Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire CD


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For the majority of its six-year career, of which 1988's PLAYING WITH FIRE is the approximate midpoint, the British trio Spacemen 3 pursued its sound-for-sound's-sake obsessions in near-total oblivion. It turns out, however, that the band was merely a decade or so ahead of its time. Spacemen 3 featured guitarists/keyboardists Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember and Jason "Spaceman" Pierce, who later formed Spectrum and Spiritualized, respectively. The commercially and critically successful '90s work of these two sonic iconoclasts earned much more interest than the material of Spacemen 3 did during its 1985-1991 lifespan.

The band's third full-length studio album, PLAYING WITH FIRE finds the band moving beyond its earlier, somewhat more song-oriented work into more abstract and improvisational areas. The highlight is the corrosive "Suicide," one of the band's most visceral works. The Taang! CD contains four extra live tracks, including a radically different version of "Suicide," from a 1989 EP.

Producers: Jason Pierce, Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember.

Spacemen 3: Jason, Sonic Boom (vocals, guitar); William Carruthers (bass guitar).

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The Wire (8/99, p.57) - "...their biggest album at the time....Sonic Boom's avant aesthetic tempered {jason] Pierce's tendency towards drippy songforms, and the latter had a strong line in beautiful, melancholy melodies and lyrics..."
Mojo (Publisher) (7/99, p.116) - "...[Spacemen 3] at their most confidently minimal and succinct....plenty of nape-tingling moments..."

Playing With Fire Music

List Price	$21.97 (You save $2.18)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Alternative
Label	United States of Distribution
Orig Year	1989
All Time Product Rank	91,628
CD Universe Part number	6107520
Catalog number	11
Discs	2
Release Date	Sep 23, 2003
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Recording Time	64 minutes
Personnel	Jason William Carruthers - bass guitar Sonic Boom - vocals, guitar

Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire Songs

	Trk	Song	Time	Price
	1	Honey See All 2
	2	Come Down Softly to My Soul See All 2
	3	How Does It Feel? See All 2
	4	I Believe It See All 4
	5	Revolution See All 8
	6	Let Me Down Gently See All 2
	7	So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears) See All 2
	8	Suicide See All 7
	9	Lord Can You Hear Me? * See All 5	4:34		(From different album)
	10	Suicide See All 7
	11	Repeater (How Does It Feel?) See All 5 Live
	12	Che'
	13	May The Circle Be Unbroken
Disc 2
	1	Honey See All 2
	2	Let Me Don't Gently
	3	How Does It Feel? See All 2
	4	Suicide See All 7
	5	Lord Can Youhere Me?
	6	I Believe It See All 4
	7	Che
	8	Any Way That You Want Me
	9	Girl On Fire
(*) MP3 for this song is from a different CD. Listen to the sound sample to be sure this is the version you're looking for.

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