Spacemen 3

[crackers]

damn, somebody stole my copy and i've been trying to find one since the late 1990s.

[olyclimber]

If you're so desperate that you are willing to fork over cash, then you can get it here:

 

http://www.musicstack.com/show.cgi?find=Spacemen+3

[Off_White]

I've got "Playing with Fire." PM me your address and I'll burn you a copy.

[Dru]

Didnt the guy from Spiritualized use to be in Spacemen 3? I used to have the album with all the 3's on the cover but it got left in Josh one New Years.

[olyclimber]

(from wiki)

Spacemen 3 were an English space rock band who formed in 1984 and whose career spanned from the post-punk to Acid House eras. Jason Pierce and Peter Kember (Pierce sometimes credited as J. Spaceman and Kember usually known as Sonic Boom) formed the group in Rugby, Warwickshire and began touring, finally recording their first album in 1986 on Glass Records. Sound Of Confusion was not successful commercially but it attracted a loyal fanbase; its follow-up, The Perfect Prescription, expanded the group's core of fans and is generally considered their masterpiece.

 

In 1989 Playing With Fire, which expanded on the psychedelic and drone themes of the earlier albums, was released. Its second single, Revolution, reached #1 on the UK indie charts. But soon after, a combination of personnel changes, drug problems and inter-band tension (especially between Kember and Pierce) began to break the band apart. Recurring, released in 1991 was their last proper album, though its recording reflected the split between Pierce and Kember as each recorded their own side of the album in different studios, with a cover of Mudhoney's 'When Tomorrow Hits' to separate them . It was their most popular release, but by its release Kember and Pierce had already formed new bands, Spectrum and Spiritualized, respectively. The final conflict that contributed to the split was Pierce's decision to release a cover of The Troggs' 'Any Way That You Want Me', as the first Spiritualized single, which Kember had been wanting to cover for years.

 

Since the break up there have been a stream of semi-legitimate albums, early demos and live recordings, many of which have been issued by the Kember-affiliated Space Age Recordings. Highlights include Dreamweapon: An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music, a 45 minute drone piece performed in front of a live audience, Forged Prescriptions, a collection of Perfect Prescription demos and alternate versions (Kember claims in the liner notes that the alternate versions reproduce the layers of guitars they recorded but later removed because they felt they'd never be able to reproduce them live), and the band's singles compilation, which is perhaps the best introduction to the breadth of their work.

 

In 1998, a tribute album was released on Rocket Girl, which included tracks by Mogwai and Low. Kember's Spectrum has toured under the banner 'Songs The Spacemen Taught Us', while Pierce routinely includes their songs in his Spiritualized set. In 2004, US journalist Erik Morse published his account of the band's life and work, Dreamweapon.

[Winter]

 

These guys kicked ass.

[Toast]

 

Yeah, that' the tribute album, good stuff, covers of their hits (if you can call them that.) You dug deep Oly

[Johnny_Tuff]

The dude front and center looks eerily like Jason Kehl.

 

[Toast]

Didnt the guy from Spiritualized use to be in Spacemen 3? I used to have the album with all the 3's on the cover but it got left in Josh one New Years.

 

I have that one

[Peter_Puget]

This one's good too.

[Squid]

well petey, I guess I don't wanna ask about your record collection

[olyclimber]

Petey has been out of town all week...

[Peter_Puget]

Oh come on........

[olyclimber]

not so ast...where are you going?

[Peter_Puget]

..gonna go clean out my microwave

[Squid]

I can taste the excitement.

[Johnny_Tuff]

I can taste the excrement.

 

Now that is foul.

[Peter_Puget]

and here I thought it was Devine.

[cj001f]

and here I thought it was Devine.

I thought Harris Glen Milstead was in your bedroom?

[Squid]

Hot, carl.

[Johnny_Tuff]

Listen to the shit coming out of your mouth!

[olyclimber]

thanks!