Spacemen 3 - classic or unutterably shite?

Recurring, probaby their most accessible record, is also very underrated

Recurring, probaby their most accessible record, is also very underrated

Especially the super-long UK CD version!

I'm all about forged prescriptions

those are the best kind

forged prescriptions 2XCD is amazing

Playing With Fire >> Recurring. Could never be arsed with the rest. These always sounded fantastic on the walkman while still e'd or phetted up from the night before and some of Pierce's best ever songs on these.

bubblegum and rollercoasters and jesus lyrics are secretly about drugs too. this is my theory, and mine alone. you may disagree, but it is true i tell you.

music itself is a drug because it is a thing that has a chemical effect on your brain that causes you to feel things. drugs, my high school english teacher told me, just unlock the doors -- the doors of PERCEPTION -- that have always been there, only they've been locked. all lyrics are about drugs, because EVERYTHING is drugs.

drugs.

no that is a bad theory. most things are not drugs. the things spacemen 3 sing about, on the other hand, are drugs. this is how u can tell the difference.

i mean, i learned this in school though there were grades

the answer to the thread though is classic i don't understand why people wouldn't like droney psychadelic lazily-sung music like this. it's like drugs.

there is nothing lazy about this music.

"lazily sung" was just descriptive, not a value judgement, i just meant that the singer sounds chill and not worked up for the most part on perfect prescription.

xp well, it feels lazy, esp c perfect script. or it always has to me.

Do you like drugs?
Have you ever felt alone?
Do you still believe in love?

well me too

I love drugs so much i married drugs

drugs have been a harsh mistress for me. but then again, that's what i like about her.

sorry, that was a stupid joke.

I decided to get stoned and listen to Forged Prescrips and "Walking with Jesus" is playing and I am having *such a moment* and it's making me giggle

there is nothing lazy about this music.

A point that's often lost when talking about them. As easy as it is to dismiss them as hazy druggie fucks, the intensity to the sound is tremendous. "Dreamweapon" doesn't put me to sleep at all - it's too intense and I get caught up in it. The only other art that's induced a similar reaction is going to La Monte Young's Dream House or watching Sistiaga's experimental films.

just picked up "taking drugs to make music to take drugs to" despite years of misgivings about sound quality. hey they're demos right?

i'm an idiot! this is amazing!

Always been my favorite.

better than sound of comfusion, imo

yes, it is!

Yeah, it's excellent. Glad you finally got it!

Yes it is!

one of their best (controversial opinion)

I hope everyone has heard this bcz it is their best track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMqpxHY2nFs

Xgau's great one-liner: Stooges for Airports

I like em all the same

fxxxgau

actually if that's a sly eno reference i like it

That's a pretty good line.

i'm an idiot! this is amazing!

This is the reaction I've been having to these guys for the past few years. One day I decided to get Forged Prescriptions and I've been converted ever since.

xgau otm, but it's hardly a slam

well i was not kidding when i said imo GOAT

reading "stooges for airports" as a slam requires one to think the stooges and/or music for airports is drivel

and even if you believe such you must admit the successful synthesis of those binaries is a magic trick worth lauding

i took it to mean a polite, wallpaper-y version of the stooges ... didn;t really think of the possible music for airports reference until later

though for all their minimalism i can't hear spacemen as "ambient" ... though obviously later sonic boom did a ton of straight-up ambient music

may be some conflation of drone/ambient going on there

which is maybe another way of saying the stooges did stooges for airports when they made "we will fall"

Now I am envisioning a will-never-happen S3 version of We Will Fall which would obv be one of the greatest things ever,

one of my fave summertime jams, perfect for a pool float, also pretty ambient imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWrF2xkUPA

Jugando con fuego is a Spacemen 3/Spectrum/Spiritualized tribute album from Central & South America.

It's pretty great - scratch that, it's outstanding. Get it...

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a0272785327_2.jpg

you had me at free download

Loving this. I've only listened to Loshing touch with my Mind and How you Satisfy Me and I love this. Thanks!

good stuff, thanks

Very sad news per Elvis T. on Twitter: "Word in that Natty Brooker, Spacemen 3 drummer and artist passed away after a long battle with cancer."

Oh no. That sucks.

Some art of his you might recognize

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Spacemen_3_-_Recurring.jpg

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3s9i4RB6x1qaxunto1_500.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VUom765tKLs/TTLdbKiz0II/AAAAAAAAA6Q/o2AF9N8pAXc/s1600/Anywayblog.jpg