Best Spacemen 3 Album (POLL Ends 4th May)

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Shakey are you doing a best Spiritualized poll then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure that's a foregone conclusion judging from the spinoff thread, but I suppose we could.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link

But with all these threads people talk up some albums but then one no one mentions runs away with it. And the canonical choice doesn't always win either.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link

The demo version of Losing Touch with My Mind on Taking Drugs SLAYS the Sound of Confusion one. Taking Drugs is my personal favorite.

― Trip Maker, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Do it,Shakey! (and remember for it to finish next friday not tomorrow hehehe)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Perfect Prescription for me.

― kaliflwr, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Not Forged Prescriptions?
(in your face shakey!)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 28 April 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link

I only have (heard) the present continuous albums: Playing, Recurring and Taking. Of those, I think I love Recurring the most. Though the way Taking came to me (through the shuffle function on th'ipod which kept going back to the album. and me checking -what's this- the lcd each time a song came by) nearly convinced me to choose that one...

As for Recurring - I mostly only listen to the first half. C-lassic. Love the slowed down i-wanna-be-your-dog-riff on "when tomorrow hits". And starting a record with such a great sucking-you-in song as "big city" - hmmmmm

― willem, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Bumped because it fell of page.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link

1st half of recurring is great.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Kaliflwr!!!! you're not allowed to vote, you're a Loop fan! :-P

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:55 (sixteen years ago) link

So whens the best Loop poll? ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link

When Kaliflwr comes back and starts posting permanently.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link

why no love for the second half of Recurring?!? Hypnotized is great! So is Feel So Sad...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Recurring makes me sad because it is the sound of my favourite band ever breaking up in front of me, on record.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link

I mean, I got it again a few years ago, and when I listened to it, I do love it. But at the time, it was just so mingled with sadness.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link

iu can only listen to sound of confusion as a whole

― Zeno, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Recurring is good tho, i do like the 2nd side, honest. I have the vinyl and don't have all the extra tracks (i do now on mp3).
How many times did you see them live, Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link

bump

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link

What was the 1st SP3 album everyone heard?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link

why no love for the second half of Recurring?!? Hypnotized is great! So is Feel So Sad...

I first heard "Hypnotized" when it was released as a single, so I never really thought of it in the context of Recurring

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link

What was the 1st SP3 album everyone heard?

I picked up performance when it came out. I didn't get it at first. had to play it a lot but when it opened up, oh man.

― Edward III, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link

What was the 1st SP3 album everyone heard?

Playing With Fire.

I remember everyone talking about how Spz was "spacey" and "droney", but I'd only heard "Ladies and Gentlemen" and "Let it Come Down". I thought "well, this is pretty good, but it's not really spacey or droney... kind of a let down".

Then I saw "Playing With Fire" (in Borders, of all places...), picked it up, and thought "now this is what I was after all along!"

― novaheat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link

An intern at sp3's US distro palmed me the entire discography, so I heard everything in one day.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Lucky you.

Is there a clear favourite for the win here?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

i'd assume it's between playing with fire and the perfect prescription.

― Edward III, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link

At the time I dug them in this order: Sound of Confusion, Playing With Fire, Perfect Perscription, Recurring
But now I dig them in this order: Playing With Fire, Recurring, Perfect Perscription, Sound of Confusion

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link

sound of confusion is the least best of the main 4 albums - in fact, if you read the liner notes to the TAANG! reissue, the band basically calls it a way of clearing house for much, much better albums in the future - just a way to get their early stuff on record so they could stop playing it live and move forward

― stephen, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link

I actually listen to Sound Of Confusion a lot!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link

I've been listening to the scientists a lot this week and started to wonder if they influenced s3 (and loop). the scientists were based in london from '84 - '86.

not sure if the similarities are because they both applied suicide's throb-trance aesthetic to rock instrumentation, or if sonic boom was compulsively spinning blood red river. anybody know?

― Edward III, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah but Sound of Confusion has the Spacemen's perfect "anti-chord" 2/3rds of the way through "Little Doll"

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link

I voted for Dreamweapon

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link

A resounding result then. I thought it would've been closer with the top 2.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Looks like Elvis was the only vote for dreamweapon. 5 prefer spiritualized haha.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 4 May 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link

2 people clearly want to get beaten up by me (I don't see Chris actually beating up anyone, sorry!) hurrah, start the arse-whomping.

Kind of surprised by the gap between the top two myself.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 09:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Maybe Chris will finish them off after you're done with them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:03 (sixteen years ago) link

You clearly haven't met Chris. He is a big sugarpussy under all that fringe. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Well no, I haven't met him in real life.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link

I've been listening to the scientists a lot this week and started to wonder if they influenced s3 (and loop). the scientists were based in london from '84 - '86.

not sure if the similarities are because they both applied suicide's throb-trance aesthetic to rock instrumentation, or if sonic boom was compulsively spinning blood red river. anybody know?

They were definitely aware of them if not namechecked. The very last Darkside release was a cover of "When Fate Deals Its Mortal Blow"

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link

The live albums don't seem very popular.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:46 (sixteen years ago) link

I voted for Playing with Fire, but it was a tough choice between that and Performance. Performance was my first exposure to Spacemen 3 and I still think it's one of the best live albums I've ever heard. It manages to be loud and pummeling and completely beautiful at the same time. "Mary Anne" and "Come Together" are stunning. I think it was in the Stylus feature on the top 50 live records.

― Bill in Chicago, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:34 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't think I read that.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I went for the perfect prescription although playing with fire was the first album of theirs i got and i also love sound of confusion.

― leigh, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link

I think I bought perfect prescription and sound of confusion 1st, but that was after a friend loaned me Recurring.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Bump so the back at work people can see the results.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Except it's a bank holiday and no one was back at work in the UK.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Those poor live albums

― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 23 December 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link

They sort of suffer from iffy sound quality... Even "Europe 89," which is the best of the lot, doesn't really sound all that great.

This being ILM, though, I'm surprised that "Dreamweapon" crashed and burned like it did.

― novaheat, Sunday, 23 December 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Good point.

― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 23 December 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

I really, really like Perfect Prescription but c'mon guys Playing With Fire is their best record ok?

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 8 March 2010 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link

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it says total sum in six figures over 30 years.

― wmlynch, Friday, 21 April 2017 02:15 (six years ago) link

Well, yes, but that's besides the point. Do you seriously think that they're selling that many albums a year. We're not stupid here. 100,000/20=5000 albums sold per year, divided among the group, per their legal rights. Nobody is getting super rich here. Do you think that 5000 people bought Spacemen 3 albums last year. I freaking love the band, but I think that's batshit insane.

― dlp9001, Friday, 21 April 2017 02:16 (six years ago) link

One of the things I had to come to terms with is that ALL THE BANDS I LOVED IN THE 80S AND 90S MADE ESSENTIALLY NOTHING. Repeat, ESSENTIALLY NOTHING.

― dlp9001, Friday, 21 April 2017 02:18 (six years ago) link

One of the things I had to come to terms with is that ALL THE BANDS I LOVED IN THE 80S AND 90S MADE ESSENTIALLY NOTHING. Repeat, ESSENTIALLY NOTHING.

― dlp9001, Friday, 21 April 2017 02:19 (six years ago) link

The entire indie rock revolution was essentially people selling 1000 albums to the same 1000 dumbasses (like me). It's sort of crazy, in terms of the cultural impact vs. the financial impact.

― dlp9001, Friday, 21 April 2017 02:20 (six years ago) link

Palmer has Spacemen 3 trademarked all the way out to 2025 so this is going to be a very expensive and long cold war. Don't expect a box set, remasters, etc. anytime soon.
https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK00003098575

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 April 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link

I think the only Space Age product I have is the Forged Prescription comp, which has liner notes by Sonic and came out way before these allegations started getting slung around

― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 April 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link

~~comp~~reissue

― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 April 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link

ALL THE BANDS I LOVED IN THE 80S AND 90S MADE ESSENTIALLY NOTHING. Repeat, ESSENTIALLY NOTHING.

not sure who you loved but it's probably not accurate to say ALL. Most? Yeah, most indie rock bands didn't make much. I have no idea what S3 sales are/were/are going to be tbh.

― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 April 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link

I remember that Jason said to me that he made more money from the Volkswagen ad than any of LAG's sales.

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 April 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link

That's not so surprising, considering that Jason blew so much money on recording and packaging for those 90's SPZ albums.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 22 April 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link

Plus placement fees were way higher back then, in the days before indie rock was a music-for-commercials-n-films cottage industry

― Οὖτις, Saturday, 22 April 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link

ooookay http://pitchfork.com/news/73146-spacemen-3-take-down-request-asking-fans-not-to-buy-reissues/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 April 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link

one of the ex-members of the band who illegally authorised the license of a Spacemen 3 recording behind our back (to which the other band members were denied any royalties or advance)

any idea what this was? I did sort of do a double-take when I recently saw/heard some ad that used a song that *sampled* "Big City" but that probably isn't it.

― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 April 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link

er, not "Big City", "I Love You" from Recurring

― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 April 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link

maybe this?

https://www.discogs.com/Spacemen-3-Live-At-The-New-Morning-Geneva-Switzerland-18051989/release/8340890

read the second comment and follow the link.

― new noise, Friday, 28 April 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link

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