Spiritualized - Fucked Up Inside (Cover)
When I was working at a record store (Discovery Discs) in Philly around 1993/94, I was a big fan of Spiritualized's
Lazer Guided Melodies and
somehow
our shop got a few copies of this limited edition live, mail-order only Spiritualized disc called
Fucked Up Inside (see cover above). For some reason, I didn't get a copy and I soon found out that they only made 1000 copies, plus another 5000 for general pressing, so copies have been going for bank (north of $100) from various online resellers. Well, the other day, I found a copy at a record store I frequent, and it was fairly reasonably priced, so I got it. Now, I just need to find the limited pill case version of
Ladies and Gentlemen.... I saw Spiritualized open for Radiohead in 1997 which was just a wall of distortion, and not the feedback Sonic Youth type of distortion, but a high frequency horror movie soundtrack type of noise. Most of the people had a look of disgust, or that look of, i just soiled my pants. I saw them recently again for the Acoustic Mainline tour (read
here), and being in the minority, I thought it was pretty bad and bland, so I left early, which I have only done a handful of times. And for their new album,
Songs in A+E, we're still in that "get to know each other" phase. Also,
Ladies and Gentlemen... is still one of my favorites. This featured release is a 7 track Live EP from Nov 21, 1992 at the Hollywood Palladium as well as a show at the Warfield in San Francisco from the previous evening, so it has a multitude of significances in my life. And besides the
Royal Albert Hall release, this is the only way to hear the band at, or near it's peak. (Note: the new release,
Songs in A+E will come with a limited poster of syringes)
Spiritualized - Take Good Care Of It - the non-distorted original version.
Spiritualized - Walking With Jesus - the first live version and a bit slower than the
Royal Albert Hall version.
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Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (Original Demo) Cover
The other rarity I found was this 1 track CD single of Windowlicker with a different take from the original cover. It has the demo version of the song as well as the video. I know you can find everything, in terms of music through the internet these days, but there's still something about finding it on the shelves and owning an actual physical copy. I probably sound like my elders when they were referring to vinyl, or 8 tracks.
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (Original Demo)Labels: aphex twin, spiritualized
