Playing with Fire (Spacemen 3 album)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[2]
Select	5/5^[3]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	9/10^[4]

Playing with Fire is the third studio album by Spacemen 3, released in February 1989. The original CD version included two live bonus tracks recorded in the Netherlands, and an ensuing release on Taang! Records included two more b-sides from the "Revolution" single. A reissued version from 2001 has an entire extra disc of demos and rarities. The album was featured in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

In a similar musical borrowing to those on the band's prior albums, the song "Revolution" bears more than a passing resemblance to "Black to Comm" by the MC5.

Track listing

Original release (Fire FIRELP16)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Honey"	Peter Kember	3:00
2.	"Come Down Softly to My Soul"	Jason Pierce	3:46
3.	"How Does It Feel?"	Kember	7:58
4.	"I Believe It"	Kember	3:20
5.	"Revolution"	Kember	5:56
6.	"Let Me Down Gently"	Kember	4:30
7.	"So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)"	Pierce	2:38
8.	"Suicide"	Pierce, Kember	11:03
9.	"Lord Can You Hear Me?"	Pierce	4:34

2001 reissue (Space Age Recordings)

Disc 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Honey"	Kember	3:00
2.	"Come Down Softly to My Soul"	Pierce	3:46
3.	"How Does It Feel?"	Kember	7:58
4.	"I Believe It"	Kember	3:20
5.	"Revolution"	Kember	5:56
6.	"Let Me Down Gently"	Kember	4:30
7.	"So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)"	Pierce	2:38
8.	"Suicide"	Pierce, Kember	11:03
9.	"Lord Can You Hear Me?"	Pierce	4:34
10.	"Suicide (Live)"	Pierce, Kember	12:25
11.	"Repeater (How Does It Feel?) (Live)"	Kember	5:31
12.	"Ché"	Martin Rev, Alan Vega, Kember	4:31
13.	"May the Circle Be Unbroken"	Traditional arr. Pierce	3:46

Disc 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Honey (Demo)"	Kember	3:24
2.	"Let Me Down Gently (Drum Mix)"	Kember	4:51
3.	"How Does It Feel? (Alternative Version)"	Kember	8:25
4.	"Suicide (Alternate Mix)"	Pierce, Kember	11:51
5.	"Lord Can You Hear Me? (Demo Vocal)"	Pierce	4:41
6.	"I Believe It (Alternate Mix)"	Kember	3:20
7.	"Ché (Maracas Mix)"	Rev, Vega, Kember	4:38
8.	"Any Way That You Want Me (Demo)"	Chip Taylor	3:21
9.	"Girl on Fire (Demo)"	Phil Parfitt	2:06

References

^ Raggett, Ned. "Playing with Fire – Spacemen 3". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
^ Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Spacemen 3". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 763–64. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^ Wilkinson, Roy (July 1999). "Spacemen 3: Playing with Fire". Select (109): 92–93.
^ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.

External links

Album online on Radio3Net a radio channel of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company

[1] Raggett, Ned. "Playing with Fire – Spacemen 3". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 June 2009.

[2] Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Spacemen 3". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 763–64. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

[3] Wilkinson, Roy (July 1999). "Spacemen 3: Playing with Fire". Select (109): 92–93.

[4] Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.

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