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Rating: "Shoegazing." A musical movement of considerable respect, practically one of the few worth saving from the pathetic, ridiculous, and useless '80s.
Explaining what Shoegazing is, is exactly like explaining what Grunge is or what Stoner is. As in Grunge and in Stoner, Shoegazing includes groups that have nothing to do with each other. Quick example: if some Stoner bands had played in the '80s, they would have been shoegazers, and if some shoegazers had played in the late '90s, they would have been Stoner. If you want two names to throw what has just been said into practice: Spaceman 3 and On Trial. Is all this positive? I wouldn't know.
Perhaps an American '60s Psychedelia enthusiast has never heard a shoegazer because they believed it was an '80s Punk-electronic mix. Perhaps a Shoegazing-fan has never heard American '60s Psychedelia because they thought it was outdated and surpassed while they listened to modern stuff, they listened to shoegazing (eh!).
Maybe, in the end, all the groups from both movements lost album sales, and this only because "we" have the bad habit of creating genres and labels, and when we find something already done but revived and perfected, we're reluctant to say, "they do re-modernized '60s USA psychedelia in sound and mixed with Krautrock electronic delirium (another example I can't elaborate on, but there's much to discuss), but with a very Velvet Underground and/or '80s dark punk touch depending on the case (see above under "completely different groups inserted into the same movement), but they are from the '80s, not the '60s, so you can't call it Psychedelia given the times blah blah blah"... we find it much easier to say "they do Shoegazing (Period)." Simple, clear, precise, and easy to assimilate. Who cares if an ignorant person doesn't understand, actually, it's better because we who "know about it" cannot afford to share our knowledge with others, how cool are we, right?
1990. Jason Pierce (Spiritualized - Spectrum), Peter (aka "Sonic Boom") Kember (Spectrum), the two minds behind the project, decide that for Spacemen 3, it's time for bread & Nutella, after about 8 years as the number 1 seeds (according to some yes, according to others no, but they at least place on the podium) of this blessed shoegazing, it's time to let go.
And as a gift to the fans (and to those uncool who ignore the big mental spirals discussed above), they release this album of B-sides and rarities, a real gem with which they can finally take a load off their shoulders and explain to everyone what the hell this damn shoegazing is (for them but not for everyone, see again under "groups that don't belong with each other"): it's nothing more than "Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To". Never read an explanation with such a high simplicity-content ratio. The same motto of the psychedelic's rebels '60. Let's call the revival by its name, because there's nothing wrong with doing a revival, if it's done with enormous class like in this case. Rating 3/5 yes, but for a "Rarities & B-Side," it's a compliment with a bang.
Technical note: they are the favorite band of Patrizia.
Tracklist and Lyrics
03 Losing Touch With My Mind (05:17)
I'm losing, losing touch with my mind.
I'm falling, falling way behind.
I'm walking, down a one way street.
I'm trying, trying to find my feet.
I need it babe, it makes me feel alright.
I need it babe, it makes me feel alright, alright, alright.
I'm leaving, but I'm going no place.
I'm thinking, but my mind's in space.
I'm hoping, hoping to find my head.
I'm aiming, but I don't take the blame.
I need it babe, it makes me feel alright.
I need it babe, it makes me feel alright, alright, alright.
I'm shooting, shooting off my gun.
It's too bad now babe, but it's a lot of fun.
I'm living, like you'd like to live.
But I'm wanting you baby, what you have to give.
I need it babe, it makes me feel alright.
I need it babe, it makes me feel alright, alright, alright.
I feel alright (repeat x 7)
06 Come Down Easy (07:02)
by Kember/Pierce
In 1987 all I wanna do is fly
All I want for you to do is reach up to the sky
Well well well, and come down easy
Well well well, and come down easy
Lord I'm gonna shake it
Lord I'm gonna make it
Sure I'm gonna take it
‘Cos I feel, yeah I feel, alright, alright
In 1987 all I wanna do is get stoned
All I want for you to do is take my body home
Well well well, and come down easy
Well well well, come down easy
Lord I'm gonna shake it
Lord I'm gonna make it
Sure I'm gonna take it
‘Cos I feel, yeah I feel, alright, alright, alright
Meet me children meet me
Meet me at the top of the sky
All I want for you to do
Is take yourself a little higher
Well well well, and come down easy
Well well well, come down easy
Lord I'm gonna shake it
Lord I'm gonna make it
Sure I'm gonna take it
‘Cos I feel, yeah I feel, alright, alright, alright
Yeah I feel alright, alright, alright
Take it down, take it way down low
Down, down, down, down, down
Take it way down low
About as low as you can go
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know, but…
I don't know, but I shake it babe
Shake it babe, shake it babe
Shake it baby, shake it babe, shake it babe
Yeah so I can fly
Yeah, just take it a little higher now
Yeah, come down easy
Lord I'm gonna shake it
Lord I'm gonna make it
Sure I'm gonna take it
‘Cos I feel, yeah I feel, alright, alright, alright
Shake it babe…
Jesus Christ I was only shakin', Lord…
Shake it babe
Shake it baby
Shake it baby
Shake it babe
08 Feel So Good (05:06)
Don’t it feel so good
Lord I feel so good today
Don’t it feel just fine
Lord I feel so fine
Takes me out of my mind
Lord…
Takes me out of my mind
Don’t it feel so good
Lord I feel so good
Don’t it feel just fine
Lord I feel so fine
Takes me out of my mind
Takes me out of my mind
….so good today
Don’t it feel so good
Lord I feel so good today
Don’t it feel just fine
Lord I feel so fine
Takes me out of my mind
It takes me out of my mind
Don’t it feel so good
Lord I feel so good today
Don’t it feel just fine
Lord I feel so fine
Lord I feel so good today
Lord I feel so fine
Lord…
‘Cos it feels so good
Lord I feel so good today
Yeah it feels so fine
Lord I feel so fine
Takes me out of my mind
Lord…
Takes me out of my mind
…goin’ down today
Lord I ain’t goin’ down
Lord I ain’t gonna die today
Lord I ain’t gonna die
Lord I ain’t goin’ down today
Lord I feel so good today
Ba Baba Ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba Baba Ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba
Baba Ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba Baba Ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba
Don’t it feel so good
Lord I feel so good
Don’t it feel so good
Lord I feel so good today
Don’t it feel so good
Lord I feel so good today
Don’t it feel just fine
Lord I feel so fine
Takes me out of my mind
Lord I feel so good today
Takes me out of my mind
Lord I feel so fine
Takes me out of my mind
Lord…
Everything’s just fine
That’s just fine
Lord I ain’t goin’ down today
Lord I ain’t goin’ down
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