new record any good
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
it's decent and if you like Spiritualized you'll probably like it. the recording process seems pretty interesting in that he took an Avalanches-esque approach of piecing together most of the orchestration from tiny samples but it's not too apparent actually listening to it
― ufo, Friday, 7 September 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
hm, cool. saw them live on a and e tour, excellent
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
I think it's crap and I'm Your Man is the only song that isn't a snoozer but ymmv
― imago, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
Havent heard it yet but posting to say imago has bad taste in music so ymmv with his posts/his opinions
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 7 September 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
Take the hill in second gearYou can see my house from here
― koogs, Thursday, 20 September 2018 08:45 (five years ago) link
Lots of reports that last night's show was rather special
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoBeJeOHQhL/?taken-by=neilhalstead
― groovypanda, Saturday, 22 September 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
Set list here: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/spiritualized/2018/eventim-apollo-london-england-6be9da2a.html
Looks like he's playing the album start-to-finish.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 September 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
Going to eat my words above - we went to the Brooklyn show last night and it was terrific. All the new songs (especially that anemic first half) are 100% improved live.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 October 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah? Will keep that in mind.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 October 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
I have to say, there's a kind of thinness/brittleness to the production sound of everything post-Let it Come Down that bothers me a bit, and this one is no exception. Still, lots of good stuff on it.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
very nice to hear Elvis Telecom. i'm seeing them in a few days. i fucking love this album, it's all i have been playing for the last two weeks. it has grown on me and now ready for a show.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 13 October 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
You have posted 15,000 messages
man, i have been here a long ass time. it's actually not acurate as my phone says i have posted about 25 more than that. so i don't think my phone posts are counting.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 13 October 2018 00:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbO0xabMlhA
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 13 October 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boev1lbaNQI
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 13 October 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
That was awesome
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 13 October 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
on my way, so excited!
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
Fascinating new details on Spiritualized inner workings (abandoned sessions with Youth and Visconti? *still* losing money on tour???) for the obsessives. And some comments on Spacemen 3. https://www.vogue.com/article/jason-pierce-spiritualized-kings-theatre
― jaywbabcock, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
still love this new album
― gman59, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
elvis, do spiritualized still rip live
saw them on a and e tour and was surprised at how transformative and heavy it was
― Ross, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Spiritualized was one of my favorite bands for a long time, but it's been diminishing returns for years now. The new one is less half-assed than the last couple, but is pretty dull regardless. I'm not surprised they still do a great live show though.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
elvis, do spiritualized still rip livesaw them on a and e tour and was surprised at how transformative and heavy it was
not Elvis but short answer, yes. i have seen them now three times. once on the Pure Phase tour, then i saw them as the opening band on the OK Computer tour. as you may or may not know they only had two US dates, one in New York and last nights in Los Angeles. i feel very fortunate that i was able to see this show. i think Jason might be having health issues, i don't know for sure but he did sit down the whole time and is very skinny but he sounded so beautiful last night. he had a 30 piece band behind him. adding him there were 31 people on stage, it was a very special night as there is no way he can do this for a full tour. they started with some older songs and then after around the seventh song they played the new album front to back. i have only been listening to the new album for the last few weeks so i knew it inside and out. i love the new song and now reading the above article it a very good last album ever by Spiritualized. they ended the show with the last song from that album and did a three song encore. they had a 10 women back round singers that made it feel like a southern church choir. as most of you know, a lot of songs have to do with Jesus so it worked very well. this show would have been a junkies paradise as i felt like i was on drugs when i was not. his voice is stronger than ever and his Spiritualized backing band was on point all night long. there were two drummers too. a very special band and i would see them if they add more dates, it was well worth it.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 18 October 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsn4xoyGaWM
― Bee OK, Thursday, 18 October 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
He has performed sitting down since... 2000? And also often performed sitting down in S3.
I’ve seen them probably a dozen times
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 October 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHw_qhjMEU
― Bee OK, Thursday, 18 October 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
hmm, i don't remember him sitting down when i saw him in '95 or '97 but i'm probably wrong.
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― Bee OK, Thursday, 18 October 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
oh, you said since 2000, yeah i missed 18 years of touring.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 18 October 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles - October 16, 2018:
1. Hold On2. Come Together3. Shine a Light4. Stay With Me5. Soul on Fire6. Broken Heart7. A Perfect Miracle8. I'm Your Man9. Here It Comes (The Road) Let's Go10. Let's Dance11. On the Sunshine12. Damaged13. The Morning After14. The Prize15. Sail on Through
Encore:
16. So Long You Pretty Thing17. Out of Sight18. Oh Happy Day19. Hold On (Reprise)
― Bee OK, Thursday, 18 October 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
I love the new album but I have been left wondering how much better it would have been if he'd been able to have the gospel choir & orchestra on it a la LAGWAFIS.
It's great to have a chance to hear them like that in these live videos and I wonder if/hope we'll see another live album in the not too distant future. Or at least a bootlegged soundboard recording of one of these shows.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 18 October 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
It's somewhat difficult to answer this one. I've seen Spiritualized 16 times now - the first time was in 1992 when there were still a quorum of Spacemen 3 members in the band (Jon Mattock on drums) and the last time (until last week) was 21 years later at Pappy & Harriets during a Joshua Tree windstorm (Kid Millions on drums). Both shows included "Medication" and for me, that's about as good as it gets. LGM is my favorite album. Never really cared for LAGWAFIS much until I saw it performed live start-to-finish at Radio City in 2010 when that potential of krautrock gospel + Sun Ra transcendence finally lined up. It's that potential that keeps me coming back.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Both shows included "Medication" and for me, that's about as good as it gets.
inclined to agree here
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
I would be so much happier with the new album if it was a well-recorded "wall of sound" with all of the players from these shows rather than something pieced together from Jason's computer.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
I was thinking that, but if we didn't know that was how he recorded it, would we really be able to tell the difference?
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
Yes
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
thanks Elvis and Bee OK (also good to see you around again, seems like you have been around less lately)
― Ross, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
you can definitely hear the difference between the live orchestration/performances on, say, Let it Come Down, and the patched-together sampled approach on the new one. budgets matter.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
Very true
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
You're right I haven't been around much and when I have I have been on the baseball board. I'm still thinking about opening up a new Artist thread however. Not positive yet.
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― Bee OK, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
I was at the Los Angeles show, and I was happy to see "Hold On" get so much shine. I have always loved that song and have never seen much praise for it around. I did think some details from the new record got lost in the wash with the big ensemble, but Lord, it washed over me.
― brontosaur, Friday, 19 October 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
I'm glad Stay With Me has come back into his setlists, that song is great and always felt like a kind of bastard child from between Pure Phase and LAGWAFIS that got overlooked
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 October 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
Complete Works like a warm bath this evening.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 23 March 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
Vol.1, that is.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 23 March 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
http://magazine.vinylmeplease.com/magazine/spiritualized-liner-notes/
― DJI, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
ah that was really good
― brimstead, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
Signed up with VMP just to get this.
Got an original copy of LGM recently but haven't had a chance to listen to it. The only one I'm missing now is Live At Royal Albert, but I've heard that all vinyl copies are shit.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
That was good, thanks. Fitting they should connect it with OK Computer, as Spiritualized supported Radiohead here when the latter was touring that album.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
That's one of my biggest concert misses. We got to a ticketmaster location way early but there was some other big show going on sale at the same time. Spice Girls? A huge line of teen girls in front of us. By the time I got to the counter Spiritualized/Radiohead was gone. Couldn't even find a scalper at the show. We hung out in the will-call area hoping something would come through but at least we could sorta hear Spiritualized.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
I remember the show here really well, actually. As a fan of both bands and albums I thought it was totally awesome they were on the same bill. It was at the Rosemont Theatre in 1998, which was the biggest place they had played locally but likely nowhere near the biggest local place they could have potentially played (and certainly smaller than any place Radiohead would ever play here again, and also bigger than any place I would ever see Spiritualized again, iirc). And yet as I remember it, Spiritualized, even with that album, hadn't quite clicked with many people at the time, or at least were totally overshadowed by the hype of "OK Computer" here, and as a sign of how much bigger at least Radiohead would get, I didn't even have a problem getting comped tickets to the show, as Radiohead wasn't quite at hip talisman level. But the next time they played Chicago was in Grant park in August 2001, which was memorable for lots of reasons: a huge happening, with perfect weather, the month before 9/11 fucked up everything forever.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
I saw them in SF with Radiohead but left after Spiritualized.
― DJI, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
Great story, it's always good (and somewhat of a relief) to see Pierce is in good spirits, doing well. I'm not joining a club to buy a record, but it does look nice. I remember the insane prices the 12x3" pill box went for!
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 07:10 (three years ago) link