Released September 1987 Length 45:39 Release date September 1987 | Recorded at V.H.F. in Rugby Label Genius Records | |
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The perfect prescription spacemen 3
The Perfect Prescription is the second studio album by Spacemen 3. It is a concept album, "a vision of a drug trip from inception to its blasted conclusion, highs and lows fully intact." The music becomes progressively more orchestral and serene until the high of the trip, represented by "Ecstasy Symphony"/"Transparent Radiation (Flashback)," moving on to the moment of realisation where the high has faded and the comedown ensues, represented by the harsh opening guitar chords in "Things'll Never Be the Same." Coming down is represented in the blues based "Come Down Easy," whilst the potentially fatal effects of an overdose are portrayed in the final track "Call the Doctor." The music was written by the band except "Transparent Radiation" which is a Red Krayola cover from their 1967 album Parable of Arable Land. The band also borrow heavily from the gospel standard "In My Time of Dying," for "Come Down Easy" and pay homage to Lou Reed in "Ode to Street Hassle."
Contents
Pitchfork Media listed it at #50 in their list of the greatest albums of the 80s.
Track listing
All tracks written by Pierce, Sonic Boom, except where noted.
Adds b-sides from the "Take Me to the Other Side" single as bonus tracks:
Adds two tracks from the "Walkin' With Jesus" single and the Transparent Radiation EP as bonus tracks:
Personnel
Songs
1Take Me To The Other Side4:39
2Walkin' With Jesus5:10
3Ode to Street Hassle4:01