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Spacemen 3 Big City (Demo) Vinyl For its 50th release The Great Pop Supplement offers up this incredible pairing of like minded spirits, for a total one off split 45. Two unreleased nuggets from legendary psych rockers from both sides of the pond. The Spacemen tune is a beautiful demo of their last ever single, the mighty "Big City". Stripped of its lyrical nod to the Electric Prunes, but still very much displaying the Kraftwerk influence of the original, the softer spoken lyrical passages offer up an almost confessional electro blues variant, unique to this early take.
After 2 studio LPs, Wooden Shjips are often bracketed with the Spacemen, with their blissed out Velvets / Doors / Kraut sound- so it's perhaps of no surprise that they should take on a Spacemen gem for their own reworking. "I Believe It" from the classic "Playing with Fire" album gets the nod for a radical overhaul - where the original's predominantly keyboard lead is given the Shjips' guitar fuzz and 2 note organ treatment. A killer take on an old favourite, debuted recently on the road and offered up here as their first outright UK release. Packaging as ever with The Great Pop Supplement is of paramount importance, cover art is provided by Natty Brooker (the original spacemen percussionist) and is from original work put together during his time within the band's first line-up. A pretty much essential and incredible 45, destined not to hang around long....
Tracklist:
a. Spacemen 3 'Big City (Demo)'
aa. Wooden Shjips 'I Believe It'
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