Cocoa Christ
01-08-2005, 05:26 AM
Spiritualized.com
If you'd like to read a review, here's one from BBC Collective.
Ladies and Gentlemen... was released in the early summer of 1997 and caused something of a buzz - because it's one of the best records ever made, anywhere, in the entire history and future of creation: FACT. J. Spaceman (Jason Pierce, ex-Spacemen 3) had a vision for this record. His vision was so strong that he bankrupted himself making it, as the record company refused to put up the funds to realise it.
J's vision was to release this album as medication. Packaged as a giant pill in its own foil bubble-pack, with accompanying instructions about how to take the medication, the packaging - all too often missing these days, but still seen in Spiritualized's records - immediately told us what to expect: here was an album about swamping the harsh realities of life, about escaping from the day-to-day humdrum, about getting out of it to escape the pain.
The thing about this album is that it absolutely demands your full attention. You cannot put this album on the stereo and listen to it as you review it. You cannot have this album on as you read, play the computer, talk with your friends or housemates, cook, make love, paint or draw.
This album is more than a collection of songs.
This is an emoto-auro-narcoleptic musical journey of pain, loss, longing, yearning, anger, frustration, bitterness, wanting, needing, itching, scratching, wailing, searching, redemptive fear-drenched cold turkey. From the opening plaintive vocal layering of the utterly sublime title track, where J. Spaceman sings
"All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away
Getting strong today
Giant step each day"
you know that whether he's singing about his life long pet horse, or his (then) recent break up with Kate Radley (who ran off with ex-Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft), "little J's a fuckin' mess".
"Don't know what to do 'bout myself, cos all of my time was with you"
When I first bought this album I was stunned by the breadth of musical styles on it - free jazz in the middle of a garage rock record? Swamp blues on the end of a psychedelic space-rock opera opus? Tidal opiated washes of sound following destructo-fuzz-noise freakouts?
...http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A1168940
I can't really put words to what I think of them.
Good shit, really good shit.
I recommend "Ladies and Gentlemen we're floating through space."
It was on vanilla sky.
If you'd like to read a review, here's one from BBC Collective.
Ladies and Gentlemen... was released in the early summer of 1997 and caused something of a buzz - because it's one of the best records ever made, anywhere, in the entire history and future of creation: FACT. J. Spaceman (Jason Pierce, ex-Spacemen 3) had a vision for this record. His vision was so strong that he bankrupted himself making it, as the record company refused to put up the funds to realise it.
J's vision was to release this album as medication. Packaged as a giant pill in its own foil bubble-pack, with accompanying instructions about how to take the medication, the packaging - all too often missing these days, but still seen in Spiritualized's records - immediately told us what to expect: here was an album about swamping the harsh realities of life, about escaping from the day-to-day humdrum, about getting out of it to escape the pain.
The thing about this album is that it absolutely demands your full attention. You cannot put this album on the stereo and listen to it as you review it. You cannot have this album on as you read, play the computer, talk with your friends or housemates, cook, make love, paint or draw.
This album is more than a collection of songs.
This is an emoto-auro-narcoleptic musical journey of pain, loss, longing, yearning, anger, frustration, bitterness, wanting, needing, itching, scratching, wailing, searching, redemptive fear-drenched cold turkey. From the opening plaintive vocal layering of the utterly sublime title track, where J. Spaceman sings
"All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away
Getting strong today
Giant step each day"
you know that whether he's singing about his life long pet horse, or his (then) recent break up with Kate Radley (who ran off with ex-Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft), "little J's a fuckin' mess".
"Don't know what to do 'bout myself, cos all of my time was with you"
When I first bought this album I was stunned by the breadth of musical styles on it - free jazz in the middle of a garage rock record? Swamp blues on the end of a psychedelic space-rock opera opus? Tidal opiated washes of sound following destructo-fuzz-noise freakouts?
...http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A1168940
I can't really put words to what I think of them.
Good shit, really good shit.
I recommend "Ladies and Gentlemen we're floating through space."
It was on vanilla sky.