Spiritualized - Underrated and Underappreciated

I used to herald _Pure Phase_ as the sign of my waning interest in them, but on a whim i played it last week, and while better than i remembered, it's nowhere near as good as _LGM_. The later albums have left me cold, but i'm a minority in that camp. I'm always curious to hear what he's up to, but unless there's a major stripping-down going on in the next incarnation of the band, i don't hold out much hope for his new work captivating me.

LAGWAFIS / LICD = the difference between epic arrangements because THAT IS WHAT THE SONGS DEMAND and epic arrangements for the sake of it. (Ladies and Gents being the good record). Also the difference between well-constructed epic arrangements that show lightness of touch / farfing loads of instruments onto the record with no care or thought.

Spiritualized's good records are good on their own, but grate when played together because of Pierce's irritatingly one-dimensional god-love-drugs lyrical schtick (which had, like the music, gone into bloated self-parody by LICD).

on the whole, they're closer to being overrated than underrated, but they're still v.good...

I'm still holding out for the next album, and I do like "Out Of Sight" by itself as a piece of Bob Ezrin-esque bombast.

I'm pretty sure Jason walked by me on Clerkenwell Rd the other day. I tried very hard not to stare as he had kind of a rabbit in the headlights expression when he noticed me staring.

It's due out now I believe. Hell, I've got all the original releases and I'll probably get it.

LAZER GUIDED MELODIES

It is constructed as the ultimate classic vinyl listening experience:
4 color-coded cross-faded suites
Red = Love
Green = Nature
Blue = The Blues
Black = The Void

Some bands are at their apex in their debut and this album stands out from their later works because it doesn't contain the same superfluous excess. It has a sonic clarity and purity of vision which is absent from subsequent sessions. It is more ethereal and flows the best.

It is an audiophile's dream and perhaps the best produced album of all time.

While LGM is my favorite Spiritualized album, my favorite song from Jason Pierce is the thirteen transcendental minutes of "Feel So Sad".

It is the shining moment of the Spaceman's career.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Graveyard Poet.

ppl who are bigger fans of this band than me: plz help me locate a song by either Spiritualized (very early) or Spacemen 3 (quite late)—it was a cover, possibly released as a single w/ a video involving ~psychedelic imagery~, short and poppy (bout 4 minutes?)... wish I had more to go on but then I probably woulda found it myself by now!

Anyway That You Want Me - The Troggs cover?

haha yes that's totally it! thanks!!

thats a bloody sick cover

It is awesome, but it's about 7 minutes long, iirc...

dear Graveyard Poet or other fans of LGM, can you answer this question for me?

so on the US 1996 reissue of this CD, the one that only has four tracks, the version of "Angel Sigh" is altered as follows:

Track 4 is approximately 1 minute longer than the UK 4 track release. However, this is not due to a different version of one of the tracks; approximately 1 minute into Angel Sigh the song restarts and then plays the track all the way through.

Was this intentional? It seems like it could just be a mistake that got left in - anybody know? I am splitting up the tracks on my CD of this and feel like I should edit it properly if it's a mistake.

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ent of the Spaceman's career. Over the course of its thirteen transcendental minutes, Jason Pierce moves the listener from the dark depths of sorrow and suffering to the spiritual heights of a sublime bliss-out. The effect verges upon a near-death experience.

A disembodied voice, drifting in the void, mournfully intones a blues-gospel lament in the chambers of cathedral reverb:

"Sweet Lord I know
I hate this lonely life so
Lord I know
Time goes slow
I feel so alone
Sweet Lord
Sweet Lord is this my fate
To live my life in this state
Lord I pray
I long for a change
But it still remains
Sweet Lord
Sweet Lord it's a sin
To live this life suffering
I feel so sad
Sweet Lord"

The pain is healed by the floating tones of a Farfisa organ and soothing woodwinds. A flute solo delicately enters like a soft spring or summer breeze. A bright and golden brass section floods down glowing sunlight through the gray and stormy clouds. The clouds part as the soaring strings lift the listener. The blues-gospel prayer is repeated once more which is then followed by an even more triumphant ascension as distant percussion announces the music of the spheres. The keyboards, woodwinds, brass, and strings now send the listener past shimmering stars, spinning planets, spiral galaxies, and supernovas. The voyage quietly returns to the realm of the nebula, of the womb.

"Feel So Sad" is one of the greatest songs of all time.

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Spiritualized
Feel So Sad

Released 1991 on Dedicated
Reviewed by Graveyard Poet, 24/02/2013ce

"Feel So Sad" is the shining moment of the Spaceman's career. Over the course of its thirteen transcendental minutes, Jason Pierce moves the listener from the dark depths of sorrow and suffering to the spiritual heights of a sublime bliss-out. The effect verges upon a near-death experience.

A disembodied voice, drifting in the void, mournfully intones a blues-gospel lament in the chambers of cathedral reverb:

"Sweet Lord I know
I hate this lonely life so
Lord I know
Time goes slow
I feel so alone
Sweet Lord
Sweet Lord is this my fate
To live my life in this state
Lord I pray
I long for a change
But it still remains
Sweet Lord
Sweet Lord it's a sin
To live this life suffering
I feel so sad
Sweet Lord"

The pain is healed by the floating tones of a Farfisa organ and soothing woodwinds. A flute solo delicately enters like a soft spring or summer breeze. A bright and golden brass section floods down glowing sunlight through the gray and stormy clouds. The clouds part as the soaring strings lift the listener. The blues-gospel prayer is repeated once more which is then followed by an even more triumphant ascension as distant percussion announces the music of the spheres. The keyboards, woodwinds, brass, and strings now send the listener past shimmering stars, spinning planets, spiral galaxies, and supernovas. The voyage quietly returns to the realm of the nebula, of the womb.

"Feel So Sad" is one of the greatest songs of all time.

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Lord Can You Hear Me is another of his greatest songs. It was the song that got me into the Spacemen 3, at the time it sounded remarkable and on another level to all of the similar type bands.

Here's me thinking this was the title of the next album

@sleeve, from wikipedia:

Some US versions, on BMG, have, since 1996, retained a skip on all copies, causing "Angel Sigh" to false-start after about one minute. This error is one of the longest-standing in the major-label CD era, at thirteen years and counting.