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Guys, if you keep going like this, I'm going to run out of space on the card.

Unfortunately, I only know Bonsai superstar, good sfascia.

Well, it seemed like just another way to say that the group in question is crap to you. And, dear Massimof, I would never forgive you for that :)

I was about to ask you Scazzy, I've never heard of them, neither Guru Guru nor Eloy. I’ll look them up.

@ giov..exactly giov, that's why I consider the Jesus to be inferior to the Spacemen, even though some ideas actually originated from the Reid brothers. @ Caz...it's not that I see a fault in doing revivals, if done well like Interpol, it's enjoyable. For me, this isn't a revival, it's not a slavish imitation of '60s bands. That would be revival. @ Massimof...the reason for the 3/5 rating is explained well in the review and it makes sense. Then I don't understand this sentence "By the way, this would be -one of the- few salvable bands of the '80s (which you, by the way, give 3/5)? Come on"...tell me it's not as I think.

Giov, I think they're way better than the Jesus and Mary Chains (who I also like), give them a listen and you won't regret it, maybe start with the first Sound Of Confusion, I think you might enjoy it. If you can't find anything, I'm willing to send them to your house, really.

I was really hoping someone would make one about them! Well done, Scazzy, just for that. They are one of my favorite bands, just like Lino B.-Patrizia (and by the way, we look a lot alike!). As for the review, I agree with some points and disagree with others. I like that you chose to write a non-review (because you describe their music in general but not the one on the album) to try to bring some "clarity" and to talk about Spacemen 3, and you picked the right album; a compilation of b-sides and rarities can't be a milestone, so it gets the appropriate weight and one can choose not to speak about the music. If you had done it that way for Playing With Fire or The Perfect Prescription, it would have been a shame, right? (I would have totally "inchiappettato" you, to be honest :D). Great mention of Krautrock, even if they couldn't be defined as such, the influence of that movement was strong, and if you notice, it's never mentioned in the reviews about them you find online (going by memory, I might be wrong). I don’t share the term revival; to me, Interpol are a decent revival and mannered, Darkness are a terrible revival. Spacemen 3 are a non-mannered reinterpretation of psychedelia; they did start from the psychedelic garage of bands like the 13th Floor Elevators (which they pay homage to with the cover of Rollercoaster), but then they moved elsewhere. Just listen to the first Sound of Confusion where they were still very much tied to the sounds of the '60s, but you could already see the path they would later take, like the gospel-rock side of Pierce that blossomed definitively with his Spiritualized, or the subsequent minimalism of Sonic Boom with the Spectrum. Then they moved to that magnificent hybrid of The Perfect Prescription, an ambitious and divine concept album, until they reached Playing With Fire, a work that is totally different from the previous ones, more minimal, played more on sounds and reverbs created by the guitars (How Does It Feel on Playing With Fire, for example) than on real riffs, my favorite. So, it’s not like they did revival; they have the foundations of others but then they built their own house :). A 3/5 rating would be fair, but I can't go below 4, it's stronger than me.

if if :D...you're right about John Cale.

no one but me, hal and the editor commenting on this record...how sad :|

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