Playing With Fire

I had high hopes for this when it started - I was anticipating a nice mixture of medium and low-tempo psychedelic rock, with a few softer songs and a few punchier toe-tappers. Sadly, instead I felt it descended largely into monotony. A lot of the songs felt repetitive, and I'm particularly irked that they indulged in not two, but three different versions of the longest and most repetitive track. Could have scraped a 3 if it wasn't for that, but as it's presented it can only be a 2.

This is a quote from their Spotify description that I thought fit really well. “Often the band would jam on one chord or play a series of songs, all in the same tempo and key.” Yeah. And it’s boring. It reminds me of one time my brother and I had a video gig to stream some music performances from a venue to Twitch. When we got there, the organizer were laying out mats on the ground and I thought to myself, “that’s kinda weird”. But when the performances started, they were all trip out, super slow drawn out sounds, similar to this but believe it or not, worse. The audience would come in, presumably already high, and then lay on the mats and look at the roof where there was a projection of just rotating circles. Yeah this music would have killed at that venue.

The album’s hazy and repetitive atmosphere sometimes reminded me of the mood associated with Trainspotting and 1990s British indie culture. However, the long, drifting repetition often felt too drawn-out for my taste, and I struggled to fully connect with the album beyond its atmosphere.

Seems like this droning, repetitive BS from Spiritualized and Spacemen 3 has an audience, it's not me though. Done now!

Boring

A mixed bag of an album, at points I could get into it but other times felt a bit over indulgent and borderline boring. Psychedelic rock is great n all but you need at least a hint of groove. 2.0/5.0 Best Song: Revolution

fand ich langweilig

MegaGähn

no lo escuché todo, está demasiado largo

Was alright. I like a nice chill, ambient, spacey album however a bit bold to say it’s in the top 1000 albums of all time.

This sounds like stoned people look when you're sober.

New Wave Trance Prog Rock (?) Some very long tracks (11-minute) with repetitive guitar strumming as the engine; to the point it almost became annoying at times with the heightened focus on it.

Holy boring Batman.

Fav- let me down gently 2/5

how did we go from the first three tracks to whatever the rrest of that was

Some albums are made for drugs and this one is it. Why would any sober person want to listen to the same synth rhythm for 7 minutes straight? There are some moments on this album that sound interesting and peak my interest, but it never lasted that long. It's has its qualities but it's definitely not for me. 4/10.

Not the best Spacemen 3 album and everything that’s good here was done much better by Spiritualized.

An album with grand intention that feels like it was created from pull-down menus.

Surprised I didn’t hate this but I didn’t like it

It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be (a low bar) but still boring af.

Droning on and on and on....

Maxbe somebody needs to point out to me what elements to listen to here, but I found this pretty unremarkable.

I really should pickup the book to see why some of these albums are on here. Suicide was definitely the best track, and a full album of that easily gets three stars, maybe four.

Interesting listen, has a very indie, young band in their basement sound.

This album was 75% droning synths with no direction or culmination. Shit recording an production. "Revolution" was a cool song but also one of the few actual songs on the record. An interesting one time listen, but not something you need to hear.

Does it shoegaze? I dunno. Kinda sleepy though. 2/5

No lo estoy odiando. Pueda que tenga mejor mood hoy. How does it feel qué carajos es eso, terrible. Una meditación, tiene elementos importantes pero no entiendo que es lo que tengo que escuchar que cambie mi vida. No entiendo nada. suicide y how does it feel en español mejoran pero wow, es transe aburrido

Kinda reminds me of the Jesus and Mary Chain if they took fent and were not very talented, yet I can't help but feel like there is something to it, so I will probably give it one more try.

This was very eclectic and there were some moments that we pensively melodic and alright to listen to, but most of it just sounded like flatly angry punk screaming or out-of-tune guitar arpeggios that really grated on my nerves. Two stars, and I think I'm being generous.

unremarkable

Just okay

Ett rätt okej sound. Förutom band som nämns som inspiratörer Velvet, suicide, stooges) tänker jag en del på Primal scream när hör dem. Vem som är inspiratör kontra inspirerad låter jag vara osagt.Det stora skillnaden är emellertid att där PS hela tiden kör framåt med gasen i botten står Spacemen mest och trampar vatten. De står där å glor på sina skor utan att låtarna kommer igång.

Det finns ett malande groove som jag kan uppskatta. Men det leder sällan någon stans. Låter betydligt äldre än det är.

I was genuinely excited to hear this, but it is most definitely not my vibe. It's a band that's been on quite a few bootleg shirts, so it caught my attention, but I can't say that I'm a particularly big psychedelic prog guy, nor am i shoegaze guy. technically, i suppose this is fine, but i was pretty checked out the entire album.

An exceptionally boring album.

Not for me

Not for me, Pat

Quite dull. Didn't hate it but didn't finish.

It wasn’t horrible. Actually better than I expected after reading some harsh reviews, but it never really grabbed my attention either. While it’s more enjoyable than some entries like Spy vs Spy, it’s not one I’d feel compelled to revisit.

This really didn’t do it for me. The bonus live tracks put this band in perspective for me. I could feel the energy working in that context, but in the studio it feels flatter. I understand that “Drone Rock” is meant to be a slow build, but so much of this just feels like a musical ellipsis. Just ideas hanging in the air that don’t develop or resolve enough to hold my interest.

Boring

c trop expérimental pour moi

4.5/10

2.0 - Weak

3/10

Apparently a good album is when you build up for 5 minutes and do nothing

I forgot that shoegaze can be really boring sometimes

This had so much potential but also Revolution is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard in my entire life

Not the worst I’ve heard but it’s pretty bad.

Kind of a slow peculiar one.

- The songs on this album feel unfinished to me - like there are the kernels of songs and the occasional interesting riff, but nothing evolved enough. - It sounds like they all just learned their instruments, which, I mean, we all have to start somewhere, but it's not very interesting, and it's definitely not something I need to listen to before I die... so much playing the same note over and over again. - This album feels like lazy ambient with really basic noodling that's not tight enough - it is like they keep falling just behind the rhythm. Seems like opioids would be the right drug class for this album... - The mix was weird, too - the rhythm section is either up front or it's the really basic guitar and bass that's way too forward. - The vocals feel pretty unremarkable here, so it's no wonder they're so back in the mix most of the time. - Lord Can You Hear Me is the song I like best on the album because it has a nice melody, but it still feels anaemic. It's much better when Jason Pierce did a cover with Spiritualized. Spiritualized shows a lot of growth, so this project definitely feels like the very beginning of something that eventually becomes good. - I'd rate it a 1.5.

Okay, kinda trippy and different. Quite like the uniqueness and keeping me in my toes a bit. The voiceovers are a little cheesy and off putting but okay enough for something different. And got more grating and annoying as it went on actually. Lost some of its charm and just became noise and weird voice overs 🤷🏻‍♂️ It’s such a weird hodgepodge of different styles and songs. Can’t really find my footing in it and even individually, nothing really stands out as appealing (2.5)

Was this interesting? Yes. Should it be on the list? No.

Didn’t really get it

The guitars in some parts secure it the second star. Pretty strong for a shoegaze-album. ;) 1,5

Irritant. DNF

Very Velvet Underground without the charm. Would say to it's credit that it's sat in an interesting spot between 60s drone-fuelled punk-adjacent psych-rock and new-age ambient that makes it somewhat ahead of it's time, but being early isn't always a good thing. There's a lot of potential here if the production was a lot tighter. It sounds good in parts, really, which makes the rest even more disappointing. In a way it's like somebody took the semi-improvisational style of jazz and tried it with electronic music, which fails as an experiment (especially compared to its contemporaries in psych-rock and electronic at the time). Fav tracks: Revolution, Suicide

Boring and uninteresting.

fail to see why this album is on here

Sometimes it sound pretty good but more often it sound like a record stutter and skipping.

Lyden av å sakte kveles i verdensrommet.

Hørt under matlaging. Ooooof, dette var stressende musikk. Ikke for meg.

Veldig laidback, vanskelig å bli engasjert. Shoegaze uten sjarm.

I just wish it was more interesting. 2/5

Quite enjoyed the first few chords but then it all fell apart.

Weird, and yet somehow, also boring?

Shoegaze, characterised by ethereal soundscapes, obscured vocals, and extensive use of guitar effects and distortion, often producing an immersive "wall of sound". Krach.

Not completely unlistenable, but not too far off. Harsh sounds and talk singing. BLAACH!

This started as a 4, interesting electro noise. Then it just dragged on and on and got more and more annoying, monotonous, blah. Ended at a 2 pushing toward 1. And I only listed to half of the extra hour of demos, remixes and 2 extra mixes of the 12 minute nonsense of Suicide.

High me from 30 years ago absolutely swears by this album. Me now finds it tedious. Maybe a 2.5 based on the cool experimental stuff, but could some of that have stayed in the studio? Plays like an electronica album. Maybe I'll smake weed again in my 70s and slap this back on.

Not good.

That was very boring, but also painfully long. Shoutouts to Suicide being on disk one not 1, not even 2, but THREE times. Sounds like the kind of music your stoner friend would give you and tell you it'll "Increase your chakras". I've skipped disk 2 just because it's a reprise of songs from disk 1. I don't want more.

For me this was just lifeless background music. Nothing pulled me in, nothing to connect to, like background music in a store I realize is not at all for me. I wonder around aimlessly for a while because someone else wanted to go in but I don't actually look at anything

Wow! That was BORING. I sort of respect the ambient shoegazey mood they’re going for but it just felt so uninspired. Some moments were nice in their chillness but overall, I’m not revisiting this. Other shoegaze bands are FAR more interesting than this.

Guys please I’m falling asleep

What was this?

A few fleeting moments of enjoyment scattered throughout, but overall l can safely say that I am not a this enjoyer.

1,8/5

Not my extended play cup of tea.

I'm a big shoegaze fan but this didn't work for me. Slightly too baggy.

My brain is too smooth ti appreciate it

It's pronounced spa-CHE-min... I thought I'd like this as I loved Jason Pierce's later work with Spiritualized, but this was just too abstract for me.

Trying to be too experimental for its own. I didn't dislike everything off it but I'll doubt I'll return to it ever

Didn’t mind a few tracks but majority seemed quite similar. Enjoyed the instrumentation as the use of electric guitar in this kind of electronica stuff is new to me and sounded good, but overall just didn’t amaze me.

You know that NOFX album ‘All Killer, No Filler’? This is the opposite. Lots of building and lead up but very little payoff makes it a very frustrating album to listen to.

Overall, this was a pretty meh album where nothing really happened, but it's alright for either having in the background and you're just chilling, or for playing in the background of a movie perhaps, but it would be a pretty serious movie, as not a lot happens in the songs.

Some pretty and good songs on this album but most of them had to little going on for me. Even slower songs can have something catchy to them.

im just pissed off im sorry

Len Houmous claims he had sex with 3 spacemen 1.7 9/9 Lord Can You Hear Me?

I liked this better than some of the others overall, but I didn’t finished the album and I rushed through some songs. Not really my cup of tea.

My rating distribution demands more 2-star ratings. “Playing With Fire” by Spacemen 3 is a good opportunity to improve in this respect, as it's simply too boring to be bad. I played it in the bathroom this morning, and every time after I couldn't hear it, e.g., because of my electric toothbrush, it sounded exactly the same as before. Wikipedia classifies this record as psychedelic rock, which isn't technically wrong, but for me it's ambient, but created with real instruments. Much ado about nothing, so to speak.

Didn’t feel like anything special

Interesting but nothing made me download a song and for that…twos company

Nothing stood out, background music at best

Não gostei, achei o som muito poluído.

I thought it was fine. But didn’t really amaze me and I was expecting myself to love it just based off reading about the album and the band. Meh

Wasn't as terrible as i was expecting. Pretty forgettable

Enough musicianship, I suppose, to get out of dreaded one-star territory, but let's please not do this again.

Hm. 2

too long, very ambient

3/10, audiophile slop

secondo me interessante ma non ho avuto modo di approfondire

Non ce l’ho fatta a sentirlo tutto

No es lo que yo escucho normalmente, la verdad esperaba mas, pero no es tan malo, no lo escucharía seguido pero mehh, hubo una canción que si me gustó pero lo mismo no la escucharía seguido

80s at least -too long but okay -sounds more modern lowkey -kinda like honey -sound seems very experimental definitely leaning more 90s which makes sense since it’s 89 -so much religious matter -actually like lord can you hear me -it was fine overall nothing great but nothing egregious

thought it was fine. the instrumentals were fairly repetitive- wish there were more lyrics

I only listened to the first side and had zero interest in the second

Some songs were 3.5 and some were 2’s for me. 2.5

this is complete nonsense

Wildly inconsistent

Highlight: Honey This album presents an odd mix- kinda shoegaze, part trance-like psych rock. I wonder if the band influenced The Dandy Warhols... Overall: 4/10

The wiki is paper-thin; likely why plucking individual nose hairs is more entertaining.

Built from droning, overdriven guitars, mantra-like percussion, and keyboards that stretch into blurred, glowing tones, with vocals floating in a detached half-murmur, this neo-psych album moves like wandering through a dim corridor guided by a flickering candle drawing you in looking curiouspy around until blindingly a cacophony of sound (e.g. track suicide) is turned on and I want to turn of the album.

This felt a little random. Weird, but hypnotic. Sort of what I needed on my Christmas Tesco shop. But also, no.

It stinks

I really like all the versions of "Suicide," but the rest of the album doesn't work as well for me. It's a bit disjointed and the production doesn't seem great. I may listen again, but I don't see myself coming back to this one often. Favorite track(s): see above

Was the one of the authors' cousins in Spacemen 3 or something?

I have not taken enough drugs to listen to this album that some guys took drugs to make for people to take drugs to.....ya know?

Eh…don’t think this is a must listen

I see the vision, but I do not hear the execution. The band was aiming for these airy, evocative, prolonged instrumentals that would turn guitars into atmospheres, and voices into characters. But sparse arrangements and flat performances leave a void of nothingness for the better part of the hour plus this thing putters on for. I feel like you can point to Spiritualized as a group that executed Spacemen 3's game plan to a great deal of success. What was a song like "Revolution" doing in the first third of this project? Unnecessarily noisy and harsh, taking me out of what little involvement I had with the albums wispy aura. "Suicide" was nice because it committed to an idea but then it went for way too long so it kinda ruined itself. "Lord Can You Hear Me" is a fair reason to JUST keep this project floating at a 2/5 stars. But man. Not by much, especially if you can endure disc 2

weird, boring and redundant.

Bit of a snooze fest, hope they’re better at being spacemen.

Not for me

A few okay tracks, but by the last few I was wondering how much longer til the damn album was over.

Ok

"how does it feel" drove me crazy- it made me feel annoyed. I liked the first 2 tracks though. revolution also kind of sucked- angry noise for no reason. suicide too like who decided minutes of synth was good- 11 freaking minutes. someone commented "good but largely irritating"- yes. the ones that arent noise are good but the rest is bad. 2.5/5

Standouts Revolution

странная музыка и названия. не ценю когда поют под нотами

Gear: SIMGOT SuperMix 4 Artwork: ⭕🎨⬜ Production: 🤏🥫🤷 Music: 👨‍🚒💦🔥 Rating: 👽(👽)/5

Don't have much to say - neither liked or disliked

Nakon što se konačno nešto desi podnošljivo je.

Quelques très rares moments intéressants intercalés dans des instrumentaux pénibles de 12 minutes.

Very meh

I have no issues with repetitive music, if anything. I actually enjoy it. I love Daft Punk, Air, The Prodigy, and other similar artists. But this one? I really tried to like this album. I even compared it to Daft Punk’s least-loved studio album, Human After All (‘Revolution’ kinda reminds me of ‘The Prime Time of Your Life’). But no matter how many times I listen, it just feels flat and boring to me. I admit, some are interesting, like Revolution (minus the vocals) and Suicide. Other than that, I will toss them in the fire pit.

C'mon. You're just taking the piss now. This is mind numbingly repetitive and without any redeeming quality.

Strange and very psychedelic. Has its ups and downs…

For a psychedelic album this is incredibly boring

Repetitive

Not very good.

eh

Acid? 2

I would need more time than I'm willing to spend to get to a place where I like this album.

If I was smoking the reefer or taking a lil mushroom while listening to this, I’d probably say this is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard. But at this moment in time? It’s meh.

Good for ambience, studying, or drugs.

Hadn’t heard of this group. I really wanted to like this offering but just had a hard time. Would go somewhere and then stop.

Uf, ok. Prvič po kar nekaj tednih dobim totalno neznanko. Do zdaj (prve dva, " Honey" in "Come Down Softly to My Soul"') zelo dreamy, sploh vokali so taki, mal odmevajoči, Tretji ("How Does It Feel") je insane, ker je isti ritem/isti del k se non stop ponavlja tko 8 minut. A how does it feel? K da me bo glihkar zmanjkal. Po pa kr naenkrat konc, brez nekega pravega konca? Ok, "Revolution" mi wiki obljublja, da bo shoegaze in zaenkrat je obetavno, da bo mal več se dogajal (wiki tud prav, da je band na splošno bil znan po tem, da ma minimal 'chord or tempo changes'). Yay za kitaro in bobne in dejansko stopnjevanje ritma na konc. Po pravic povedan, sm po tem hitrem prvem pogledu, k si zacahnam album in ošvrknem wiki, mislila, da mi bo album verjetn všeč. It's a bit boring. Hm, z veseljem ugotovim, da je "Suicide" predzadnji komad in sekundo kasneje z grozo, da je dolg 11 minut. Fakin repetitive droning. Fajn za razvoj glavobola. I guess ma naslov neko poanto. Zadnji komad ma tud vokale. In saksofon? Yay, konec albuma & konec mojega streaka of goodness.

Every song takes way too long to make a point, and any glimmer of enjoyment gets choked out by the drones. Gods, the drones. I don't have the patience for this shit, not today. I'm sorry spacemen, I just need some space, man.

I want to know who thinks this album is necessary to hear before you die. Why?

I thought I'd hate it. I didn't, but it also didn't leave any lasting mark. The same drum beat and keyboard droning would go on for what seemed like hours at a time. Occasionally there'd be a cool line or melody, but for the most part it was an uneventful, forgetful listen.

Revolution

Even though I’m only giving this album a 2, there is something intriguing about it. Especially for 1989. Probably definitely better enjoyed while high.

It wasn’t anything crazy. Very instrumentally driven. Sounded a bit electronic, and it wasn’t too bad. I didn’t really like it, so I wouldn’t listen to it again. That being said, it was an interesting experience

Too dragged out, monotonous and repetitive for my taste, atleast from my so far superficial listening.

Sleepy whisper electronica? Nah I’m good

Not into it. The Spotify link took me to an expanded edition that is 2-disc 2-hour. I only listened to the first 9 tracks, which is what the original included. And even that was a little hard to get through, in particular the 11-minute highly-repetitive track called "Suicide".

(Just reviewing the original 9 songs, and not the extended version, because I don't have the time to listening to 30+ minutes of different versions of "Suicide".) You know how, on some albums, the first song isn't like a full song, it's sort of a tone-setting amuse bouche that comes before the real songs start on track 2? Well, as near as I can tell, today's album is a double album of just those songs. Suicide is the notable exception, but it overstays its welcome by about 5 minutes. There are bits that are interesting on this album, but not enough.

Mostly space-y background music with the occasional dissonant rock track, all ...grounded isn't the right word. Maybe - all tracks inadequately layered with breath-y vocals. Sometimes repetitive. Mostly forgettable.

Never heard anything like this.

468/1001

Not for me. Maybe I just don't like shoegaze. Maybe I just don't do drugs. Maybe I can't stand the music droning on and on and on. Maybe this album was far too long. I don't know, but I didn't like it really one bit. But it wasn't repulsive, so that's a plus.

Yeah, I hated this. Pretentious and boring.

The good is mid but the bad is bad

Meh, the use of melodic sustain, synths, and a theramin is cool I just dont think I vibe with this however, was hard to hear the lyrics and out of the 2 cd deal I only enjoyed like 2 songs. Probably goes hard if you trippin out on psychedelics

Repetitive

Beyond the time space continuum

Unless your name is Frank Zappa don’t try to give me 3 versions of the same 11 minute song on one album

Pretty ordinary - like Brian Jonestown Massacre - but nowhere near as good

Sleepy

Maybe the start of Noise Bands IMO

De neo-psychedelica van Jason Pierce en consorten zou ik beter moeten kunnen waarderen dan dat ik dat eigenlijk doe. De gospel-achtige insteek is best interessant en uniek, maar het lijkt ook nergens heen te gaan. Het heeft het monotone van shoegaze, maar dan zonder de extatische 'wall of sound', waardoor het eigenlijk best vaak saai is om aan te horen. In deze sectie van muziek heeft eigenlijk alleen dat ene album van Spritualized me weten te pakken tot de dag van vandaag. 5/10

Listening to this like “This sounds like that Spiritualized album but a tiny bit less corny and a tiny bit more dumb.” Imagine my face when I looked up Spaceman 3. I think the listening experience was 1.5, but I’ll round it up because of the lil laugh I got from making the connection.

Ehhh . . . I don't know. I only had the time to listen to this once. Definitely not enough time to really get into something like this, though it's hard to imagine it making it into my library on a permanent basis.

Maybe a 2.5. I didn't totally hate it, but there wasn't much interesting either.

Nothing music

very weird album

A steady drone of boredom. You must be way stoned to perceive any satisfaction from this album. A song starts, you expect it to build over the next 3-10 minutes, but it doesn't. Then you keep listening to see if it could get any better, but it doesn't. Then you fully expect some sonic release by the end of the song, but you finally realize you've been duped, you're left unfulfilled, and disappointed in yourself for wasting an hour of your life. Can't get it back BTW. 1 star for the fact they actually get this stuff recorded and 1 star for a few riff ideas that could be made into real songs.

Good background noise when working. If I listened to it actively I might have gone bananas.

Not really my thing. Too psychedelic, all the songs merged together and full album is 2 hours long

At first I was enjoying the chill and spacey vibe but it quickly got boring. The songs have very few changes in chords or dynamics.

Boring. For the best of the songs I simply just don't remember them, for the worst they actively started to annoy me. It's like it's too complicated for all the band members to actually play music at the same time so there's usually one member who just gets the same 4 beats and have to repeat them over and over for 11 minutes. Sometimes it even feels like one of the other band members get bored and try to do something more interesting but get shushed or something (they stop immediately) like on 'Suicide' the few times when the drummer tries to jump in Standouts Suicide Lord Can You Hear Me 2/5

Tolerable, not good though.

Mellodramatic, but not easy to listen to for long.

I thought this was an album of Kraftwerk out-takes. Pleasant, but not attention-grabbing.

The beginning of the record felt like it had something going with some cool synth sounds and guitar ambience. The ball got lost completely after a few songs, though, as it became much too uninteresting and eventless. Strong 2.

May the circle be unbroken was the only song I cared for

Really liked Lord can you hear me…otherwise, I thought this was a complete dud.

Too ambient for me right now, kinda background music GY!BE does it better

woof this kind of thing is not for active listening. some of it was pretty aight. may the circle be unbroken cover kinda crazy ngl.

Pish

Boring computer atmospheric

Revolution is a solid track, but overall it seems like the type of album that I would be told how great it is from someone living in a collective. Then they would get mad at me when I said it was boring.

This is like the opposite of reggae music but I think u need drugs to appreciate this album as much as the artist wanted you to. Me on a tiring bad Friday morning - not at all in the right mood for this. It was “cool” but not interesting

Just such a boring and uninspired album. Even the book doesn't give a good reason why it should be on the list...

Pretty, but it honestly put me to sleep. 2/5.

Sometimes I listen to music and think that I cannot imagine how anyone goes to a concert and listens to this for 2-3 hours straight and then I remember drugs.

Track 2 'Come Down Softly To My Soul' is very soft and gentle. I like this one a lot. Track 3 'How Does it Feel' is very slow, with the first two minutes being strange/psychedelic repetitive noises, perhaps reminiscent of something extra-terrestrial. The song continues to be very repetitive and have few lyrics until most of the way through. A lot of the songs on the album seem to follow a similar pattern. This album took me a really long time to get through.

There is an ode to Suicide (the band, if you haven't received that album yet in the list) on this album. I recommend listening to that album over this, the inspiration is much better.

Ehh

Wasn't for me. Too chaotic. Sounded a bit white noisy

what if the doors were lazy as shit

it's like all of the boring parts of Revolver without the fun ones

Didn't get anything out of this one. They've got some great influences but having a tough time hearing it in their music Rating: 1.7

Pretty forgettable. Nothing really interesting going on. 2/5 Won't listen again

Meh, has a couple of decent tracks (Revolution, Suicide, not really for me though.

From the name and album cover I was very much expecting a 90s dance act. Instead it was a sort of shoegazey album. Suicide was probably the most shoegaze of the lot and probably the only song that I was sort of onboard with. Mostly I found it a bit dull, it was trying to be all airy and spaced out a lot of the time and I wasn't keen.

I'm sure there's a right time and place for this. But work ain't it. It's too repetitive and uneventful. It is kinda like spiritualised but more shoegazey. Think it just didn't do it well enough to be interesting 2

I didn't hate it, but I did hate how long it was. What a stupid genre - Shoegaze. lol

If this challenge has taught me anything its that shoegaze fucking sucks. Its not music - ITS JUST NOISE!

No me gustó mucho este disco. Me pareció una experiencia disímil entre tema y tema. Siempre con una intención ambiental o de trance. Tiene momentos agradables (como los recursos de voz en off, o los momentos más ambientales/tranquilos). Sin embargo por mi experiencia de escucha, las diferencias entre duración de temas, efectos de distorsión inesperados y temas poco memorables, no puedo decir que haya sido de mi agrado.

Could have been worse. I kind of enjoyed one or two songs, but the rest were kind of too long and forgettable.

2/5

A little too mellow and out there / druggy

I can't actively hate this, but I also can't listen to it again or care to say even that much about it.

i WISH they were playing with fire. instead they were playing with sand and mud and other inert bland nothings. what da hell

this kind of dull, long, drone-y, electronic-y, shoegaze-y music is just not my thing. i don't want to yuck anyone's yum here but there is just nothing here that i'll ever want to come back to. sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ favorites: lord can you hear me, may the circle be unbroken

Out on these guys. One star for the synths.

very long experimental piece. Not for me

I'd say they were playing more with wet stick than actual fire ...

what is this?

Inoffensive but not for me.

Kinda boring and repetitive.

Was enjoying this until there were two 12 min almost identical songs with no words, and then I was waiting for it to end

Boring

The second listen wasn't as painful as the first (while driving, I had to shut it off ten minutes in for fear of falling asleep), but I still would never ever ever choose to play this. Maybe if I were tripping balls. But that's it.

Some songs were okay, some I skipped. 2 hours is too long for this album.

Slow, long and overindulgent.

It was interesting at first, but too long and it started to give me a headache.

This must be how real spacemen feel sometimes...bored to tears waiting for things to get interesting. But then something interesting DOES happen...and it's driven into the ground until it's no longer interesting.

Dazed and bemused.

2/5 Turhan hidastempoista omaan makuun.

Tylsää... Kyllähän tuon työmatkalla auton kajareista kuunteli, mutta taustamusiikiksi jää.

Ei kolahtanut oikeastaan ollenkaan. Hippirokkia kasatilta?

No johan taas oli...

Sopivaa taustamusiikkia, ei oikein herätä suuntaan tai toiseen tuntemuksia. Vähän outoja kappaleita. Ei tule uutta suosikki tästä pumpusta.

Hävyttömän pitkä levy tällaiselle avaruusmaalailulle. 3 biisiä olis riittäny.

What was the point of this album?

Ganske monotont og en prøvelse i starten. Har sine verdier og kvaliteter. Oppleves enkelte ganger vokalmessig som en blek kopi av Jim Morrison. Beste låt Suicide.

I guess I'm ok with some of this, but not enough to want to put it on, and most likely would probably take it off once it got past the first couple tracks. It goes on for a loonnng time. Probably a 1.5 for me.

Interesting album, but far too long 2/5

Good start but dragged on seemingly interminably. Instrumentals in just couldn’t get into that also never seems to end. Might listen to individual songs again but this two-hour double disc was a chore

Too long, too new-age goofy. Although I was a little surprised that it was produced in 1989 and not the 60's. Its certainly chill and quiet in places, and downright melancholic in others, sometimes giving you whiplash. Like they decided their soundscapes needed lyrics. This feels less like music as it does an experience, and boy oh boy I dont want to reflect on it

Noise

Started off strong but then got repetitive fast.

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, yeah I don't know about this one.

It's okay... really baffling why this is on the list though.

Sounded repetitive & dull but fine

Found this to be useful background music.

Boring. Very much background music but I did have to switch it off as it could not hold my attention.

Langweilig

I don’t know, I don’t smoke weed

Not for me

This album didn’t land for me at all, there was a lack of editing so even the parts I liked lasted too long. There were quite a few ideas and parts that I like but they did not come together for me at all

I have tried this band in the past and it never registered with me. Still isn’t

2 star

It's almost offensive that this album is called Playing With Fire. Revolution is the first track that actually has any grit or bop to it (five songs in!!!), and it still manages to drone on and bore. Why was How Does It Feel so long? Honestly, it feels like my time was being wasted. Can the song Suicide please end, my God. At the very least, what is here is at least pleasant, if excruciatingly boring, so it doesn't get a 1, but this album is tough.

This had some good ideas/sections, but they needed to be fleshed out because it mostly came off as erratic.

I don't think I'm in the right state of mind to fully appreciate this one. Since my psychedelic drug days are behind me, I don't think I'll ever be in the right state of mind to fully appreciate this one.

It's alright, I'm not sorry that I listened to it. Kind of experimental in some ways. The song "Suicide" is understandably pretty brutal, I ended up skipping through it. It's thought provoking for sure, if you are down for some contemplation then this is probably a good album for you.

Ugh, enough of that.

As a fan of some Spiritualized's albums it's interesting to hear what Jason Pierce was doing before. There are some similarities, and I appreciate the shifts between the louder tracks and more melodic/thoughtful tracks, but none really stand on their own for me. I could imagine this being a better live experience than an album.

I wanted to like this, but the songs are too long and don't really go anywhere. Sonically interesting for about 1.5min before feeling like they need to hurry up and move on.

Some drone stuff Quite nice landscapes, but very repetitive. Nothing that I can call a good song so far. I get why some people might find it nice to listen to, but I didn't find it yet for myself. I actually like the esthetics of track 6, but they don't seem to go anywhere. I read that it is known as a stoner band, so maybe I need some inforsment here. Track 7 pretty sweet though... The sound is growing on me. Some great guitar loops on 8. Actually wow. A much better end to the record. It sums it up into a good experience. Steel between 2 and 3

This was so boring. I guess it has its place, though, so I'm not going to give it a "1". Like, say, you're spending the day in an opium den, and want something to listen to.

That was a slog. Finally ended.

This album feels very much like a Jekyll and Hyde experience. Some of the songs are musically captivating, featuring rhythmic, synth-driven elements, where the occasional vocals blend seamlessly with the overall instrumentation. There is a soothing quality to these tracks that allows you to immerse yourself in the experience. However, there are songs like "Revolution" and "Suicide" that are startlingly loud in contrast, with reverberating guitars that suddenly pull you out of that trance. I assume this was done on purpose, but I found the shift too sudden to help me reconnect with the music. In general, this is a decent album, though I wish the arrangement of the tracks had better connected the calmer rhythmic pieces with the more intense, louder ones to create smoother transitions. Additionally, there are 2 live tracks that serve more as a distraction than anything else. I am not sure I could listen to this album as a whole, again. However, broken down into parts, this can be an enjoyable experience.

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Trance- und Space Rock Album mit experimentellen Klangerlebnissen aber ohne Ear-Catcher. Um in tiefere Sphären des Alls einzutauchen fehlt es am roten Faden.

Very close to a one star

I don't know man. This album's not my thing. Did I have to listen to this? I don't think so. Admittedly, this album isn't garbage. Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3 (dumb band name btw) isn't completely irredeemable. The song "Suicide" is though. 11 minutes of the same droning sound with slight variances over time? No thank you. The other 8 songs on this album range from pretty forgettable to actually somewhat decent, with the clear highlight being the closer, "Lord Can You Hear Me." I have nothing interesting to say about the singing. The writing is kind of repetitive. The style isn't my thing. I don't really vibe with this album. Maybe I'll vibe with Jason Pierce's other project Spiritualized. We'll see when I get there. This album's a high 2/5.

Het bestaat

After two consecutive hip-hop records, it is worth noting sample fatigue: it is not just that you are hearing the same music looped, but the same recording. The exact repetition is exhausting on the ear. So, while Spacemen 3 may hang on a single note for minutes on end, there is the change in timbre and attack and phase, the human differences that mutate each bar. That only takes you so far and, for much of Playing with Fire, it is the moments rather than expanses that pay off. Not any specific moments. But, every once and a while, you tune into and think "That's pretty nice." I think the Pierce songs are probably a bit better, which explains why Spiritualised do the same thing, but probably a bit better. 2 Most people who have ever found themselves listening to a Spacemen 3 album arrived (as did I) as Spiritualized fans. So it is difficult to hear Spacemen 3 on their own terms. Sonic Boom’s compositions dominate here and Revolution was the single and is the centre-piece of the album. But I still can’t escape the temptation to hear it all as proto-Spiritualized. This is fatal not just to my ability to sympathise with Sonic Boom’s less naive, less earnest delivery but also to my ability to hear the two jewels of the album - Jason’s ‘So Hot (Wash Away All of my Tears)’ and ‘Lord Can You Hear Me?’ as anything but mere demos for the later, much grander Spiritualized recordings of those songs that I love. So it’s an album I find easy to listen to with affection, but difficult to get a sense of as a work of art. If any kind of sober judgement were possible - I’d bet that it’s probably a bit of a mess. And the artwork is certainly poop. 2.5/5

Ingen noter, ingen hukommelse. Sikkert kedelig, helt sikkert ligegyldig.

Favorite tracks: Suicide Kinda cool, mostly meh

Some cool musical ideas that aren't as well fleshed out as they could be.

Bunch of strange noises. Some were good though. Listenined to half because it’s like 2 hours long

They sound like talented musicians... it's a shame they are wasting those talents on producing whatever this is. This album does not warrant 2 Discs spanning almost 2 hours, that's for sure.

Blind album and artist. Noise shoegaze? Idk but this was not for me at many parts. Put me to sleep, but not repulsive.

Can't decide if I like this or it's a load of drone-y bollocks. Probably both.

Listened Before? N Booooooooring. Didn't like this one at all. They tried to put me to sleep with slow dragging music and 12 minute songs. This album is what I imagine a heroin high sounds like. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: So Hot

Had never heard of this group before but I can see the threads of this album to the current indie lo fi scene. Definitely grew on me.

This is a solid album to have on in the background as ambient music, but is not one you can do a deep listen to without being driven out of your mind by its repetition.

Some really interesting songs here, but the album is just so dang slow overall. Repetitive, methodical. In a word, mostly boring.

Not a fan.

This was ok. I read the overview of the album and I think I wanted a bit more out of it.

There’s something I fond very irritating about this music. I like a lot of the Kraut rock some people are comparing it too. But this doesn’t have nearly as much character.

I've never heard of Spacemen 3 or this album before, but if this album is anything like some of the other things coming out of England at this time (My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Stone Roses), I think I'll enjoy it. This is certainly an interesting album cover though. Let's see if the music is as interesting as that cover! Side note: this album came out on my fourth birthday. That's kind of cool I guess. I wasn't really impressed by Playing With Fire. This album wasn't bad to listen to, but it really didn't bring anything unique or interesting to the table. The overall sound was fine, but it felt like Spacemen 3 weren't really committed to owning their sound. The bands that I mentioned in my introductory paragraph do an excellent job of really living in the unique sound that they created, but it felt like Spacemen 3 were just kind of drifting through various influences. I guess if I had to summarize what I don't like about the overall sound of this album, I'd say Spacemen 3 really doesn't have a unique way of blending their guitars with the electronic elements that they're using. I expected something that played with the layering of the sound to create more of an atmosphere, but that just wasn't present here. As a result, I just kind of drifted through these songs, and most of them dragged on. However, there were a couple of bright spots on this album. "Revolution" really grabbed my attention. I loved the heavy guitar tone, and the distortion sounded great with the heavier use of percussion. "Suicide" was really good too. It was really the only song that I felt took me on a journey as I listened to it. In contrast with a lot of the other stuff on this album, it really flew by as I listened to it, and I couldn't believe it was over 11 minutes long when it wrapped up. Other than those two songs though, I wasn't that impressed by this album. When it comes to the late eighties and early nineties, I think I'll stick to my shoegaze and shy away from Spacemen 3.

Chill

Shitty psychadelic shoegaze from some obsolete British band. There is a song called Suicide on this album that is literally 11 minutes of the same two notes being played over and over ffs..... Nothing happened..... In 11 MINUTES!?! And how dare these absolute pylons ruin a classic song like May the Circle Be Unbroken. Fuck these idiots. And fuck whoever thought this was necessary listening. Garbage. Favourite songs: Revolution, Honey Least favourite songs: How Does It Feel, Let Me Down Gently... And the rest of this album... 2/5

2.3 - I just felt like this really lacked any substance to it. Some parts were nice, but it really felt like a nothing album to me

Didn't really do anything for me. I'm very up for this sort of droney representation, but frankly I just found this boring. 2/5

I wanted to like this after reading the wiki article, but just didn’t do it for me.

It's okay

This might have been better if they had added a fourth spaceman. As it was, there is nothing to recommend here unless you need an 11 minute track titled Suicide.

This album is just so eh. Fantastic guitar work but that's it. I didn't care for anything else on the album

Three songs in currently and boring is the first word coming to mind. Where is the music? Eight tracks in and I've forgotten at times music is even playing. Eleven tracks in and I really do not at all understand why this is on the list. Nothing stand out here. I like other examples of psychedelic, other examples of shoegaze, but this just doesn't meet the mark.

2 disks of droning, soporific, occasionally annoying muzak. This never really rises above terrible. Hard to understand someone recorded this and then chose to release it. And so much of it, too.

Repetitive dreck.

That was hard work to listen to. I just kept waiting for the album to end. For a couple of songs, it was okay, but then it just burrowed into your brain and likely drive someone to insanity if they listened too much to this. I’ve decided that I’m not ready to commit. So this only gets a 2.

There are times I don’t mind music being repetitive. It’s just that whatever’s being repeated should be interesting in the first place.

Cocteau Twins but worse Psychedelic guitar slop Best track is So Hot Lord Can You Hear Me Is pretty good as well Artistry has props for this one, I write 2 haiku's bc it's a 2