Each of us music fans carries a few albums around at all times, albums that have become so much a part of us that we no longer even really need to listen to them.
If you were trapped on that proverbial desert island to which you were only allowed to bring a certain number of discs, you might include them, but other than that, there’s usually not much reason to dust them off for another listen. Yet this has to be done periodically, if for no other reason than to remind us why we fell so hard for them in the first place.
For me, one of those albums is Spiritualized’s Lazer Guided Melodies (listen below), now playing at Listening Post’s New York headquarters. It fits like an old shoe; I know every element of this record by heart, which doesn’t exactly make for thrilling listening, but man, does it sound good this morning.
I’m hoping you’ll add one of your most essential albums to the comments section, so we can start to assemble a list of Listening Post readers’ desert island discs.
As you (hopefully) think this over, have a listen to some of Spiritualized Lazer Guided Melodies — the first album from Jason Pierce’s post-Spacemen 3, pre-gospel era.
The eleven song record is divided into four multi-song tracks, sort of like movements in a classical piece (titled Red, Green, Blue, and Black). Here’s a stream of the second chunk of songs on Lazer Guided Melodies ("Run," "Smiles," "Step Into The Breeze" and "Symphony Space"):
