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

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