Spiritualized
Friendly Fire

Cover art for Friendly Fire by Spiritualized Description: self released CD of rare things
Format: CD
Genre(s): Psychedelia / Space Rock
Label: Self-Released
Price:
£12.99
Availability: Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

4Rating: 4
...according to our on 17 May 2007.

Now I have 2 semi official releases of Spiritualized out takes, rehearsals, alternative takes, instrumental and b-sides. If your a fan of the drifty reverb addicts then its worth a punt for sure.

Blue on Blue is a round up of early Spiritualized / late spaceman 3 gear. It says we have........ "the lost breakdown from "if I were with her now, the abandoned guitar squalls and feedback from "Angel sigh", the superb demo version of "These Blues", the fourteen minute version of the spacemen's "Sometime" from the first ever Spiritualized practice" ....

Second CD called Friendly Fire covers the period when the album Lazer guided melodies was released. . A furious version of Spaceman 3's Amen and stripped down versions of Smiles and Shine a light. There are also Peel sessions which marked the last time the original band played together.

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What their label says...

It features outtakes , rehearsals and the peel session from the Lazer guided melodies lineup.

The full tracklisting is :

OUTTAKES

I want you ////instrumental version , unreleased variant of glides and chimes .

shine a light ///very different from the album version ,diff vocals , diff ,mix ..unreleased

smile ///radically different , longer version ..unreleased

I want you ////twelve inch, unreleased instrumental version  

REHEARSALS

these are  from a good quality cassette recording of a Spiritualized rehearsal at Jason's flat in Rugby.They have been cleaned up and mastered and the sound is powerful if not totally hi-fi.

why don't you smile
you know it's true
amen
angel sigh
If I were with her now
run

PEEL SESSIONS:
Already released,but a nice  little bonus .

Angel sigh
feel so sad
smile

there is a secret track at the end of smile ...which seems to be someone messing about with a sampler while somebody sings the bare necessities from the Jungle book in the background .
Not essential Spiritualized , but quite entertaining .

Total runtime is one hour and eight minutes.