i was a herion addict for 20 years listened to a lot of drug music been clean 20 years couldn't listen to spiritualized for along time now it's my medicine and its so damn good
I watched them play this live at Norwich Waterfront. I stood transfixed, staring at them on stage. When they turned the strobe lights on half way through this track I lost myself. Nothing but white light for several minutes - that felt like eternity. I was on LSD. One of the greatest gigs - an enlightening trips - of my 20s!
I love this song so much. I got to see it live two nights in a row as they opened for my fav band. It broke my heart how many people around me hated the band and didn’t care. I had goosebumps the entire time. How can someone not appreciate how gorgeous this song is?
What I love is the slow build to the storm of noise later in the song - the way it gradually turns into a howling tornado of free-noise. BUT, then the storm of noise kinda dies away at the end, and the sax line is still there, playing its patient, insistent melody. It's been there all the while and now it's survived the storm and come through the other side...like a butterfly emerging from a hurricane, or a sail boat coming through an ocean squall and suddenly finding the water calm and the sky clear. That melodic innocence mixed with fury and violence makes me want to cry with joy.
I love your analogy! Mine is similar. When I'm listening and the storm starts forming and picks up pace into a dizzying orchestra of melodic chaos, I visualize all the shit I've endured so far in life, all the scariest, craziest, bravest backwardness, cruelest, death, beginning, etc. And that sax, still there. Lovely indeed.
I’ve never heard this song someone sent it to me I’m listening to it out of respect probably wouldn’t listen to it for very long because it’s really not my style but I read this comment this wonderful comment and I gave this song a chance just for you
The Sprawl is excellent song by Sonic Youth. This song is like beautiful spiritual successors to Sonic Youth, A plus students if you will. Much more beauty and melody here.
i love your comment... it also makes me want to cry and dance with joy. most beautiful piece of music ive ever come across. for me, that melodic innocence mixed with violence and fury you describe is the sound of everything, the universe itself, and it's so so beautiful 🕉
A lot of folks will say things like, “this is the greatest ever!” And it’s usually just euphoria of the moment. But this song, amongst my massive music collection spanning nearly 10 decades, would be the song ‘I take to the island with me.’ It’s true. Little Wing by Hendrix. Dear Mr. Fantasy by Traffic. Tool. Beatles. Etc… This song is truly my favorite song of all time. I can’t wait to see him live one day. (Even better with the backup choir he has sometimes.)
I think these guys and people like Brian Jonestown Massacre should have their own genre. “Opiadelic” or “heroin gospel” music. Idk what it is about people who are addicted to opiates but they make such good psychedelia. Like DJ Screw.
"When I'm tired and all alone, Oh Lord Shine a Light on me. When I'm lonesome as can be, Oh Lord Shine a Light on me." 20 Years old and this still blows my head off every time I hear it.
@@yuppienetwork1022 Plain Records was the reissue label and they had several pressings come out often. I'm guessing they most likely won't be pressing anymore and someone else got the rights back. Hopefully Justin did so he can work on getting it remastered and reissued legit. People tend to hold onto copies of this even if the quality is bad because it's a great record. Same goes with the Plain issue of Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. That was the last time you could get a copy for a decent price until they lost it and Kevin Shields got back the rights to remaster and release it himself. All you see of the record now are bootlegs from Japan and Europe
One of my life's soundtrack songs. I like to imagine this as a representation of what life is, a slow beginning at birth, childhood, and then it starts to grow in adolescence, adulthood, it reaches the climax and then starts fading into a slow end which is decaying and death. I'm glad I had the opportunity of seeing them live.
That solo Saxophone at the very end that wails alone in the dark cold drear of the night always makes me want to weep openly in front of complete strangers. Thank you.
Song means as much to me as it did the very first time I heard it 25 years ago. If not more. The bass, the simple keyboards, the droning sax, Jason's angelic voice. Powerful
Two seconds into hearing this for the first time on (Feria Netflix) I had to Shazam it. Its one of those tunes that connects with your soul; for those of us who have one.
man i put this on and wham! it's the very early nineties again, all my hopes and fears and loves all literally overwhelmed me. How music has the power to do that is incredible. It never loses its power to produce agony and ecstasy in me at the same time and alas, I don't speak to those friends who truly understand this band/s. A place forever lost to me.
..this is simply beautiful music, I have Lazer Guided Melodies as my all time fave piece of music by far...others will argue, but this is my choice. Stunning and brilliant!!
Lazer Guided Melodies had such a massive impact on me when it came out I went and had the angel and devil silhouettes tattooed on my legs, never a second of regret. It still hits me as hard as it did back then.
My two best friends that I spent all my time with and grew up with both od in the last 6 months one in June one last Sunday, I carried both there caskets, im only 25, I also struggle with addiction but have been clean for 3 months, my parents won't speak to me nor any of my family not even a message when my latest friend died which they knew very well as he use to be over at our house every afternoon growing up, I struggle with crazy anxiety and deprrsonalisation, so if your depressed listening to this song don't be at least u fucking know who spaceman 3 are. Fuck the squares, fuck the war on drugs that killed my bestfriends and fucking shine a light.
+smacky wee keep on fighting brother, I have seen the effects of addiction in my family and how hard the struggle is. Theres always a light at the end of every dark road just keep the faith, love and light
I'm a chronic depression sufferer as well. empaths in a world of madness, we see too much while others feel too little. the escape brings comfort from the banality of our gross and mundane repetitive existence. know that even if it doesn't get better, you're never alone. ever.
From S.king's 'carry' : " Jesus watches from the wall but his face is cold as stone and if he loves me as she tells me why do i feel so all alone " for W , j c .
No words besides the lyrics themselves can describe the absolute beauty of Spiritualized: the struggle with depression, addiction and love this song is laced with... Still makes me well up after all these years of listening to Jason express his emotions.
@@vulturewaterbug You lucky bugger. I still remember my favourite ever review of anything was Steve Wells's review of Spiritualized Live At RAH. I think you might like it, so I'm going to post it in all its glory here, as there is no direct link to it anywhere online... _" The drugs work. They work like dogs. The hack has fallen in love, seen the future of rock and touched the face of God. Again. Please be prepared for babbling sycophantic hyperbole verging on the hysterical. Spiritualized dribble onstage looking like a dole queue on smack, then wank and noodle for a bit while similarly satorially inadequate audience sway gently in a stoned manner. Oh no. Your brain screams for catharsis for crescendo, for violence! You get it. In the space of ten breathtaking seconds we savagely accelerate from a mild surburban Woodstock to May 2, 1944 - the day the Americans dropped 20,000 tons of high explosive on Berlin Zoo. This - there are no other words for it - is heavy bastard metal. And that's all that Spiritualized do. All night. They whisper, they throb and then they scream. Then they f-__-k your brains out. And then they f--k your brains out some more. It`s as if a mosquito had been encased in amber after sucking blood from the huge hairy '70s RAWK! dinosaur just seconds before it was ripped apart by punk rock monkeys. It's as if scientists had then extracted that dinosaur's DNA and filtered out the crippling shit of pomposity and misogyny and somehow distilled and boosted the remaining atomic thunder to create a new monster - just in time to greet the millenium. Spiritualized have Genghis Khan-ed the past. Their genius is their realisation that any new rock song about love and drugs in the jaded, pasty-faced, parasitical New Labour '90s has to scale the same peaks as Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day', Jefferson Airplanes's 'White Rabbit', Ike and Tina Turner's 'River Deep, Mountain High', The Beatles' 'Helter Skelter', Righteous Brothers' 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling' and Patti Smith's 'Piss Factory' all at the same time! The result is an ENORMOUS sound, the like of which hasn't been heard since John Zorn had the brilliant idea of combining envelope-bursting avant-garde jazz with Napalm Death-style thrash metal. High praise indeed. Spiritualized make all the obvious competition look stunted and scared. This has got to be what The Verve think they sound like. This must be what Paul Weller imagines we hear when he bores our arses off with his tedious jams. Spiritualized have redifined, reclaimed, relegitimised, reintegrated, distilled, purified and postmodernised hairy-hippy-dippy heavy metal where Zodiac Mindwarp, Guns N'Roses, The Cult (circa 'Electric) and Kula Shaker all failed. Their only obvious peers, the only other rock reptiles out there who look likely to survive the ongoing dance apocalypse, are the Prodigy (who have similarly succeeded where Jesus Jones, EMF and Pop Will Eat Itself et al merely promised). Then the arrogant bastards bolt on gospel, soul, trance, Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound and tons of mouldy old prog rock bollocks and then the stupid fucking idiots push the resulting ugly and ungainly mutant out of a window and expect it to fly! And it does! It ain't all jam. Smack is a debilitating and talent-crushing drug taken by boring arseholes and, like depression, or your girlfriend leaving you for a drum roadie, it makes for tedious lyrical subject matter. Spiritualized are also too ready to hide behind their epileptic-unfriendly light show and would obviously benefit greatly from employing Gold Blade as both stylists and choreographers. But the largest potential fly in the medication - the ning-nang-nongy,sloppy, drooling, wanky, New-Agey, Jimmy Pagey, smelly, hippy imagery-__ works in their favour, not only because it is largely crushed smothered and mutated by savagely carnivorous rockist violence and Spector-esque flights of almost orchestral overreach, but, perversely,because Spiritualized have somehow stopped the clock just seconds before the late-'60s/early '70s psychedelic party was turned into a sludgy nightmare by heroin. Now there's postmodernist irony for you. If this is 'whale music' then it is killer whale music. If Spiritualized put you in mind of dolphins then it's that epic bit of shark documentary footage where a Great White is rammed broadside by an evilly-grinning Flipper lookalike and literally disintegrates under the savage impact, spewing scarlet shark guts into the surrounding ocean in sickeningly violent slo-mo. This is white boys getting black music arsebackwards brilliantly. This would make Norman Tebbit spew his chips. This is the perfect antidote to the hideous hordes of shrilly-honking upper-classes who fill this venue on the last night of The Proms. Spiritualized are the last great rock generation's second great rock band. They are that important. Babble over and out. Somebody pass me a tissue."_ ...Bear in mind this was by Steven Wells, the NME's most fearsome and capricious critic. He hated pretty much every popular rock band of that time, and especially hated 'indie rock', stuff like Travis and Belle and Sebastian, and Urban-Hymns-era The Verve. So it was rare for him to give a serious rock band a good review, never mind one as good as this.
One more go: _" The drugs work. They work like dogs. The hack has fallen in love, seen the future of rock and touched the face of God. Again. Please be prepared for babbling sycophantic hyperbole verging on the hysterical. Spiritualized dribble onstage looking like a dole queue on smack, then wank and noodle for a bit while similarly sartorially inadequate audience sway gently in a stoned manner. Oh no._ _Your brain screams for catharsis for crescendo, for violence! You get it. In the space of ten breathtaking seconds we savagely accelerate from a mild suburban Woodstock to May 2, 1944 - the day the Americans dropped 20,000 tons of high explosive on Berlin Zoo. This - there are no other words for it - is heavy bastard metal. And that's all that Spiritualized do. All night. They whisper, they throb and then they scream. Then they fuck your brains out. And then they fuck your brains out some more. It's as if a mosquito had been encased in amber after sucking blood from the huge hairy '70s RAWK! dinosaur just seconds before it was ripped apart by punk rock monkeys. It's as if scientists had then extracted that dinosaur's DNA and filtered out the crippling shit of pomposity and misogyny and somehow distilled and boosted the remaining atomic thunder to create a new monster - just in time to greet the millenium. Spiritualized have Genghis Khan-ed the past. Their genius is their realisation that any new rock song about love and drugs in the jaded, pasty-faced, parasitical New Labour '90s has to scale the same peaks as Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day', Jefferson Airplanes' 'White Rabbit', Ike and Tina Turner's 'River Deep, Mountain High', The Beatles' 'Helter Skelter', Righteous Brothers' 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling' and Patti Smith's 'Piss Factory' all at the same time!_ _The result is an ENORMOUS sound, the like of which hasn't been heard since John Zorn had the brilliant idea of combining envelope-bursting avant-garde jazz with Napalm Death-style thrash metal. High praise indeed._ _Spiritualized make all the obvious competition look stunted and scared. This has got to be what The Verve think they sound like. This must be what Paul Weller imagines we hear when he bores our arses off with his tedious jams. Spiritualized have redefined, reclaimed, relegitimised, reintegrated, distilled, purified and postmodernised hairy-hippy-dippy heavy metal where Zodiac Mindwarp, Guns N'Roses, The Cult (circa 'Electric) and Kula Shaker all failed. Their only obvious peers, the only other rock reptiles out there who look likely to survive the ongoing dance apocalypse, are the Prodigy (who have similarly succeeded where Jesus Jones, EMF and Pop Will Eat Itself et al merely promised). Then the arrogant bastards bolt on gospel, soul, trance, Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound and tons of mouldy old prog rock bollocks and then the stupid fucking idiots push the resulting ugly and ungainly mutant out of a window and expect it to fly! And it does!_ _It ain't all jam. Smack is a debilitating and talent-crushing drug taken by boring arseholes and, like depression, or your girlfriend leaving you for a drum roadie, it makes for tedious lyrical subject matter. Spiritualized are also too ready to hide behind their epileptic-unfriendly light show and would obviously benefit greatly from employing Gold Blade as both stylists and choreographers. But the largest potential fly in the medication - the ning-nang-nongy, sloppy, drooling, wanky, New-Agey, Jimmy Pagey, smelly, hippy imagery - works in their favour, not only because it is largely crushed smothered and mutated by savagely carnivorous rockist violence and Spector-esque flights of almost orchestral overreach, but, perversely, because Spiritualized have somehow stopped the clock just seconds before the late-'60s/early '70s psychedelic party was turned into a sludgy nightmare by heroin. Now there's postmodernist irony for you._ _If this is 'whale music' then it is killer whale music. If Spiritualized put you in mind of dolphins then it's that epic bit of shark documentary footage where a Great White is rammed broadside by an evilly-grinning Flipper lookalike and literally disintegrates under the savage impact, spewing scarlet shark guts into the surrounding ocean in sickeningly violent slo-mo. This is white boys getting black music arsebackwards brilliantly. This would make Norman Tebbit spew his chips. This is the perfect antidote to the hideous hordes of shrilly-honking upper-classes who fill this venue on the last night of The Proms. Spiritualized are the last great rock generation's second great rock band. They are that important. Babble over and out. Somebody pass me a tissue."_ - Steven Wells, 10th October, 1997, Royal Albert Hall Now _that's_ a gig review. I hope it came through this time. Wells died a while ago, but he was one of the last big personalities to come from the NME before it fired everyone interesting and eventually died as a print magazine. I reckon this is his best moment.
spacevox: this song brings back a flood of memories to me. I've been very privledged to see spiritualized 3 times and they did unbelievable versions everytime.i believe Spaceman is calling on GOD being an ex-junky myself I can relate. By far the best track on LGM
Not wanting to be morbid, but am very depressed with the state of the world and am thinking of my funeral song. This is it. Happy to be burnt to this. Amazing, Good luck everyone I hope all is not as bad as I fear xxxxx
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Hey Mark, if you're out there, I'm still listening to this all those years later. Cheers mate. Your old pal from South Africa.
one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard. played this for my mom in the hospital before she passed
Oh, bless you
absolutely beautiful
How lovely, sending love to you and your family
I wish this to be played at my funeral
that’s heartbreakingly beautiful i’m so sorry for yr loss
this is still the greatest song that's ever happened, anyone who disagrees can honestly fight me about it
Agreed...
lol. true
Can we fight in agreement? Fisti cuffs?
A musical journey really. Great for dosing.
gives me chills always
i was a herion addict for 20 years listened to a lot of drug music been clean 20 years couldn't listen to spiritualized for along time now it's my medicine and its so damn good
Wow well done to you for being clean 20 years. Should be proud
Keep that shit up man
Me alcolism. Age 14-41 now from 4 years... a second Life. ♥️
389rockford 🗣You’ve basically just written out my life so far!
You done good Rockford
I watched them play this live at Norwich Waterfront. I stood transfixed, staring at them on stage. When they turned the strobe lights on half way through this track I lost myself. Nothing but white light for several minutes - that felt like eternity. I was on LSD. One of the greatest gigs - an enlightening trips - of my 20s!
They have just started a tour in the U.K - I saw them in Bath, last night!
And they played this...❤️
@@celestewilliams5904 is the LSD distributed at the concerts?
@@klam77 sadly not! 😆
this song really comforts me whenever I go through hard times😭
I love this song so much. I got to see it live two nights in a row as they opened for my fav band. It broke my heart how many people around me hated the band and didn’t care. I had goosebumps the entire time. How can someone not appreciate how gorgeous this song is?
It's not the same song without the horns though.
What I love is the slow build to the storm of noise later in the song - the way it gradually turns into a howling tornado of free-noise.
BUT, then the storm of noise kinda dies away at the end, and the sax line is still there, playing its patient, insistent melody. It's been there all the while and now it's survived the storm and come through the other side...like a butterfly emerging from a hurricane, or a sail boat coming through an ocean squall and suddenly finding the water calm and the sky clear. That melodic innocence mixed with fury and violence makes me want to cry with joy.
I love your analogy! Mine is similar. When I'm listening and the storm starts forming and picks up pace into a dizzying orchestra of melodic chaos, I visualize all the shit I've endured so far in life, all the scariest, craziest, bravest backwardness, cruelest, death, beginning, etc. And that sax, still there. Lovely indeed.
I’ve never heard this song someone sent it to me I’m listening to it out of respect probably wouldn’t listen to it for very long because it’s really not my style but I read this comment this wonderful comment and I gave this song a chance just for you
Beautiful analogy
The Sprawl is excellent song by Sonic Youth. This song is like beautiful spiritual successors to Sonic Youth, A plus students if you will. Much more beauty and melody here.
i love your comment... it also makes me want to cry and dance with joy. most beautiful piece of music ive ever come across. for me, that melodic innocence mixed with violence and fury you describe is the sound of everything, the universe itself, and it's so so beautiful 🕉
I took my friend on her first acid trip and we rode bikes to the beach and listened to this on loop
Higher than the sun?
you're a good friend
A lot of folks will say things like, “this is the greatest ever!” And it’s usually just euphoria of the moment. But this song, amongst my massive music collection spanning nearly 10 decades, would be the song ‘I take to the island with me.’ It’s true. Little Wing by Hendrix. Dear Mr. Fantasy by Traffic. Tool. Beatles. Etc… This song is truly my favorite song of all time. I can’t wait to see him live one day. (Even better with the backup choir he has sometimes.)
I think these guys and people like Brian Jonestown Massacre should have their own genre. “Opiadelic” or “heroin gospel” music. Idk what it is about people who are addicted to opiates but they make such good psychedelia. Like DJ Screw.
Lord let your light shine through me, always amen.
NOW
god is watching
been doing this for 37000 years...was just waiting for you
@@gretagrain yes he's waiting on me, and I'm waiting on him.
I am a Northamptonian in my late 40s now. This did the absolute BUSINESS in the summer of '92 for me. Still does.
"When I'm tired and all alone, Oh Lord Shine a Light on me. When I'm lonesome as can be, Oh Lord Shine a Light on me." 20 Years old and this still blows my head off every time I hear it.
this song makes me feel so lucky to be alive
when life kicks you in the balls for the 100th time, listen to this. Healing music at its finest.
☺️
I love music that can take you to a different place
You mean like The Cars? They can take you to a different place!
@@mattiemclean9882 underrated joke
Lord shine a light on me. Amen.
My vinyl copy of this album was one of my greatest investments ever.
Which album is it off
@@ralphk.j7809 Lazer Guided Melodies
Tate Gibbs 🗣Especially the limited edition 7 inch that came with the 1991vinyl!
Why is it so hard to find people selling this on eBay/amazon!?
@@yuppienetwork1022 Plain Records was the reissue label and they had several pressings come out often. I'm guessing they most likely won't be pressing anymore and someone else got the rights back. Hopefully Justin did so he can work on getting it remastered and reissued legit. People tend to hold onto copies of this even if the quality is bad because it's a great record. Same goes with the Plain issue of Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. That was the last time you could get a copy for a decent price until they lost it and Kevin Shields got back the rights to remaster and release it himself. All you see of the record now are bootlegs from Japan and Europe
Remembering my Dad while listening...
Me too, RiP to all the fathers who are being remembered!
One of my life's soundtrack songs. I like to imagine this as a representation of what life is, a slow beginning at birth, childhood, and then it starts to grow in adolescence, adulthood, it reaches the climax and then starts fading into a slow end which is decaying and death. I'm glad I had the opportunity of seeing them live.
That solo Saxophone at the very end that wails alone in the dark cold drear of the night always makes me want to weep openly in front of complete strangers. Thank you.
So lucky to be a member of the generation that created this sound. Man I love this track. SO gorgeous. That sax......
One of the best albums of the 90s i think
chewzification,....without a doubt, brother. Spot on.
What album is this on
@@ralphk.j7809 Lazer Guided Melodies. It's sublime. Listen to it start to finish - it's that kind of album.
@@the_katman2181 thanks ill try find a coppy
This is one of those songs I can't possibly imagine anyone hating.
+StrictlyStupid haha your soooo right. Tommy
@Arthur Frayn like a vampire?
Song means as much to me as it did the very first time I heard it 25 years ago. If not more. The bass, the simple keyboards, the droning sax, Jason's angelic voice. Powerful
mairtin kearney it's gorgeous
+natalie thomas true dat
AMEN
Two seconds into hearing this for the first time on (Feria Netflix) I had to Shazam it. Its one of those tunes that connects with your soul; for those of us who have one.
man i put this on and wham! it's the very early nineties again, all my hopes and fears and loves all literally overwhelmed me. How music has the power to do that is incredible. It never loses its power to produce agony and ecstasy in me at the same time and alas, I don't speak to those friends who truly understand this band/s. A place forever lost to me.
I hear you man.
Well said mate
Saw this live last year in Detroit. Amazing experience. If he comes to your town GO! You won't regret it.
This song floats in your head if you listen via headphone. Perfectly dreamyy.
..this is simply beautiful music, I have Lazer Guided Melodies as my all time fave piece of music by far...others will argue, but this is my choice. Stunning and brilliant!!
Heard this on “Feria” Great song
The saxomophone on this one... we like!
Just got done listening to this song live at Pitchfork Music Festival. Wow! Mesmerizing and harmony was fantastic
This song is perfect. So beautiful.
Jason Pierce brought me here.
Thank you, Jason
I dunno why I didn't just put the CD on...
this song is so incredibly good
.......simply the best piece of music.
Lazer Guided Melodies had such a massive impact on me when it came out I went and had the angel and devil silhouettes tattooed on my legs, never a second of regret. It still hits me as hard as it did back then.
used to play this song on repeat all the time, very hypnotic. love it still.
My two best friends that I spent all my time with and grew up with both od in the last 6 months one in June one last Sunday, I carried both there caskets, im only 25, I also struggle with addiction but have been clean for 3 months, my parents won't speak to me nor any of my family not even a message when my latest friend died which they knew very well as he use to be over at our house every afternoon growing up, I struggle with crazy anxiety and deprrsonalisation, so if your depressed listening to this song don't be at least u fucking know who spaceman 3 are. Fuck the squares, fuck the war on drugs that killed my bestfriends and fucking shine a light.
+smacky wee Shine a Light
really sorry to read that. Depression is terrible. Everyone is important and you are :-)
+smacky wee keep on fighting brother, I have seen the effects of addiction in my family and how hard the struggle is. Theres always a light at the end of every dark road just keep the faith, love and light
I'm a chronic depression sufferer as well. empaths in a world of madness, we see too much while others feel too little. the escape brings comfort from the banality of our gross and mundane repetitive existence. know that even if it doesn't get better, you're never alone. ever.
you ever think of blaming your role models who glorified drugs to you when you were at an impressionable age? just wondering
The most beautiful song I ever heard ❤️✌️
coming down off of 3 hits of acid sinking into the couch, man the memories just gives me chills.
Still fresh after all these years. One of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard.
Spiritualized forever ❤
What a piece... they really knocked it out of the park with this one.
cool to see other ppl commenting on this in 2016. that saxophone makes the track for me.
+BEATmyguest31 seriously, that sax kills me... everytime
+free everything I mean kills me in a perfect way. it hits me in the feels. no way it should be replaced with anything else
Dale Ensign Whos suggesting it would be replaced by anything else?
Mathieu Mclean always... anybody could be replaced
Mathieu obviously, a comment is no longer there that used to be...............
From S.king's 'carry' :
" Jesus watches from the wall
but his face is cold as stone
and if he loves me
as she tells me
why do i feel so all alone "
for W ,
j c .
Wish i could put into words what this song makes me feel. i could win a pulitzer.
i totally agree. still listening after 20 years like it was yesterday. love them as much as spacemen 3.
Absolute transforming healing
No words besides the lyrics themselves can describe the absolute beauty of Spiritualized: the struggle with depression, addiction and love this song is laced with... Still makes me well up after all these years of listening to Jason express his emotions.
Saw Jason in Atlanta last year in a small club, just feet from the stage...absolutely the greatest show I've ever seen. Bucket list checked off...
I have loved Jason's music for many a moon. Especially this one.
One of the best things i've heard in a long time
When I'm tired and all alone...
Reminds me of Mazzy Star’s music: hopelessly dreamy
Dream pop heaven
Reminds me of slowdive
Could listen to this song forever.
I wouldn't mind dying to this song
They've really captured a drug experience on record here.
sratus what kind of drug you mean?????
Freddy Valencia what do u think i mean?
mushrooms, acid, ecsatasy....at their best, that rush, that beautiful moment, when u touch it, when u get a glimpse. That.
TrainInVain not to mention intravenous using....
TrainInVain ecstatacy?
I love the way this song slows everything down and weaves daydreams.
I like listening to this album drinking a case of Stella and half a bottle of vodka, then I put the album on and sit down.
My go to song when mushrooms get involved. :)
Such an amazing track from an amazing songwriter. Seriously underrated.
...this is simply brilliant. The best record ever, by a country mile, I simply love this. love it!!
BEST SONG EVER.
This music took all my problems away... Just for 7 min... but iam gratefull
You would think this song couldnt be any better... then you listen to the Live at the Royal Albert Hall version and ... mind blown
Indeed. I was there!
First band I ever saw live 1992. Changed my life forever never underestimate the power of music
@@vulturewaterbug You lucky bugger. I still remember my favourite ever review of anything was Steve Wells's review of Spiritualized Live At RAH. I think you might like it, so I'm going to post it in all its glory here, as there is no direct link to it anywhere online...
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The drugs work. They work like dogs. The hack has fallen in love, seen the future of rock and touched the face of God. Again. Please be prepared for babbling sycophantic hyperbole verging on the hysterical. Spiritualized dribble onstage looking like a dole queue on smack, then wank and noodle for a bit while similarly satorially inadequate audience sway gently in a stoned manner. Oh no. Your brain screams for catharsis for crescendo, for violence! You get it. In the space of ten breathtaking seconds we savagely accelerate from a mild surburban Woodstock to May 2, 1944 - the day the Americans dropped 20,000 tons of high explosive on Berlin Zoo. This - there are no other words for it - is heavy bastard metal. And that's all that Spiritualized do. All night. They whisper, they throb and then they scream. Then they f-__-k your brains out. And then they f--k your brains out some more. It`s as if a mosquito had been encased in amber after sucking blood from the huge hairy '70s RAWK! dinosaur just seconds before it was ripped apart by punk rock monkeys. It's as if scientists had then extracted that dinosaur's DNA and filtered out the crippling shit of pomposity and misogyny and somehow distilled and boosted the remaining atomic thunder to create a new monster - just in time to greet the millenium. Spiritualized have Genghis Khan-ed the past. Their genius is their realisation that any new rock song about love and drugs in the jaded, pasty-faced, parasitical New Labour '90s has to scale the same peaks as Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day', Jefferson Airplanes's 'White Rabbit', Ike and Tina Turner's 'River Deep, Mountain High', The Beatles' 'Helter Skelter', Righteous Brothers' 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling' and Patti Smith's 'Piss Factory' all at the same time! The result is an ENORMOUS sound, the like of which hasn't been heard since John Zorn had the brilliant idea of combining envelope-bursting avant-garde jazz with Napalm Death-style thrash metal. High praise indeed. Spiritualized make all the obvious competition look stunted and scared. This has got to be what The Verve think they sound like. This must be what Paul Weller imagines we hear when he bores our arses off with his tedious jams. Spiritualized have redifined, reclaimed, relegitimised, reintegrated, distilled, purified and postmodernised hairy-hippy-dippy heavy metal where Zodiac Mindwarp, Guns N'Roses, The Cult (circa 'Electric) and Kula Shaker all failed. Their only obvious peers, the only other rock reptiles out there who look likely to survive the ongoing dance apocalypse, are the Prodigy (who have similarly succeeded where Jesus Jones, EMF and Pop Will Eat Itself et al merely promised). Then the arrogant bastards bolt on gospel, soul, trance, Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound and tons of mouldy old prog rock bollocks and then the stupid fucking idiots push the resulting ugly and ungainly mutant out of a window and expect it to fly! And it does! It ain't all jam. Smack is a debilitating and talent-crushing drug taken by boring arseholes and, like depression, or your girlfriend leaving you for a drum roadie, it makes for tedious lyrical subject matter. Spiritualized are also too ready to hide behind their epileptic-unfriendly light show and would obviously benefit greatly from employing Gold Blade as both stylists and choreographers. But the largest potential fly in the medication - the ning-nang-nongy,sloppy, drooling, wanky, New-Agey, Jimmy Pagey, smelly, hippy imagery-__ works in their favour, not only because it is largely crushed smothered and mutated by savagely carnivorous rockist violence and Spector-esque flights of almost orchestral overreach, but, perversely,because Spiritualized have somehow stopped the clock just seconds before the late-'60s/early '70s psychedelic party was turned into a sludgy nightmare by heroin. Now there's postmodernist irony for you. If this is 'whale music' then it is killer whale music. If Spiritualized put you in mind of dolphins then it's that epic bit of shark documentary footage where a Great White is rammed broadside by an evilly-grinning Flipper lookalike and literally disintegrates under the savage impact, spewing scarlet shark guts into the surrounding ocean in sickeningly violent slo-mo. This is white boys getting black music arsebackwards brilliantly. This would make Norman Tebbit spew his chips. This is the perfect antidote to the hideous hordes of shrilly-honking upper-classes who fill this venue on the last night of The Proms. Spiritualized are the last great rock generation's second great rock band. They are that important. Babble over and out. Somebody pass me a tissue."_
...Bear in mind this was by Steven Wells, the NME's most fearsome and capricious critic. He hated pretty much every popular rock band of that time, and especially hated 'indie rock', stuff like Travis and Belle and Sebastian, and Urban-Hymns-era The Verve. So it was rare for him to give a serious rock band a good review, never mind one as good as this.
No idea why it crossed big sections of the text out...ah well.
One more go:
_"
The drugs work. They work like dogs. The hack has fallen in love, seen the future of rock and touched the face of God. Again. Please be prepared for babbling sycophantic hyperbole verging on the hysterical. Spiritualized dribble onstage looking like a dole queue on smack, then wank and noodle for a bit while similarly sartorially inadequate audience sway gently in a stoned manner. Oh no._
_Your brain screams for catharsis for crescendo, for violence! You get it. In the space of ten breathtaking seconds we savagely accelerate from a mild suburban Woodstock to May 2, 1944 - the day the Americans dropped 20,000 tons of high explosive on Berlin Zoo. This - there are no other words for it - is heavy bastard metal. And that's all that Spiritualized do. All night. They whisper, they throb and then they scream. Then they fuck your brains out. And then they fuck your brains out some more. It's as if a mosquito had been encased in amber after sucking blood from the huge hairy '70s RAWK! dinosaur just seconds before it was ripped apart by punk rock monkeys. It's as if scientists had then extracted that dinosaur's DNA and filtered out the crippling shit of pomposity and misogyny and somehow distilled and boosted the remaining atomic thunder to create a new monster - just in time to greet the millenium. Spiritualized have Genghis Khan-ed the past. Their genius is their realisation that any new rock song about love and drugs in the jaded, pasty-faced, parasitical New Labour '90s has to scale the same peaks as Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day', Jefferson Airplanes' 'White Rabbit', Ike and Tina Turner's 'River Deep, Mountain High', The Beatles' 'Helter Skelter', Righteous Brothers' 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling' and Patti Smith's 'Piss Factory' all at the same time!_
_The result is an ENORMOUS sound, the like of which hasn't been heard since John Zorn had the brilliant idea of combining envelope-bursting avant-garde jazz with Napalm Death-style thrash metal. High praise indeed._
_Spiritualized make all the obvious competition look stunted and scared. This has got to be what The Verve think they sound like. This must be what Paul Weller imagines we hear when he bores our arses off with his tedious jams. Spiritualized have redefined, reclaimed, relegitimised, reintegrated, distilled, purified and postmodernised hairy-hippy-dippy heavy metal where Zodiac Mindwarp, Guns N'Roses, The Cult (circa 'Electric) and Kula Shaker all failed. Their only obvious peers, the only other rock reptiles out there who look likely to survive the ongoing dance apocalypse, are the Prodigy (who have similarly succeeded where Jesus Jones, EMF and Pop Will Eat Itself et al merely promised). Then the arrogant bastards bolt on gospel, soul, trance, Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound and tons of mouldy old prog rock bollocks and then the stupid fucking idiots push the resulting ugly and ungainly mutant out of a window and expect it to fly! And it does!_
_It ain't all jam. Smack is a debilitating and talent-crushing drug taken by boring arseholes and, like depression, or your girlfriend leaving you for a drum roadie, it makes for tedious lyrical subject matter. Spiritualized are also too ready to hide behind their epileptic-unfriendly light show and would obviously benefit greatly from employing Gold Blade as both stylists and choreographers. But the largest potential fly in the medication - the ning-nang-nongy, sloppy, drooling, wanky, New-Agey, Jimmy Pagey, smelly, hippy imagery - works in their favour, not only because it is largely crushed smothered and mutated by savagely carnivorous rockist violence and Spector-esque flights of almost orchestral overreach, but, perversely, because Spiritualized have somehow stopped the clock just seconds before the late-'60s/early '70s psychedelic party was turned into a sludgy nightmare by heroin. Now there's postmodernist irony for you._
_If this is 'whale music' then it is killer whale music. If Spiritualized put you in mind of dolphins then it's that epic bit of shark documentary footage where a Great White is rammed broadside by an evilly-grinning Flipper lookalike and literally disintegrates under the savage impact, spewing scarlet shark guts into the surrounding ocean in sickeningly violent slo-mo. This is white boys getting black music arsebackwards brilliantly. This would make Norman Tebbit spew his chips. This is the perfect antidote to the hideous hordes of shrilly-honking upper-classes who fill this venue on the last night of The Proms. Spiritualized are the last great rock generation's second great rock band. They are that important. Babble over and out. Somebody pass me a tissue."_ - Steven Wells, 10th October, 1997, Royal Albert Hall
Now _that's_ a gig review. I hope it came through this time. Wells died a while ago, but he was one of the last big personalities to come from the NME before it fired everyone interesting and eventually died as a print magazine. I reckon this is his best moment.
Again. 🥹❤️🔥
If you’re dosing, this song will definitely lock you down.
Mesmerising. Great track!
If you,ve ever saw this live it will change your life awesome
This should be played live, using the planets for drums, the sun for an organ and a supernova for the sax.
spacevox: this song brings back a flood of memories to me. I've been very privledged to see spiritualized 3 times and they did unbelievable versions everytime.i believe Spaceman is calling on GOD being an ex-junky myself I can relate. By far the best track on LGM
totally sounds like a hit.
Not wanting to be morbid, but am very depressed with the state of the world and am thinking of my funeral song. This is it. Happy to be burnt to this. Amazing, Good luck everyone I hope all is not as bad as I fear xxxxx
Andre Pope Meet your funeral song brother. The long noise bit in the middle will commence as I slide in to be cremated
mate, listen to anything by steve hillage, try the track 'radio'
this is really beautiful
Try headphones! This song will literally float through your head.
i just love this so much!
Long live spiritualised
One of my favorites from Spiritualized.
Love these guys... such a beautiful song
flow is brilliant. genius
Perfect. Never bettered.
This song while on some tripping drug must be a match made in heaven
it is
shhhh...
psilocybin, kava kava, and ganja tea.
Spaceman 3 - Transparent Radiation probably pips it to the post for me, but Shine a Light is a close second.
Snap!
Who is still listening to this amazing record in 2019?
I was just wondering that
me
me
In 2021
In 2024 I was sent here by Beacon 23 😎👍🏾
Everything I saw as I watched and listened I lost the anger.
Proud to say I’ve heard this live
Heavy times listening to this back then...
Uploaded by Killallhippies1980... and it's by a band called spiritualized...
Luke Bluglass its a Primal Scream reference...
Came across this while listening to Se Delan. Pretty good stuff. Not sure how I missed it before now!
This brought me to tears at Desert Daze 2017
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Same.
Tired and all alone
lovely, wonderful, perfect
Blows my mind away
Masterpiece.
A masterpiece🙏🏻
FANTASTIC........
Mesmerising in 2024
Hell yeah, best album in my "garage time" book.
This is a lullaby.. ❤️