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- Casio_Nova
Is it me or did he just release The Complete Works Volume 2, with 26 tracks, after The Complete Works Volume 1 just came out late last year?
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.d…They only reversed the cover image from Volume 1!
Nice :D
- jigger0
good question, only i don't think the one other fan of those benders posts on NT
- loudubs0
duh
- grayhood0
actually yes i do.
- dstlb0
Jigger is a bender.
- jigger0
then why don't don't you answer his question, i'm extremely curious
- grayhood0
they did just releace vol 1 last year, its just a collection of B-sides not a full catalog or greatest hits. they planned to releace one after the other.
- dstlb0
I don't need to answer, Grayhood just did.
More info, from http://www.spiritualized.com/new…
Spiritualized The Complete Works Volume 2
In March 2003, Spiritualized released their first ever compilation of rare material, 24 tracks almost all previously unavailable on CD and personally selected by Jason Pierce (aka J Spaceman). The second volume is scheduled for release by Spaceman/Arista Records on January 26th to coincide with the forthcoming Spiritualized dates in 2004.
A further 24 tracks, again selected by J Spaceman, and with each CD running at over an hour’s music, ‘The Complete Works Volume 2’, stretching from 1995 to 2002, virtually brings Spiritualized to the present day with the first recordings by the line up that went on to record this year’s ‘Amazing Grace ®’.
‘The Complete Works Volume 2’ opens with the three tracks that made up the ‘Let It Flow’ single released in January 1995 a month prior to the ‘Pure Phase’ album. There is also the instrumental only version of ‘Spread Your Wings’ from the Japanese only ‘Pure Phase’ album. The remainder of CD 1 then focuses on the ‘Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space’ era of the band in 1997. This was the album that saw Spiritualized break through to a wider audience, the album going Gold in the UK by the start of 1998 having headed most critics ‘album of the year’ polls immediately before. Included here is the beautiful instrumental version of ‘Broken Heart’, released only as a highly collectible promo and on the Japanese version of ‘Ladies and Gentlemen...’. One further rarity is ‘The X-Files Theme’ that appeared in October 1997 on the ‘Supplementary Dosage’ promo EP and, originally, on a Dedicated Records label sampler. The three tracks from the June 1998 ‘Abbey Road’ EP, recorded at Abbey Road, are also included and, significantly, mark only recordings by the group which had been touring extensively in the wake of the album release.
The entire CD 2 of ‘The Complete Works Vol 2’ accordingly features the musicians assembled to record the ‘Let it Come Down’ album in summer 2000. The ‘single’ versions of the three singles taken from that album are included here plus the two b-side tracks which were, in fact, originally recorded for the album itself – ‘Rock And Roll’ and ‘Going Down Slow’. These sessions which extensively utilised a 100 piece orchestra also provided the two instrumental takes featured here. The final three tracks are all from a Steve Lamacq Radio 1 session that featured the experimental, augmented line up of Spiritualized with an added five-piece brass section. These are the only full recordings by this version of Spiritualized from November 2001 and offer radically different treatments of earlier songs like ‘On Fire’ and ‘Come Together’. The group was then pared down and it was the core group that subsequently toured throughout 2002 and recorded the ‘Amazing Grace’ album.
As with ‘The Complete Works Volume 1’, this album is another testament to the creativity and ingenuity of Spiritualized. These recordings provide a further essential adjunct to the ‘official’ albums released between 1995 and 2002 and which saw the group enjoy far greater commercial success than ever before. Spiritualized had moved into its second decade and continues onwards and upwards with no loss of sustained innovation and integrity.
- mitsu0
they put on a good show... unless you're into jayz, cannibal corpse or garth brooks
- jigger0
thx dstlb, i had them all wrong, they have some absolutley incredible tracks.
dogger's my fave
- grayhood0
their show is great unless you have epilepsy then your screwed