Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen LP Vinyl
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Spiritualized
Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space
Mint condition, never played.
Some sleeve wear from sitting in my lp rack but overall, excellent.
Some would say this was their crowning achievment. It’s a fantastic record by a fantastic band. I will also include, free to the winner, an MP3 of the original version of the title song if you don't have it already. The version that was on the original pressings that had to be withdrawn due to sampling issues. Free MP3 to the winner.
Spiritualized's third collection of hypnotic headphone symphonies is their most brilliant and accessible to date. Largely forsaking the drones and minimalistic, repetitive riffs which have characterized his work since the halcyon days of Spacemen 3, Jason Pierce re-focuses here and spins off into myriad new directions; in a sense, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, with its majestic, Spector-like glow, is his classic rock album. "Come Together" and the blistering "Electricity" are his most edgy, straightforward rockers in eons, while the stunning "I Think I'm in Love" settles into a divided-psyche call-and-response R&B groove, and the closing "Cop Shoot Cop" (with guest Dr. John) locks into a voodoo blues trance. Lyrically, Pierce is at his most open and honest: The record is a heartfelt confessional of love and loss, with redemption found only in the form of drugs -- designed, no less, to look like a prescription pharmaceutical package, Ladies and Gentlemen is pointedly explicit in its description of drug use as a means of killing the pain on track after track. Conversely, never before have the literal implications of the name "Spiritualized" been explored in such earnest detail -- the London Community Gospel Choir appears prominently on a number of songs, while another bears the title "No God, Only Religion," pushing the music even further toward the kind of cosmic gospel transcendence it craves. A masterpiece.
Tracks
1 Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space.
2. Come Together
3. I Think I’m in Love
4. All of my Thoughts
5. Stay with Me
6. Electricity
7. Home of the Brave
8. The Individual
9. Broken Heart
10. No God Only Religion
11. Cool Waves
12. Cop Shoot Cop
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