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Is Guitar Loops supposed to sound all distorted at the beginning?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I have worked out that the answer is yes.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

Did someone mention this (Nov 17) interview yet? J Spaceman has been dead twice!

http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,1949789,00.html

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Separate thread on it, I think.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

WELL WHERE IS IT?

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, around. About.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry, ignore, didn't find it :-(

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

he must of been dead when he recorded that last album

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

double secret pneumonia

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Amazing Grace hasn't aged nearly as well as Let It Come Down, but I recall the former being praised (at least in the press) way more highly than the latter for some inexplicable reason.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

let it come down is a brilliant record

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

YES!!! I've just been listening to 'Won't Get To Heaven (The State I'm In)' on repeat to psych myself up for going out. The whole album (aside from 'On Fire' and 'The Twelve Steps' (respectively, meh and SHITE), is utterly awesome, grand, marvellous, moving etc, but WGTH(TSII) is one of my favourite songs of all-time. It's magnificent! 7:01 in is WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT

― Scourpop (Haberdager), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

otm about on fire, not about the twelve steps

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

works as an intro to the album, i guess

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

cutty OTM

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno, I just feel that TTS is nothing more than a tired re-hash of about 4 previous Spz songs (one of which is, indeed, 'On Fire'). It's not even well-executed garage rock, it's boring IMO, and there's no melodic progression. If it wasn't on the album I'd be over the moon, put it that way.

― Scourpop (Haberdager), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno I find the lyrics amusing - but yes its like a rehash of Electricity and a bunch of other stuff

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i love the way he re-uses lyrics on LICD

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a more recent Jason interview in the new Mojo... New album due out in 2007. Apparently the creative spark for it came from a particular guitar J. found on tour a couple years back.

Also, the "Acoustic Mainline" bootlegs I've been running across are pretty fantastic.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Are those the recent acoustic shows? The one I've heard is great, yeah.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 18 January 2007 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i love the way he re-uses ~~lyrics~~chord sequences on ~~LICD~~ all of his records
-- cutty (holle...), January 17th, 2007.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link

marcello spz parody to new answers page

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

On Fire is a LOT better than I rmemeber. Whole album's sounding very good, actually. The big sound done well.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

And the police SFX going on in The 12 Steps are supercool. Way better than anythig Mansun ever did.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Where's Louis when you want to antagonise him?!

Louis, if you're ever in devon, we'll go drinking.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I think making a big orchestral record at that stage of his career seemed like a copout to people - even tho the actual sound of the record is pretty damn amazing.

Stop Your Crying was a bad choice as a single though.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Agreed.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Offer accepted, but what I really want to know is what everyone thinks of WGTH(TSII). It's really the make-or-break album-clincher in my book, and it works better than anyone could have imagined. It just about pips the Albert Hall 'I Think I'm In Love' to my favourite Spz song.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link

(not forgetting the Albert Hall 'Shine A Light', which is definitely up there too)

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Let It Come Down and Amazing Grace is pretty good too.
I saw them on both tours and the songs were great live. Even if the last tour was in smaller venues (prob helped it all to sound better actually).
I just wish they would play medication again like they did the 1st time I saw them about 9 or 10 years ago.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 19 January 2007 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Amazing Grace hasn't aged nearly as well as Let It Come Down, but I recall the former being praised (at least in the press) way more highly than the latter for some inexplicable reason.

Huh? LICD was slammed as an over-indulgent mess. Amazing Grace was widely praised.

I'm happy to hear that people have been reversing their opinions on these records though ...

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 19 January 2007 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link

LICD still got 9/10 in NME IIRC and was no 2 in their albums of the year.
It's not often NME get things right either. Those were the days!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 19 January 2007 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That's true, but NME always loved SPZ (LGM = #3 of 1992, LAGWAFIS = #1 of 1997) ... but I also remember them reviewing a live show from spring 1998 and retroactively slamming LICD (and their fall shows, in which Jason toured with about 13 musicians), prefering a more pared-down SPZ with "only" eight or so performers.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw em in spring 1998 and they were, frankly, suckage.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

The 13-person lineup wasn't nearly as mindblowing as I hoped it would be. Oddly enough, the best show I saw from them was in October 2003, supporting "Amazing Grace" (their weakest album). The "Smiles"/"Things'll Never Be The Same" set-closing medley from that tour was (is) mindblowing.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

In answer to Louis' pleas about WGTH(TSII), yes, it's pretty good, and rescues the second half of the record (bit too samey after track 6).

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to me ... they were so mindblowing that they blew out my vocabulary and I had to use the word twice.

Nick OTM about the biggest flaw in LICD

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link

spiritualized record 'samey'? nick, say it ain't so!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i heart them but ya know...

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

LAGWAFIS avoids the sameyness thing though, at least more than their other records. I need to try Amazing Grace again. I remember loving The Power & The Glory.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, the samey-ness of LICD isn't the main problem, it's more the way the second half of the album turns into Jason's score for "Titanic".

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the second half of LICD is slightly better than the first, but hey, shows what I know! For instance, "I Didn't Mean To Hurt You" is brilliant, and the keyboard swooshes towards the end are just perfect for the song. The first half does have three stunners (Don't Just Do Something, Out Of Sight and The Straight And The Narrow) as opposed to the second half's two, but it also has two out-and-out clunkers. The other three second-half tracks are all solid four-star efforts.

I've still not gotten LAGWAFIS yet, funnily enough. I own all the others except Amazing Grace, but I've never felt the need to buy their 'masterpiece' because a) almost all the songs are on the Albert Hall disc and b) I've heard the album version of 'I Think I'm In Love' and it's nowhere near as good as the live one, although saying that I probably should have given it more than one listen. Gah, I've now got an urge to go and rectify this omission. I should probably act upon it!

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh for fuck's sake, Louis.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I've let the team down. Off to Fopp it is, then!

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/staff.php?ID=28 innit.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Although now I've thought to look at that for the first time in ages, I'm going to change it totally.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

you too will know what it was like being a student 10 years ago, louis.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I was doing A Levels when it came out. My brother gave me a copy the day before it was released, cos he was doing the distribution for Dedicated (amongst others) at that point. I played it, had my mind blown, and then went and played football, during which game I didn't speak to anyone cos I was still gobsmacked. I was about a week shy of my 18th birthday, mind.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

You know; easily impressed.

It's still a really, really great record though.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, that's a pretty cool list as things stand, shall check the changes with interest! (once i have bought LAG...)

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

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