My Top 1000 Songs #806: Good Dope, Good Fun

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

As much a feel-good vibe as a proper song--maybe more so?--Spiritualized's "Good Dope, Good Fun" imports Jason Pierce's trippy post-psychedelia from his Spacemen 3 days into a more electronic, ecstasy-fueled 90s rave aesthetic. The song exists in various versions, appearing as a pair of 1993 singles--both under this title and, in slightly different form, as "Lay Back In The Sun"--while a slightly altered "Lay Back In The Sun" also showed up on 1995's long-playing electronica shoegazer Pure Phase. Minor variations aside, it's a jubilant, insinuating groove, deep space meditations over endless layers of fizzy buzzsaw gauze, hints of a gospel choir beneath it all (highlighted in live performances), The track is surprisingly well-balanced between making you want to get high and zone out, or maybe go out dancing all night; either way the song feels like it should go on forever.

Another incredible live performance: