Spacemen 3...Do i need to have some of their music??

there's nothing on spacemen 3 records that wasn't done better on laser guided melodies, IMHO. kate to thread, obv.

christ, i am so sick of seeing that in subject lines

anyway, spacemen 3 are good.

If you do check them out, you should also check out their predecessors - the Thirteenth Floor Elevators. Psychadelic Garage pioneers..

are there any live stuffs circulating besides that recorded at the Melkweg?

also everybody who likes drone (as opposed to or beyond space rock) should have a copy of the "dreamweapon" reissue if only for the "ecstasy symphony"

Especially on CD. Nothing like driving somewhere at 6:30 in morning up to your eyes on meth with a cigarette and the live version of 'Suicide' blasting out the speakers.

Do you need some of their music? Of course you do. What a silly question.

Which one should you buy first? Well, it depends what you're looking for.

I always say "PLAYING WITH FIRE" because it is the most well-rounded and perfectly realised of their records. There's a little bit of everything on it: Jason's ornate psychedelic bubblesoul, Sonic's minimal blissdrone, a little bit of rock, a little bit of wibble, a lot of gorgeous texture and beautiful drone.

If yer looking for more of a classic "indie" album, you'd be better off going with Perfect Prescription. If yer looking for more of a "rock" album (minimal Stooges) then go for Sound of Confusion. If yer a Spiritualized fan who wants to know What Jason Did First, then get 3-3-3-3-3-3-3 (oh god, what is it really called? Oh yeah) I mean Recurring and only listen to Side Two.

But yes. You need a Spacemen 3 album. Truly.

Passing Hipsters who look like DDB's will not be able to make you a S3 compilation. It's fake dirt copied from Strokes videos. You need to find an *authentic* scumbag Dirty Boy to make one for you.

I'm so confused. It used to be that boys that looked a certain way were into certain things - including S3. Now boys that look that way end up on Fame Academy. Shoot me now.

I mean, hey! I bought a suit last week!

*cries*

Playing With Fire
Perfect Prescription
Recurring
Dreamweapon
Sound Of Confusion

In summation, Spacemen 3 are essential, if you haven't got any of their albums, then for christs sake get them (you may find it hard though, as distribution is very minimal now), but this gives you a good excuse to download it, which is very easy - so do it. Get whatever you can, but make sure that you get complete copies of Playing with Fire AND The Perfect Prescription, they're both as essential as eachother....

jason's big budget studio and choral and orchestral spit. projects are just the most cynical cash-in on people who haven't got around to hearing Exile on Main Street yet -- basic blues and gospel stuck through slick studio techniques != anything new

and sp3, a lame attempt to revive the great early Stooges lps, rip most of the song m.o.s straight off the Stooges even while covering some (thus attempting distancing from any so obvious Stooges 'tie-in'), and the rest of the time sound like a bunch of skagged out scenesters (see their "uh, the songs ? .. we just want to talk about the drugs actually" interview in Forced Exposure)

Oh really? Probably not is more like it. Spacemen 3 are one of those bands I have never had the slightest inclination in checking out - I have heard them before but forgotten what they sounded like and I've always found their heroin chic rubbish to be most off-putting.

I suggest that recurring and sound of confusion are quite essential, if you like dronerock, and want to see just how long a band can hold one chord down for. However, I think the 2 hawkwind titles mentioned above are much better.

I'd get PWF first, cuz that's there one where S3 really seemed at one with their time, which only serves to add fuel to their whole 'Revolution' schtick...

The thing with the hawkwind comparison that always gets me - I listen to "revolution", and the whole genteel drums thing is quite charming & likeable, but still, there's this bit of me that wants them to have done it with a real kick-ass rock drummer, like simon king. The best hawkwind stuff for me is like this music war between the half of the band who were speedfreaks and the half who were acidheads.

The whole street hassle thing you refer to is one of the few things that I don't like abt s3. I find it a bit annoying, but bearable!

i have this italian singles/rarities comp that has all the single covers all laid out on the sleeve, it's got a few pretty good alternate mixes and takes, but the albums are definitely more satisfying.

They do it with a kick ass drummer on "Live In Europe 1989"

that was actually released by Munster Records in Spain

disc1 (79:32)

Take Me To the Other Side
Walking With Jesus
Ode to Street Hassle
Ecstasy Symphony/Transparent Radiation
Feel So Good
Things'll Never Be the Same
Call the Doctor
Roller Coaster (17:38 vers.)
Come Together (from Performance)
So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)
Revolution
Lord Can You Hear Me
Hypnotised

disc2 (78:07)

Losing Touch With My Mind
Come Down Easy
That's Just Fine
Mary-Anne (from Performance)
Walking With Jesus (from Performance)
Honey
Come Down Softly to My Soul
Suicide
Big City
Just to See You Smile (instrumental)
When Tomorrow Hits
Feel So Sad (reprise)
Feelin' Just Fine (alternative mix)
Anyway that You Want Me

(each disc itself is vaguely chronological. There are two discs because their songs are so damn long. Most of 'Perfect Prescription' is here. There's a logic to the track selection and disc placement somewhere, but I forgot what that was. Also it leans a bit towards Jason's stuff and includes that last track...)

Recurring is FINALLY reissued: http://www.adasam.plus.com/spaceage/page38.htm

Playing With Fire
Perfect Prescription
Recurring
Dreamweapon
Sound Of Confusion "

Chris, That's the order I purchased in!
How good is "Forged Prescriptions?" and how much does it over lap with other albums?

I think the opposite!

Taang did that for their reissues when they licensed it from Fire Records. The definitive version of Playing With Fire is the Space Age one

The altered covers annoy me too (I bet it's Sonic's doing - all those Bomp reissues look messed up).

There's only two Bomp releases and they aren't reissues per se. Anyway, the Space Age version of Live 1989 is the one to get.

(wonders if anyone reads the liner notes)

I've got the Bomp Taking Drugs... cd, but wasn't that technically a reish of an old lp? Or was the latter a bootleg or something? I can't remember.

The original LP was released on Father Yod and went out of print quickly afterward. Bomp released it in the states and then Space Age released it everywhere else.

Basically, get the Space Age version.

liners on the Bomp Taking Drugs. liners and production/mastering o Live 1989

I like sonic boom's sleevenote's for forged prescriptions on the space age site!

No rocking out, not one second of it. classic!

The original LP father yod version of "taking drugs" is mastered a tad slower than the bomp cd reish? Could swear I heard the cd once and thought - wait, shit, this is slightly more rockin' than the version(s) of "losing touch with mi mind" and "sound of confusion" than i'm used to...? but put it out of mi mind when i realised the LP cover art could never be touched, bonus trax bedamned. the vinyl is fucking INCENDIARY.

and to reach both poles on the spectrum (gag) i say the two crucial releases are Taking Drugs vinyl and Dreamweapon whatever format (limited vinyl of course for true backwards hipgnosis). Playing with Fire a distant third.