Recurring

Spacemen 3 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Space Age Recordings
• ASIN: B0002YCVQ0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,159 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)

2. Just to See You Smile [Orchestral Mix]

3. I Love You

4. Set Me Free/I've Got the Key

5. Set Me Free (Reprise)

6. Why Couldn't I See

7. Just to See You Smile [Instrumental]

8. When Tomorrow Hits

9. Feel So Sad (Reprise)

10. Hypnotized

11. Sometimes

12. Feelin' Just Fine (Head Full of Shit)

13. Billy Whizz/Blue I

14. Drive/Feel So Sad

15. Feelin' Just Fine [Alternative Mix]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice to see it becoming more widely available, May 10, 2006

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Joshua B. Fisher "jfishernc" (Charlotte) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recurring (Audio CD)

Probably the best Spacemen 3 album if you want to understand what was happening when Spiritualized came into being. Half of the album belongs to J. Spaceman (Pierce) and the other half to Sonic Boom (Kember) with a bit of blending mid-way through. And its all amazing because you can see the beginnings of new sounds moving toward Spiritualized/Spectrum respectively as well as resonances from earlier days.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars so right, September 17, 2005

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Michael Isaac (hillsboro, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recurring (Audio CD)

when i first put on this cd i noticed immediately that this sounded different then the spacemen 3 i knew, much more electronic, atleast the first half of the cd. come to find out the first half of the cd was mostly done by pete kember (aka sonic boom), and the second by jason peirce, due to tensions in the band, resulting in their split. some tracks that blew me away on here were Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here), I Love You, and Why Couldn't I See. this cd is good stuff, though not really spacemen 3, more like spectrum/spiritualized i guess, still so right.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jason's half is a little weak--Sonic's half is brilliant, July 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Recurring (Audio CD)

This, Spacemen 3's 4th & final album, is basically a Spacemen 3 album only in name. All of Sonic's tracks are bunched together, followed by Jason's bunch. Jason's songs are more promising than anything else, however, the blueprint that he has here is what he totally perfected on Spiritualized's "Lazer Guided Melodies" album shortly after. Sonic's songs however are all sensational. Containing the upbeat "Big City", "Why Couldn't I See", "I Love You", "Just To See You Smile", & "Set Me Free/ I Got The Key", you simply couldn't ask for a better album from Sonic. His songs are incredibly fun, blissful, & lovely. Some of the lyrics, like "Oh honey, oh you look so sweet/ oh baby, oh you look so neat" from "Set Me Free/ I Got The Key" may seem unbearably cheesy, however, the way he wisely combines these lines with an adorable ringing 12-string acoustic guitar melody illustrates how he knows exactly what he is doing. The effect it totally gleeful & transcendant. "Why Couldn't I See" has some great beautifully sad lyrics like, "You made me feel that I was just what you needed/ Then you turned 'round & said, "Why don't we leave it/ Why couldn't I see". The album is a triumph for Sonic. Try to get the U.K. version of this CD, since it contains about 24 more minutes of material. However, don't think you should pass on the 11 track U.S. release if you should see it, containing it has all the tracks mentioned ("Big City" from the U.S. release is featured as "Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here" on the U.K. version, & it's nearly 11 minutes long, compared to the 5 minute edit on the U.S. one), & you can live without most of the extras. The previously mentioned tracks by Sonic (plus the explosive Mudhoney cover "When Tomorrow Hits") form the heart of the album. Get "Recurring" in any form that you can. Sonic's songs: 5 stars+.