Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies - POLL

I wasn't going to continue these shoegaze polls as it didn't seem like there was much interest but Whirlpool actually did well votes wise. Plus, every once in awhile, I unearth something special that hasn't been done on ILM.

Not sure if Spiritualized are shoegaze but it works.

shine a light

9-12 are all so good.

The correct answer is probably Shine A Light, but I sure do love 200 Bars.

way too tired to attempt descriptive revelry but this is a top 3 album for me.. “take your time” for me, I think but it’s hard to break this one apart. but I mean, the bass, the drone, the clapping and bluesy piano tinkles at the end that evoke colorful fireworks shooting out of a blank space

take your cool hand away

When it's time for my funeral, I let everyone know that "Shine A Light" is to be played.

initially I thought "If I Were With Her Now" but really, "Shine A Light" is an all-timer

I think I Want You and Run are my favorites on this one

Anybody else own the CD with the glitch where Angel Sigh starts over after about 1:00? The song sounds weird now to me without it lol

My CD of this only had four tracks I’m pretty sure and I never learned to separate the tracks in my head so I have no idea what’s what for the most part

If I Were With Her Now, back in the day I loved the one-two of Step into the Breeze/Symphony Space... listened to this album so many times when it came out! This and the first Global Communication were my nap albums.

such a great album. Will have to think about this.

Yeah, this is difficult. Is Run fairly unusual in that it swipes lyrics from two different songs and combines them, like a double cover version? Or are there loads of other examples of that happening? I know it doesn't take all that much from the VU, but might just about count.

I forget that Feel So Sad isn't on this album. The long version of that song with the b-side might be my fave thing from this era.

Anybody else own the CD with the glitch where Angel Sigh starts over after about 1:00?

haha yes!

I could vote for any of the last four tracks

Yeah, 13 minute version of Feel So Sad is amazing xps

xpost: That was a glitch! Never realized, ha!

There are so many incredibly good songs here, and the fact shine a light is, for me, an easy answer, speaks to it being an overall best song out there.

sway.

one of the only songs that scratches that talk talk 'new grass' itch for me

basically a perfect album for me and mostly feels of a piece, but i'm leaning towards "Step Into the Breeze," glorious song.

Probably Sway for me too but could almost have been any the tracks

Easily my favourite Spiritualized album

This version is from their live album called Fucked Up Inside which is a show from the Hollywood Palladium. A show I was actually at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM9bichTrww

November 21, 1992

I was at that show too. Possibly my fave version of "Medication"

FUI was a CD holy grail of mine for a long time. I would search GEMM looking for it.

The most recent vinyl reissue is really good.

I'm pretty confident that LGM is my favorite album period. Even though my fave Spz release might be the Medication EP with that crazy "Feel So Sad" that crash lands into the organ

heh, I think GEMM was where I got mine

If I Were With Her Now was so amazing live. If the album version was even half as good then I'd pick it. Can't fault anyone for choosing Shine a Light or I Want You or Take Your Time, but I'm going with 200 Bars. It could have been even better if it had been called 1000 Bars and been thirty minutes long.

Every few years I think I need to go back and make sense of why this and *Pure Phase* don't mean more to me when they're, sonically, one of those 'Platonic ideal' bands. I listened to this again today and remembered the same problems with Pierce's lyrics. I wish I'd discovered them when I was a proper stoner as dodgy-approaching-doggerel lyrics never got in the way of me liking, eg, Kyuss, another band who I'd gladly sonically die inside.

That is my Spiritualized story. I listen to Complete Works I & II fairly often, fwiw.

Another veteran of that Palladium show here. Just wish there was video to go with the album! (Video of the whole night, honestly.)

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I loooooove Pure Phase. Maybe because it sounds, I don't know, somewhat out of phase (sorry) with the albums that bookend it? The first one is such a (sorry) pure statement of purpose, the third a grandiose apotheosis, but Pure Phase, it's kind of like a premature imperial phase (sorry) album, just a band at the peak of its powers before it had actually peaked.

Pure Phase is my favorite. It’s like Loveless in the sense that I want to sink into the sound of it forever.

Another veteran of that Palladium show here

while we're humblebragging I was at the Fillmore show that makes up the rest of Fucked Up Inside

Lol

I'm voting "Sway" as SAL needs no help. This is probably my third favorite album by them.

sorry I meant the Warfield (I always get Bill Graham's shitty operations mixed up)

haha I was wondering!

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Had not heard this until this afternoon but I’m always down to hear more from this era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cduaZ2lp7o

Felt bad that "Take Your Time" was left behind. It's so great live...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZV3LPo-Hc8

damn yeah I shoulda voted for that, I easily could have as per my post above

Tbh having heard the live versions the LGM version feels a little unfinished.

The Live At The Royal Albert Hall bit with Oh Happy Day - Shine A Light - Electric Mainline is soooooo good.

They were my favorite band for a while.

I thought someone would have voted for it xps