Sound of Confusion

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Sound of Confusion is the debut studio album by the space rock band Spacemen 3. It was released in July 1986 on Glass Records and runs about 39 minutes. A longer 1994 re‑release on Taang! is about 71 minutes and adds extra tracks.

The album blends garage rock with neo-psychedelia. Original UK release was on Glass Records; later UK reissues appeared on Fire, and a US version came out in 1995 on Taang!.

Spacemen 3 produced the album themselves. Most tracks were written by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce, but four of the seven songs are covers: Hey Man combines the melody of the gospel song Amen with the lyrics of Bukka White’s Fixin’ to Die Blues; Rollercoaster was originally by the 13th Floor Elevators; Mary Anne is based on Juicy Lucy’s Just One Time; and Little Doll is by The Stooges. The closing track, O.D. Catastrophe, borrows the vocal melody from The Stooges’ TV Eye and was once titled T.V. Catastrophe.

The 1994 Taang! re-release includes three tracks from the Walkin’ With Jesus EP and a demo of the song 2.35.

All tracks are by Kember and Pierce except where noted. Sound of Confusion was followed by Transparent Radiation in 1987.