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Lazer Guided Melodies
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0617024400220
Label: Arista
Manufacturer: Arista
MPN: 44002
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Arista
Release Date: October 29, 1996
Studio: Arista
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Editorial Review:
Long before they were floating in space, Jason Pierce and friends were exploring the far reaches of the pop universe on Lazer Guided Melodies. Essentially four suites, it was an album on which nothing was as it seemed; all was processed and tinkered with, while horns and brass offered glory and fulfillment to the keyboards, guitars, and vocals. It was, really, the new space rock, drugged to oblivion and gazing at the planets, the modern psychedlia. Best heard on headphones, isolated in a darkened room, this was the sound of shapes to come. Chris Nickson
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - The Spaceman's Masterpiece
J. Spaceman's debut which remains the band's masterpiece, a record of rock hypnosis unlike any other with soaring space rock guitars, ambient drones, keyboard/organ, brass, strings, woodwinds...genre-defying and perhaps the greatest album of the '90s (along with the Verve's Storm in Heaven). It is a blissful expansion of consciousness that embodies all of the freedom encountered in the first rock'n'roll dream of the '60s. Beyond that, words fail me as the album's songs are arranged in four multitrack ... Read More
Rating: - thank you Jason
After repeated listens it seems as if Lazer Guided Melodies is based on the premise that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits that affect the lives of the living.
J Spaceman is a Shaman.
Rating:  - ...and the secret artwork, too
True, LGM is great. Others have described the album well enough. The artwork is cool, too. Unfold the insert and hold the front cover panel to a bright light... gasp! It's a scary thing!
Rating: - Doesn't really get any better than this...
Everything about this album is shimmering perfection. The secret ingedient is Kate Radley's farfisa work, which provides a brilliant and soothing undertone that is replaced in later (and inferior) Spiritualized albums with an edgier guitar orientation. No surprise, as Jason Pierce gradually took over the band. But here we have Spiritualized at their finest, early on, still working together as an incredibly creative entity.
If my house was burning down and I could only keep one album, this ... Read More
Rating: - Still a Favorite
I bought this CD when it first came out--back in the day. I still listen to it regularly because it is such a jewel. The only fault with it is that they grouped the songs into sets of 3 or 4, so you cannot skip or burn just one song--you are forced to skip 3 at a time. Nevertheless, I believe this is Spiritualized's best.
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