Chart: Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by meccalecca Rank on User's Chart: 1
Year: 2001
Rank on BEA Overall: 2,298
Average Rating: 77/100
Summary Info: Spiritualized is a rock band headed up by Jason Pierce (AKA J. Spaceman), formerly of Spaceman 3. Let It Come Down is their fourth studio album and follow-up to the highly acclaimed, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997). It utilized over 100 session musicians and the "Wall of Sound" technique to create a symphonic atmosphere that was a notable departure from the band's space rock roots.
meccalecca wrote:
Overshadowed by Ladies & Gentlemen, Let It Come Down is right up there with its predecessor. Addiction, relapse, recovery, floating, submerging.
"The trouble with the straight and the narrow
Is its so thin, I keep sliding off to the side
And the devil makes good use of these hands of mine
And if jesus is the straight path that saves
Then i'm condemmed to live my whole life on the curb
On the crossroad to the devil, I'll dwel and i'll count my years"
Favorite songs: Don't Just Do Something, Out Of Sight, The Straight & Narrow, Stop Your Crying, Anything More
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It's probably my favourite Spiritualized record. I initially thought this record was boring, but the strength of the songs eventually became too apparent to deny. I would like to hear a version of this album recorded by the Spiritualized of five years earlier, but whatever. It's dope.
acquired every Spiritualized album after loving Ladies and Gentlemen, couldn't get into the debut, got out of music for awhile, never came back (the long way of echoing Norman)
My infactuation with Spiritualized probably began around the time of the release of Amazing Grace (2003). Oddly enough that one may be my least favorite of their releases.
Jason Spaceman has grown formulaic since his drugged out days with Spacemen 3, but this is a formula that always gets to me. It's like chocolate.
Ladies & Gentlemen... and the previous efforts found a balance between the ballads and the trippy psych rock, but I'm a real sucker for their melodramatic ballads and that's what Let It Come Down is all about. It's a Psych Gospel record about drug addiction, failure, loss. it's nothing totally new but it's been perfected.
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