Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

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Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Spiritualized studio album
Cover

Publication
(s)

June 16, 1997

Label (s) Dedicated
Sony Music Entertainment

Format (s)

CD , LP , MC

Genre (s)

Neo-psychedelia , shoegazing ,
space rock , art rock , post rock

Title (number)

12

running time

69:54

occupation See cast

production

Jason Pierce
John Coxon

Studio (s)

chronology
Pure Phase (1995) Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Let It Come Down (2001)
Single releases
July 28, 1997 Electricity
January 12, 1998 I think I'm in love
July 17, 1998 Come together
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Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is the third studio album by the British rock band Spiritualized . It was recorded between 1995 and 1997 and released in June 1997. The album title refers to the philosophical novel Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder . The elaborately produced album combines elements from shoegazing , space rock , gospel , blues , neo-psychedelia , pop music , rock 'n' roll , free jazz , soul , noise and ambient .

The first CD edition of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space was delivered in a box that was designed like a blister pack : The CD was wrapped in foil packaging like medicines and had to be pushed out of the pack through an aluminum foil, with dosing instructions included and package insert with information on side effects.

Track list

All songs are penned by front man Jason Pierce aka J Spaceman.

page 1

  1. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - 3:40
  2. Come Together - 4:40
  3. I Think I'm in Love - 8:09
  4. All of My Thoughts - 4:36

Page 2

  1. Stay with Me - 5:08
  2. Electricity - 3:46
  3. Home of the Brave - 2:22
  4. The Individual - 4:15

Page 3

  1. Broken Heart - 6:38
  2. No God Only Religion - 4:21
  3. Cool Waves - 5:05

page 4

  1. Cop Shoot Cop ... - 17:13

Originally, the title track with the lyrics and the melody of Can't Help Falling in Love (written by George David Weiss , Hugo Peretti & Luigi Creatore for Elvis Presley ) was supposed to be released, but there were copyright problems, so the album initially had an alternative text and changed melody for the theme song was released. Live the band continued to use the Presley version. The copyright problem was only clarified in 2009 and the original version (now called Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (I Can't Help Falling in Love) ) was published in the new edition .

reception

source rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
Pitchfork Media
Laut.de
Music Express
New Musical Express

The album received consistently positive reviews and is considered the high point of the band. It was also very successful commercially (see Charts section ).

Pitchfork Media gave the collector's edition of the album the highest rating with 10 out of 10 points and lists the album at 55th place of the 100 best albums of the 1990s.

The New Musical Express gave the album 9 out of 10 points and named Ladies and Gentlemen ... album of the year 1997, ahead of OK Computer from Radiohead and Urban Hymns from The Verve . It was also voted # 156 of the 500 best albums of all time by the magazine. In the annual list of Melody Maker it ranks 5th and in Select's 2nd place.

The music magazine Rolling Stone selected the album at number 13 of the 40 best Stoner albums.

“Spiritualized make music with an unparalleled dense atmosphere and beauty, a powerful combination of roaring guitar riffs with soulful brass, symphonic passages and hymn choirs. Blues meets classic avant-garde, free jazz meets velvet underground . This results in fusions of unexpected explosiveness with lulling calming power. Spiritualized play trance-inducing narco-psychedelia whose lyrics make no secret of Pierce's preference for controlled substances . "

- Uwe Schütte

Charts

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
  UK 4th 06/28/1997 (24 weeks)

The album stayed in the UK's top 75 album charts for a total of 15 weeks with top position 4 in the first week.

As singles were Electricity (UK # 32), I Think I'm in Love (UK # 27) and Come Together decoupled.

occupation

Front man Jason Pierce (1998)
Dr. John is guest musician on the song Cop Shoot Cop ... (Photo 2006)
Guest musician Alexander Bălănescu (2013)
Band members
additional musicians

Choir

  • London Community Gospel Choir

Arrangements

  • Basil Hughes, Jason Pierce - Choir
  • Edmund Coxon, Jason Pierce, Simon Clarke, Tim Sanders - horns
  • Clare Connors, Jason Pierce - strings

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. ' Ladies and gentlemen, ' they yell,' we are floating in space! ' But none of the people down there care. 'What a bunch of troublemakers!' they say. " [1]
  2. ↑ Spiritualized prove that Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space has aged tremendously well - Barbican, review on telegraph.co.uk, accessed September 26, 2017
  3. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/release/1346994-Ladies-And-Gentlemen-We-Are-Floating-In-Space/images Pictures of the original packaging
  4. ↑ Review by Jason Ankeny on AllMusic.com (accessed July 27, 2015)
  5. ↑ Review by Christian Buß on RollingStone.de (accessed on July 27, 2015)
  6. ↑ Review by Grayson Currin (2010) on Pitchfork.com (accessed July 27, 2015)
  7. ↑ Review by Jasmin Lütz on laut.de (accessed April 23, 2018)
  8. ↑ Review by Mike Köhler (2010) on Musikexpress.de (only available for subscribers) (accessed on July 27, 2015)
  9. ↑ a b NME review ( Memento from November 16, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Pitchfork review
  11. ↑ Pitchfork - The Top 100 Albums of the 1990s
  12. ↑ NME albums of 1997
  13. ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on nme.com (accessed April 23, 2018)
  14. ↑ The 40 Greatest Stoner Albums (2013) on rollingstone.com, accessed May 25, 2017
  15. ^ Schütte, Uwe: Basis-Diskothek Rock and Pop, Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 2004, p. 173.
  16. ↑ a b Chart sources: UK