Spacemen Are Go!:Live In Europe 1989 --- Spacemen 3

Ah, Spacemen 3. Poster boys of straight-edge. The best band to ever come out of Europe? Possibly.

I found this CD in a small shop in Fredonia NY. THere's a story which goes along with that, but I'll recount it some other time.

This is a super-cool eleven song collection of live material from the shows S3 played in Germany in '89. Great stuff, including a cool version of "Rollercoaster" to kick the whole thing off, a great version of "2:35", a full-form fuzz blast of "Starship", the requisite "Revolution" freak-out, and the first calm electric version of "Walkin' WIth Jesus" these ears have ever heard (a calm acoutic gtr/organ version can be found on "Perfect Perscription", though), complete with the original "'Cause I can't stand this life without sweet heroin" lyrics that were deleted from all studio versions of the song. Oh, and there's also a sixteen-minute version of "Suicide".

Very nice stuff if you can track it down. Excellent liner notes from DroneOn majordomo Chris Barrus. (Bomp!, no address listed)

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Mike Keegan
9.6.1999

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