The Perfect Prescription
Never shy about letting listeners in on their biggest influences--a later Spacemen disc was titled Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To--this British trio crafted some of the most genuinely psychedelic music of the '80s and '90s before splitting into Spiritualized and Spectrum/EAR. The Perfect Prescription should appeal to fans of the former band, with its dazzlingly layered treatment of songs that, when pinned down for analysis, actually prove to be pop in its most majestic sense. The constantly oscillating guitars of Jason Pierce and Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember, seldom shackled to anything as pedestrian as a standard beat, are unparalleled in their ability to take listeners on a journey to the center of the mind. Devotees of the earlier psychedelic era should note the presence of an extended, demented cover of the Red Krayola's "Transparent Radiation." --David Sprague more
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-06-2009
- Minimalistic drone rock genre at it's peak
To put it quickly, this album features cool hypnotic melodies & soft spoken lyrics. Songs are simple and repetitive in meditational kind of way. Each song apparently uses few chords, but I hear more stuff than there really is (is...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-11-2007
- Gee, I wonder what that perfect prescription could be...
That an album could contain both the elegant, droning psychedelia of "Walkin' With Jesus" and the aggressive and vitriolic grind of "Things'll Never Be the Same" is a testament to the force and range of Spacemen 3. Starts out frenetic...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-07-2007
- conspiracy against me
There must be a conspiracy against me... because I really thought that I missed nothing... yet - there is this really big elephant in the middle of my living room named "Spacemen 3."How I could have completely missed this band when I...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-20-2005
- Rock Solid Psych Gem
Amazing. Simply, astoundingly, amazing. Listening to this is an epic, truly awesome adventure in sound. Equal parts Beatles and Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3 iron out SOLID rock jams with heavy 60's inspiration. It is a spiritual...
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Selected Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-06-2009
- Minimalistic drone rock genre at it's peak
To put it quickly, this album features cool hypnotic melodies & soft spoken lyrics. Songs are simple and repetitive in meditational kind of way. Each song apparently uses few chords, but I hear more stuff than there really is (is...
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- 3/5
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- Posted: Aug-18-2000
- pleasant
one of the best albums of eighties, if not the best. some of the songs are self-indulgent but the best moments are extremely pretty - 'Walking With Jesus' (with nice counterpoint harmony vocals) and the Red Krayola number 'Transparent...
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