The Perfect Prescription

Critic Score
Based on 3 reviews
1987 Ratings: #21 / 210
User Score
Based on 283 ratings
1987 Ratings: #70
September 28, 1987 / Release Date
LP / Format
Glass / Label
J. Spaceman, Sonic BoomProducer
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Critic Reviews

90
AllMusic
The many highlights in between beginning and end are so striking that the album is practically a best-of in all but name.
80
Record Collector

With each song absent of any musical wastage, melodies are fired like electromagnetic chaff into the dark beyond, never ceasing to exist, instead drifting and reverberating endlessly around the spiritual cosmos.

OldTask
75

Lovely Neo Psychedelia, Immense vibes, feels good. Good shit, highly recommend.

cavan
79

this album gave me a little headache but a good headache mmmmm droning neo-psychedelia lou reed interpolations mmmmmmmmmm strumstrumstrum

Litterbox
95

Spacemen 3 is a neat little band. The main members of the band are Peter Kember a.k.a. Sonic Boom and Jason Pierce a.k.a J. Spaceman, who would later find greater success with the band Spiritualized. Spacemen 3 takes inspiration from many psychedelic bands. Their sophomore album "The Perfect Prescription" is a concept album about a drug trip. “Ecstasy Symphony/Transparent Radiation” represents the highest point of the drug trip, "Things'll Never Be The Same" ... read more

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