A brilliant and pure psychedelic tune by Spacemen 3, included in their great second album "The Perfect Prescription", released in September 1987. "The Perfect Prescription" is a concept album, "a vision of a drug trip from inception to its blasted conclusion, highs and lows fully intact". The music becomes progressively more orchestral and serene until the high of the trip, represented by 'Ecstacy Symphony'/'Transparent Radiation (Flashback)', moving on to the moment of realization where the high has faded and the comedown ensues, represented by the harsh opening guitar chords in 'Things'll Never Be the Same'. Coming down is represented in the blues based 'Come Down Easy', whilst the potentially fatal effects of an overdose are portrayed in the final track 'Call the Doctor'. The music was written by the band except 'Transparent Radiation' which is a Red Krayola cover from their 1967 album "Parable of Arable Land". Spacemen 3 was an English psychedelic rock band formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Jason Pierce, also known as "J. Spaceman", and Peter Kember, usually known as "Sonic Boom", who had originally met at art college. Both Pierce and Kember were guitarists, keyboard players and vocalists, so added bassist Pete "Bassman" Bain (sometimes referred to as Baines), and drummer Natty Brooker. They played together for a couple years, with extensive jams and rehearsals, but played only low-key, local, concerts, before releasing their first album "Sound of Confusion" in ...
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