Track Of Yesterday: Spacemen 3 - Hypnotised (Space Age Recordings)

 

I’m not going to pretend that I’ve always liked Spacemen 3, because that would be silly. And it’s funny because what I had picked up on about them before hearing anything they’d done falls nicely into line with ‘Hypnotised.’ This is neither positive or negative, merely “OK”. And so I couldn’t imagine anything like this being made anywhere else but The UK, even though it clearly borrows, consciously or unconsciously, from Phil Spector and The Velvets. I find it interesting that they weren’t more in the cross hairs of the British rock press during the nineteen eighties. I mean they were clearly written about and interviewed, but maybe there was only room for The Jesus and Mary Chain at the time. Anyway, I’m discovering their music late in the day, which is nice. And I am struggling to come up with anything that defines this track better than the inevitably accurate and prosaic Youtube comments. So read them instead of this waffle.