Spacemen 3 – That’s Just Fine

Album

The Perfect Prescription is the second studio album by British neo-psychedelic band Spacemen 3, released in 1987. It is a concept album, "a vision of a drug trip from inception to its blasted conclusion, highs and lows fully intact."

Pitchfork Media listed it at #50 in their list of the greatest albums of the 80s.

Content

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."

The Perfect Prescription è il secondo album del gruppo musicale inglese Spacemen 3, pubblicato nel settembre del 1987.

Pitchfork Media l'ha inserito al 50º posto nella classifica dei migliori album degli anni '80. That's Just Fine è una bonus track dell'album.

Artist

Spacemen 3 were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire, by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce, known respectively under their pseudonyms Sonic Boom and J Spaceman. Their music is known for its brand of "minimalistic psychedelia".

Spacemen 3 had their first independent chart hits in 1987, gaining a cult following, and going on to have greater success towards the end of the decade. However, they disbanded shortly afterwards, releasing their final studio album post-split in 1991 after an acrimonious parting of ways.

They gained a reputation as a 'drug band' due to the members' drug-taking habits and Kember's candid interviews and outspoken opinions on recreational drug use. Kember and Pierce were the only members common to all line-ups of the band. Pierce has enjoyed considerable success with his subsequent project Spiritualized.

Gli Spacemen 3 erano un gruppo inglese fondato nel 1982, a Rugby, nel Warwickshire, da Peter Kember e Jason Pierce.

La band, completata da altri due musicisti ha subito, nel corso degli anni, diversi cambi di line up, che però non hanno mai riguardato i due membri fondatori Kember e Pierce, ribattezzatisi per l’occasione rispettivamente Sonic Boom e J.Spaceman.

Gli Spacemen 3 pubblicarono il loro primo disco nel 1986, dal titolo Sound Of Confusion. Dopo quattro album, a causa di dispute interne, nel 1991 la band decise di sciogliersi.