I've been doing a lot of Spacemen 3 related posts over the past few weeks/months. For some reason something has clicked back into place and their music (and that of the post Spacemen 3 bands, especially Sonic Boom's Spectrum) makes perfect sense currently and is right where my head is at. They are/were also very good at the long song, two chords repeated blissfully for as long as you like, a kind of focused looseness.
The Perfect Prescription was Spacemen 3's second album, released in 1987 The album was supposed to replicate a drug trip, from start to finish, the highs and lows. This double track is the peak, the orchestral Ecstasy Symphony part ebbing into a cover of Red Krayola's Transparent Radiation, mid 60s DIY psychedelia from Texas (recorded and released in 1967 and with fellow traveller Roky Erickson on harmonica).
Ecstasy Symphony/Transparent Radiation (Flashback)
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ReplyDeleteSeems we are getting the same spam SA.
ReplyDeleteOnce you start down the Spacemen 3 rabbit hole you can be there for quite a while
Still burrowing.
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