Forged Prescriptions is a 2-CD album by Spacemen 3

Spacemen 3

Spacemen 3 were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce. Their music was "colorfully mind-altering, but not in the sense of the acid rock of the '60s; instead, the band developed its own minimalistic psychedelia"...

, containing the entirety of their album The Perfect Prescription

The Perfect Prescription

1989 re-issue Adds b-sides from the "Take Me To The Other Side" single as bonus tracks:1995 re-issue Adds two tracks from the "Walkin' With Jesus" single and the Transparent Radiation EP as bonus tracks:...

 as well as alternate and demo versions of the same songs, and some previously unreleased tracks.

In his liner notes, Spacemen 3 member Sonic Boom says this release presents the album's songs in their "full guitar laden versions with all the layers of beautifully streamlined guitar—considered by us to be too hard to replicate live and therefore reduced for the original release."

Forged Prescriptions came out on Space Age Recordings in 2003, and on Big Beat Records

Big Beat Records

Big Beat Records is an East Coast hip hop and dance-music record label that operates as a subsidiary of Atlantic Records.-History:Founded as an indie label in 1987 by 22-year-old New York deejay Craig Kallman, the company initially operated out of Kallman's parents' apartment...

in 2004.

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Things'll Never Be the Same" – 5:54
2. "Walking with Jesus" – 5:12
3. "Come Down Easy (Demo Version)" – 6:02
4. "Transparent Radiation (Single Version)" – 4:12
5. "Ode to Street Hassle" – 4:45
6. "Call the Doctor" – 4:11
7. "Ecstacy Symphony" – 9:06
8. "Feel So Good" – 5:28
9. "Soul 1" – 5:44

Disc 2

1. "Transparent Radiation" – 7:52
2. "Come Down Easy" – 6:43
3. "Walking with Jesus (Demo Version)" – 3:58
4. "Things'll Never Be the Same (Demo Version)" – 5:54
5. "We Sell Soul (Previously Unreleased cover of 13th Floor Elevators track "Don't Fall Down")" – 4:56
6. "Starship (Demo Version)" – 5:01
7. "Take Me to the Other Side (Demo Version)" – 3:50
8. "Velvet Jam (Previously Unreleased)" – 4:46
9. "I Want You Right Now (Previously Unreleased)" – 6:10