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When you look back on the 1990s, do you regret not spending more time with your bong and Bible? If so, your favorite Martian, Jason Pierce, is here to help. Spiritualized will release The Complete Works, Part 1 on their Spaceman imprint through Arista Records in late March. According to the official Spiritualized website, the double CD will contain favorite tracks from singles, EPs, and compilations. The collection traces the band's drug-addled output from its early days as Pierce's project with Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember, Spacemen 3, to 1995's Pure Phase. The Complete Works, Part 2 will follow later this year, though no details have been released yet. Let's see... um, maybe non-album tracks from the period between 1997's Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space and 2001's Let It Come Down? Bet you a dimer I'm right, dudes. Tracklist:

Disc One:
01 Anyway That You Want Me
02 Step Into The Breeze (Part 1)
03 Feel So Sad (7" single version)
04 Feel So Sad (Rhapsodies)
05 Feel So Sad (Glides and Chimes)
06 Run (single version)
07 Luminescence (Stay With Me)
08 I Want You (Feel So Sad 7" B-side version)
09 Effervescent (Chimes)
10 Why Don't You Smile Now
11 Sway

Disc Two:
01 100 Bars (Acapella)
02 I Want You (Run B-side version)
03 You Know It's True (instrumental)
04 Medication (taken from Medication EP)
05 Smiles (Medication promotional single version)
06 Angel Sigh (taken from Medication EP)
07 Feel So Sad (taken from Medication EP)
08 Good Dope/ Good Fun (taken from Greenpeace 7" single)
09 Lay Back In The Sun (Electric Mainline EP version)
10 Good Times (Electric Mainline EP version)
11 Electric Mainline (Part 1)
12 Electric Mainline (Part 2)
13 100 Bars (Flash Back)

In other news, the band have delayed work on their next album while drummer Kevin Bales recovers from treatment for leukemia in a Nottingham hospital. Spiritualized originally planned to begin recording the follow-up to Let It Come Down in September 2002 after the completion of a short Australian tour and a string of summer festival dates. They have postponed their return to the blacklights of the studio while Bales takes drugs to overcome cancer to make music to take drugs by.