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

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.