Playing With Fire

Not particularly interesting, but okay to get work done too.

I honestly just tuned this out so hard I don't even know what I listened to. Extremely unmemorable and unengaging.

I’ll all for spaciness but these songs don’t go anywhere. Was probably a great record to trip to during the second summer of love...

To me, this sounds like they just made long versions of intros of songs, and then put those on an album. These songs never really get started, it's not a very interesting listen.

Rather uninspired late psych rock. The album started fine but really lost focus near the end, and I almost turned it off.

Ces petits rigolos nous montrent par intermittence qu'ils savent jouer de plusieurs instruments mais préfèrent nous faire subir une heure de bruitages téléchargés gratuitement sur le site universal-soundbank. Passez votre chemin.

This is a weird one. I read somewhere that this was inspired by the MC5 but I find that hard to believe. It’s more like spaced out psychedelia. The 4 hard rockers (if you include all 3 versions – and 36 minutes – of Suicide) seem out of place, as does the version of May the Circle be Unbroken (!) I reviewed the albums I gave a 1 and this is definitely not a 1.

I really enjoy psychadelic music, from its early origins with Pink Floyd to spacey ambient music and Jazz like Sun Ra which they cite as influences. But I find this to be neither here nor there, and quite boring. I think they get a bit better in their later incarnation as Spiritulized, but in this current state it’s just half baked.

I like psychedelic rock, I really do. But this left we wanting. And 3 different versions of "Suicide" on a single album. 2 cuts of "Che"; 2 cuts of " "I Believe It". Artists need to be more original if going to make a double-album. D+

Not my thing

The eleven-minute jam on Playing With Fire is pretty good. It would work well has a double-header with Viet Cong's Death, I think. But the rest of the tracks make the Spacemen feel like a markedly inferior band. (I let myself think I might like the closer better after hearing Suicide, but no: Just more of the same.) The instruments sound tinny, the voices squeezed. One track, in all its runtime-packing glory, saves this narrowly from being completely forgettable.

Pseudo-cosmic utterances under spacey guitars. If this band didn't have reverb / flange who knows what they would have done. I'm sure being on smack probably makes this album more interesting; however if you're not, all this album seems to be demonstrating how far up its own arse psychedelia is willing to crawl. Best Tracks: Honey; Revolution; Lord Can You Hear Me

Did not enjoy. Not a fan of slowcore it seems

Bit weird

Gets a star for maybe being good background noise

I didn't like it, and won't listen again, but I will say I see a very, very clear line here between Pink Floyd and Smashing Pumpkins.

Just sound effects.

Ну такое.

Always found spacemen 3 difficult enough and basically a precursor to Spiritualized, this album has all the main traits, a heavy influence of Velvet Underground and garage rock. Lord Can You Hear Me is pretty but much of the album is hard going.

It was alright. Not the sound that I personally will look out for. It got hard to listen to in the middle.

Not really my bag, was gonna rate 1 star but a couple of tracks were better than a 1. Couple good tunes and some good heartfelt lyrics. Seemed ahead of its time. Some sounded like something you'd hear on Earthed 1. 2 stars

Kwam er niet helemaal in, misschien had ik het vaker moeten luisteren...

Wat was dit nou eigenlijk? Ik heb het wel geluisterd, en het was niet vervelend, maar om nou te zeggen dat er iets van is blijven hangen...

Tsja, ik vind er niet zoveel aan eigenlijk :). Beetje zuigend.

4

did not listen

Some good stuff, but also some meandering unfocused noise.

Probably worth replaying if with the right crowd, but not doing much for me

Zzzzzz....

I'm bored...I'm restless. Need change in life...ruff!...like imported leather leash, ruff!

Das Album der Nachfolge-Band ('Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space‘ von Spiritualized) hat mir überhaupt nicht gefallen, daher war ich skeptisch. Und tatsächlich: auch das hier ist nicht gut, aber besser. Wie man früher zu Zeiten von Plattenspielern zu sagen pflegte: die Platte hat 'nen Sprung. Ach, das gehört so?

Holy fuk va trist

Mellow. Reminds me of Spirtualized, which I'm pretty sure is connected to this band. I enjoyed the Spiritualized album a bit more, this one was a little too much wallpaper. Favorite tracks: "Revolution", "Suicide"

Not great. Felt like it was acting super provocative with nothing to show for it.

If more than three minutes of this album is actually someone playing an instrument and not just some high school garage band doing one lick on a looper pedal and letting it go for waaaay too long with some noodling, I'll eat my socks. This album asks the question "How does it feel?" a lot, and it's bad. It's greatest sin is how abysmally boring it is. I enjoy psych rock, shoegaze, and fuzz. This is a terrible example of any of those things. I had a different shoegaze album yesterday (Nowhere by Ride) and I really enjoyed that. To follow it up with this other side of the coin, I can see how people would hate shoegaze as a genre if this is all they were exposed to.

Couldn't finish

This reminded me too much of My Bloody Valentine so this was a big HELL NO from me.

This album does absolutely nothing for me. I understand the idea behind the repetition, drones and hypnotic atmosphere, but I never get pulled into it. Instead of putting me in some kind of trance, it just makes me want the songs to stop. The repetition becomes irritating rather than immersive, and I honestly struggled to even finish the album. I can see why some people love this kind of psychedelic minimalism, but it is simply not for me. At all. 1/5

This started out ok and then I hated it. I assumed it would be electronically based on the name of the band, but it wasn't super electronic for the first two songs. Then it changed to electronic-y mixed with other things, and I hated it. A lot of spoken word over sound. Long songs. Not for me.

Alltså två och en halv minut på samma dissonanta gitarrackord med minimala variationer i en pipande synth det kanske är musik, men det är inte min musik! En etta

Experimentele piepjesmuziek: Mike Oldfield kwam ermee weg bij Tubular Bells, maar deze gasten lukt het niet om er wat boeiends van te maken. Sterker nog, gaandeweg wordt het steeds irritanter. Bij 'Suidice' floept deze meuk definitief onder de Frans Bauer-grens. Het jengelende gekras doet letterlijk pijn aan de oren, hoe zacht ik het ook zet. Dat was zelfs Pere Ubu nog niet gelukt. Driewerf gadverdamme. Met knallende koppijn en bloedende trommelvliezen zet ik de plaat af.

Naja

There have been some tough listens on this list so far but this is right up there: it's basically an hour or so (on disc 1 - more to come on that point...) of outro. And not the 'Layla' kind of outro, the kind where they just leave the instruments making noise to avoid having to conclude a song. I try to avoid making comments questioning why someone wanted to include a record in the book, but I am at a loss as to why someone picked this, over so many others, to go into a list of the 'best' albums. 'How Does It Feel' is a particular low point. Secondly, a hill I will die on is that even with the best records, a second disc of live tracks, demos and other assorted versions of album tracks is nothing more than padding and 'added value' from the record label to shift units to those who wouldn't otherwise bother. If it's that good, release it in its own right. But when it takes and album like this to the two hour mark, I am OUT with a capital O. Listened to the bit that was considered good enough to make the list but not a second more.

I almost made this the first album I didn’t listen all the way through, it does sound more like conventional songs after the third track but I did have to force myself to listen through this

Halfway through the song Suicide I too contemplated ending it all. It’s albums like this that make me wonder ‘do I really need to hear ALL 1001 albums before I die?’

I wish I'd read the reviews before beginning this album. I think the 'musicians' got their muse from the OMM song from Red Dwarf.

Musical scribble, no talent just drugs and a distort box. Must be friends of the organiser to get on the list.

Like if This is Spinal Tap were about the Beatles and it's bad

*Sniff sniff* Whats that? Smells like doodoo feces. I have great sympathy for anyone who listened to all 1 hour and 59 minutes of bonus tracks on this album. Ain’t no way I was going to listen to any more of this.

Pure unabashed psychadelia in the 80s I guess. I kept double checking it wasn't from the late 60s. I'm not crazy for psychadelia without another hook to draw me in unfortunately. Most of this record passes me by a little bit. The track 'suicide' is really beautiful though

The evil that Spacemen do. It sort of has some ingredients for one classic psychedelic wig out but those constituent ingredients all drone or dawdle on ultra tediously one after the other as if it was not even at the stage of psychedelic primordial soup. Wish these Spacemen came travelling right off this list. If the band were actually badgers and it was called Space Badgers 3 - Playing With Foxes and Weasels then obviously it would be a bit more impressive although still extremely rough.

Absolute dogshit. Get this out of my face

wow. no.

1.4 meh

08/04 Boring

Don’t waste your time- this is very reminiscent of another album I had maybe a month ago: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized, which was also a colossal waste of time. It’s spacey and sparse and not very musical. Background radiation at best, just noise (and not good noise) at worst. ⭐️

Burn it

Idk what they were going for, but they missed it

Nada, lo he quitado a las 3 canciones.

46 minutes of nothing happening. It’s just repetitive loops of noise. Even the lyrics are just the same phrases repeated over and over again.

Parece musica de secta.... Aburrido

No, I did not harm my speaker in the rating of this album.

blah, REALLY not my cup of tea here.

nope!

# Album Name: Playing with Fire # Artist: Spacemen 3 # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Absolutely awful # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? No

I’ll admit I didn’t listen to the whole album. But it’s two hours of mostly instrumental kinda pulsating guitar riffs. There’s a song on here called Suicide (appropriate) that’s 11 minutes long, just the same sound throughout the whole song, and on the album THREE separate times as alternate versions. I’ve heard one song on my halfway through listen that I didn’t hate. It doesn’t fix the other issues

Never heard of this band before. The YTM link doesn't work. The only version on YTM is a 2 hour version but the original is a mere 9 songs. First two songs are dull as dishwater. How does it Feel barely qualifies as music. Barely even qualifies as background noise. Album is awful. There is little artistic merit here.

Psykedeelistä ja kokeellista musiikkia, joka ei kuitenkaan tarjoa oikein mitään mielenkiintoista.

no me gustó mucho, no me gustan los sonidos en loop, me estresó y este álbum tiene mucho de eso. Y las canciones que me gustaron fueron por la letra. le doy un 4/10.

Why was this made

it was just noises.

Completely forgettable.

This has so many of the common tropes I hate the most about all the pointless slop on this list; random noise, awful production, songs that just keep on meandering without ever doing anything remotely interesting. I'll save us all some time and leave my complaining there, I can't be bothered to go into any more details, I've done that for plenty of albums already.

not great

Dull, boring, and agonizingly repetitive with scant ideas of melody throughout. The mixing is also terrible in that the vocals can’t be heard over the instruments. There’s nothing talented or interesting about this band that can’t also be created by listening to the average pitches of a city soundscape. It’s just droning noises.

Definitely not for me. I don't know whether they were taking too many drugs or if I need to, but it didn't work for me at all. I was going to give a 2 initially, but with the realisation that it's 2 discs and 2 hours long I decided a 1 is more appropriate. Turned it off after about 6 songs.

Like listening to 2 hours of diggeridoo.

I really couldn’t get into it.

Not for me. 1/5

bs

Horrible

I don't like how Spotify will force a rerelease of an album and not simply have the original. That annoyance aside, Suicide might be one of the worst songs I have ever forced myself to listen to.

Yep, that was hot garbage, I listened to the first one or two songs, and suicide. and decided I didn't want to ruin my day and turned off the album. I've said this plenty of times, but if 1001 has this album and none of Taylor Swift's... I'm going to riot.

Did I listen to disc 2… nope, I value my dignity and worth. I didn’t know music could be this bad. The middle school band that practices by the town square blows these guys out of the water.

That was a real struggle to get through. I've never been more bored in my life. Half of that album was the same 5 seconds of music on loop, and the other half was a different 5 seconds on loop. Horrible album id rather stick my cock in a vice than listen again.

Whiny, anemic music that I find incredibly annoying.

Is never, ever a good idea.

I've wondered why several albums are on this list, but this one I think is meant to be a joke. Right? Next, please.

It's not even music really, is it? I gave up about halfway through, when it started to feel like some prolonged torture. Pretty polite torture, but agonising nonetheless.

Nah

Boring imo but I can see how people could like it.

1. honey - 1 2. zoul - 1 3. feel - 2 4.believe - 0 5. revolution - 1 6. gently - 0 7.hot - 0 8. Suicide - 0 9. Lord - 1 10. Number two - 0 11. Repeater - 0 12. Che - 2 13. Circle - 2

The stereo effect on track three was vertiginous and unpleasant, so much so that I ripped my headphones off to avoid it; this robbed the rest of the album of any opportunities to win me over. I dropped it after a couple more songs.

long blegh

Groupe inconnu. Et qui aurait dû le rester : l'album génère un ennui profond, et ne présente absolument aucun intérêt. Ah si, la dilatation du temps : les morceaux les plus courts paraissent durer des heures ... et je ne parle pas des plus longs : un véritable exploit. =>1/5

an everage of 2.5 after 20k votes tells evrything. Something to forget.

Was ein scheiss

Bored Me, then got on my nerves. Not sure what is stand out about it. Other albums do whatever this is better. But il give it half a point for being early in on this typa thing. 1.5

1.4 I never really grasped onto anything I would listen to again

I do enjoy weird, brave, experimental music with something to say This ain't it

Just so very boring.

No. 184 This really isn’t for me.

Malardo

Kind of repetitive electric guitar stuff. Too psychedelic and not enough novelty

Trash

ouch my ears

Was initially excited at the beginning but quickly became one of the few albums that hurt listening to it.

Я решил, что я себе не враг, и ограничился оригинальной версией альбома без лайвов и демок. Было ужасно, местами отвратительно, кроме Lord You Can Hear Me.

Puro ruido! Solo para iniciados y muy fans... y sus abuelas

rarísimo todo. No me gustó nada

A couple of good songs, rest horrible.

Couldn't get through it. Not even the first 5 songs. I dont know who these guys are. But if they arent dead. They should be.

I kept waiting for it to get good because it sounded like it would until track 5 then stopped listening

I picked up on the psychedelic tones a few tracks in. It almost seemed weird seeing that this came out in the late 80s and not the late 60s. Whilst I appreciate that genre, I could not fathom what was done with it on here. Barely a melody or a hook to be heard and vocals so compressed it sounds like they were recorded with space helmets on. Occasionally, the guitars would be turned up like on Revolution, but it ultimately it just amounts to a cacophony of noise thats only memorable for the change in volume, nothing else.

This is pretty bad, lame

Not my thing

No

I kept thinking "I just have to be in the right mood for this one" but the right mood never came so I gotta go with my mood. Probably would be good music to have a mental breakdown to so will update my rating if that happens

Now I dont know whether I was in a really bad mood today but... I hated this. Thought it was so meh and annoying. Wall of fucking nightmare sound tbh. Truly could not wait for it to be over and did not suffer through the second disc. Tbf I didnt even finish the first disc lol

está bien, pero no me encantó. no es mi género favorito

Just not the music for me. Some of the tracks were nice but it just felt overly long.

Don’t piss me off.

Not my thing

Turned it off when it started repeating itself with 'live' versions. This was not my jam. Songs are too long.

Did not like it. Just about everything was either annoying, boring, or straight up bad

Got to the third song and couldn’t do it. Sounded to much like alarm songs the way they would repeat over and over.

Didn’t like it

Not even pleasant. I would rather play with fire. Space garbage.

Really annoying

Honestly, I can't find anything special about this album...

An hour of buildup with no payoff. It’s been a long time since I’ve been this bored and frustrated with an album.

wtf is this

Terrible garbage

My highschool band could produce better psychedelics than these guys.

this is not good

This is crap

I have never had enough drugs that could make me enjoy this, and that includes general anesthesia.

This was 2 hours I will never get back. Must be great under the influence, but sober? Insufferable and makes me consider wading in gator infested waters to be put out of my misery.

sorry i do not take drugs. what makes this album an album that one has to listen to i'd like to know though

This was an abomination of an album. It seems to be all over the place, with the only consistency is it being a dreadful listen.

< the Beatles How did they make 45 minutes feel like 5 hours?

Man, that was rough. I should've known off the bat when that Wikipedia page was among the shortest I've seen.

Alternative band,I’ve never heard of. Music kinda of boring, all songs same alike.

Kept waiting for the songs to start and then they were over. Not to my taste at all, and kind of baffled that this exists tbqh

p612. 1989. 1 star. Pretentious, tedious abstract guitar noodling with spoken/whispered "lyrics". Fuck me, this is awful. Who picked this shit for the list?

A Lofi disaster that uses lots of notes to say nothing. As a fan of Lofi music I agree that yes this is Lofi but me strumming a few notes on a guitar is Lofi but it doesn’t make it good. When you listen to an album and think, hmmm, I could do that, that’s not a good sign. The song Suicide is prime example, some guy holds his finger down on a synthesizer while the bassist plucks a one note drone. I can’t really think of any time or place that I would play something like this.

I was actually thinking “well, I can see what they’re trying to do, it just isn’t really for me, but I respect it,” and give it a good ol’ fashioned 2 stars. Then the 11-minute song “Suicide” hit. It actually started to piss me off as it went on. Just 11 entire minutes of fucking NOTHING happening. Which was especially egregious because it felt like some sort of interesting prog rock or something that was building to something. anything. But it didn’t!!!!! And two songs later they tried to hit me with a live version of Suicide. Absolutely not. Bunch of bullshit that did not respect my time. 1 star. Fuck you

This album literally gave me a headache.

I like this genre, and yet I thought it was shite

Honestly, this type of music feels so empty to me; endless melodies that appear to be coming to a culmination, but never actually culminate; whispering lyrics as well = zero impact... :/

- Initially I was going to look into the history of this band and try to build a little context .... then I thought about that and decided I had better use for my time. What''the saying: Here's three chords, noww go strat a band? That's great and true but the st of us don't NEED to hear EVERY band started with those three chords. This probably sums up what is the basic flaw of this list ..... -

An unenjoyable listening experience

1.5

Sorry

Genre: shoegaze, 3 star ceiling Album length: 2 hours, minus 1 star Listening experience: painful, minus 1 star

Kinda sounded like 3 high schoolers just got some gear

Spacemen 3 really is a very fitting name for this group because I think you must be an alien to genuinely enjoy the album👽(or really really high) I get some music can be an art and theres spiritual music out there, but this was a tough listen at points, I really did try to go in open minded but you know it's really not for me. An Interesting listen and a very unique sound but it's a 1 star from me. Usually I'll pick out standout songs for reviews but the only song I could sort of enjoy was 'May the circle be unbroken'

This really isn’t for me

Too many skips. Couldn't get through it. 1/5

There's no way this can be as bad as people are saying, right? Turns out yes, it can be! This sucks. It is just bad. It's not psychedelic or shoegazey or ethereal or epic or experimental or anything like that. It's just shite.

Did not enjoy this at all

Boring and wouldn’t listen to this again. 1/5

Honestly, this isn't it. Just a bunch of noises and it never got better. Almost every song overplays its welcome.

actually awful

‘A similar musical borrowing’ sounds close enough to plagiarism. No thanks.

Important to shoegazers, but since Spiritualized already appears on here twice, I feel like shoe gazing is more than represented. Honestly, this was boring AF. Another example of a mediocre British band that was included because of the author's bias and not because they actually need a 3rd album of shoe gazing on here. If this band were not from England the author would have looked right past this. This is the kind of jamming that ever dorm band did in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. Nothing special here.

I don't have the patience for this.

Paso tío

Hadn't heard of this band. Probably won't listen to this again. Pretty average example of a certain strand of music from the time in a kind of stone roses vibe, but not enough concrete ideas really for me. It just feels quite directionless.

2 - TERRIBLE

There is nothing redeeming here to me. I find this so boring. Same sound droning on and on and on.

There are multiple ways to reduce substance abuse. There is the "scare the shit out of 'em" method, think Requiem for a Dream. You could also try creating an environment where there's more to live for, like the Icelandic prevention model. Another option to consider is to have people listen to the drivel these English drug-hound dorks made. I wanted to like the album, my inner contrarian and all, and honestly I was wondering why the album was so loathed at the beginning. The first two tracks weren't that bad! But it did get worse. "How does it feel" was the tipping point into an endless cascade of uninspiring droning music. Remember: don't do drugs, lest you become an embarrassing "dude drugs lmao" band. Be like anti-drug artist Frank Zappa and consume five cartons of cigarettes and a gallon of coffee every day instead.

when i was ten i got my first digital keyboard in my bedroom and played with a lot of the presaved sounds. i'm fairly certain i recorded "How Does It Feel" on my tape recorder in 2005. like several of the albums we've gotten, this one is not horrible but suffers from a lack of impression. it's almost completely forgettable. aside from a wacky album cover (purity/ love/ suicide/ accuracy/ revolution, wtf) that is at least fun to look at, there's nothing meaningful here. i'm a big big fan of the hymn "Will the Circle be Unbroken?" from 1907, so it's a shame that their "May the Circle be Unbroken" sucks so goddamn much. maybe if i was on acid i'd appreciate this more, but i kind of doubt it.

This one was an absolute struggle to get through. Every song was another mountain for my ears to overcome. I'd love to give highlights, but I genuinely think my brain actively tried to block out the sound coming from my speakers. I thought Revolution might've been the saving grace, but after like a minute I was already done with it. Good thing there's another 5 of them in the song.

This was honestly a baffling inclusion on this list. Looking into this group’s background, they gained some notoriety as a “drug band” and later released an album called “Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To.” This did get a chuckle out of me, but by that metric Playing With Fire is the music that you have made when you no longer have a grasp on how many drugs you've taken. Weirdly enough, it was one of their first releases. 1.5

I wish I had not wasted part of my morning listening to this. The only reason I know about Spacemen 3 is thanks to Vinyl Me, Please’s (RIP) record of the month version of a Spiritualized album. That release featured some liner notes bragging about how the frontman of Spiritualized was in a group called Spacemen three, then spent the majority of those liner notes talking about Spacemen 3 instead of the boring album I had just bought and was listening to. I remember thinking “maybe Spacemen 3 is better than Spiritualized,” and the answer is “no, it’s equally boring.” I’m already upset because I’m sure that will be on this list, too. I honestly couldn’t tell music was playing at some points, this album was just such a quiet, unimportant drone in the background. My review ends here, because enough of my day was wasted thinking about this album. I want me time back, Mr 1001 Albums To Listen To Before You Die Man.

Trash. So many great albums lost their spot to this.

The short version: I don't like this album at all. The long version: What I’ve learned today is that I would much rather listen to music in a genre I hate that is done well than music in a genre I like that is done poorly. I went into this with pretty high hopes (the genres and the influences ticked the boxes for me AND it's a band I've never heard of) and in return received an album that goes for “deep and mysterious” and sticks the landing hard on “teenager in a Che Guevara shirt who always talks about “neoliberalism” and does his damnedest to pivot every conversation to ‘yeah I do weed now.’” Listening to this, in between bouts of wincing at the lyrics, I was transported back in time to a particularly dreadful night in college that I spent in the company of a poor misshapen soul I dubbed “The Revolutionary.” I’ll bet that guy loves this album, wherever he is now. Based on these lyrics, whoever wrote this shit (apparently his name is Sonic Boom) seems to think he’s the first person to ever conflate drugs and religion. So profound. Oh wow a song about starting a “revolution” because… he’s mad that drugs are illegal. I said surely there’s more to this. So I went to Genius and saw the following explanation, written by some neckbeard who thinks this album is in any way intelligent: "Sonic Boom is upset and disapproves of having those in power determine if specific drugs are acceptable in today’s society, leaving those who use illegal substances feeling like outsiders, and being looked down upon by others. Even in a society where drugs like alcohol is socially accepted with similar if not worse effects to other popular illegal drugs." Fuuuuuuuuuuuck off. Knowing nothing else about this group aside from what's on this record, I’m comfortable with saying I hate them irredeemably. I always try to listen to these albums at least 2-3 times (hence my disdain for the longer ones), and way more if we count the times I let them play in the background while I’m doing other stuff, but I gave this one spin and got what I needed to get out of it. When coming up with ratings, I always try to consider “what does this do better than other albums?” and the answer in this case is “irritate me.” I almost rated this as “did not listen” in a desperate and vain attempt to try and manifest a world in which I did not.

I made it 9 out 22 songs into this album before calling it quits. This guy sings with his inside voice on every song and it’s honestly mind numbing. I started to actually loose touch with reality and couldn’t tell if I was inside or outside. I was ripped back to my elementary school days when I was told by my teachers that my voice was too loud and I needed to use my INSIDE VOICE. Maybe if his school teachers didn’t hold him back this album wouldn’t have been such dog shit. 1/10

I'd rather eat a shit sandwich

Warmed over new age bullcrap backed by droning synthesizer notes. Sounds like they a middle schooler that got a Casio keyboard for Christmas and this was their first recording trying out the sound effects. I cannot fathom a single reason for this album to be included on the list. 1⭐️

Weird. Boring. Uninteresting.

This shouldn’t be here. That’s what I thought until I heard the guitars on “Revolution” then I started paying attention. .. by “Suicide” i’m thinking this is cool, but boring. 1 or 2 stars

I’m not making it through a double album of this

Synthy elevator music

Noisy psychedelic stuff - boring and goes nowhere, and I like noisy psychedelic ambient nonsense! As it got to the end of the original album (no way I'd sit through another hour+ of extra...) I was actually kind of offended by how every single repetitive song stuck to only one dynamic/tempo/mood and there was no tension and release - then they had the gall to call for "revolution" and haughtily chat to god as if they've got something to say. Hawkwind, it ain't....

not great

Couldn’t really get into any of the songs. Weird vibes. The only one I would probably listen to again is Come Down Softly To My Soul, and I also didn’t hate Lord Can You Hear Me. Suicide was 10 minutes of the same riff over and over again.

This album is neither inspirational nor aspirational. It is "respirational," meaning at times it sucks and at other times it blows.

Too boring to even sleep to

To be used only as very distant background music if you can’t find anything else and silence bothers you.

Of the time but not of my taste

Hard to listen to, I'd rather listen to silence. Overdid the alternating two notes a few songs in the album but they kept going with it. The longer songs are the repetition of a few-second-long segment a hundred times over. Waste of time. 2/10

1/5 - A scrapbook of noise in many formats. I can imagine some have drug-induced nostalgia for this and think back to college days of pondering the universe to the background din of what sounds like a broken piece of machinery. This could only be worse if Rufus Wainwright sang on top of it.

All these "songs" just repeat the same thing for 3 to 11 (!!!) minutes without leading up to anything interesting. What a waste of my time.

Despite its daring moves and unique sound, I couldn’t bring myself to finish it. I just really didn’t like the album.

It’s cool sounding

Garage

1/5

If they were playing with fire, they didn't do it properly otherwise they'd have burnt the recording studio down so that we wouldn't have to listen to this monotonous, boring and over-long offering.

n gostei ..

Not for me.

I did not listen for 2 hours

Why? This was so boring I couldn’t get thru a single song without skipping to the next one. This might appeal as background music but I can sit around and pay attention to these songs.

Was bored at the start and then it just got worse. It felt meandering and I was glad when it was finished honestly. Strong 1 star.

Wish I had these guys patience. Couldn’t get through it all

This was poor. Never really got going. At times hinting at a low-rent poor Hawkwind and at others invoking Sonic Youth For Beginners, this has no conviction or substance at all. I was thinking “why?” more than anything, but not in a good way. Maybe I’m completely missing the point, as I’ve heard the name previously but never their music. Completely baffled why this album would be ranked here. Student gig night, £1 for a pint of watered down lager. Use of strobe light essential.

I did not like this. It was slow. Boring. Suicide was especially egregious. Im more accustomed to the psychedelic sort of vibe working better in a rock styling and I think it does work better in that genre. This was a chore to get through.

Very disappointing. Just ambient noise in places

Time consuming and tiresome. And annoying at times. Several times.

This is a like a big nothing burger. Xanax in music form. I was annoyed from track 1 and continued to be until the end.

I will just say this is very much not my cup of tea

no disrespect to spacemen 3 but there’s being experimental and then there’s just chucking a bunch of sounds together and saying “hey, fuck it that’ll do”, lead singer is nothing special and the record is mixed pretty terribly even for 1989. wouldn’t recommend at all.

Spaceman 1

I know this one’s divisive and I really hoped I’d like it because I do like what I’ve heard of Spiritualized but god this is so shit it’s actually making me feel angry?? It’s just a load of noodling, like why am I listening to this? It feels like it should be from the 60s, but like all the shittiest most rambling NOTHING-y stuff from that decade. The ONLY good thing I’ll say is that there are slivers and bits of songs that feel like they could have turned into something interesting. But they just don’t. Also the last song feels like a sort of lullaby/reward for getting through everything that came before it. I’m not listening past the original 9 songs. Honestly fuck this.

Monotonously repetitive. Did not enjoy

I don't know if I would actually call this music. It's very monotonous. Maybe if I had been on LSD or some psychedelic mushrooms I would have had a different experience. However, I wasn't high, so I want my 46 minutes back.

This attempt at music is just bad. There is nothing enjoyable about this unless you're really into a bass player hitting one low, droning note endlessly. I hope I never stumble across this again. EVER.

Nudne i długie. 1/5

I felt like I was gonna fall asleep then someone would take a power drill to my ears for like 10 min, then let me fall asleep again. I could count on 2 fingers the amount of stuff in this album I liked. Maybe this is what tinnitus feels like

Might have caught me in a mood - really dull. Got up to vacuum, forgot the music was still on. I prefer listening to my 10 minute rain noise loop I use to drown out the neighbours.

Rambly guitar, morphing into a wall of distortion at times

Snoozemen 3

Numbered band names are dumb. You have to be really good to overcome that.

Thoroughly dull and uninspired. No talent was involved in the making of this album.

2 hours of droning. That's what there is here. It's fucking bullshit.

world's worst psychedelic rock album

Dreadful - I can only assume the band’s family and friends felt sorry for them and bought multiple copies to get it on this list. That or they paid the judging panel.

I am so deeply offended by the addition of this album to the list that I almost quit this project. These are not the best albums, they’re just albums that some British dudes like I guess? This album sucked. The singing, musicianship, the droning, the mixing— all so so terrible I can’t believe it. Even with “So Hot” after spending all the previous time being so annoyed by what I’ve heard it was ok, then he starts singing and I’m mad as hell again

Didn’t really listen to it, it did not capture me, but again a surprise to see it was released 33–36 years ago

Bit bland

I just found this irritating and felt like it was trying to irritate me

Well - that’s clearly on the wrong list. This album should be in 1000 albums that will make you want to die list. I found the original version with 9 tracks, because 2 hours of this crap really would make you suicidal. I couldn’t get through more than half of any of the first 8 tracks because frankly they’re not music, just noise and some Emo mumbling. The ninth track I thought briefly might actually have a melody, but alas just 5 chords played over and over and over, while mister depressing talked over it. There are worse albums, but not many.

Boring…

It's not that I think this isn't for me, it's that I think it's actively bad. Saying it's shoegaze played by elementary school kids picking up instruments for the first time would be an insult to kids learning instruments. There are no sound concepts, everything is thin, the vocals are barely uttered. Favorite track: I couldn't even finish the album

Nul

Meh

What is this album? Is it even listenable? Standout tracks: None.

Total snoozefest. This is what I think it would sound like if the band Suicide sucked

Ok kinda stinks. I was in denial about it but this is a total snooze fest. Way more boring than I remember it being. I thought I liked this band? You really don't have to listen to this before you die.

Man, this is way out there. Far out even. Psychedelic/space rock is strange enough, but the fact that this album was released in 1989 is even stranger. Too late to the party? Or perhaps too early for the rest of the world to comprehend? In any case, this all borders on being classified as shoegaze as well due to the album's general ambient/noisy vibe. I tend to see it as noise for the purpose of being noisy, though. Mix that with some LSD, and you get this album I guess. Maybe some reached enlightenment upon listening to this, but I did not. What's the opposite of enlightenment?

1.44

Garbage. No reason for this to be on any list other than biggest waste of time list.

Insufrible, y eso que me gustaba el pop inglés de los 80 de este estilo, todo lo que salía de NME y similares y luego me convertí en devoto del sonido Manchester, pero eso ha sido muy aburrido. 1 estrella.

The problem I have with Shoegaze is that when picks up in intensity and I think that the song is going to get better, it just winds up going nowhere. That’s the problem I have listening to this and it made me angry. All that potential build up with no release.

Sounds like the product of a psychological experiment exploring whether the developmentally disabled possess the ability to reproduce music. Conclusion: they do not.

Trash

The Good: We’ve been warned that we are playing with Fire… The Bad: That we still aren’t sure who the third spaceman is… The Ugly: That aliens still don’t know how to communicate with us as their grammar sucks; it is 3 Spacemen First song made me think “Shit”, second song made me listen a little more attentively, song 3 (see what I did there!!???!?!) made me think “Shit” again… There was a song that I actually liked, but by the time I was over 1 hour into this experiment of sound, I had totally forgotten about it. Is there a reason that I have to listen to a 2 hour album of noise? Is there something in the noise which will make me see the light? Is there something which Spacemen 3 want me to know except that I’ve lost time and a couple of hairs today? I am reaching 30% on this musical journey, and my patience is starting to wear thin, or my ears are starting to become too critical. Where I used to listen to music at least 4 hours a day, I am finding that this is now becoming limited to the album of the day, and then 1 album from my 5* list just to wash away the bad taste in my mouth. Here’s to my crossed fingers hopen for a stellar album today!

I tried. It all sounds the same. The droning was driving me around the bend. Can't do it.

Kinda like the vibe, would need better lyrics for me to want to keep any songs

Sometimes too quiet, sometimes too loud

Kedelig psykrock, baggrundsmusikvibes

When I was a teenager getting high for the first time, I'd record 20 minute jams on one chord, being amazed at how deep and psychedelic the sounds were. Then I'd cover up, listen back, and realise it was just repetitive drones that didn't go anywhere. That's what this sounds like. Mumbling lyrics ripped off of Dylan and Patti Smith over boring loopy patterns just bored me to tears. The version I listened to had a live recording of Suicide which gave me some idea that they might have been interesting as a live act, where sheer volume may play a part - but as an album, this sounds worse than some bands 4 track demos. Utter, utter trash. Not even irritating enough to be interesting.

I don’t know what these guys are playing with, but it’s certainly not fire. I found this to be way too dull and actually dozed off listening to this. I’m sure it’s enhanced by drugs, but that stage of my life is behind me.

Two discs and 2 hours? How about no? Oh thank the heavens, the second disc is part of a reissue. I will not be listening to that. Also fuck shoegaze

Absolutely not, brother. Are these songs? Or, like, LaCroix water-style impressions of songs?

Jeg var ikke klar over at man kunne lave eksperimental musik som var så fantasiløst og kedeligt

Not extremely high on how psychedelic this one is. Really enjoyed just one track being revolution. I want to give it an 2 but even with that song I’ve got to stay 1. Otherwise droned on. Surprised this came out in 89. I did NOT listen to the whole album as an fyi for my rating.

really how did this make it in the list

Un álbum aburrido, inconsistente, inerte, y con temas que son solo una introducción larga. Primer calificación de 1 estrella que doy. Nota: 1.4

One note per song. Not chord, one NOTE.

Bland

Absolutely not.

Another one of those ones where I wish someone would tell the dude who made this list that every obscure, weirdo British rock band he liked when he was 14 isn’t worthy of sharing with the world.

There's a few songs I like from Spacemen 3, but none of them are in this album. I also have no interest whatsoever in listening to this in full.

Pretty droning. Not really sure what I'm meant to find in here. The whole album feels pointless and easy to ignore. I have no idea why this made the list.

This is kind of nothing. Most people given a simple looping software, could re create a close approximation of this. Reminds me of The Doors, it could trick you into thinking there is sustenance when it's empty. It did help me zone out during an unpleasant drive.

Couldn’t even make it through Disc 1

Not great

I don’t need this, nor do I want it.

Boring, I fail to see why this was included in a list of 1001 albums to listen to

Negative

Awful

It took 2 people to make this? It sounds like an album of the weird interlude songs on an album. I did not like this

Can you imagine just writing the beginnings of songs and never finishing them

Wank.

2.5/10

If you like it, good for you. I don't! It shouldn't be on this list.

Just because you learnt guitar when you were 10 and you're mate has a Casio keyboard in the cupboard, doesn't mean you should record an album.

Did not like this at all. Boring songs, can barely hear lyrics, just random feedback on the guitar. Just crap. 1/5

dra åt skogen

There's a song on this album about unaliving yourself. You'll feel like it when you get there. Didn't make it to disc 2 of "extras" because who needs more of this dross.

This sucks.

1.5 Bad Bad Not Good. Although Revolution was a good tune

Didn’t enjoy

Almost unlistenable.

Booooooorrrrrrring Just like this list. Enough with the trite, repetitive electronic music. Some of these songs started out with promise, just to disappoint. I thought Suicide was going to be good. The it made me want to kill myself. Spacemen 3 just suck and this album is no exception

Six songs in and I’m tapped out. This is hilariously boring. For a moment it seemed like “I Believe It” was going to erupt into something interesting, but they swerved hard around that possibility and went right back to boring town.

Not a fan of this one. I found it to be boring, mediocre, and forgettable. I am also not a fan of overly distorted guitar so it also loses points for that.

Very very weird... sounds wrong. Broken record? Intentional?

Both boring and actively bad. Way too long. I now dread any album that comes up that's "psychedelic" - I can only assume the genre refers to music you have to be on drugs to find enjoyable

When this first popped up I got exconly because my wife wouldn't insist I waited for her to listen to it (up to 2 weeks later lol) then read some reviews and some users made this sound so incredibly up my alley that I paused and almost waited....then I decided to sample and oh noy i knew I was safe to play the whole awful thing. I suffered through this so you don't have to

Boring and droning. Somehow combines the monotony of EDM with rock music. Nothing noteworthy, and entirely skippable

For some reason I thought this would be good in Spiritualised way, but it wasn't. 1

It’s just noise. And not the kind type.

1 bad

Listening to this, I can see I’ve been too harsh on some of the recent choices. Those others were more the competent musicians. These guys…this repetitive droning. A song might start out promising but don’t worry—they’ll repeat it till you’re ready to tear your ears off. This music could be utilized for torture by the government.

Ok

Психоделия, именно такая которая мне не очень нравится. Похоже на 1ый альбом hawkwind, который мне будет снится в кошмарах

I put this on expecting hip hop, alas I was disappointed and out it off after a few boring tracks