Spiritualized?

Roughly in order,

Broken Heart
Shine a Light
Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
The Ballad of Richie Lee
Do it All Over Again
Out of Sight
Cool Waves
Hey Jane
Feel Like Goin' Home
200 Bars

Oh shit, I forgot Stay With Me.

Feel So Sad (the rockier version)
Medication (EP version)
Cop Shoot Cop
Ladies and Gentlemen
I Think I'm In Love
Run
Say With Me
Feel Like Going Home
Electricity
No God Only Religion

I dig every version I've heard of "Feel So Sad". The Peel Session version is my favorite, alongside the original Rhapsodies version.

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

I'll do my top 10 in order

1 - Won't Get To Heaven (The State I'm In)
2 - Shine A Light (either versh)
3 - Let It Flow
4 - I Think I'm In Love (Albert Hall versh onnnnnly)
5 - Medication
6 - Feel Like Goin' Home
7 - Don't Just Do Something
8 - Feel So Sad (Rhapsodies)
9 - Lay Back In The Sun
10 - If I Were With Her Now

Let It Flow is really, really amazing, deserves way more props, buried deep in the midst of their most difficult (albeit best) album tho

^^^turns out it was a single as well, silly me

Lazer Guided Melodies has always been my favorite because it has more clarity and flows better, in my humble opinion, however Pure Phase definitely gets props from me. It contains their most ghostly bliss-out "Take Good Care Of It", most uplifting climax "Lay Back In The Sun", and greatest closer "Feel Like Goin' Home".

I dig LGM more because I always felt the three instrumentals weighed Pure Phase down, plus "Good Times" is just a re-hash of "Lay Back In The Sun".

For years, I've listened to Pure Phase without those four tracks (10 tracks, 48 minutes) and in this incarnation Pure Phase is their best album.

Lazer Guided has only become my favourite album of theirs in the last year. I bought it over ten years ago and played it only a couple of times. I finally went back to it in the last two years and I loved it more and more each time I played it, it's the ultimate grower. I don't think they've made a bad record. Amazing Grace is probably my least favourite but it still has some beautiful moments.

I can't believe it took me this long to listen to Sweet Heart Sweet Light. It's Jason Pierce's best album since Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space.

Especially dig "Freedom" and "I Am What I Am."

This might sound heretical but I feel "I Am What I Am" is superior to
"Cop Shoot Cop".

After blasting Sweet Heart, Sweet Light in my headphones while wandering around outside, I've decided this is my favorite Spiritualized album since Lazer Guided Melodies.

In my mind, of course, it's impossible to top Lazer Guided Melodies, however, Sweet Heart, Sweet Light is superior to his previous three albums and (here's where I really upset the apple cart) it's even better than Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, to my ears.

"So Long, You Pretty Thing" is heartbreakingly beautiful. Brings tears to my eyes and, simultaneously, a smile to my face.

It is a great album but I prefer Ladies & Gentlemen and Let it Come Down. Pretty Thing is indeed beautiful, probably my second favourite after Hey Jane.

I even prefer Songs In A&E, it seemed like he was trying quite hard to refresh his sound on that record. Interludes, odder arrangements, Daniel Johnston, and all that. Sweet Heart seems a bit unfinished in the mixing stage or something, like he should have waited to get better before delivering the master.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W46GBFH1AmQ

Spiritualized are playing in Bushwick tonite at the ~200 cap. venue Secret Project Robot. Doors 8:00/Show 9:00/Ends at 11:00. $10.

That show was fucking awesome.

I have to assume Elvis Telecom ended up at that as well...

I have to assume Elvis Telecom ended up at that as well...

Actually I didn't. I didn't hear about the show until we were already on the Airtrain at JFK. Would have been annoyed, but already have tickets to see them at Pappy & Harriets out in Joshua Tree (which has quickly become my favorite place to see anyone these days).

BTW, Jason replaced most of the band again. New Spiritualized drummer is Kid Millions from Oneida.

they're playing Pappy and Harriets?!? say what's up to my bro for me lol

Kid Millions from Oneida.

also !!!!! love this dude

say whaaaat? That is crazy.

Pictures from the show: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2013/04/spiritualized_p_5.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8YqKT05Zw

Has anyone seen J. Spaceman solo? Worthwhile? He's doing a show in Champaign-Urbana in a couple of weeks.

Acoustic Mainlines show I saw 3 or 4 Christmases ago was near-solo (some of it was choir+orchestration, but not all) - one of my favourite gigs. So I'd say yes!

Where's he playing in C-U?

He's also doing in show @LPR in Sept.

http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/j-spaceman-and-kid-millions-september-11th-2013/

man sometimes I could listen to the various versions of Feel So Sad forever

> Where's he playing in C-U?

At the Krannert Center during the Ellnora Festival.

I've been listening to the whole discography (and I mean the WHOLE discography) the last few days and it's weird, sometime around Amazing Grace there's a real sonic shift, the low end tends to evaporate. incidentally that's the one album that feels like a real misstep. prior to that, through all the various incarnations of the band there's a real panoramic, wide-screen sort of sound that's very well fleshed out. things sound thinner now and I'm not sure why that is. I do like the last couple records but it feels like after Let It Come Down there was a kind of exhaustion that set in sonically, a retreat to this kind of more straightforward, washed-out sound.

that being said, So Long You Pretty Thing possibly the most elegiac thing he's ever written, god what a tune

Ended up going to the J Spaceman show last night. The stage set up was cool -- it's a huge, deeeep stage and sitting he was way up front under a wide spotlight with a Marshall half stack and to his left and a bunch of pedals in front of him. We missed the first couple minutes so not sure how he built it up, but he spent about 75 minutes layering loops. It took about 20-30 minutes to really start bringing it together...gotta admit I was a bit skeptical he was going to pull it off, actually. But the last 30 minutes were super cool -- like at least 5 or 6 different loops going with him playing over it all. Suuuper loud. Very cool.

There's a proper Spiritualized gig tomorrow in Philly that I think I'm going to though idk why they're touring since they played here less than a year ago and they have nothing new to promote. It makes me hope he does something like loop stuff for 75 minutes.

I love Spiritualized, but the band's innately conservative. I've not seen a lot of variety from show to show, which makes sense, because there's not a ton of variety from album to album, either. Arrangements tend to stick to the albums, too, no matter how many people on stage, the lyrics stay in sad gospel mode, and for all its free-jazz squonk I've never seen the band do a set that did not emphasize its songs. I've seen the band live maybe 8 times and I'd describe the most recent pretty much the same as I'd describe the first maybe 15 years ago. So basically, no, you're likely not going to get 75 minutes of loops.

That Spiritualized remains a great band is a minor miracle in and of itself. Maybe it's all that talking to Jesus about the deep hole in his soul.

Saw them in Raleigh over the weekend. They are definitely own a very specific sound and their approach could be described as conservative. However, I think bringing Kid Millions of Oneida in as a drummer has brought a small but welcome and noticeable change to the group dynamic. I also got to see the Radio City Music Hall performance of Ladies and Gentlemen a few years back and it was absolutely gobsmacking. I think you either get into the band and what they do full bore and keep loving and returning to it or not. I don't think they're the kind of group that's going to "evolve" in any dynamic way, but I've more or less loved every gig I've seen by them.

No argument. Love Spiritualized. It's just that given the nature of the music and its roots, I'm a little surprised/disappointed they never shake things up a bit, with drones, loops, skronk or basically anything that veers from the recorded arrangements. The band sticks to the script like pros, which they most certainly are, but it seems like Sonic Boom is the more seat of his pants of the pair.

New song new song new song

On April 19 (Record Store Day), Lefse will release a compilation called Space Project, which features songs by Youth Lagoon, Beach House, Mutual Benefit, the Antlers, and others that incorporate sounds recorded in space by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes. Spiritualized, under the name the Spiritualized Mississippi Space Program, contributed a track called "Always Forgetting With You (The Bridge Song)".

https://soundcloud.com/fatpossum/spiritualized-mississippi/

New song sounds remarkably like something that could be on side 2 of Recurring.

It wasn't until I listed to 6 straight years of country blues and modern drone that I come back to the Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized of my mid teens, and realize how fucking good they are. Spacemen 3 honestly did it all correctly, I couldn't ask for more.

loving the sound of this and the recent Cut Copy remix. always nice when he moves away from the more straightforward recording/mixing techniques

Hmm, nice indeed.

Anyone know what this is about?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkR11FXIIAA8GKO.jpg

Kind of being blown out of proportion, and it's a pretty song:

http://www.nme.com/news/spiritualized/76469

I went to listen to some Spiritualized this fine evening on Spotify, I thought I would listen to those versions of Feel So Sad that were compiled on The Complete Works Vol.1

Strangely enough, Feel so Sad (Glides and Chimes) seems to be the #1 most popular song by them.

Does anyone know why? I mean it's perfectly lovely but its seems to be far and away the most played song by them which strikes me as odd. Was it used in a movie? some weird mix I don't know about?

This new BE ONE record that J. Spaceman was involved in is so beautiful, it's a concept album about bees? Fucking amazing. Better than any Spiritualized record I've ever heard.

I assume you haven't heard that many Spiritualized records then.

It's quite nice but I'm not sure I'd go that far.

Jason reporting on Instagram: "Impromptu recording session with #Follakzoid ...1 phone call, 2 songs, 3 hours, new personal record.."
https://www.instagram.com/p/BF_5wCVrP7V/?taken-by=jspaceman3

Okay, that bit peaked my interest.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=20304

fuck, ladies and gentlemen is 20 years old next year? gahhh

Jason Pierce Says Next Spiritualized Album Will Be His Last

Of the £2 million Spacemen 3 reunion offers, he said:

It’s a ton of money. But I think it’s too important for that, I really do. It’s been my life’s work to wave my small flag to show how important rock n roll is. You can buy those records if you want to hear the music. The argument that gets thrown at me is people didn’t see it first time. But there’s a whole history of mankind and I wasn’t there for most of it. Maybe I’m just stupid. I certainly need the money. Who doesn’t need that? Who couldn’t give half of it away if they did have it?