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Re: User Pick of the Day #11: Let It Come Down by Spiritualized

meccalecca — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:09:03 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 03/27/2014 23:09

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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Re: User Pick of the Day #11: Let It Come Down by Spiritualized

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:14:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/27/2014 22:14

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)

Re: User Pick of the Day #11: Let It Come Down by Spiritualized

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:58:47 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/27/2014 20:58

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.

Re: User Pick of the Day #11: Let It Come Down by Spiritualized

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:57:27 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/27/2014 20:57

It has been a long time since I last listened to Let It Come Down but I seem to think I enjoyed it. I will have another listen today to jog my memory.

Re: User Pick of the Day #11: Let It Come Down by Spiritualized

Norman Bates — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:55:18 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 03/27/2014 20:55

Must admit I've never heard this one.

User Pick of the Day #11: Let It Come Down by Spiritualized

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:14:39 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/27/2014 20:14

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Let It Come Down by Spiritualized

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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