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| | The Perfect Prescription | | | Music Artist : | | Spacemen 3 | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Taang Records | | Release Date : | | 1995-09-01 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Take Me to the Other Side
2. Walking With Jesus
3. Ode to Street Hassle
4. Ecstasy Symphony/Transparent Radiation (Flashback)
5. Feel So Good
6. Things'll Never Be the Same
7. Come Down Easy
8. Call the Doctor
9. Roller Coaster
10. Starship
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Minimalistic drone rock genre at its peak
Submitted on: 2009-01-06 |
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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 side,' 'transparent radiation,' and 'feel so good.' 'Call the doctor' features their best guitar work. There are 13 tracks, 5 are purely instrumental, 8 have lyrics. |
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 Gee, I wonder what that perfect prescription could be...
Submitted on: 2007-09-11 |
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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 riff lifted from AC/DC of all bands!) before settling into an extended hypnotic and dreamy phase propelled by "Transparent Radiation" and the "Jesus" track, as well as a few others. Then the mood is flipped over, going from on-the-back relaxing to on-the-belly punishment as "Things'll Never Be the Same" turns sinister and violent. What once was the sound of acid becomes the noise of heroin (quite literally, as "Things" makes intentionally unsubtle references to spiking).
The whole thing is clearly influenced by 60s pop and the drug culture of the very same era. "Come Down Easy" especially sounds like a cover from the time (if not for the lyrics containing the year of 1987). Most fans consider this their masterpiece (but Playing With Fire, being both artier and heavier, is the superior effort). Although they clearly owe a tremendous debt to Velvet Underground (fans of them should love this), they were already starting to craft their own personal sound. Later reissues would add various singles from the era, which are good, but best separated from the album as only singles.
Best cuts: "Walkin' With Jesus," "Come Down Easy," "Things'll Never Be the Same," "Ecstasy Symphony/Transparent Radiation (Flashback)," "Take Me to the Other Side," "Feel So Good" |
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conspiracy against me
Submitted on: 2007-07-07 |
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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 completely really thwarts me.
anyway, better in 2007 than never I suppose. I heard this in my favorite CD store a few weeks ago and instantly bought it - I have retroactivated my love for this band to 1980 something and they have been in my heart all along - I just didn't know them.
If you are secure enough to admit that you missed them also - just buy it. |
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Rock Solid Psych Gem
Submitted on: 2005-05-20 |
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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 explain."
Highlights include the stunning violin work on "Transparent Radiation" and the jazzy, chilled out trumpets on "Feel So Good." Albums like this are refreshing in the extreme... it gets back to some of the original inspirations.
Stands up to heavy rotation. A great album for summer. If you like this, you might like:
Lemon Jelly
Spiritualized
King Tubby
Tristeza
Dead Meadow |
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Spiritualized Vs Spacemen 3
Submitted on: 2005-03-14 |
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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 get anything done usually took a very long time. Anyway, the Spacemen were already playing. Playing is not really the term for it as all three were sitting down on tall stools and seemingly in their own worlds, noodling away on their respective instruments. I remember being somewhat taken aback but soon forgot this as I got down with my girlfriend and what we'd brought to the club. I don't remember the gig.
A few years later down the drug abuse trail and I'd taken a few lessons from my heroes. Spiritualized was playing junkie music so the best way to experience their music was to be on the same wavelength. Right? Consequently, at The Albert Hall I fell asleep and only woke up to the more rockier numbers (they have some?)before falling back into my golden slumbers. I had a lovely time but do I remember the gig?
So: Spacemen 3 didn't send you to sleep because they were already asleep. Spiritualized have never woken up(although "Amazing Grace" may be in the process of wakening up).
P.S. At the time Spacemen 3 were linked with Loop and Thee Hypnotics. Anyone remember them and the excellent Treworgy debacle of a festival? |
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