Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

1988

Playing With Fire is a Alt/Indie album by Spacemen 3, originally released in 1988. On Gatefold: 55 pressings tracked, owned by 7 collectors.

Sound DNA

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

About

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

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Tracklist

  1. 1Honey3:03
  2. 2Come Down Softly to My Soul3:46
  3. 3How Does It Feel7:58
  4. 4I Believe It3:19
  5. 5Revolution5:57
  6. 6Let Me Down Gently4:29
  7. 7So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)2:38
  8. 8Suicide11:03
  9. 9Lord Can You Hear Me4:34
  10. 10Suicide (Live)12:24
  11. 11Repeater (How Does It Feel?) [Live]5:31
  12. 12Chè4:31
  13. 13May the Circle Be Unbroken3:45
  14. 14Suicide (Alternate Mix)11:51
  15. 2.1Honey (Demo)3:24
  16. 2.2Let Me Down Gently (Drum Mix)4:50
  17. 2.3How Does It Feel? (Alternate Version)8:24
  18. 2.4Lord Can You Here Me? (Demo Vocal)4:40
  19. 2.5I Believe It (Alternate Mix)3:20
  20. 2.6Ché (Maracas Mix)4:37
  21. 2.7Any Way That You Want Me (Demo)3:21
  22. 2.8Girl on Fire (Demo)2:06

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Performers

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