Best Spacemen 3 Album (POLL Ends 4th May)

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?

Those poor live albums

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.

Good point.

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

so tell me...how do you feel?

Have been listening to this band tons recently. No question about Playing w/ Fire being their best, but I think Dreamweapon is a very close second. I love "Repeater (How Does It Feel)" so much.

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.

Hey Sonic and I did the best we could!

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

Again... I did what I could

I love Live in Europe fwiw (the lp sounds better than the cd) but will forever stand by Taking Drugs as my desert island Spacemen.

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

^

I agree, just switch the names around first.

Also, what's with the words on the cover of Playing with Fire. Revolution, Suicide, Purity, and Love, and... Accuracy?

It's like they had settled on using exactly 5 edgy words, but couldn't come up with a good 5th, so they just tacked it on at the end. I mean, "accuracy", what's that even supposed to mean?

You have to be accurate when you take a morphine suppository and put it all the way inside...

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

Nope.

Also, what's with the words on the cover of Playing with Fire. Revolution, Suicide, Purity, and Love, and... Accuracy?

It's like they had settled on using exactly 5 edgy words, but couldn't come up with a good 5th, so they just tacked it on at the end. I mean, "accuracy", what's that even supposed to mean?

Nope. Behold the business card of Trans-Love Productions...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4418346127_c2eec17600.jpg

"Revolution" and "Suicide" are PWF song titles leaving "Love" as the last remaining word.

Elvis, did you work on Dreamweapon too? What's your fave live S3 album?

I forget if I voted in this poll. For me it's "Sound of Confusion" all the way, although "Forged Prescriptions" would be a close second if it had been included.

Xposts: That doesn't change the fact that accuracy still looks weird among those other words.

It doesn't. It looks freaking great. I used to have a black denim jacket with the 5 words from Playing With Fire painted on the back of it, in a circle. It looked cool as hell.

(oh, shut up, I was, like, 18 when that album came out. Painted denim jackets are amazingly cool when you're that age.)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tokUMMNBNww/Rx8F-UhApDI/AAAAAAAAAF0/en99JIU0Oec/S220/8.bmp

That is leather, not denim.

It doesn't. It looks freaking great. I used to have a black denim jacket with the 5 words from Playing With Fire painted on the back of it, in a circle. It looked cool as hell.

WLD WEAR (am 22yo for reference)

Elvis, did you work on Dreamweapon too? What's your fave live S3 album?

Didn't work on Dreamweapon. I wish there were better quality tapes from 1989 - especially with the short-lived 5 piece lineup.

It doesn't. It looks freaking great. I used to have a black denim jacket with the 5 words from Playing With Fire painted on the back of it, in a circle. It looked cool as hell.

Best. Jacket. Ever.

Personally, I'd prefer an all-over Recurring patterned one piece outfit myself.

Never in a hundred years would I have expected to see a thousand people dancing to "Revolution" http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=62457399 (well, OK it is the Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve)

I don't know why BTWS always play *that* one. It's like the *least* danceable Spacemen 3 track ever. But they always do that segue it into the Stooges trick which works really well.

A long time ago I signed up to do the Spacemen 3, etc. ballot poll here: ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

Before I dare show my head in that thread again (I'm way way late) I was thinking of making the poll just one big free-for-all: Top 20 albums from Sonic, Jason, Bassman, Will, Rugby, etc. Top 40 tracks. All proven by ILX science.

yes let's do it

yeah a free-for-all will work.

10 albums & 20 tracks?

20 is not enough (I say don't place a limit on track ballot numbers, personally)

don't really care, but prefer brutally restricted ballots

let's fight about it

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Everybody I know can be POLLED here: The Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Spiritualized, and descendants poll thread (ILM Artist Poll Thread #57)

I flip flop between PP and PWF. Both sounded better to me at the time than they do now; in fact there was a time when I would have placed them 1 & 2 in my top ten albums list. I took PWF to record club because something in The Haxan Cloak's Excavation reminded me of Suicide.

http://devonrecordclub.com/2015/09/16/spacemen-3-playing-with-fire-round-83-toms-selection/

this is surprising

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