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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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- 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 that just me?). Highlights include 'take me to the other...
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- 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 with "Take Me to the Other Side" (which contains a piece of a...
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- 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 had already investigated the periphery of this genre so...
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- 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 and deep album that evokes a mystical "sensuality that I can't...
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- Posted: Mar-14-2005
Spiritualized Vs Spacemen 3
This is not a comment about the two bands' vinyl output but a comment on their live performances and thus a comment on the differences betwen the two bands. I saw Spacemen 3 play at The Town and Country Club in Kentish Town (London). When we arrived we were a litle late because, in that era, to...
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- Posted: May-04-2004
bliss consciousness
Transcendent bliss that takes you way up before you crash hard. . . . Essential.
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- Posted: Apr-11-2004
lost in space, gladly
this was the singular record that flipped my ear over to genuinely druggy noise. the title of their first record (taking drugs to make music to take drugs to) really says it all. this isn't for the A&R hacks or critics or catalog dweebs, it's for the stoners who want to go home and get into a...
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- Posted: Jul-08-2003
Not for Everyone
I will not go on about how brilliant this album is, or that any one who is into Brit-pop, Indie, shoegaze, what-have-you, ought to get Perfect Perscrition. Truth be told, it is more or less an inaccessible album that neither features noteworthy musicianship nor lyrics. But, that is not to say...
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- Posted: Nov-30-2001
The best Spacemen 3 album as a whole
this album is great and includes the rawness of the 1st lp on tracks like TAKE ME TO THE OTHER SIDE, THINGSLL NEVER BE THE SAME and the blusey COME DOWN EASY. but the slower melodic songs are cool too and much more stripped than the stuff on Playing With Fire but deliver the same effect....
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- Posted: Nov-13-2000
SPENT 30 QUID TO SEE SPIRITUALIZED AND FELL ASLEEP
THIS CD RULES, THE SPACMEN STUFF IS MUCH BETTER THAN THAT TONED DOWN OVER-RATED SPIRITUALIZED SHITE
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