The Perfect Prescription
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| Studio album by Spacemen 3 | ||||
| Released | 1987 | |||
| Genre | Space rock | |||
| Length | 46:00 | |||
| Label | Glass Records (1987) Fire Records (UK) (1989 and 2003 re-issues) Genius Records (1995 re-issue) Taang! Records (1996 re-issue) |
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The Perfect Prescription is the second studio album by Spacemen 3.
[edit] Track listing
| # | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Take Me to the Other Side" | 4:40 |
| 2. | "Walkin' With Jesus" | 5:03 |
| 3. | "Ode to Street Hassle" | 3:54 |
| 4. | "Ecstasy Symphony/Transparent Radiation (Flashback) ("Transparent Radiation" is a Red Krayola cover)" | 9:42 |
| 5. | "Feel So Good" | 5:24 |
| 6. | "Things'll Never Be the Same" | 5:58 |
| 7. | "Come Down Easy" | 6:42 |
| 8. | "Call the Doctor" | 3:45 |
Ensuing reissues on CD include different bonus tracks appended to the album. The Fire Records disc adds two instrumental b-sides to the "Take Me to the Other Side" single: "Soul 1" (a Stax-like ballad) and "That's Just Fine." The Taang! Records release also includes these songs, as well as a cover of the MC5's cover of a Sun Ra song, "Starship," as well as "Ecstasy." The bonus tracks on the Genius Records CD are "Starship," and the 17-minute 13th Floor Elevators cover, "Rollercoaster."
The Perfect Prescription was intended to mirror the highs and lows of taking drugs.[citation needed] The music becomes continually more orchestral and serene until the peak high of the trip, represented well by Ecstacy Symphony/Transparent Radiation (Flashback), and then moving on to the moment of realization in an ecstacy trip 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. The potentially fatal effects of overdose are portrayed in the final track Call the Doctor.
