Spacemen 3 - classic or unutterably shite?

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

the taking drugs sleeve is awesome. RIP man.

RIP

this is one of the worst thread titles on ilx

"This is indeed a disturbing universe."

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/09/27/the-simpsons-spacemen-3-music/

indeed

Happy 50th birthday to both Sonic & Jason today!

Back when I was 16, Playing With Fire was so ace. Happy birthday degenerates!

wow, they both made it to 50. happy birthday boys.

incredible!

I consider myself privileged to have met both, and they were charming. They remain icons. I wish them both many more birthdays and good health.

Happy birthday to my favourite band I never listen to any more.

How are they getting on with each other these days? What are the chances of a S3 reunion?

At the benefit "reunion" a couple of years ago, onstage they had literally every person who has ever been in Spacemen 3 for more than a week, with the noted exception of Jason. (Photos are on a phone that has since died, tho.) So sources point to... no.

For All The Fucked-Up Semicentennarians Of This World We Give You A Cake

Quinquagenarians!

Happy birthday 😍

The semi-legitimate rumor is that Coachella and Primavera have been racing each other as to who can offer up the most $ for a S3 reunion, but the response has solidly been laughter and shrugs.

That only increases my respect for them TBH.

Yeah this will never happen imo

Wouldn't Europe give way more of a shit abt an S3 reunion than west-coast US would?

Yeah, I wouldn't mind betting ATP have offered them £££.

Didn't know Jason was on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jspaceman3/

http://spiritualized.band/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12878&sid=d591c3a1db501e5550c6d370577c4f13#p132432

read Sonic Boom's post

wtf?

Hasn't Space Age been reissuing stuff of theirs for years?

and wasn't Sonic involved in the double-CD Forged Prescriptions (which I have and is awesome...?) Could've sworn he wrote the liners.

Note the followup:

My 'involvement' was doing artwork & mastering on either my own , Spectrum or Spacemen 3....

Gerald palmer has always been 100% space age owner .

Will has a new book coming out this year:
http://www.lebowski.agency/will-carruthers/

Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands tells the story of one of the most influential, revered and ultimately demented British bands of the 1980s, Spacemen 3. In classic rock n roll style they split up on the brink of their major breakthrough.

As the decade turned sour and acid house hit the news, Rugby's finest imploded spectacularly, with Jason Pierce (aka Jason Spaceman) and Pete Kember (aka Sonic Boom) going their separate ways. Here, Will Carruthers tells the whole sorry story and the segue into Spirtualized in one of the funniest and most memorable memoirs committed to the page.