Track Listing

1. Honey
2. Come Down Softly to My Soul
3. How Does It Feel?
4. I Believe It
5. Revolution
6. Let Me Down Gently
7. So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)
8. Suicide
9. Lord Can You Hear Me?
10. Suicide [Live]
11. Repeater (How Does It Feel) [Live]
12. Che
13. May the Circle Be Unbroken

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29568 in Music
• Released on: 2003-09-23
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Customer Reviews

Excellent Album
This is the second of the Spacemen 3 discs I picked up and I like it even better than the first. The first was The Perfect Prescription, which is unbelievable. Both albums are phenomenal choices for everything from late-night listening to all-out rockin'. The tracks range from dreamy psychedelic wanderings (Honey, How Does It Feel, So Hot) to feedback-laden assaults (Suicide, Revolution). I've seen a lot of comparisons to the Velvet Underground in the reviews and I have to agree. It's got a very British garage-band minimalistic sound mixed in with incredible post-production and downright guitar genius.

I'm a huge fan of Spiritualized and I am totally enjoying digging into the band's roots. I've also been checking out the other post-Spacemen outfits: Reverberation, Spectrum/E.A.R., Sonic Boom, and have liked all of it so far.

This album is definitely worth buying.

It's very beautiful for your ears
Playing with Fire steps away from Spacemen 3's distortion- and reverb-soaked early albums and instead takes on a more orchestral feel. With a good mix of covers and originals, loud (on a few) and soft, Spacemen 3 expanded their M.O. on this album and lay groundwork for the current 'explosion' of orchestral-pop records. Soothing and brilliant, Playing with Fire has a nearly timeless quality that you will appreciate now and years from now.

Spacemen 3 at their blissed out best
From the opening chord on "Honey" through "May the Cricle be Unbroken," this album is Spacemen 3's best. Honey opens the album with a plaintive pop song in the most twisted sense and goes to "Come Down Softly to My Soul" another quiet song in the orchestral vein of songs off "The Perfect Prescription." The CD continues through more quiet, contemplative songs with the exception of Suicide and Revolution, both songs fleshed out on the "Performance" album. "Let Me Down Gently" and "Lord Can You Hear Me" display the influence American gospel had on Spacemen 3, but don't let it scare you. These songs are some of the best they ever did and show just how great they were. Still in the underground, they will never break through, but that's the best thing: to be part of something so great that only a few people know about.