Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space: Spiritualized: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

2. Come Together

3. I Think I'm In Love

4. All Of My Thoughts

5. Stay With Me

6. Electricity

7. Home Of The Brave

8. The Individual

9. Broken Heart

10. No God Only Religion

11. Cool Waves

12. Cop Shoot Cop

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Deluxe double 180gm vinyl LP repressing in deluxe packaging including reproductions of the original inner sleeves and insert. It is now 13 years since Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space made a profound impact in the summer of 1997, both critically and commercially, with its psychedelic soundscapes and heart-rending lyrics. It has influenced a whole range of musicians ever since.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An anguished masterpiece, July 1 2004

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Michael Pemulis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Audio CD)

Well this one's certainly one of the best breakup albums ever. Among other things - it's certainly one of the best albums ever (at least in the top ten or so). This album is a fairly large zig to the trancy pseudo electronic zag of Pure Phase. And it's nothing short of amazing.

What's the sound? Orchestral, at times (though nothing quite so extreme as the follow-up). Certainly a touch of gospel (coming in at just the right time, with 'Cool Waves'). A healthy dollop of free jazz which you'll either like or not (me, I'm a fan of Sun Ra and Coltrane's wacky period, so I like it just fine) but which, in my opinion is absolutely essential to the album.

Because this here is a capital A Album about Jason Pierce's usual topics: heartbreak and heroin, and he never does it better than he does here. The production is meticulous and offers endless discoveries to the beheadphoned listener. The songs are ever slow explosions of beautiful sound into wrenching noise with Pierce's anguished whispering atop it all. The whole 12 song sequence is draining, immensely moving, and brilliant.

Yes, it's hard going at times (the free-jazz bits for many). And yes, it doesn't immediately grab you - took me about a year to really appreciate everything. And yes, if the self-pity of an (ex)junky is the sort of thing that wears on you, this might not be your ticket.

Those caveats aside, this is a simply brilliant piece of work. Check it out.

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5.0 out of 5 stars So much music, so little time, Jun 30 2004

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ChrisWN (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Audio CD)

Well I snagged an original UK promo (50 copies pressed) of this before they had to re-mix it (licensing/sampling problems) and played it from beginning to end almost every night before going to bed. The production & flow of the orginial mix worked quite well, stretches of flowing tones, then melancholy chords & finally sonic mayhem. I then picked up a copy of the Japanese version (w/ the Broken Heart Instrumental as a bonus track), which felt a little more stifled....but oh that broken heart works wonders...even without words.

I then saw them tour for this album & was it a show.....one of my all time favorite concerts. The light show really was quite an assault on the senses & the cacophony of Cop shoot Cop worked even better live than on disc.

Snagging a copy of the original "Ladies & Gentleman..." track would be worth it....but I ain't going to part with my copy to see what the going price is, so don't ask.

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4.0 out of 5 stars another great British-rock record, Jun 12 2004

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lost_weasel (200 bars) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Audio CD)

as Spiritualized being one of my favourite bands, i can easily say this is a great record. you have the slow and melodic beginnings... then turns into a total thrash fest. (especially on Cop shoot Cop... which is a lot like sonic youth's Diamond Sea).

you get 70 minutes of galore. you have the beautiful title-track "Ladies and gentle we are now floating in space", rock-fests like "come together", and also (my favourite) "cop shoot cop...". 12 tracks, and you have a bit of everything. you're just cool having this in your collection. will be a classic in a decade. quote me!

but this is definitely not the best Spiritualized album. Lazer-Guided Melodies and Pure Phase are much better. "Ladies and gentlemen..." actually sounds very weak when already having listened to those two. but thats simply the only problem with this and its only my opinion! so either way, this may be your favourite album of all-time that i'm giving four stars!

"Ladies and gentlemen we are now floating in space" makes you feel like you're floating in space. it makes you feel the singer is singing about YOU. if you happen to like 'good' music, and haven't experiance a 'experiance' before listening to a cd... this is the album to get! a great album.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Whoops!! My Bad
I reviewed this album way back when, and having just gone back and looked at it again I feel my words were much too harsh. Read more

Published on Jan 11 2004 by J. Rossi

5.0 out of 5 stars Ground Control........
Written at a time of romantic breakup that was not dulled by J. Spaceman's substance abuse, this release contains some of Spiritualized's finest moments. Read more

Published on Nov 24 2003 by S. Finefrock