Playing With Fire

by Spacemen 3

Playing With Fire cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 February 1989
  • Label: Fire
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:04:38
  • Community rating: 4.12/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Sonic Boom, Jason Pierce, Pete Kember

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Playing With Fire' is a massively influential, fuzz-drenched cornerstone of the space rock revival and neo-psychedelia movements. Spacemen 3 utilizes incredibly repetitive, hypnotic guitar drones and heavily drug-influenced spiritual lyricism to craft a deeply soothing, occasionally noisy, and sparse psychedelic atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, noisy, drugs, minimalistic, droning

Tracklist

  1. Honey (3:01)
  2. Come Down Softly To My Soul (3:46)
  3. How Does It Feel? (7:58)
  4. I Believe It (3:19)
  5. Revolution (5:57)
  6. Let Me Down Gently (4:29)
  7. So Hot (Wash Away All Of My Tears) (2:38)
  8. Suicide (11:03)
  9. Lord Can You Hear Me? (4:33)
  10. Suicide (Live) (12:26)
  11. Repeater (How Does It Feel?) (Live) (5:28)

Credits

  • Spacemen 3 - primary artist
  • Will Carruthers - bass [bass vibrations]
  • The Robert Winterman Design Group - layout [sleeve layout]
  • George Peckham - mastered by [cut by]
  • Phil Nicholls - photography by
  • Jason Pierce - producer, vocals, guitar [fender telecaster], guitar [rickenbacker], written-by
  • Sonic Boom - producer, vocals, guitar [vox starstreamer], guitar [fender jaguar], organ [vox super continental]
  • Pete Kember - written-by

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