Album

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

1988 · Rock

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Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3

Playing With Fire is an Alt/Indie album by Spacemen 3, originally released in 1988. On Gatefold: 55 pressings tracked, owned by 14 collectors.

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<i>Playing With Fire</i> represents the apotheosis of Spacemen 3. “Revolution” brought a career of fuzz-infested climaxes to its conclusion, while “Honey” and “I Believe It” unified Pete Kember’s drone-rock obsession with Jason Pierce’s passion for gospel music. “Lord Can You Hear Me” and “May the Circle Be Unbroken” are sublime examples of the gift this band of British druggies had for refashioning gospel in its own image, but the real songwriting growth was embodied in Pierce’s “So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears).” Sad and disarmingly sensual, the song finds Spacemen 3 transcending their influences and inhabiting the spirit of blues and soul music. A sprawling, melodramatic opus, <i>Playing With Fire</i> is the album Pete Kember and Jason Pierce had been reaching for since Spacemen 3’s beginnings, and its completion signaled not only the pinnacle of the band’s vision, but the beginning of two divergent musical paths for the its twin masterminds.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Honey3:01
  2. 2Come Down Softly To My Soul3:46
  3. 3How Does It Feel?7:58
  4. 4I Believe It3:19
  5. 5Revolution5:57
  6. 6Let Me Down Gently4:29
  7. 7So Hot (Wash Away All Of My Tears)2:38
  8. 8Suicide11:03
  9. 9Lord Can You Hear Me?4:33
  10. 10Suicide (Live)12:26
  11. 11Repeater (How Does It Feel?) (Live)5:28

Sound DNA

  • Alt/Indie
  • Indie Rock
  • fuzzy
  • hypnotic
  • psychedelic

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Mixed at VHF Sound Centre Rugby
Released in February 1989.

Credits

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Performers

  • Jason PierceVOCALS, GUITAR VOCALS, GUITAR , GUITAR
  • Josephine WiggsCELLO
  • Michael BenthamVIOLIN
  • Sonic BoomVOCALS, GUITAR , ORGAN VOCALS, GUITAR , GUITAR , GUITAR VOCALS, GUITAR , GUITAR , ORGAN
  • Will CarruthersBASS

14 collectors on Gatefold own this · 55 pressings tracked on Gatefold

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