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

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.

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.

Bound to be some Perfect Prescription and Playing With Fire tracks making the top ten

TW back on! Here we go...

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14 TIE - Suicide
167 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/60NQtVaVvD4

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14 TIE - How You Satisfy Me
167 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/f0IdeUyqCwQ?t=9m53s (from radio session. studio v. blocked for copyright)

It looks like Sonic's revenge is starting ...

That live version of "How You Satisfy Me" is my favourite, it's completely unstoppable.

great album opener, the Evie Sands song he nicked it from isn't bad either

Thumbs up for "How You Satisfy Me." And yeah, this was a highlight when I saw Sonic perform live in Baltimore in 2011 with a four-piece band, with (incidentally) Suicide being the other highlight.

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13 - Feel So Good
194 points, 8 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/O7ndKCpmchc

(need to work on distinguishing "D"s and "O"s more in Rugby font)

feel so gooo

not sure what people think is special about this one

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11 TIE - 200 Bars
201 points, 8 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/ggnrvlEF7_I

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11 TIE - Come Down Easy
201 points, 8 votes, 1 number one[
https://youtu.be/ZAXEwrxiIOM

My number one (Come Down Easy, that is)

yeahhhhhh

Thought "200 Bars" would be higher!

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10 - How Does It Feel?
214 points, 8 votes
https://youtu.be/ytWrF2xkUPA

Thought "200 Bars" would be higher!

It would have been but I've just noticed I somehow deleted it from my ballot when I was arranging the tracks in order.

Also thought How Does It Feel was a cert for Top 3

More people needed to vote to break some of these ties.

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8 TIE - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
221 points, 9 votes
https://youtu.be/gBkpBtgf0JU

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8 TIE - Medication
221 points, 7 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/GQhwLpfKAVo

very disappointing.

uh I mean TOO HIGH

non-album versions vastly superior in both cases imo

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7 - Shine A Light
228 points, 9 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/mY8SyTsgSko

baffled at these results tbh

yeah me too

it's not that stuff I don't like is showing up or something (all these songs are good to varying degrees) just that I had no idea anyone would rate Shine a Light as number 1, for example. or that Feel So Good was some kind of standout track.

TBF, when LGM was first released "Shine A Light" (especially live) was the stand-out track for me.

I think "Medication" was my highest-ranked Spiritualized track. I think the original single (with the Peel of "Feel So Sad") is their best release.

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6 - Big City
235 points, 7 votes, 3 number ones
https://youtu.be/tMqpxHY2nFs

I think the original single (with the Peel of "Feel So Sad") is their best release.

I'd be inclined to name that as the peak too, that EP is so strong

man people really like Recurring, I would never have guessed. I know this was addressed somewhat upthread, but I'm still surprised.

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5 - Take Me To The Other Side
240 points, 11 votes
https://youtu.be/SJ4_YLjfHRo

"Big City" was my #1, omg, what a transcendent jam

I'm surprised "Suicide" was so low!

What's left? "I Think I'm In Love", "Walkin' With Jesus", uhhhhh