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

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Free for all dronefight!

Pick your TOP 20 Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Spiritualized, Experimental Audio Research, The Darkside, Freelovebabies, Slipstream, Rugby, etc. tracks. Basically if it’s a Sonic, Jason, Bassman, Will, Mark, Jon, Rosco, etc. project it qualifies.

Then pick your TOP 5 albums from the same group.

Email them to me at quartzcity at gmail dot com by midnight Pacific Time on FEBRUARY 21 2015.

Standard ILX poll allocation in effect: 1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12.

...and go!

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stocked for this!

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the perfect prescription, recurring, spectrum, soul kiss (glide divine), what came before after, mesmerized, lazer guided melodies, highs, lows and heavenly blows, forever alien . and maybe beyond the pale. i think that's all i need. do people still listen to darkside CDs?

just felt like typing out my fave stuff by those dudes. good luck with your poll!

I still listen to the first darkside album!

aw man you need Taking Drugs and Dreamweapon in there as well

oh damnit there is no waaaay I'm gonna be able to do this but I AM SO EXCITED ABT THIS

lol @ myself, it sort of still works thou considering the band.

stocked for the madness

I still listen to the first AND second Darkside albums . . . though with the second one it's probably more nostalgia for that time of my life than the actual quality of it that keeps me coming back.

I kept a couple songs from the 2nd one.

We don't have to specify versions, do we? I wouldn't want any vote splitting.

Well, I have sent my (short) list.

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

options:

1) add them all together

um, I think that's it.

i'm guessing those who chose the perfect prescription track are essentially voting for just "transparent radiation"?

forgot to vote for this (half-joking):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAyqT_ntl3Y

Any opinions on splitting up "Ecstasy Symphony" and "Transparent Radiation?" Have received ballots with both of them as one track (a la Perfect Prescription CD) and as separate tracks (like on the singles, etc.)

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, February 15, 2015 9:39 PM (2 days ago)

as sleeping signal suggests, i'd assume that all votes for "ecstasy symphony/transparent radiation" (or suchlike) are basically votes for the perfect prescription version of "transparent radiation". it at least makes sense to treat them as such. i think votes for "ecstasy symphony" as a stand-alone track, however, should be tallied separately. it runs nearly 10 minutes and has nothing at all to do with "transparent radiation".

86/87 spacemen 3 are the greatest band of all time

leaning toward an all-spacemen ballot

Five ballots in and everything is a surprise.

I have mine done, just gotta take one more look and send it

only 3 days to go and only 5 ballots?

for shame

I have a list just about ready to go. It will be all Spiritualized songs though. I like Spacemen 3 and have a few albums but it's Spiritualized that I love and know the songs of really well.

I find Dreamweapon very enervating, so I'm not sure you'll me my SPZ + Spacemen 2 ballot befouling the results.

I'll be submitting mine tomorrow.

The albums one was fairly straightfoward, just need to finalise the higher placings of the tracks one

the cutoff is the 21st. therefore, ballots are submitted on the 21st.

Yeah I don't like Dreamweapon either, didn't vote for it.

I really like Dreamweapon and have listened to it shitloads but I'm not sure it can find a place in my top 5

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

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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)