We all know the Don't look back series of events that take place in some venues around the world and commemorate mythic albums of mythic bands bringing them live from the first song to the last in the same order they were published. We've been able to see Slint's Spiderland, Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque, Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, Low's Things we lost in the fire, and some more.
So they've proved that looking back is not always a retrograde and rancid activity done by some people who always think that, as Karina said, any past age is always better than the present, or "there's not good music nowadays". Sometimes is just a memory exercise to understand better the present or to remind memories and feelings we thought they were forgotten or impossible to revive again.
So this is what I'm going to do with a new section, named with the not-so-original title "REAR-VIEW MIRROR", with unknown periodicity, order or criteria (this is my blog so I do what I really really want).
And I'm going to focus more on bands than on records, bands that were important in one moment of my life and that they are still important nowadays, even if they don't exist anymore.
So here we are, with the first opportunity of reminding our pasts (thanks, Youtube) and the first lucky group is no other than Spacemen 3.
Spacemen 3 were a band formed in 1982 that split in 1990, basically run by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce who were meant to do something together as they were born the same day. We can define their sound as "hypnomonotony" or repetitive drones of two chord noise but it developed in many different ways until they published their last record that was recorded by the two of them separately, each one one side of the record, proving that the difference of styles they were into at that moment was obvious, which took them to split the band, and form Spektrum and Spiritualized respectively.
And now let's watch the music with some of their most famous songs:
REVOLUTION

WALKING WITH JESUS

HYPNOTISED

BIG CITY