Spacemen 3 The Perfect Prescription LP Rare psychedelia

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SPACEMEN 3

THE PERFECT PERSCRIPTION

Original Rare 9 track LP On Genius (Rough Trade) Records.  (Catalog # geniLP 001) Released in 1987. Radio station vinyl. The vinyl is NM appearing for the most part unplayed.  Light paper mark from folding sleeve.    The radio station signature is penned across the front, along with a catalog sticker.

 Review:

 Drawing together some earlier material and a slew of new songs, Spacemen 3 tied everything together on the brilliant Perfect Prescription, the clear point of departure from tribute to psych inspirations and finding its own unique voice. Planned as a concept album, Perfect Prescription works where so many other similar efforts failed due to the strength of the individual songs, as well as the smart focus of the concept in question — a vision of a drug trip from inception to its blasted conclusion, highs and lows fully intact. The bookending of the album makes that much clear — "Take Me to the Other Side" is a brash, exultant charge into the joys of the experience, a sharp, tight performance. "Call the Doctor," meanwhile, is a pretty-but-wounded conclusion, husky singing and a drowsy mood detailing the final collapse. The many highlights in between beginning and end are so striking that the album is practically a best-of in all but name. Sonic's eventual work with Spectrum and E.A.R. gets clearly signaled via the majestic reprise of the Transparent Radiation single, here introduced by the swirling flange of an edited "Ecstasy Symphony," also originally from that release. Sonic's breathless delivery of the Red Krayola classic, combined with the elegant arrangement, is a marvel to hear. "Walkin' With Jesus," meanwhile, is practically the birth of Spiritualized, the much different earlier takes now become a reflective combination of acoustic guitar, two-note keyboard lines, and Pierce's yearning, aching desire. The intentionally nasty flip to that is the storming charge of "Things'll Never Be the Same," a call to arms (or injecting something into them) that's as disturbing as it is energetic, the compressed, violent rage of feedback and rhythmic charge a gripping listen. Guest performers from the Jazz Butcher family tree, including Alex Green on sax, help expand the record's sonic range even further.

 This vinyl is from an upstate NY college radio station. Most of the record jackets will have ink writing and catalog stickers on the covers,  and labels as well as comments,  punch holes, notches, bent & cut corners, shelf wear and tears on the inner and outer sleeves.   Some will have fingerprints and dust on them (especially on popular titles).  I will visually grade each and test play some titles.  I will state if a title is a gold-stamped ('stock' designate) PROMO, or a limited 'first' edition WLP stated on the label.   If the label is not 'white', then it will be a different shade than the regular stock copy.  

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