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

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.

xpost

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.