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Revolution !
NOT CRAP !

Sebastian J. wrote:Revolution !
NOT CRAP !

After several years of wanting to cover this song, I finally did. I think it sounds OK.

Possibly even OK enough to post, so yinz can laugh at my "singing".

burun wrote:

Sebastian J. wrote:Revolution !
NOT CRAP !

After several years of wanting to cover this song, I finally did. I think it sounds OK.

Possibly even OK enough to post, so yinz can laugh at my "singing".

looking forward to it.

I just found this this morning. I haven't listened to any of them yet.

Something that you may like
Mudhoney doing Spacemen 3's Revolution (Check Mark Arm's sarcastic lyrics )
http://www.buddyhead.com/mp3blog/Mudhon ... lution.mp3

Spacemen 3 doing Mudhoney's When Tomorrow Hits

http://www.buddyhead.com/mp3blog/Spacem ... owHits.mp3

They had crap moments, but I do love this band.

I also agree that their late stuff is underapreciated.
And that "Taking Drugs(etc)" is a great name for the compilation.

For loud, repetitive, drone rock, I think Loop is the top band.
For those interested, check out the song "Black Sun" from the record Fade Out. It sounds like early Flaming Lips meets Spacemen 3.
If you like that song, press on. If not, no need to listen to anything else.

All hail the Rugby Sound.

-A

Sebastian J. wrote:Something that you may like
Mudhoney doing Spacemen 3's Revolution (Check Mark Arm's sarcastic lyrics )
http://www.buddyhead.com/mp3blog/Mudhon ... lution.mp3

Spacemen 3 doing Mudhoney's When Tomorrow Hits

http://www.buddyhead.com/mp3blog/Spacem ... owHits.mp3

Cheers Sebastian j. I'd never heard this single. Took a while to download but worth it. Nice one x

= )

Even less Crap, or more Not Crap, than the Jesus and Mary Chain, who were maybe doing the cartoon version of a similar vein to the one(s) S3 were working. Spacemen 3 can get kind of boring to me occasionally but when the time is right there's nothing better. For me their two best moments were covers ("Rollercoaster," "Transparent Radiation"), but this is not problematic. Overall a powerful, original, and very fucked-up take on an array of great influences.

I should look into that Loop stuff. Somebody kept telling me about A Gilded Eternity when it came out but I couldn't be bothered. Then again, as an indication of how with-it I was w/r/t early-90s Britrock, I couldn't be bothered to see My Bloody Valentine, for which omission I am still retroactively mad at myself.

I was a massive Loop fan when I was seventeen / eighteen, along with my friend Chris. Our older, wiser, cooler friend Welsh Tim always said to me that Spacemen 3 were much better, but I never checked them out. The first record that Chris and I heard by that party was Sonic Boom's Spectrum album, which is really minimal and a far cry from anything I'd heard Loop do. I went with Loop and mourned their passing.

Only later did I find out about what actually happened. That Josh from Loop was working for Glass records who S3 initially signed with, and while they sat in Rugby getting no attention, he formed a band in London ripping them off directly and - London being London - got the credit. The reality came through though and S3 eventually got the credit they deserved.

I saw Loop a couple of times back then and they were powerful gigs, but I'd give up either of those shows for a Spacemen 3 gig, without question. My Loop collection is long gone and I'm not that bothered about getting it back. But I'm all over Spacemen 3 like a cheap suit. I think Loop got away with murder, to be honest. A lot of it was to do with them having a very calculated image. I remember Jonathan King saying in the Sun that people should stop paying attention to the Housemartins (overtly left-wing political guitar pop) and listen to Loop instead. Quite disturbing, that.

I'm looking forward to Adam CR's Loop tribute band though.

But really though. Spacemen 3. Yes.

I'm listening to "The Perfect Prescription" right now for the first time. It is blowing my mind. "Ode To Street Hassle" is genius - this is the right way to use a classic song and make it your own.