#lagwafis

[1moreoffkeyanthem]

When ur card declines at therapy so they make you read chapter 16 of Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

#fr #that chapter lives rent free #south park #fanfic #LAGWAFIS

[mufflednoises]

Thinking about the way that ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space portrayed homophobia???? Like that was genuinely one of the best parts, and something that you also don't see all too often, even though south park elementary or high, in this case, would ABSOLUTELY be VIOLENTLY homophobic. Like no one would be out and proud, especially with Eric Cartman inevitably having to insert his opinion everywhere.

Not just the way it not only influences people's actions and the way they think about themselves, but also how displays of homophobia are pushed aside or how no one speaks up at all.

No spoilers, of course, but I think that alone sets it off from many other creek fics, or just sp fics in general. Internalized homophobia is not uncommon to be portrayed, but external influences of that magnitude? A masterpiece.

And of course: the link.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15904065/chapters/37068342

#ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space #lagwafis #does this eben have tags? probably not but ill still add em' #creek sp #tweek x craig

[ruthflemwad]

Hey. It’s been 30 chapters. Now how are you feeling about Lagwafis? :) :) :) :)

(through violent tears)

[gremlintooth]

hi!! Unsure if you’ll see this (I left a comment on your fic as well) but me and my friend absolutely love lagwafis, it’s actually her favorite piece of literature. For her birthday I would like to print out this work (specifically book bind it through a company) and gift it to her, as long as that’s okay with you. It would only for personal use only, but if not that’s completely fine!

Either way, we’ve both been in love with this work & I would like to thank you so terribly much for writing something as lovely as it— No matter what your response is, genuinely thank you so much for creating it <3 

Hey there! I did reply on AO3 but just in case it got eaten by the site and didn’t show up there, yes you can bind it! I’m honoured you and your friend love the work, please tell her happy birthday from me ❤️

[the-keeper-of-the-gaze]

This is the 9th studio album from Spiritualized, coming 4 years after 'And Nothing Hurt'. Coming 30 years after their fantastic debut 'Lazer Guided Melodies', after the less than amicable split of his former band Spacemen 3. Jason and Sonic Boom fell out and that was the end for that chapter in the musical journey of Jason Pierce. While not reaching the heights of 'LAGWAFIS', the most recent releases from Spzd have a certain charm, and are a reflection of where he is right now, older and perhaps wiser, and still retaining the old magic that let 'Lazer Guided...', 'Pure Phase' transcend into the stratosphere, leading to the masterpiece that is 'Ladies And Gentlemen...'. I for one have never looked for the band to replicate that wondrous album, nor should they, purely for the sake of the album standing on its own, a monument to a time when things were different. Yes, all the familiar Spzd tropes are there, the psychrock pulse and drone, the gospel flecks, the soul surges, the horn bursts and shoegaze walls of sound, the blues rockouts, the jazz wigouts, all merged into one glorious package, and perhaps it may make you think you've heard it before, but that's the joy of a Spiritualized album, it's the old and the new all coming together to create something newer still. #Spiritualized #EverythingWasBeautiful #BellaUnionRecords #JasonPierce #shoegaze #psychrock #spacerock #blues #soul #gospel (at Kings Norton, Birmingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgnOrs0ocyD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#spiritualized #everythingwasbeautiful #bellaunionrecords #jasonpierce #shoegaze #psychrock #spacerock #blues #soul #gospel

[100albumcountdown]

5. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space (1997)

There is no other album quite like Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space. Although it contains many familiar elements – the euphoric surge of gospel, the churning swirl of psychedelic rock, the snotty snarl of brit-pop, and the world-weary ache of the blues – it combines them in a way that’s entirely unique, even within Spiritualized’s own three decade long discography. The ideas that inform this album can all be found in the story that precedes its creation: in a cocktail of heartbreak and heroin abuse that steeps every note of every track. Prior to recording this album, Spiritualized keyboard player (and Pierce’s long-time girlfriend) Kate Radley ditched him and married Verve front-man Richard Ashcroft soon after. Pierce dealt with this blow by upping his heroin consumption to Herculean proportions and creating his finest record to date – an album that echoes all of the glazed detachment of a desperate drug dependent, yet periodically weeps, bleeds and howls as it struggles to contain the great sorrow it holds back like a dam in a flood. This dichotomy defines the entire album, from its spiral-like sequencing with its violent mood swings, to its overwhelming sense of barely contained anguish that eventually erupts in the form of devastating closer ‘Cop Shoot Cop’. The opening duo of the title track and first single ‘Come Together’ set the scene; the former piling on loops of layered vocals and shimmering instrumentation into a majestic swell of starry-eyed melancholy, before crashing headfirst into the latter – a thuggish, muscular declaration of pure nihilism that surges forward in blasts of brass and squealing feedback. Everything you need to know about this album can be found in these opening ten minutes – the dense production, the swirling textures that alternately soothe and leap forward in a vicious assault, and the whirlpool of emotion that Pierce is constantly spinning in. His voice moves from lip-curling detachment to quivering sadness in a heartbeat, and the music follows suit: the whiplash-inducing ‘All of my Thoughts’ switches between gentle, forlorn verses and frantic, explosive, free-form breakdowns like a tornado crashing through a funeral home.  As the album progresses, these contrasts grow longer and deeper – the dense, tender, narcotic waltz of ‘Stay With Me’ is smashed to pieces by the furious charge of ‘Electricty’ – a song that evokes it’s namesake with a breakneck flurry of live-wire guitar noise, crashing drums and spluttering harmonica soloing. The record reaches the depths of abstraction in the form of ‘Home of the Brave’ and ‘The Individual’, two tracks that finally swallow Pierce’s longing whole by slowly consuming it in total chaos. Just as it seems like everything as been washed away in a sea of droning noise, ‘Broken Heart’ swims into view; a gorgeous, aching, string-laden expression of utter loss rendered even more powerful by it’s positioning between the astringent grind of ‘The Individual’ and the freeform mania of ‘No God Only Religion’. By the time ‘Cool Waves’ rolls round and the gospel choirs are finally soothing the pain away, it begins to feel like Pierce has exorcised his demons and found peace at last, but the epic finale of ‘Cop Shoot Cop’ has one last trick up it’s sleeve. Stalking forward with grim resolve, the verses create a hypnotic eddy of piano licks, finger snaps and queasy guitar textures, before each chorus whips it all up into a spinning frenzy of crashing percussion, swirling organ and psychedelic noise. Each time it just brushes the edge of the abyss, but pulls back at the last minute. By the third repetition it can’t hold itself together anymore and everything begins to rip itself apart, revealing the vast, aching pit of pain and confusion inside. For what feels like an eternity the horns blast, the guitars melt, the drums cascade, and the bass tumbles into what can only be described as an aural black hole. Eventually in the distance a solitary trumpet appears, signalling the way back to dry land, followed by sighing, wordless voices and eventually a discernable rhythm. Once calm is restored, Pierce reappears for one last time – his voice still numb, still broken – but seemingly at peace, as the song quietly drifts to a gentle close. There is no other piece of pop music in the world that comes close to what Spiritualized manage to achieve with ‘Cop Shoot Cop’, nor is there any album that manages to express the emotional turmoil of heartbreak and loss better than this. It’s not subtle, lyrically or musically; it won’t ease your pain like some folksy troubadour’s musings or some whimsically ironic synth-pop. Instead it reaches deep into the very heart of what it’s like to be crushed, lost, and fucked up inside, and it splatters the blood-soaked mess over a 70 minute long canvas using every mode of musical expression that ever found a way to mourn the loss of love and hope. It’s a beautiful, devastating, fascinating, overwhelming experience, and it’s a masterpiece in the truest sense of the word.

Also listen to: Songs in A+E, Live at the Royal Albert Hall

#spiritualized #jason pierce #ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space #lagwafis #cop shoot cop #1997 #90s music #britpop #psychadelic rock #rock music #space rock #music review #music #review #album review #album #album art #classic album #top 100 albums #top 10 albums #top 10 #music list #music geek #i love this

[aziraphaleapologist]

me after ladies and gentlemen we are floating in spacing the way out of my life i am no longer an astronaut and that is a horrible and amazing realisation

#lagwafis #don’t ask me where i’m going with this because i don’t know #sunken scrolls

[broadcastemotion]

Since the original press goes for a kajillion dollars, I had been waiting for a proper, non-Plain Recordings (an awful reissue label that you should avoid like the plague) reissue of this masterpiece for many years now. VMP TO THE RESCUE! It sounds amazing. it looks amazing. It feels amazing. I say this more than I should, but this is a perfect record. . . . #spiritualized #ladiesandgentlemenwearefloatinginspace #lagwafis #nowspinning #vinyl #records #instavinyl #vinylporn #jhvinyl #iloveDiscogs #vinyligclub #igvinylclub #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #recordcollector #recordcollection #recordsnotvinyls #vinylgram #vinylnotvinyls #vinylcommunity #vinyladdict #vinyljunkie #stoppluralizingvinyl #cratedigger #cratedigging #physicalmediaforever https://www.instagram.com/p/CFAQr-iD0Xt/?igshid=5rjnc2lqornr

#spiritualized #ladiesandgentlemenwearefloatinginspace #lagwafis #nowspinning #vinyl #records #instavinyl #vinylporn #jhvinyl #ilovediscogs #vinyligclub #igvinylclub #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #recordcollector #recordcollection #recordsnotvinyls #vinylgram #vinylnotvinyls #vinylcommunity #vinyladdict #vinyljunkie #stoppluralizingvinyl #cratedigger #cratedigging #physicalmediaforever

[oidosvirgenes-blog]

#Aniversario #Aniversary #UnDíaComHoy pero en 1997 la banda inglesa Spiritualized @officialspzd lanzó su tercer disco titulado "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space.” #LAGWAFIS https://www.instagram.com/p/Byy_WoXBcIr/?igshid=16v1ltwbsn5or

#aniversario #aniversary #undíacomhoy #lagwafis

[geffenrecords]

craigs mom is so cool i bet clyde calls her mom and all of craigs friends hug her

#in lagwafis she was so cool.........love tht for her honestly #sp

[dreamsculptor]

i going to listen to lagwafis and to sleep g

#transmission

[givastihawking]

MONDAY MUSIC MANIA: how could I make it any plain-ia?

My brother’s starting high school today. Wanna track him down, internet sleuths? Here’s a pic of where he’s at:

FROM THIS FRIDAY:

Nada. Zip. Zilch. Miynt was bleh, sorry.

YOUR LISTENING LIST

REPLICA by Oneohtrix Point Never: There are only a few times I can’t dislike any song off an album; this is one of them. “Replica” stands out by acting more as an art installation - an experience - than a typical LP. There are no stand-out tracks, hit singles, or danceable bops. Just a cold, alien reality full of fleeting synths and ghostly production. 8/10.

(https://open.spotify.com/track/5oCHKH1a1YZXgtdoUXalcm?si=xPyJpe3LQLyjjMC4-JFecA)

IMMUNITY by Jon Hopkins: This is, like, the polar opposite of “Replica”. Yes, they’re both electronic, and, yes, they both have titles longer than six letters, but “Immunity” is breathing warmth - full of songs you’ll actually want to have on a playlist. The music’s more appropriate for a 2:00 am drive than a 10:00 rave, but it’s still groovin’ in its own unique way (highlights: “We Disappear”, “Collider”, “Breathe This Air”). 8/10.

(https://open.spotify.com/track/3BiIPNWmMeJAK9iwEFTeDX?si=Zce2g7A7QY2DCeZwWap2sQ)

LET IT COME DOWN by Spiritualized: I first found Spiritualized from the r/indieheads “best-of” list, and, let me tell ya skeptics who’ll listen to this album and immediately turn it off, it took me FOREVER to warm up to the guy’s music - especially because nothing anything off of “LAGWAFIS” sounds remotely like the title track (one of my favorite songs of all time).

If you don’t like highly repetitive jam sessions that slowly build the intensity, gospel choirs, and occasional bombastic orchestral sections, then you’ll probably find this annoying and turn it off in the first minute. I know I did, but times change! 9/10.

(https://open.spotify.com/track/16htPICGMgIOGbQGo23k9H?si=NPPlNGq0RrOAveVHkhan-g)

#records #new music #albums #album release #music #album recommendation #spotify #music blog #apple music #playlist #spiritualized #jon hopkins #oneohtrix point never #replica

[gloombog]

the first time i really listened to spiritualized was last year on the way back from a my bloody valentine concert in oakland sitting in the backseat of my friend's stepdad's car he was like "check this band out" and stuck lagwafis in the cd player at max volume and i swear on everything when come together came on i had an out of body experience

#and then again when all of my thoughts started playing #i was delirious and it was late and i truly did feel like i was floating in space.......

[ruthflemwad]

How’s lagwafis treating you bud. Dont be shy. Answer the question.

[gremlintooth]

you’re probs tired of hearing this because it’ll turn six years old this year but i think about lagwafis all the time. like every day almost no joke it is so well written and it makes me cry every time i read it and i swear i reread it monthly at this point. thank you for writing that one thirty chapter long south park fanfiction that changed the trajectory of my life when i first read it on that cold day of december 2021

Hey! Nah I never get tired of hearing that someone enjoyed my writing, although I can hardly believe it’s been six years! Wow time flies. Thank you for reading my fic and for letting me know how much it means to you, it will always hold a special place in my heart and I’m glad it reached you in your life too ❤️ please take care my friend x

#ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space #thank you again! you made me smile

[agranular]

Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

#lagwafis