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| | Playing with Fire | | | Music Artist : | | Spacemen 3 | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Space Age Recordings | | Release Date : | | 2003-09-23 | | Discs : | | 2 | | Store Price : | | $21.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $21.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Honey
2. Come Down Softly to My Soul
3. How Does It Feel?
4. I Believe It
5. Revolution
6. Let Me Down Gently
7. So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)
8. Suicide
9. Lord Can You Hear Me?
10. Suicide [Live]
11. Repeater (How Does It Feel) [Live]
12. Che
13. May the Circle Be Unbroken
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 We Have Lift-off
Submitted on: 2008-07-20 |
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How does a music fan whose favorite groups include Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, and The Jesus and the Mary Chain somehow manage to live forty years and never hear about Spacemen 3?
Just lucky, I guess.
There is very little that I can add to previous reviews of this band that has not already been mentioned. Minimalist brilliance? Check. Psychedelia? Check. Guitars set to feedback? Check. So... if you are arriving late to the Cape, sit back and enjoy the show. |
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A difficult but rewarding masterwork
Submitted on: 2007-09-11 |
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The art rock of Spacemen 3 manages to avoid becoming pretentious and boring by serving up the same sort of expressionism and balance that marks the best of their ilk. Even at its noisiest and most chaotic, there's a melody to find; at its softest and dreamiest, there is an unmistakable gravity that keeps it grounded.
"Honey" and "Come Down Softly to My Soul" roll out of the speakers like liquid that immediately turns to vapor in the ears. "I Believe It" is a cross section of Velvet Underground (with its building drone and hushed excitement) and the Doors (organ-driven psychedelia and slow poet musing). "Revolution" is reminiscent of Iggy & the Stooges, especially in the rough, crunching texture and half-bored, half-aggressive vocal delivery. And "Suicide" is an eleven-minute freakout that rivals anything made by the noise auteurs (and as such, can be alternately compelling and repetitive). If you're looking for solid hooks and meaty riffs, look elsewhere. There's a reason why the shoegazing scene owes a debt as much to Spacemen 3 as any of that band's contemporaries.
Best cuts: "How Does It Feel?" "Revolution," "Honey," "I Believe It," "So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)," "Come Down Softly to My Soul," "Lord Can You Hear Me?" "Suicide," "Let Me Down Gently" |
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Spiritualized never will be like this
Submitted on: 2006-08-31 |
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Honey. One of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard. The others? The following of a masterpiece, where echoes of 60's, 70's garage psychadelia reverb high on our ears.
Revolution. To me the only band that had got the same uprising feeling with guitars and percussion is Hawkwind. They rock like Hawkwind and they can be beautiful like Velvet Underground, Love or Jesus And Mary Chain. Rock on, keep on, silence you may rest in peace. |
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Great
Submitted on: 2006-06-27 |
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| In my opinion this is not only their masterpiece but it is also a personal top 20 favourite. They never did anything better before or after. I saw them at the Neew Morning in 80-something and was completely blown away. Seeing them play Suicide live for what seemed like 30 minutes was quite something. |
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 Excellent Album
Submitted on: 2002-08-14 |
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| This is the second of the Spacemen 3 discs I picked up and I like it even better than the first. The first was The Perfect Prescription, which is unbelievable. Both albums are phenomenal choices for everything from late-night listening to all-out rockin'. The tracks range from dreamy psychedelic wanderings (Honey, How Does It Feel, So Hot) to feedback-laden assaults (Suicide, Revolution). I've seen a lot of comparisons to the Velvet Underground in the reviews and I have to agree. It's got a very British garage-band minimalistic sound mixed in with incredible post-production and downright guitar genius. I'm a huge fan of Spiritualized and I am totally enjoying digging into the band's roots. I've also been checking out the other post-Spacemen outfits: Reverberation, Spectrum/E.A.R., Sonic Boom, and have liked all of it so far. This album is definitely worth buying. |
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