| Playing with Fire | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Spacemen 3 |
| Cover: | Spacemen 3 Playing with Fire Original Cover.jpg |
| Released: | 27 February 1989 |
| Length: | 46:45 |
| Label: | Fire (original UK release) Bomp! (original US release) Rough Trade (Germany) Hitch-Hyke (Greece) Space Age Recordings (2001 UK reissue) Taang! (2009 US reissue) |
| Prev Title: | Performance |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Recurring |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
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.
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.
Playing with Fire was featured in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[1] Stereogum placed "Revolution" at twentieth in their list of the "31 Essential Shoegaze Tracks".