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Spacemen 3 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 21, 1994)
• Original Release Date: November 30, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bomp Records
• ASIN: B000003JG6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,170 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #61 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative

Track Listings

1. The Sound Of Confusion

2. 2:35 (Version 1)

3. Losing Touch With My Mind

4. Amen

5. That's Just Fine (With Vocal)

6. Come Down Easy

7. Mary Anne

8. Feel So Good

9. 2:35 (Feedback Version)

10. Hey Man

11. It's Alright

12. 2:35 (Version 2)

13. Things'll Never Be The Same

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The sound of liftoff, May 9, 2005

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J. Rossi (Downers Grove, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to (Audio CD)

I've had this album for years, but I just realized I'd never reviewed it, so...

This is the rawest Spacemen 3 ever sounded. You've heard the phrase garage-rock bandied about for a couple years now, but nothing this century (or last) represets the implied scuzz and noise of such a term better than this album.

At times during their career Spacemen 3 were more propulsive (the various incarnations of the Performance album), more nakedly emotional (the soft-focus balladry of Playing with Fire) and more experimental (Dreamweapon), but they were never this raw or aggressive (save 'Feel So Good,' a lazy stoned Sunday crawl) on album.

'The Sound of Confusion' sounds like it's about to fall apart at any minute; all three versions of '2:35' trump Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3 idols Suicide in terms of gritty, urban drug apathy; 'Losing Touch With My Mind' is looser than a women drunk on gin; 'Amen' and 'Hey Man' each sound just steps away from salvation and redemption.

While 'Recurring' is perhaps my favorite Spacemen 3 album (despite the fact that it is basically two separate solo EPs), TDTMMTTDT best encapsulates the definitive Spacemen 3 ethos and for this it is absolutely essential. Buy this album wherever and however you can.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get high and Come down with the 3, February 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to (Audio CD)

If there was ever a sound that encapsulated drug-induced mind-expanding, this would be it. This album showcases the Spacemen 3 in their earliest form. Showers of guitar fuzz on Sound of Confusion, 2:35, and Losing Touch with my Mind serve a loftier purpose than just making noise. This music is a statement rather than a passtime. The lyrics tell the stories of addicts and preach to the children all that is good with what "the man" says is bad. This album is surely more important than the No Doubt your sister listens to.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album, December 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to (Audio CD)

They sound really good on this disc, which is a collection of demos that were relased after the demise of the band, or so I read somewhere. The liner notes provide a most interesting synopsis on the life and times of what I think is Britain's most influential band from the 80's. Yes, I have heard of the Smiths, but those musical Gods can't hold a candle to these fun and creative stoners. They produced some great guitar-driven drug rock and some mellow strung-out rock as well, and great samples of their work sits here on this very incredible album. This is a really good place for someone new to this band to start. If I only owned five CDs, this would definately be one of them.