Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (I Can't Help Falling in Love).

"All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away."

Album: Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space [3rd album]
Recorded: London, England
Genre: Rock, Gospel, Space Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
Release: June 16th 1997
Length: 6.39
Producer: Jason Pierce
Vocalist: Jason Pierce [age 31]
Label: Dedicated Records

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Credits

Strings (Balanescu Quartet), London Community Gospel Choir

Details

• The album title, as well as the title of this song 'Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space' is taken from a passage in Jostein Garder's novel Sophie's World.
  

  "Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care."

• The original version featured a choir singing sections from 'I Can't Help Falling In Love With You' by Elvis Presley. The Presley estate only granted rights to the song in 2009, 12 years after release. They eventually agreed on the condition that the song was re-titled 'Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (I Can't Help Falling in Love)'
  
  
• The song has a consistent through line but constantly feels like it's on the edge of spilling over. Sections of the choir sing different part of the song at the same time, resulting in several overlapping voices that somehow manage to make a coherent harmony. Don McLean famously used the same technique on his track 'By the Waters of Babylon (1975)'. 
  
  
• The albums was built using a 24 track Atari sequencer, creating a persistent spine that the live band could play over.
  

  

  An Atari sequencer
  

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