shed that style already on Pure Phase, however (perhaps non-coincidentatally related to the departure of Sean Carruthers?).

With regards to LICD, it's my favorite of the post Ladies and Gentlemen albums (sans Sweet Heart Sweet Light, which I admit I haven't given a good listen) because there are some new unusual ideas being thrown around there for a Spiritualized record...I mean "Out of Sight" has seventh chords ffs! My issue with it and with most later Spiritualized is that Pierce's vocals are upfront and unadorned, which really isn't playing to his strengths.

Fun fact: "Anyway that you want me" originally written by Chip Taylor aka James Voight aka Jon Voight's brother.

Revolution is not a cover....?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkx_lnNrQsM

They were starting to shed that style already on Pure Phase, however (perhaps non-coincidentatally related to the departure of Sean Carruthers?).

Will Carruthers, Jon Mattock, and Mark Refoy (who were all there for the second half of Spacemen 3) were already gone by the time of PP's release.

(great live version of this)

http://youtu.be/266HkM7LESE

Spacemen 3 - I Believe It - live @ Drummonds, Euston Road (Sonic Boom) - 15.11.88.
"Actually Jason didn't play at all, Will Carruthers played bass and Sonic played guitar and keyboard. Snippets of Honey and bits of his first solo album. Jason stood at the bar all night with his girlfriend."

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35 - Call The Doctor
87 points, 5 votes
http://youtu.be/mfO45AVQBLE

I'm biased in much of the "which version of Spiritualized?" posturing because I was already on board when LGM first came out. On the whole, I like Spiritualized when Jason can't afford to record as much as he wants.

"Call The Doctor" = what comes after "O.D. Catastrophe" irl, love its hushed urgency

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34 - Come Together
99 points, 5 votes
http://youtu.be/j9G7n8DBpO8

I'm biased in much of the "which version of Spiritualized?" posturing because I was already on board when LGM first came out.

Me too, although I prefer the '94-'97 version, for me that was the most complete version of the band that could do the most number of things well.

I was going to say those last two are the first to come from my ballot, but I've just checked and I didn't actually vote for Come Together, it must have just missed the cut.

Yeah yeah i know black to comm still a stretch to call it a cover imo. I mean half the s3 catalog is similar reappropriations but i wouldnt exactly call i love you a cover of mr. Brown, y'know?

Xxp

Bardo Pond - Call the Doctor

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33 - Do It All Over Again
100 points, 4 votes
http://youtu.be/ivW_bVUtH9E

The best track on LICD, like an All Things Must Pass track

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32 - Electric Mainline
102 points, 5 votes
http://youtu.be/o3IXbJTv_uM

peons to the lord

amazing, mine

38 - Lord, Can You Hear Me
36 - Anyway That You Want Me
35 - Call the Doctor

^ TOO LOW

and "revolution" is not a "black to comm" cover

"Revolution" is to "Black To Comm" as "Suicide" is to Suicide.

"Come Together" may be the most overrated SPZ track. There's something very ordinary about it, like it could have been recorded by a hundred other bands.

I didn't expect to see three LICD tracks in the top forty (even if they're all fairly low) ... actually four tracks if you were feeling generous and wanted to tack on "Lord Can You Hear Me", or even five tracks if "Out of Sight" shows up later.

I assume "Out of Sight" will make it, because this duffer voted for it.

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ugh yeah, Will Carruthers not Sean Carruthers. Although I like the songwriting better on LGM, the band is really on fire on Pure Phase. That double-time Jam at the end of "Good Times" is something else. It's a sharp contrast to when I saw the band Summer of 2003 and they were awful. They played like they were hungover from a night of doing ecstasy in which nothing of note happened. This was Field Day Fest in a rainy June in Giants stadium. Beck apparently broke his ankle or something dancing to Blur's set and I got spared an hour of mopey Sea Change songs. Elliot Smith played a muffled set in which he forgot a few of his songs halfway through (this was a few months before his death). My jam band friend hated everything except a young My Morning Jacket, which is so completely appropriate. Radiohead headlined and they killed it, which made me all the more disappointed in Spiritualized because I had heard both bands were neck and neck when they were touring together in 1997.

waaay to much Spiritualized already, hope this improves soon

totoo

A little something for "Come Together" fans (from 1984): http://youtu.be/X_HxpiD39rA

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31 - An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music
104 points, 5 votes
http://youtu.be/l7-61FEHhAA

my #6 :(

I kinda wore this out back in the day, but it really is more than the sum of its parts

was Fierce a bootleg label?

largely yeah

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30 - Rollercoaster
112 points, 5 votes
http://youtu.be/p-XzevUTKkI

Wow, v eased w "Electric Mainline" placing

Had a v profound moment in college where I was walking listening to it really loud and it was about to rain but it was SO DARK AND GREY but for like several minutes on end and a torrential downpour was so imminent (like you could see it several blocks away) but instead there was just a humid stillness and it took forever to actually start raining and when it did the sky just opened instantly

So weird like being in a dark grey thunderstorm with no rain happening though and just this weird glow everywhere

that folk devils track, lawdy

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29 - If I Were With Her Now
116 points, 6 votes
http://youtu.be/p-XzevUTKkI

imo the short version of "rollercoaster"

never liked Come Together - Folk Devils' connection is weird what's the story there?

Love If I Were With Her Now

Spacemen 3 opened up for the Folk Devils early on. Jason is a big fan of them apparently...

(3 way tie)

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26 TIE - Things’ll Never Be The Same
117 points, 5 votes
http://youtu.be/tAu9R_XvHPo

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26 TIE - Honey
117 points, 5 votes
http://youtu.be/aeAgoqvC9rQ

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26 TIE - Come Down Softly To My Soul
117 points, 5 votes
http://youtu.be/nx6TnpXFlbU

all fine tracks, altho I don't think I voted for any of them

haha wow, I think I voted for all three of these

there is a live version of Things Will Never Be the Same on the Spiritualized Let it Flow single that is absolutely smoking. was in setlists for the Pure Phase tour for some reason.

Honey maybe the best of those three imo

My favourite version of "Things'll Never Be the Same" came from this tour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ_iAI9ua8s

Amazing Grace is far from my fave SPZ album, but this was the best gig I ever saw them play.

I've seen them so many times on so many tours I'd be hard-pressed to pick a "best" - although often whatever album they were promoting at the time was often completely unrelated to how well they performed on any given night.

I really love Do It All Over Again, cause I'm a pop tart at heart

Voted for Come Down Softly to My Soul. Hits similar pleasure points as I Believe It (which I foolishly forgot to vote for), and it satisfies the gear nerd in me with that amazing Vox Continental sound...about as good as the continental sounds outside of a Fela Kuti record.

Was never big on Things Will Never be the Same. The recording drags a bit to me, and I'm not really a fan of Pierce's occasional attempts to do snarly 'tough' rock vocals. This live version from Spacemen's 2nd Euro tour sounds pretty lively though (at about 11:20): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxrrL95TLj8

imo the short version of "rollercoaster"

― the late great, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:32 AM (Yesterday)

voted for ^ that version of "rollercoaster" (though both are great) and "things'll never be the same". approve of the iv drip rollout pacing.

luv the long 'rollercoaster' the mostest, just used to put that on and stare at the wall for hours

you gotta open up your mind and let everything come through

^trufax

missed voting on this, probably would've gone summat like this:

1. playing with fire
2. pure phase
3. perfect prescription
4. laydeez and gentlemen...
5. toss-up between fucked up inside and dreamweapon

1. rollercoaster (long)
2. big city
3. electric mainline (pure phase version, you could probably treat it and 'born never asked' as one track)
4. i believe it
5. all of my tears (pure phase version)
6. suicide
7. things'll never be the same (forged prescriptions version)
8. feel so good
9. how does it feel
10. let me down gently
11. smiles (was this on some volume magazine compilation?)
12. lord can you hear me (LICD version - possilby indefensible choice)
...and on and on. I am not as familiar with sonic's oevure as I should be.

I don't know if anyone linked this yet, but here's the Byron Coley Spin piece that first alerted a fair number of people (myself included) to Spacemen 3. I still remember being fascinated by their album covers, of all things. They just looked like they had to be an amazing band...

https://books.google.com/books?id=kSEbtY6IkTgC&lpg=PA34&dq=spacemen%203&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q=spacemen%203&f=false

When Sound of Confusion showed up in the US as an import I bought the record solely based on the album cover.

uh is there some time frame for when results for this are gonna be done people are asking me to get the next poll in line started

Countdown restarts tomorrow.

resumes I mean

(never mind, caught a break)

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25 - Feel So Sad
123 points, 4 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/RkVk4p0JCDY

uh is there some time frame for when results for this are gonna be done people are asking me to get the next poll in line started

― Οὖτις, Friday, March 13, 2015 8:52 PM (43 minutes ago)

Can't the next poll start anyway? Not sure why it'd have to wait for the final results of this one.

I'm quite enjoying the leisurely pace of the rollout.

Also, too low.

just trying to please everybody - in the past people have complained about too many polls going on at once and missing stuff as a result etc.

I confess I am more irritated w the "Epics" poll taking up space than this one, altho this one is movin pretty slow

There's no reason for another poll not to go, as I've mentioned before.

yeah I'm not talking about you

Clemenza hasn't volunteered to do the next one or anything, which is the other issue, altho I suppose I could e-mail him

this poll has sort of been amazing, it feels like it's floating.

would never have though to vote for feel so sad ... i just think of it as the intro to hypnotized.

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24 - Sway
124 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/lry16uAG6V8

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23 - Broken Heart
126 points, 5 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/olNfWDRuBNY

Love Sway. Glad to see it place

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22 - O.D. Catastrophe
127 points, 5 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/SaBz49jZo_Y

I'm not sure why Jason never attempted any more multipart 13-minute epics after "Feel So Sad". You'd figure he would have at least given it a shot in the LICD era ("Won't Get To Heaven" isn't long enough and is the weak link on LICD). Even though it wouldn't have fit with the ambient whooshiness of LGM, it takes guts to leave something as good as "Feel So Sad" off your debut album.

"OD Catastophe" was my #3 and my highest ranking S3 song. The vocals in the third verse coming in raised one octave is some "Heroes"-level drama.

People like broken heart? Huh

"Cop Shoot Cop" wasn't, enough of a 10+ minute epic?

Broken Heart was my number one. Incredible song.

agreed.

lol didn't even know there was a 13-minute version of Feel So Sad. Had the 3 minute Recurring version in mind when I voted.

The line about being "too busy" really keeps Broken Heart from being excessively maudlin.

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21 - Hypnotized
137 points, 6 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/9mi-Xsz1b5Y

My number one. Listening to it headphones is like getting lost in a dark stadium full of audio illusions.

Ha, I forgot about "Cop Shoot Cop", although it's structured very differently from "Feel So Sad". I guess I was thinking more along the lines of multi-part epic = e.g. "Don't Just Do Something" with a second coda and another eight verses, not a seven minute song padded with seven minutes of noise.

Just wondering, have the votes for songs that have both Spiritualized and Spacemen 3 versions been combined together?

As the 13 minute version of Feel So Sad is Spiritualized but the YouTube link above was for the S3 version so I assumed that was what people had voted for.

I was wondering about that too.

I hate to admit that I've never understood the love for "Recurring", except as a preview of the much better music they would make once S3 officially split up.

Just wondering, have the votes for songs that have both Spiritualized and Spacemen 3 versions been combined together?

Yes.

Only exception I made was separating "Sound Of Confusion" from "Walkin With Jesus" because it was an intentional separate vote.

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As the guy who voted "Recurring" #1, my love for it is due to my preference for bubblegum pop and R&B/gospel Spacemen 3 over the minimal Stooges thing. Recurring hits that spot the most (and really it was basically a three-way tie between Recurring, LGM and PP for me, just went with Recurring for sentimental reasons because it was the first album by S3 I bought and really listened to.)

I think Sonic's side is as good as anything he ever did, and while Jason's is weaker, it's still got Feel So Sad, Hypnotized, and Feeling Just Fine. Also really like what Carruthers and Refoy brought to the table on Sonic's side (bassline on I Love You, guitar on Why Couldn't I See).

lol didn't even know there was a 13-minute version of Feel So Sad. Had the 3 minute Recurring version in mind when I voted.

The line about being "too busy" really keeps Broken Heart from being excessively maudlin.

― klonman, Sunday, March 15, 2015 2:13 AM (Yesterday)

The 13 minute Spiritualized version was my #1. Think it was their 3rd or 4th single in the year before LGM came out and I remember playing the 12" to death in halls at University. Still gets played often now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhQU6tEYfzM

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20 - So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)
149 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/hfRQevR27MQ

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19 - Losing Touch With My Mind
152 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/ghMOacGV1gQ

top 20 starting off with a nice slow burn

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18 - I Love You
153 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/6V_0RfG6h3Q

Last two pictures perfect

haha lol @ last picture

loool

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17 -  Lay Back In The Sun
158 points, 8 votes
https://youtu.be/gkMblk2TuCo

losing touch with my mind is one of the best rock tracks by anyone

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16 -  Out Of Sight
165 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/6k1ItOCndSU

good dope good fun

huh figured we were done with LICD tbh

somehow i forgot to vote for "losing touch with my mind"

something really rhythmically appealing and tricky about Lay Back in the Sun. on one level it's just pounding 8th notes all the way through, but the different melodies/parts sort of skip around where the downbeat is

I was starting to give up on "Out of Sight".

idg the love for that one, it's emblematic of the record's general bombast but I don't find it melodically appealing or lyrically clever like a lot of the rest of the album

For me "Out of Sight" sounds almost like a track from "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space", which is probably why it was a single.

somehow i forgot to vote for "losing touch with my mind"

Shame on you!

i made an all-spacemen ballot, then had regrets and went back and added some spiritualized tracks. i think it was one of the tracks i removed, perhaps because it has fewer versions than the tracks i kept.

Out of Sight was one of a handful of tracks from LICD that just missed out on my top 20. I hadn't listened to the album in ages before giving it a spin for this poll and had forgotten how good it is.

Currently fucked by Time-Warner cable again. Rollout will resume when I can (ran out of results I could post from my phone)

honestly have no idea what's still to come, these results are pretty random. only real pattern is the preponderance of Jason tracks. poor Sonic, always second fiddle...

not in my world

Yeah, S3 dominated the albums poll so I'm expecting an S3-heavy top ten. Sonic is going to have the last laugh I'm sure.

can I just

Kids! Listen and learn as man of action Jason Pierce “pierces” together another one of his immortal rock classic Spiritualized anthems. Admire his skill and craftmanship as he weaves his magic to produce exactly the same song which he has been putting out for the last ten years – from the most basic ingredients!
SCENE: A hushed studio in north-east London lit only by crimson lava lamps. Jason “Piercing” Pierce sits crosslegged on the same carpet which George “Harry” Harrison used to record “Within You Lord My Piggies Pass” with a sitar in his lap which he may one day learn to play. He lays the sitar down carefully and picks up his dobro Stratofendercastpaul 1948 spat-upon-by-Gram-Parsons vintage guitar-shaped thing.

Behind him are seated his band of hired agency hands (contract-only, won’t complain about pay) keen with anticipation for the latest unformed outpouring from his personal Erato.

He solemnly strums a C major chord in adagio tempo, modulating to an E major chord, and then back again. The bass joins in, reproducing precisely the bottom note of each of these chords. After five minutes the drummer joins in, beating solemnly on his solitary tom-tom in the exquisitely pre-post-minimalist style of the Velvet Underground, whose song “Heroin” sounds nothing like anything Spiritualized have ever recorded, for legal reasons.

At eight-and-a-half minutes the mouth of Jason “Donovan” Pierce is pregnant with expiration of his unfettered emotional Camelot. He can bear it no more and begins to intone solemnly (not at all orgasmically):-

“Down. I’m comin’ down. The only way is up. But I’m goin’ down. Down. Down. Oh, my Sweet Lord. There’s blood on my tracks. I’m runnin’ low on my smack. I’m comin’ down. As opposed to sideways. Thinkin’ of those lazy hazy crazy days. To leave my lover there must be 50 ways. The tracks of my tears. Holdin’ back the years. Tears for souvenirs. But tears are not enough. I’m lookin’ for some hot stuff. Baby tonight. Wanna feel alright. The heat is bendin’ my spoon. I’m on the dark side of the moon. I can see the girl from Mars. Playin’ my ten guitars. Never gonna give you up. I’m like a lonely pup. In a Christmas shop. Dancin’ at the hop. But I’m comin’ down. The drugs don’t work. Where’s Captain Kirk? A love supreme. Strange Brew by Cream. She’s got Bette Davis eyes. You’re the devil in disguise. My camera never lies. True love will never dies. My shit’s takin’ an awful long time to cook. She got sexy eyes like Dr Hook. I read it in a book. Knight’s castle to rook. You made me realise. Baby what a big surprise. The girl who lives on heaven hill. Next door to Barnacle Bill. I’m feelin’ oh so fine. Just like it was 1969. And I’m comin’ down no more. Gonna knock on the green door. ‘Cos I’m goin’ high. High in the sky. Up where we belong. You can tell everybody that this is your song. Whoops, this ain’t Moulin Rouge. The nearest tube is street called Goodge. I’m getting’ high! With my American Pie!”

The band suddenly erupts into a feedback-laden climax. Enter the London Community Gospel Choir, their faces beaming with joy as they think of making even more money out of singing dumb whitey public school shit.

“OH HAPPY DAY! OH MY SWEET LORD! OH RELEASE ME! WE ARE THE WORLD!!”

Repeat for 12 minutes, then add Terry Edwards and bloke who plays sax on Stereolab records to echo the primary two chords of the song precisely, and then indulge in some desultory free-form “freakouts” (would like to do “Ascension” but “David” Jason Pierce has an eye on Steve Lamacq’s playlist. In any case he doesn’t know what “Ascension” sounds like, having bought it second-hand in 1994 but never having played it).

Just as the whole stew is about to boil over, Jason “Connery” Pierce adds the icing on the cake. He stops the whole ensemble to whisper:-

“Just say no to drugs. ‘Cos baby it’s tragic. But just say yes. To boogie woogie piano magic.”

Yes! It’s Jools Holland to play the band out with some goodtime rolling boogie-woogie piano magic! Fade out: “AbbbbababaBlueberry! Hill! Sam! Brown! Acoustic!” et fucking cetera.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, September 13, 2001 5:00 PM (13 years ago)

lol

I mean, a lot of inaccurate ad hominem shit in there but still lol

"whose song “Heroin” sounds nothing like anything Spiritualized have ever recorded, for legal reasons," still lose it at this one.

But yeah E major to C major GTFOH.

The other thing: I always wondered if they got the choir in first, then recorded the actual lyric over that when they'd all gone.

Yeah, S3 dominated the albums poll so I'm expecting an S3-heavy top ten. Sonic is going to have the last laugh I'm sure.

Bound to be some Perfect Prescription and Playing With Fire tracks making the top ten

TW back on! Here we go...

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14 TIE - Suicide
167 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/60NQtVaVvD4

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14 TIE - How You Satisfy Me
167 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/f0IdeUyqCwQ?t=9m53s (from radio session. studio v. blocked for copyright)

It looks like Sonic's revenge is starting ...

That live version of "How You Satisfy Me" is my favourite, it's completely unstoppable.

great album opener, the Evie Sands song he nicked it from isn't bad either

Thumbs up for "How You Satisfy Me." And yeah, this was a highlight when I saw Sonic perform live in Baltimore in 2011 with a four-piece band, with (incidentally) Suicide being the other highlight.

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13 - Feel So Good
194 points, 8 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/O7ndKCpmchc

(need to work on distinguishing "D"s and "O"s more in Rugby font)

feel so gooo

not sure what people think is special about this one

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11 TIE - 200 Bars
201 points, 8 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/ggnrvlEF7_I

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11 TIE - Come Down Easy
201 points, 8 votes, 1 number one[
https://youtu.be/ZAXEwrxiIOM

My number one (Come Down Easy, that is)

yeahhhhhh

Thought "200 Bars" would be higher!

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10 - How Does It Feel?
214 points, 8 votes
https://youtu.be/ytWrF2xkUPA

Thought "200 Bars" would be higher!

It would have been but I've just noticed I somehow deleted it from my ballot when I was arranging the tracks in order.

Also thought How Does It Feel was a cert for Top 3

More people needed to vote to break some of these ties.

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8 TIE - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
221 points, 9 votes
https://youtu.be/gBkpBtgf0JU

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8 TIE - Medication
221 points, 7 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/GQhwLpfKAVo

very disappointing.

uh I mean TOO HIGH

non-album versions vastly superior in both cases imo

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7 - Shine A Light
228 points, 9 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/mY8SyTsgSko

baffled at these results tbh

yeah me too

it's not that stuff I don't like is showing up or something (all these songs are good to varying degrees) just that I had no idea anyone would rate Shine a Light as number 1, for example. or that Feel So Good was some kind of standout track.

TBF, when LGM was first released "Shine A Light" (especially live) was the stand-out track for me.

I think "Medication" was my highest-ranked Spiritualized track. I think the original single (with the Peel of "Feel So Sad") is their best release.

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6 - Big City
235 points, 7 votes, 3 number ones
https://youtu.be/tMqpxHY2nFs

I think the original single (with the Peel of "Feel So Sad") is their best release.

I'd be inclined to name that as the peak too, that EP is so strong

man people really like Recurring, I would never have guessed. I know this was addressed somewhat upthread, but I'm still surprised.

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5 - Take Me To The Other Side
240 points, 11 votes
https://youtu.be/SJ4_YLjfHRo

"Big City" was my #1, omg, what a transcendent jam

I'm surprised "Suicide" was so low!

What's left? "I Think I'm In Love", "Walkin' With Jesus", uhhhhh

yeah I have no idea

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4 -  Revolution
276 points, 12 votes
https://youtu.be/Mzkerg_0_Ec

I thought revolution would be #1.

"Big City" is by far the best track on "Recurring ", but three number one votes? I definitely didn't see that coming.

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3 -  I Think I’m In Love
327 points, 13 votes, 2 number ones
https://youtu.be/KEXO15RX36Y

50 point jump. As I was compiling result I though ITIIL was going to win.

probably just dreamin

"Suicide" > "Revolution"

soooo what's left? Cop Shoot Cop? Walkin' With Jesus obviously.

Think I'm In Love one of those tracks where the studio version is incredible but they never really seemed to do it justice live for whatever reason

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.