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Certain Songs #2415: Spiritualized – “I Want You”

August 8, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Lazer Guided Melodies
Year: 1992

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In the beginning, there was Spaceman 3, who sounded exactly like their name, and whom I could never get into, though I’ve tried more than once over the decades. So let’s pin the blame for that squarely on me, and instead focus on Spiritualized, the band that J Spaceman — AKA Jason Pierce — formed in the aftermath of that band’s dissolution.

The first Spiritualized studio album — the perfectly-named Lazer Guided Melodies — came out in 1992. The most recent one — the also perfectly-named Everything Was Beautiful — came out just a couple of months ago. Over that three-decade period, Pierce has occasionally resurfaced to put out another studio collection, issuing a grand total of nine.

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Certain Songs #413: Elvis Costello & The Attractions – “I Want You”

January 6, 2016 by Jim Connelly

Elvis blood Album: Blood & Chocolate
Year: 1986

Because it starts with a quiet “Elvis snuck into the studio in the middle of the night and recorded a drunken verse before falling asleep” and ends in a whisper cum death rattle, it’s easy to forget that “I Want You” has more going on than Elvis Costello repeating “I want you” 600,000 times.

OK, that’s really not true: it’s pretty much all Elvis Costello repeating “I want you” 600,000 times.

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