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
I received the LGM Fat Possum reissue yesterday. Not a fan of reissues that change the album artwork, but this one is interesting. I had assumed that the blobby angel/devil were a computer graphic, but they are sculptures that were photographed. For the new cover they rephotographed them and you can see little cracks running through them if you look closely, especially throughout the fingers. Whatever they are made of hasn’t aged well, but it makes for a nice image.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
Is it just a reissue or also remaster/bonus tracks?
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
yeah, i can see the vinyl being re-available is a useful thing but will the cds be any different?
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
No bonus tracks. Remastered from original sources is what the press release says. CDs available.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
wonder how it sounds. one of those albums I know backwards and forwards.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
*** Spaceman Reissue Program ***Pure Phase - the sublime second album - reissued with new artwork on double 180-gram glow-in-the-dark vinyl.Plus a new series of Pure Phase merchandise based on the original, vintage designs.Available to pre-order now https://t.co/dbqnehvtTw pic.twitter.com/2Rk0OVaFU8— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) April 27, 2021
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 13:21 (three years ago) link
I need to bust out my old Pure Phase cassette copy--love that album.
I wish this recent vinyl-only Spaceman/Coxon guitar noise/improv set was also available as a DL--def not going to appeal to everyone, but the samples are scrappy feedback catnip to these ears: https://boomkat.com/products/play-the-red-krayola-live-1967
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 13:26 (three years ago) link
Man. My vinyl budget is stretched impossibly thin right now but I kind of want to hop on this- Lazer Guided Melodies was sold out from every source I could find the day I found out about the reissues (through the Pitchfork review, because I guess I am out of touch now)
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 29 April 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
though hey never mind Fat Possum have a restock of the white vinyl (though bafflingly not the regular ol' black) up for preorder:
https://store.fatpossum.com/products/lazer-guided-melodies?variant=32321767538801¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsqmEBhDiARIsANV8H3afUq9aMlnSkVz5tdabVj-au4AAExB3i3IjiwBC8HxzWjKfJ6btbqQaAksnEALw_wcB
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 29 April 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
fat possum vinyl is not good ime but maybe they’re better now
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 April 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
Hm. I went to the Steve Hoffman forums and the response is...mostly good? There have been a couple of people who received moderately warped discs but Fat Possum are apparently very responsive about replacing them.
I just ordered, since I've never owned these albums in any physical format; if anyone else is considering, the code FATPOSSUM20OFF works and got me $12 off when buying both.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 3 May 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
My copy of the black vinyl ‘LGM’ has the worst warp I’ve had in ages on the first disk (looks like a rollercoaster) bit it plays through fine. Overall sound is fine, not amazing. Have ‘Pure Phase’ on order.
― hamicle, Monday, 3 May 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
ah good to know, TT... it always felt perfect on CD to me, the clean shimmering crystaline-ness matching the physical medium... in fact I grew up with the cd that had the glitch on “angel sigh” so when I listen to the cd I have now I still get a little tripped up when it doesn’t start over again 1:00 in lol
― brimstead, Monday, 3 May 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
Spiritualized opening up for Neil Young somewhere in the USA 1996.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oSeSbU984o
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 June 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link
Ladies & Gents being reissued on Fat Possum. They really screwed the pooch on the artwork.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 26 July 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/09/08/spiritualized-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
Good interview but just in case folks don't finish to the end:
Jason Pierce: Not much. I just finished a record. I’m kind of kicking my heels at the moment.AD: When is it coming out?Jason Pierce: Early next year.AD: Will it be Spiritualized?Jason Pierce: It’s a Spiritualized record as well. That seems like a weird kind of accomplishment.
AD: When is it coming out?
Jason Pierce: Early next year.
AD: Will it be Spiritualized?
Jason Pierce: It’s a Spiritualized record as well. That seems like a weird kind of accomplishment.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
*** Spaceman Reissue Program ***Let It Come Down - the band’s epic fourth album - reissued with new artwork on limited double 180-gram ivory vinyl as well as standard black.Out Oct 22. Available to pre-order now via https://t.co/bux8oadRqd pic.twitter.com/SYPV5wPGvl— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) September 14, 2021
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
Possibly teasing a new album? "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" is quote from Slaughterhouse 5
エヴリシング・ワズ・ビューティフル™Tout Était Magnifique™Alles War Wunderschön™Todo era bello™ pic.twitter.com/J6al54Ig94— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) November 1, 2021
― groovypanda, Monday, 1 November 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link