Nobody ever seems to hear “Can’t help falling in love” by Elvis, even though the actual chorus,melody and lyrics are used throughout (hint: listen to the backing vocals). Once noticed, never unnoticed. Beautiful song.
I've viewed and appreciated this album as being created by someone who was going through incredible emotional turmoil, fueled by drug use, possibly alcohol, also probably little sleep and poor eating habits. I would imagine that it helped him remove many filters and get his raw emotions on tape. It just sounds to me like one day of the emotional roller coaster that he was experiencing at that time
The physical compact disc was an integral part of this albums feel as it was created to be like a pill to be popped out of the plastic and foil case and came with prescription information on how to 'take it'. Basically medication for a broken heart
An album I really want to throw out is Entroducing by DJ Shadow. A really atmospheric, mellow, moody drum and sample based record and one of my all time favorites
Love your channel. You're the only person doing anything like this. Please react to The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips, it's one of the best albums of the 90s. (Tip if you do: everything after Sleeping On The Roof is a bonus track)
That's what's tricky about these. I've already heard a fair amount of indie classics, some of which would've made some great first reactions. My reaction to "In the Aeroplane Over The Sea" would've been gold.
Such an understated album, even got the big Pill edition the disc packaged as a pop out from a foil tablet, and I never popped it out, still sealed, sad music collector that I am
One of my all time favourites. the way it blends orchestral and psychedelic music together to form these transcendental songs about love and addiction is amazing
Great review of not my favourite Spiritualized album. I liked the comment about the bass parts; Sean Cook did some awesome work on these albums, but I'm not sure that Jason kept his parts in later remixes for whatever reason. The live album at the Albert Hall has incredible versions of all the best tracks too. Great stuff. Subscribing now and clicking around for more of your reviews!
It's an amazing "Play through without pausing" experience of an album. This and Tricky's "Maxinquaye" are the two most consistent albums of the 90's for me.
Fair review, although I think you really need to listen to it lying down in a dark room to really appreciate it. I would love to hear you do Giant Steps by the Boo Radleys, it"s a similarly eclectic and experimental album but fear not, they also write great tunes. It's one of my top three favourites from the 90s along with Ladies and Gentleman .., and If You're Feeling Sinister.
It's certainly subtle. I think I'm beginning to grasp it better with some subsequent listens. And I'd never heard of The Boo Radleys before, so I'll look into em. Thanks.
Actually the best way to listen to it is in a dark room on the floor after your significant other has left you for someone who is like you but significantly better.
I have owned this album many times. First heard this at a friends house around 1999 or 2000, was handed some tablet with initials (GHB?) was not LSD...I sank back into the VEEERRRYYY soft couch...and in a bit when my mind was racing and rambling onwards but my body seemed glued to the couch....they put this album on. Blew my mind. Transfixed. Of course the next day could not recall name of the artist or album (but had memorized the look of it, and the "dosage" info on it etc) that friend died few weeks later in a car crash. found this album at a virgin music megastore in texas, bought it of course. it seems to get "permanently borrowed" eventually every time I own it. love Ladies and Gentleman...track, Stay with me, and cool waves...cool waves is one of my fave songs ever. sober for 10 yrs now, but still love the places this takes me...
Since you’re getting into the smiths, you should definitely listen to Asleep by them. I’m pointing this out bc Asleep isn’t in any of their studio albums or hatful of hollow so you might never end up hearing it which would be a big shame since it’s absolutely one of their best songs
This is essentially Jason Pierce’s “break up” album, as his partner left him for The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft (while she was still in Spiritualized). “Tender” by Blur was also written in the immediate aftermath of Damon Albarn’s breakup with Justine Frischmann. Moral: If you’re breaking up with your missus, get the London Gospel Community Choir involved.
Great video, glad you enjoyed it for the most part! This is probably my favorite album of all time, I've listened to it around 100 times and you showed me some things I never noticed before in this video! In case you haven't read this yet: you can tell this was a later recording/re-release of the album because Elvis Presley's estate didn't let Spiritualized include the "only fools rush in" part of the title track for the original release! Also I loved the connections you drew to other contemporaries, I've always heard a lot ride influence personally, but the swans/Radiohead parallels were spot on..
louder than bombs is essential listening for anyone getting into the smiths!!! [as well as elliott smith's "either/or" album, purely for those "i hate myself" vibes] ladies and gentlemen is a well composed + pretty fun album, honestly. i personally love it, but have many of the same hangups you do... lmfao. it REALLY grows on you. i adore his compositional skills. jason pierce fucking RULES.... spaceman 3 [a group he was one of the founders of] has been amazing from inception. true pioneers......... + yeah... morrissey is wild as fuck. really enjoyed this vid more than i expected to. props.... subscribe button here we come edit: had to add.... the ending of the movie Vanilla Sky literally has this song over a funeral / memoriam scene.... jason pierce makes gospel music Sexy in the same way deftones makes heterosexuality + bad girlfriends seem sexy. the instrumental in "out of sight" blows me away EVERY time i hear it. it's fucking gorgeous. (but the 100% Saddest Song Ever Made, to me, personally, is ajj's Back Pack. fucking //DEVASTATING//)
blurs album 13 came out well over a year after this and I remember at the time accusations thrown at Damon Albarn for ripping off this album, indeed well spoted
Then, Damon did that band "The Gorrilaz", which is BY FAR an " The O" rip off. He wasn't even trying to hide it there. I have no respect for that dude. Shame, I like little bits of blur.
If you still haven't listened to Lazer Guided Melodies by Spiritualized, you should. (You'll understand where the "Space Rock" moniker comes from :) BTW, thanks for the videos!
The whole concept of the album is like a prescription medication. inside the cd booklet there is FAQ about the medication, and then a lot of the lyrics are depressive like the album is a prescription for it
i can fully understand people not liking this album. the two worst songs are both 8 minutes plus and it is mainly sad, somber and the lyrics aren’t particularly good. but i also understand utterly loving it. broken heart is nothing new or unique but is just a perfect sad song with a gorgeous instrumental, the title track is beautifully unique and magical, this album is at its best when it’s sad. i love how divisive it can be
I think im in love is not a love song...well,not in the conventional sense....hence the lyrics "love in the middle of an afternoon...just me my spike and my arm and my spoon" 👌🏻
I coulda sworn Come Down Easy was somewhere on this album, one of my fav Spiritualized songs. It's a good palette cleanser after the epic end track at least.
Cop Shoot Cop is a heroin song, so that's why the madness in the middle is there, that's the shoot. The title comes from the cycle of being a heroin addict, look for drugs, use drugs, look for drugs, repeat.
Crikey,, this is the knowledge of that seriously cool college girl,, who only subtlety let you know, that she knew far more obscure music than you might ever,, that you secretly fancied since you were nine and now she has toastily dull Facebook destiny,,, you sneer, then secretly one weep ,,,,, when;?!
Nobody ever seems to hear “Can’t help falling in love” by Elvis, even though the actual chorus,melody and lyrics are used throughout (hint: listen to the backing vocals). Once noticed, never unnoticed. Beautiful song.
An incredibly layered track.
This album is fucking incredible. Easily in my top 10 of all time
I've viewed and appreciated this album as being created by someone who was going through incredible emotional turmoil, fueled by drug use, possibly alcohol, also probably little sleep and poor eating habits. I would imagine that it helped him remove many filters and get his raw emotions on tape. It just sounds to me like one day of the emotional roller coaster that he was experiencing at that time
The physical compact disc was an integral part of this albums feel as it was created to be like a pill to be popped out of the plastic and foil case and came with prescription information on how to 'take it'. Basically medication for a broken heart
An album I really want to throw out is Entroducing by DJ Shadow. A really atmospheric, mellow, moody drum and sample based record and one of my all time favorites
George W Kush I second this
I tried that one at one point, I think I listened to a couple tracks and was digging it. May do a video somewhere down the line.
Love your channel. You're the only person doing anything like this.
Please react to The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips, it's one of the best albums of the 90s. (Tip if you do: everything after Sleeping On The Roof is a bonus track)
I've already heard it. I love Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi, both great albums.
@@AlexHaitz Dang, I'll hopefully suggest something you haven't heard next time haha
That's what's tricky about these. I've already heard a fair amount of indie classics, some of which would've made some great first reactions. My reaction to "In the Aeroplane Over The Sea" would've been gold.
What about On Avery Island by NMH or A Priest Driven Ambulance by The Flaming Lips? :) Good stuff, by the by.
Oh or Zaireeka by the flaming lips, done properly with 4 CD players?
‘It’s like the saddest song in the world’ - title track..
Meanwhile Brokenheart is sat there doing a jabba the hut chortle 😀
Definitely listen to Lazer Guided Melodies, Pure Phase, and Let It Come Down.
Also I HIGHLY recommend Recurring by Spacemen 3.
You have awesome taste dude. 4 Golden albums
Such an understated album, even got the big Pill edition the disc packaged as a pop out from a foil tablet, and I never popped it out, still sealed, sad music collector that I am
Epic album. Who makes an LP like this anymore? It's such a rare gem. Start to finish it's a journey.
my parents played Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space at there wedding. One of my all time favorites it’s so fucking beautiful
One of my all time favourites. the way it blends orchestral and psychedelic music together to form these transcendental songs about love and addiction is amazing
You're playing an album that blew me out in the 90's and I still love it. Thanks again. This and the Stone Roses!
Maybe drugs were involved?
Great review of not my favourite Spiritualized album. I liked the comment about the bass parts; Sean Cook did some awesome work on these albums, but I'm not sure that Jason kept his parts in later remixes for whatever reason. The live album at the Albert Hall has incredible versions of all the best tracks too. Great stuff. Subscribing now and clicking around for more of your reviews!
Thanks for watching!
It's an amazing "Play through without pausing" experience of an album. This and Tricky's "Maxinquaye" are the two most consistent albums of the 90's for me.
Fair review, although I think you really need to listen to it lying down in a dark room to really appreciate it.
I would love to hear you do Giant Steps by the Boo Radleys, it"s a similarly eclectic and experimental album but fear not, they also write great tunes. It's one of my top three favourites from the 90s along with Ladies and Gentleman .., and If You're Feeling Sinister.
It's certainly subtle. I think I'm beginning to grasp it better with some subsequent listens.
And I'd never heard of The Boo Radleys before, so I'll look into em. Thanks.
Actually the best way to listen to it is in a dark room on the floor after your significant other has left you for someone who is like you but significantly better.
Songs in A & E is better than Ladies and Gentleman tbh
Giant Steps is collosal album. Awesome psychedelia and criminally underrated
I have owned this album many times. First heard this at a friends house around 1999 or 2000, was handed some tablet with initials (GHB?) was not LSD...I sank back into the VEEERRRYYY soft couch...and in a bit when my mind was racing and rambling onwards but my body seemed glued to the couch....they put this album on. Blew my mind. Transfixed. Of course the next day could not recall name of the artist or album (but had memorized the look of it, and the "dosage" info on it etc) that friend died few weeks later in a car crash. found this album at a virgin music megastore in texas, bought it of course. it seems to get "permanently borrowed" eventually every time I own it. love Ladies and Gentleman...track, Stay with me, and cool waves...cool waves is one of my fave songs ever. sober for 10 yrs now, but still love the places this takes me...
I love the way that Spiritualized Use Pachabel’s Canon in Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Since you’re getting into the smiths, you should definitely listen to Asleep by them. I’m pointing this out bc Asleep isn’t in any of their studio albums or hatful of hollow so you might never end up hearing it which would be a big shame since it’s absolutely one of their best songs
Excellent, thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out and give my thoughts in one of the videos.
Broken Heart Changed My life
I think I prefer Lazer Guided Melodies to this. You might want to check that out.
Check out Spacemen 3, the band that predated Spiritualized, and Jay Spaceman's earlier group. Also later albums like Songs in A & E
"Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to" is one of the truest album titles ever
This is essentially Jason Pierce’s “break up” album, as his partner left him for The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft (while she was still in Spiritualized).
“Tender” by Blur was also written in the immediate aftermath of Damon Albarn’s breakup with Justine Frischmann.
Moral: If you’re breaking up with your missus, get the London Gospel Community Choir involved.
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“Choir: It’s over, It’s overrrr, It’s overrrrrrrrrr”
“bass: get the fuck outttttt”
Tender is a complete rip off of Cool Waves
You're really fucked if you were dating someone in the London Gospel Community Choir though!
Great video, glad you enjoyed it for the most part! This is probably my favorite album of all time, I've listened to it around 100 times and you showed me some things I never noticed before in this video!
In case you haven't read this yet: you can tell this was a later recording/re-release of the album because Elvis Presley's estate didn't let Spiritualized include the "only fools rush in" part of the title track for the original release!
Also I loved the connections you drew to other contemporaries, I've always heard a lot ride influence personally, but the swans/Radiohead parallels were spot on..
Im not a huge fan of Spiritualized but Broken Heart is beautiful and pleased to see you instantly enjoy.
Their cover of Evie Sands/The Troggs 'Any Way That you Want Me' is a favourite of mine.
louder than bombs is essential listening for anyone getting into the smiths!!! [as well as elliott smith's "either/or" album, purely for those "i hate myself" vibes]
ladies and gentlemen is a well composed + pretty fun album, honestly. i personally love it, but have many of the same hangups you do... lmfao. it REALLY grows on you. i adore his compositional skills.
jason pierce fucking RULES.... spaceman 3 [a group he was one of the founders of] has been amazing from inception. true pioneers.........
+ yeah... morrissey is wild as fuck. really enjoyed this vid more than i expected to. props.... subscribe button here we come
edit: had to add.... the ending of the movie Vanilla Sky literally has this song over a funeral / memoriam scene....
jason pierce makes gospel music Sexy in the same way deftones makes heterosexuality + bad girlfriends seem sexy.
the instrumental in "out of sight" blows me away EVERY time i hear it. it's fucking gorgeous.
(but the 100% Saddest Song Ever Made, to me, personally, is ajj's Back Pack. fucking //DEVASTATING//)
Jay Spaceman is a strange legend.
His range goes a lot further, but cosmic and earthly ordeal seems to be kind of a personal theme
blurs album 13 came out well over a year after this and I remember at the time accusations thrown at Damon Albarn for ripping off this album, indeed well spoted
Then, Damon did that band "The Gorrilaz", which is BY FAR an " The O" rip off. He wasn't even trying to hide it there. I have no respect for that dude. Shame, I like little bits of blur.
I saw Spiritualized play live in an old church with a choir, amazing gig
If you still haven't listened to Lazer Guided Melodies by Spiritualized, you should. (You'll understand where the "Space Rock" moniker comes from :)
BTW, thanks for the videos!
The whole concept of the album is like a prescription medication. inside the cd booklet there is FAQ about the medication, and then a lot of the lyrics are depressive like the album is a prescription for it
Not sure if this was mentioned - Cameron Crowe used this song in a movie...for a scene about a wake.
Mate you should give ‘Recurring’ by Spacemen 3 a listen.
Playing with Fire and Perfect Prescription are also amazing
The silence at the end of the album is so that it hits an even 70 minutes (as alluded to on the cover)
i can fully understand people not liking this album. the two worst songs are both 8 minutes plus and it is mainly sad, somber and the lyrics aren’t particularly good. but i also understand utterly loving it. broken heart is nothing new or unique but is just a perfect sad song with a gorgeous instrumental, the title track is beautifully unique and magical, this album is at its best when it’s sad. i love how divisive it can be
Wrong, the two shortest tracks are easily the worst on the album, and the two longest are both in the top five.
You think cop shoot cop is in the bottom 2??
Your cowboy noir sounds like Ken Nordine lol
Spaceman has been on the scene since Blur was all suburban kids, so the influence is likely
I think im in love is not a love song...well,not in the conventional sense....hence the lyrics "love in the middle of an afternoon...just me my spike and my arm and my spoon" 👌🏻
The endurance parts are intentional, this album makes you try.
I coulda sworn Come Down Easy was somewhere on this album, one of my fav Spiritualized songs. It's a good palette cleanser after the epic end track at least.
@@0v_x0 come down easy is a spacemen 3 song
im gonna recommend power corruption & lies by new order again
I'm totally gonna do it at some point. Age of Consent is such a killer song, so I wanna hear more.
Everything up to technique. It’s all gravy!
Seriously? You relate it to Pachelel's Cannon in D?
video starts @ 6:16
New model army ,,, the ghost of Cain
,,, thunder and consolation
Tindersticks,,, "2nd album"
4 minutes in and you're still talking about what YOU think of the Smiths.
I pressed 'STOP'
By this point, hopefully you've sussed that it is indeed the original version of "broken heart."
react to perfect prescription or playing with fire by spacemen 3 please
Cop Shoot Cop is a heroin song, so that's why the madness in the middle is there, that's the shoot. The title comes from the cycle of being a heroin addict, look for drugs, use drugs, look for drugs, repeat.
Go deeper for the spacemen3
Please do Hatful of Hollow! It's even better imo
The debut and Hollow will be my next two videos!
Crikey,, this is the knowledge of that seriously cool college girl,, who only subtlety let you know, that she knew far more obscure music than you might ever,, that you secretly fancied since you were nine and now she has toastily dull Facebook destiny,,, you sneer, then secretly one weep ,,,,, when;?!
Great album but i havent listened to it enough to really form an opinion
Try Hawkwind ,,, in search of space ,,, 1971
John Zorn ,,, Spillane ,,, 1987
REACT TO DOWNARD SPIRAL BY NINE INCH NAILS
REACT TO SUICIDE BY SUICIDE
React to the album Cruel Town
REAC TO SWANS - TO BE KIND
REACT TO MUTTER BY RAMMSTEIN
REACT TO SEHNSUCHT BY RAMMSTEIN
Spacemen 3 > Spiritualized
take that back
i agree
Ok I get now. But your massive edit and singing ruined it for me.