Anyway That You Want Me

• Artist: Spiritualized
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• Release Date: 1990 06
• Type: Single
• Genre: Rock

Review

Released while Jason Pierce and Sonic Boom were working in separate studios on what would become the final Spacemen 3 album, Recurring, this first-ever Spiritualized release appeared with a Spacemen 3 sticker affixed to its sleeve, reportedly so incensing Sonic that it guaranteed the band's end. It's hard to blame him -- not only did Pierce "borrow" the other members of Spacemen 3 (guitarist Mark Refoy, bassist William Carruthers, and drummer Jon Mattock) to record "Anyway That You Want Me," a cover of a Chip Taylor song popularized by the Troggs, but right out of the gate he created a record of unfathomable majesty and beauty, effectively relegating Spacemen 3 to history even without an official pronouncement. A gentle, heartfelt love song buoyed by sweeping strings and a hypnotically simple melody, "Anyway That You Want Me" seems in hindsight Spiritualized's most primitive outing, but already Pierce's uncanny gift for constructing and rebuilding arrangements and creating almost otherworldly grandeur out of the simple elements of pop music is firmly in place. The B-side, the Pierce original "Step Into the Breeze," later resurfaced on Lazer Guided Melodies, Rovi

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