Everybody I know can be POLLED here: The Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Spiritualized, and descendants poll thread (ILM Artist Poll Thread #57)

don't think this will be that hard for me actually, although not citing versions is gonna get a little weird given these guys' penchant for recycling stuff

I think I can just do my ballot cold with no re-listening, that's how much I jammed this stuff back in the day

Is Highs, Lows And Heavenly Blows available anywhere? I have never heard it, that is one of the most unavailable records I have ever tried to find.

I have it so I must have dl'd it for free from somewhere way back when. it's okay.

voted!

I would've stuck some side-projects on a longer ballot but 20 is all killer/no filler ie Spiritualized/S3 and a Spectrum track

fyi in case y'all haven't heard this (from the album v confusingly titled "Spectrum" by the artist Sonic Boom)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTPa2Obfqzs

yeah I am probably gonna vote for "Angel" from that excellent excellent album

yeah that's a good'un - I remember getting the vinyl of that at the college radio station with the spinning plastic disc on the front sleeve and thinking that was the coolest design.

album is some kind of apex of minimalist pop

rly, 5 albums tho...

hmm I did find this thing that looks like a compilation:

http://open.spotify.com/artist/2mIPQPRIXBXBxyHA5gmtEX

I have that too - that is better, actually

includes a bunch of singles that were issued on 45 in the wake of the Spacemen 3 breakup that I eagerly snapped up at the time - Indian Summer, True Love Will Find You In the End etc.

yah I have the double single and the 10" and the Drone Dream single, looks like all of those are on there.

another recommendation - "Delta 6" from the EAR 10"

Is Highs, Lows And Heavenly Blows available anywhere? I have never heard it, that is one of the most unavailable records I have ever tried to find.

I bought this in 1995 and it was pretty disappointing, to be honest. Can remember almost nothing about it now, but I think there was a track where he sang said "and then....and then I just drifted away." In fact, that is literally the only thing I can remember about it.

"Undo The Taboo" from HLAHB is definitely Top 20 for me. Shocked at how much I like Forever Alien these days.

man I haven't heard that either!

Admin question: count Spacemen 3 & Spiritualized versions of "Feel So Sad" as separate versions? (my gut instinct for this and similar is NO)

agreed, count them as the same

is that awesome 13-minute S3 version lost forever on some OOP CD single?

see also Lord Can You Hear Me? although I doubt anyone would realistically vote for the Spz version

13-minute S3 version lost forever on some OOP CD single?

isn't this the first Spiritualized 12"?

hmm maybe you're right

fuck this is gonna be really hard, like as hard as The Fall

dunno, but there's a 13-minute spiritualized version on on of their first singles

^ 2nd single, "anyway that you want me" was 1st

no way, the one with "Run" was 1st iirc

(off to Discogs, or Elvis to thread)

OK I am wrong, contenderizer got it

oh man just looking at those singles, Sway is so goddamn good, how the hell am I gonna do this

love love love 200 Bars as well

How many singles did they have before Lazer Guided Melodies? 'Why Don't You Smile Now' was the first thing of theirs I heard, a mate taped it for me in 1991.

off the top of my head
Any Way That You Want Me (7")
then Feel So Sad (12")
then Run and Sway 12" (one of which has Why Don't You Smile Now on the b-side)

I think he put Sway on the same tape, so that would make sense.

ok Smile was actually the a-side whatever

love love love 200 Bars as well

will be v high on my ballot

I love the version of "Feel So Sad" on the Medication single esp. when it all crashes into that huge throaty organ drone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV9-yjU_5m8

best Drkside song imo.
Spacemen meets Dream Syndicatte sort of.

Always liked Darkside's last single "Retroglide" (def. has a Dream Syndicate sound here) http://youtu.be/-Pi407wYyRM

hmm the one I kept off that album was Mystic Morning

you know what is actually impossible to find online/on youtubez etc is Slipstream singles

My memory might be playing tricks on me, but isn't there a track on Pure Phase (long, repetitive, no lyrics) which is made up of a combination of two tracks from an EP a couple of years before (Electric Mainline?) played simutaneously?

itt stoners try to remember minute discographical details from the late 80s/early 90s

all of the tracks on the Electric Mainline EP that preceded Pure Phase show up on the album in slightly altered form. As far as the "played simultaneously" thing goes, I think yr remembering the (possibly apocryphal?) anecdote that Pure Phase had two entirely separate mixes - one for the left channel and one for the right - mixed together for the final album.

remembering the (possibly apocryphal?) anecdote that Pure Phase had two entirely separate mixes - one for the left channel and one for the right - mixed together for the final album.

Jason talked about this often at the time of PP's release, but I never got around to picking out the differences.

my initial list is 29, time for ruthless cutting

I hope I'm not the only one voting for "An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music"

plz also consider "Touch The Stars"

I hope I'm not the only one voting for "An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music"

^^^^ top 10 here

My memory might be playing tricks on me, but isn't there a track on Pure Phase (long, repetitive, no lyrics) which is made up of a combination of two tracks from an EP a couple of years before (Electric Mainline?) played simutaneously?

yr not thinking of the "Pure Phase Tones for DJs" EP are you? still have my copy of that around somewhere

Hm yeah I need to vote for that in some form but it prob makes sense voting for it as a track and then devoting my album picks to things more fully fleshed out as albums

I remember being very disappointed with the first Alpha Stone record when it came out and filed it away after a couple of plays. Worth digging out?

pure phase tones for DJs came out after Pure Phase

I remember being very disappointed with the first Alpha Stone record when it came out and filed it away after a couple of plays. Worth digging out?

Skip it. The Alpha Stone records get better as you go forward but the first is the weakest.

pure phase tones for DJs came out after Pure Phase

I'm aware of that, I was suggesting that it might have been the long track NB&S was thinking of.

Sent

Culling the 20 tracks was particularly tricky as I've had to leave out plenty of favourites

Just saw this, can cook up a ballot so I'll do this tom morning.

i think im going to sit here and make myself do this.

mine is gong to be all Spiritualized, i fucking love Spacemen 3 but i have to listen and i can't do both bands tonight.

My response to the "all Spiritualized" posts better belongs in the irrationally angry thread, but I am doing my best to remain calm. And narrowing in on an all "O.D. Catastrophe" ballot.

I submitted a ballot that's heavy on anything made between 1987-1992.

yeah, i'm already rethinking my strategy, but i will miss so much Spacemen 3 without a recap. all ILM polls that i vote in, i go though that artist catalog, even if it is just skimming through some albums (Depeche Mode).

stocked for the madness

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/2/5/1423151228641/8b203327-8953-4cce-857c-7aa51377f4e5-1020x612.jpeg

that $45 bud looks just about perfect.

i voted, had ballot regret, voted again

mine is gong to be all Spiritualized, i fucking love Spacemen 3 but i have to listen and i can't do both bands tonight.

― Bee OK, Saturday, February 21, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, i'm already rethinking my strategy, but i will miss so much Spacemen 3 without a recap. all ILM polls that i vote in, i go though that artist catalog, even if it is just skimming through some albums (Depeche Mode).

― Bee OK, Saturday, February 21, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You have to re-think your strategy.

Is this some sort of joke?

As I saw this late the only strategy was = re-listen to Perfect Prescription and put my fave tracks with those from Playing with Fire.

These days I am like LOL Spiritualized.

btw I am voting for this alternative version of How does it feel? but I suppose count it along withe the version officially released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyQbeoRQRp8

voted: 20 tracks/4 albs

How many tracks/albums will appear in the rollout?

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workin on it now

luckily i recently made a mix of my top 20 S3 songs for a friend so this is making narrowing shit down tremendously easier

after some last minute dumping of SPZ songs for S3 jams (in response to sentiments above), I have sent my ballot.

jammin'

Please keep the ballots coming!

ok just sent you another one

now i know why i don't vote in these things! who can make up their mind?!

I'll have mine in later today!

i tried not to vote for any covers and failed

Sent!!!

17 ballots in. Can we get at least 20?

Sent!

Going to roll this out in a couple of days... Will take last-minute ballots (still only have 17)

I've been waiting for this poll for ages ... but just saw this thread! I'll throw together a ballot right now.

Sent.

Another sent. 95% Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized. Now regretting submitting a ballot that reinforces my biases whilst expecting to get something new out of it.

20 ballots now. Will take any/all last minute voting for another day or so. Rollout on Thursday (hopefully)

Which Thursday?

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