Tag: spacemen-3

Come Down Easy, by Spacemen 3.

The fun thing about this song is that I think there might be a few different iterations of it on different Spacemen 3 records? Like, why do the lyrics online say “In 1987…” if my memory of them singing “In 1986…” is so clear? Or maybe I was, uh, following their instructions a little too closely at times when I was listening to this music closer to 1996 and 1997, but whatever.

This song is a simple blues thing that gets weird and psychedelic, because that’s what this band does with lots of songs.

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I probably should’ve done more mixing to start out clean and ramp up the psychedelics on this track, but I did not, so it’s spaced out from the jump.

And a little hot on one of the vocal tracks apparently? I did not catch that until I heard the video. Deal with it.

Walking With Jesus, by Spacemen 3.

The first time I heard Spacemen 3, I was in a record store… somewhere. I can picture the place with some precision, but I have no idea where in the world it was. It wasn’t Amoeba in San Francisco. It’s possible it was Princeton Record Exchange? Ooh, looking at pictures and thinking about the timeline when I know I was there in junior year of college working on a movie, yeahhhh, it must’ve been there.*

The first Spacemen 3 record I bought was called Dreamweapon and was mostly two long epic drone pieces, and it was wonderful. Sometime later I ended up with things like Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To on vinyl, and heard this song — listed now as Sound of Confusion.

Didn’t have a chance to layer on some electric guitar, but that’s what it needs. Also didn’t listen to the song before recording, which seems like a fun game. It’s only two chords, so my memory of the melody is not too far off.

*That can’t be right, because I already had a different Spacemen 3 album around sophomore year that I used in the closing credits of a video project, so… where did I hear Dreamweapon? Oh, wow, was this a Miami-summer-after-freshman-year thing? That’s when friends got me into Stereolab, The Sea And Cake, and this would have been a logical extension of that at the time… We made a few trips to this one used CD spot but heck if I can remember where.