Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription poll

9 and 10 are not on my LP copy of Perfect Prescription fwiw.

hard to choose

ode

i did the track listing from the Fire Records CD that i have. just noticed this note "Track 10 and 11 were originally released on the 'B' side of the single "Take Me To The Other Side."

orig tracklist

A1 Take Me To The Other Side 4:28
A2 Walkin' With Jesus 3:43
A3 Ode To Street Hassle 4:01
A4 Ecstasy Symphony 1:54
A5 Transparent Radiation (Flashback) 9:03
B1 Feel So Good 5:16
B2 Things'll Never Be The Same 6:05
B3 Come Down Easy 6:46
B4 Call The Doctor 3:52

other side vs. doctor vs. come down easy, i guess

ohhhh radiationnnn

"Take Me To The Other Side" or "Walkin' With Jesus" or "Feel So Good" or "Come Down Easy." will decided later.

will have to listen again, but Spacemen 3/Spiritualized are some of my favourite music ever.... Instincts go for Walkin' With Jesus or Things Will Never Be The Same - but the rest is all so good!

my favorite record when it came out. was ~20 and would put this on in the wee-est hours after a night of assorted consumption and nod. the perfect presription indeed. not sure what to vote but think it might be between 1,3 & 7

A2 Walkin' With Jesus 3:43
A5 Transparent Radiation (Flashback) 9:03

WWJ

transparent radiation

if heaven's like this then that's the place for me

Between Take Me To The Other Side and Things'll Never Be The Same. I'd guess that most people in the world would consider them identical anyway...

so so hard...

Thanking you all for the inspiration, giving this the first listen in a long while...

This is tough... Walking With Jesus vs Transparant Radiation I think..

fav Spacemen record, the 20 minute version of TR on the 12" is as druggy as hell
oh and i was most amused when i first heard the Dylan song that Come Down Easy rips from

(which Dylan probably pinched etc)

transparent radiation

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Too hard. Played this to death when I finally scored a copy in '91. Also played the demos a ton when I got my hands on those (highly recommended for fans of the original, particularly for the jams tacked on to the end.)

Finally went with "Take Me to the Other Side", but it could have been "Call the Doctor" or "Transparent Radiation" or "Rollercoaster" (which was on the first version of PP I owned.)

named my old college radio show after a lyric from "walkin with jesus" but damn if this is just about impossible to choose.

Voting for tremelo

Transparent Radiation is great. the problem is the long Ecstasy Symphony intro

you're crazy

yeah, i know i'm in the minority here, but it sounds boring to me.

highly highly recommend this to all fans of this album

well not the review, but that particular reissue

I like Forged Prescriptions. I lost my copy of the original, though, and it's just not the same.

"Feel So Good" for me. Only S3 track with shared vocals, so Peter and Jason get equal billing. Perfect distillation of the moment when everything kicks in *just right*. Before the realisation that it's not quite right after all...

So many other contenders. This is my favourite album (by anyone, not just S3).

not even my fav spacemen 3 album

Yeah, Shakey, that was the demos tape that I was referring to. Spaced on the name.

Tough poll!

Surprisingly hard

"ode to street hassle" is sublime

it's hard cause of the variety of styles.each song sound somewhat different, almost like a compilation.

Difficult to not go with WWJ for just how different it can be played and still work... garage rock mayhem, minimal drone, gospel cavalcade, etc. etc. (PWF is still my fave SP3 album)

This IS hard! And for the record, the last two tracks are great, so search them out! Gonna have to listen to this before voting.

might be my fave WWJ version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSvVTgXzVWg

It's all good (I'm ignoring 9 and 10 because they're not on the album as far as I'm concerned) and you kind of have to listen to the whole thing and in the right order (it *has to* start with 'Take Me To The Other Side', it has to build up to the intensity of 'Things'll Never Be The Samw', and 'Come Down Easy' has to be light relief that comes afterwards). I'm going to vote for Come Down Easy, but would be happy with most of the other tracks too.

my CD also gas the live,long version of Rollercoaster, which is more than awesome

In 1987 all I wanna do is get stoned
All I want for you to do is take my body home

Pretty sure that it's the Glass records pressing in the states that had the long version of "Rollercoaster" attached (got mine in '91, but not sure of the actual release date.) I don't recall if the Taang! reissues had it or not (and since I was on DroneOn at the time, I probably ought to.) I bet Elvis T. knows.

cassette release of this was the best

a-side had the perfect prescription, b-side was

O.D. Catastrophe
Rollercoaster
Feel So Good
Starship

wasn't there a noize bored thread where ppl were posting pics of themselves w/ their cassette copy? I think I sent one to scott once upon a time too

an actual cassette, not a picture of me holding it

from wiki:

1989 re-issue (Fire Refire CD6)
Adds b-sides from the "Take Me To The Other Side" single as bonus tracks:
No. Title Length
9. "Soul 1" 5:41
10. "That's Just Fine" 6:50
1995 re-issue (Genius Records CD)
Adds two tracks from the "Walkin' With Jesus" single and the Transparent Radiation EP as bonus tracks:
No. Title Length
9. "Starship" (Pierce, MC5, Kember, Sun Ra) 10:61
10. "Rollercoaster" (Erickson, Hall) 17:01
1996 re-issue (Taang! Records CD)
No. Title Length
9. "Soul 1" 5:41
10. "That's Just Fine" 6:50
11. "Starship" (Pierce, MC5, Kember, Sun Ra) 10:61
12. "Ecstasy"

Weird. Mine is Genius (GEN0001), licensed from Glass records. No dates, but I know I was listening to it before the first Spiritualized LP, so, 1991, not 1995.

Adds "Rollercoaster" and "Starship" in that order after "Call the Doctor".

yep, that's the version I know and love

and it's gotta be from around 1991 or so

it's in my car, will check later..

my Fire Records copy is from 1989 and is made in England. it is REFIRE CD6 and has the same liner note by R. Hunter Gibson. so it's the original CD copy that came out.

according to Amazon the Genius Records CD edition came out April 16, 1995.

I voted "Ecstasy.../Transparent..." This is one of my favorite albums. Played the shit out of it one particular summer in the early '90s that was just a blur of acid/girlfriend/concerts/house parties. Great times.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

new poll, inspired by Elvis' post just upthread:

Best/favorite/definitive reading of Spacemen 3's "Walkin' with Jesus"/"Walking with Jesus"

ended up voting for "Walkin' With Jesus"

same^

cant choose

Voted for "Ecstasy Symphony/Transparent Radiation (Flashback)" even though it could have easily been any of the other tracks (including the bonus ones).

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

haha okay that was NOT the number 1 I was expecting

even after lots of people here said they would vote to it?
i expected this or WWJ.

but Call the doctor needs more respect

even after lots of people here said they would vote to it?

poll logic = whatever gets posted about the most usually loses

results are about what I expected

I was gonna throw a bone to "things'll never be the same" or "call the doctor" but voting was something I forgot to do