Hawkwind [Import]

Product Description
1996 11 TRACKSDigitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios and containsextra tracks and are housed in fold out digipaks reflectigeach album's original artwork.

Tracks:

Earth Calling
Born To Go
Down Through The Night
The Awakening
Lord Of Light
Black Corridor
Space Is Deep
Electronic No.1
Orgone Accumulator
Upside Down
10 Seconds Of Forever
Brainstorm

Tracks:

7 By 7
Sonic Attack
Time We Left This World Today
Master of The Universe
Welcome To The Future
You Shouldn't Do That
Master Of The Universe
Born To Go

Album Description

UK remastered & repackaged reissue of the British progressive rock act's 1973 album with 3 added bonus tracks 'You Shouldn't Do That', 'Master Of The Universe' & 'Born To Go'. 2001.

Album Details

Digitally remastered with 3 bonus tracks!

Customer Reviews:

Mott's Ritual.......2006-10-10

In the lead up to Christmas 1972 there was a massive disturbance in the force as the mighty Hawkwind had a freak hit single with their `Silver Machine ` reaching Number three in the singles chart. I am not saying that this exactly made Hawkwind into pop stars, but it certainly gave them access to a far wider audience.
`Silver Machine' was even more of a freak than it appears. For a start it was a live recording, which was almost unheard of in singles land, especially as it was nearly five minutes long (even if it had been heavily edited with Robert Calvert's vocals completely erased and replaced with the far more aggressive growl of Hawkwind's bass player Ian Kiliminster, known to all as Lemmy). The sight of the Hawkwind video being played next to the Nolan Sisters on Top of the Pops did bring a smile to the face, but imagine if they had let Lemmy into the same studio as the Sisters?
It's not as though Hawkwind had not already enjoyed success, as their first three albums had already charted in the U.K. `Hawkwind' (1970), `In Search of Space' (1971) (complete with fabulous foldout cover and Hawklog), and `Doremi Fasol Latido' (1972) which had a vaguely space concept.
But with the money generated by a hit single Hawkwind decided to take their Space Ritual on the road for a massive tour of the United Kingdom and surrounding planets. A road crew was brought in, the most impressive display of lights were acquired under the auspicious eye of Liquid Len accompanied by his crew of Lensmen, costumes were fashioned, famous English D.J. Andy Dunkley was appointed Mothership control, one of the most impressive stage settings was put together to house the band for their rocket ride, actual dancers were put on the payroll and given chorography, and most impressively the band put in some rehearsal time.
The band had been stable for a whole year, which for this bunch of space cadets was in itself an event. Baring in mind that there had already been three other bass players before Lemmy secured the job, a lead guitarist had been lost and nobody had bothered to replace him, whilst the drum stool had already moved into Spinal Tap mode. It was almost a rule in the band that they never did two studio albums with the same line up.
From these early beginnings, though, nobody could have ever imagined that over the years Hawkwind would have such a heavy influence on such diverse musical threads as Ambient, World, Disco (seriously), Trance, Stoner Rock, Heavy Metal, and of course Space Rock.
Fortunately for us all several of the shows were recorded, and the best of two of them from Liverpool and Manchester have been spliced together to give the complete experience, all done in the correct running order. This was first released as a double album in 1973 at the price of a single album, Hawkwind being Hawkwind and always giving value for money. As well as a poster size foldout cover, you also got two booklets, one telling the story of the Space Ritual joining the dots between songs, the other giving you all the information you could possibly want about the tour.
In 1996 EMI went one step further and re-released the Space Ritual in Digi-Pak form reproducing the original artwork, whilst adding some extra photos from the tour. The music itself has been wonderfully re-mastered to give a much clearer sound than the original vinyl, or for that matter the first CD release. Due to time constraints first time round (you could only get eighty minutes of music on four sides of vinyl) the encore of `You Shouldn't Do That' had to be left off. Well no more; here you get the full concert encore and all. As if that was not enough over twenty minutes of bonus live Hawkwind has been tacked onto the end with two tracks from the hard to get Greasy Truckers benefit concert.
The concert starts with the Starship Hawkwind on final countdown for its rocket ride. Robert Calvert, Hawkwind's resident poet, gets things underway with `Earth Calling' amidst an array of Hawkwind, bubble music, audio generators, countdowns, swazzles, electronic robot music, swishing, and after burns.
Blastoff occurs with Dave Brock blazing out the riffs from his sonic axe of `Born To Go'; then the rest of the band comes thundering in. Now you must remember that nobody had ever bothered to mention to Lemmy that the bass guitar was a rhythm instrument, as he goes note for note with his captain's guitar. Simon King on drums may have had his failings, but subtlety was not one of them as he thrashes away for all he is worth.
Everybody's favourite, hippy Nik Turner hoots and honks his way through every song on his battered saxophone, only reverting to the flute for those short quieter moments when Robert Calvert would get up to read out some of his poetry or to speak out the words of Michael Moorcock the famous science fiction writer who had written special passages for the Space Ritual. `Sonic Attack' is particularly disturbing in the concept of the Space Ritual, with the whole band echoing the narrator's speech. Then behind this you had the twin attack of Del Dettmar and Dik Mik on synthesisers, audio generators, and electronics giving out that very special Hawkwind wall of sound. The songs were most of `Doremi Fasol Latido' plus any songs that fitted in from the Hawkwind back catalogue. `Masters of The Universe' for example fitted in very well, plus material specially written for the mission. This was Heavy Metal at its very best, no matter what different wrapper you want to give it.
Of course Hawkwind was a very visual band in every way. Out the front of the stage for the journey was the larger than life Amazonian dancer Stacia, who somehow during each performance managed to lose every stitch of space garb adorning her ample body. As there were always a lot of spotty sixteen year old boys down the front of the stage, it probably means that Stacia was the first naked female seen by thousands of young lustful teenagers. To answer your next question, "Yes, those thoughtful people from EMI have included a few snapshots in one of the booklets," purely for historic reasons you understand. I know this has nothing to do with the music, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
More than thirty years later, Hawkwind are still flying, sadly without Stacia, who went off and married drummer Roy Dyke, which makes her Mrs Dyke, hmmm. Lemmy has of course gone on to become the founder of Heavy Metal with the mighty Motorhead. Whilst David Brock, with new Hawknauts, still leads Hawkwind, who released a new studio album in 2005 called `Take Me To Your Leader', their first album since `Distant Horizons' in 1997. Hawkwind's Space Ritual is a great trip.
Mott the Dog.

listen with your ears not your mouth .......2005-11-28

i'd like to say to the other reviewer who said don't kid yourself that this is nonsense hello it's called space rock for a reason because it doesn't have to make sense and being spacey and trippy is kool man better try it something you may enjoy it
than working the 9 to 5 circle

but hey anyway a truly great live cd from the pioneers of space/rock hawkwind yeah the drumming is repative but it's cool
man way kool and if your a pot smoking hippy there's nothing better than listening to this album.. hey man i must sound stoned well maybe i am, who knows?

a classic album without a fiddle of an orange

Psychedelic Warlords!.......2005-10-01

I have been a HawkFan since the acid daze of the early 70's and I highly recommend this album (and most others) by Hawkwind! They are unique and not widely known in the U.S. although they have an almost cult following around the world. Their "Live" perforances are legendary (which is why I chose to review this album). The British fantasy/sci-fi author Michael Moorcock is a huge fan and has collaborated on some Hawkwind lyrics from time to time. The band members change often (Dave Brock being the only constant) and that is part of their mystique. If you like Heavy Metal/Space Rock you will Love Hawkwind and "Space Ritual"!

One of the best live cds ever.......2005-03-09

The bad things first. Yes, it is a bit overlong, and yes, some of the spoken poems are a bit insipid. Having said that, this cd contains some of the best live music I've ever heard.

The heart of the cd is the old (side 2 + 3) from the original album - that is, from "Lord of Light" to "Brainstorm". "The Black Corridor" is one of the spoken poems that actually works. You then get 8+ minutes of a monster song "Space is Deep" that is truly amazing - music so thick and nuanced that it could be sliced with a knife.

After some electronic noodling comes "Orgone Accumulator". You don't need to know what an orgone accumulator is to enjoy (though it doesn't hurt - try googling for it). "Upside Down" is fairly forgettable, but then comes another halfway decent poem "10 Seconds to Forever" and then, what may be one of the best live songs ever (any genre any musician). "Brainstorm" is one of those songs that you can listen to again and again - the lyrics don't mean much (though they set an interesting vibe) but the music...o the music. This is a song that deserves to be played as loud as you can get away with.

As for the rest of the cd...well, some interesting bits and some embarrassing bits ("Sonic Attack" in particular is outstanding in a bad movie sort of way). But who cares. Edit it down to 40-50 minutes and you have something to enjoy again and again. Hard to believe this came out five years after the beatles broke up...hard to believe hawkwind never became more than a cult success. Get it and enjoy!

Don't Kid Yourself.......2005-01-04

I loved this when it came out, but I also loved lots of things then that weren't good for me. Not that this is harmful in any way... it's just that it is really, really awful.

Lemmy is the only one in the band that could play with any facility or sense of melody, and even he wasn't exactly at his best then. The drummer is an unsteady, two-lick metronome, and Dave Brock continuously uses a wah pedal on his guitar solos to try to cover up for the fact that he sounds like he's playing with his toes. Overlay it all with undifferentiated sonic sludge, add a flute/reed player who seems to have never learned half the notes on either instrument, and sprinkle with "cosmic" lyrics that weren't so much goofy as stupid - that was Hawkwind.

Don't buy the hype. Hawkwind was always terrible, if terribly sincere. They were a joke then, and if you pay what they're asking for this idiocy, the joke's on you. Want space rock? Buy Gong, or even Planet Gong, not this mud.

Average customer rating:

A good start
HAWKWIND LIVES!!
ADJUST ME, Adjust Me, adjust me ...
One of their finest!!!
Need a little help with this one

Hall of the Mountain Grill
Hawkwind
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ASIN: B00005MCX3
Release Date: 2001-08-27

Tracks:

The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)
Wind Of Change
D-Rider
Web Weaver
You'd Better Believe It
Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Lost Johnny
Goat Willow
Paradox
You'd Better Believe It (Single Version Edit)
The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke) (Single Version)
Paradox (Remix Single Edit)
It's So Easy

Album Description

UK remastered & repackaged reissue of the British progressive rock act's 1974 album with 5 added bonus tracks 'Paradox', 'You'd Better Believe It' (single version edit), 'The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)'(single version), 'Paradox' (remix single edit) & 'It's So Easy'. 2001.

Album Details

Digitally remastered with 5 bonus tracks!

Customer Reviews:

A good start.......2007-03-15

This is definitely the most "musical" of the earlier Hawkwind catalog.Lost Johnny is the standout track for me,with vocals lent from Lemmy(later of Motorhead fame).it's more of a song structured album as opposed to the earlier spacey 13 minute dabblings of previous recordings.A great introduction to any interested party.Definitely a must have for any rock collection.

HAWKWIND LIVES!!.......2006-08-04

A REAL WINNER ..A MUST FOR TEMPORAL AGENTS OR ANY METAPHYSICAL TRAVELERS....

ADJUST ME, Adjust Me, adjust me ..........2006-06-27

What is the problem with these guys? The make awsome music but seems to have a problem trying to have a descent sound on an album. I bought an album a couple of years back and let me tell you, there was almost no music on it? Talking, talking, soft music in the background, big arena echo all the way through the album.

Hawkwind was only wind to me until I bought this album. WOW you better believe it, they're genius. My favorites are D-rider, Paradox, Web weaver and can't explain why.

One of their finest!!!.......2006-05-01

Even though Hawkwind are one of my very favorite bands, their recording output has been patchy at times (an opinion shared by virtually everyone) and it's sometimes disheartening having to dig your way through all the rip-off compilations to get to the real great stuff. But wow, when you finally get right down to it, Hawkwind may have released some really REALLY bad live stuff (although when they were at their peak, they were pretty unstoppable; see the legendary SPACE RITUAL), their early studio output during the 1970s is some of the greatest psychedelic space rock out there.

Which brings us to HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN GRILL, which easily makes the Top 5 for this band, and is only definitively beaten by its immediate successor, the peerless WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME. The album starts off with a real winner of a track, "Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)," which in just under 7 minutes perfectly condenses the two characterists that most people define them by... their hard-rocking Black Sabbath side and their proggy Pink Floyd side.

The band decides to mellow out on the next song "Wind of Change," and if you're not completely engaged by the time "D-Rider" kicks in, you're listening to the wrong band. Another highlight is "Lost Johnny," with a prominent vocal performance from future Motorheader Lemmy (this song would appear on that band's debut album) and the haunting album closer "Paradox." When you get down to it, there isn't a poor song on this album.

Hawkwind's early studio LPs have been re-released in recent years, and this is the last of those reissues. You get four bonus tracks and a nice lengthy booklet for band fanatics like myself... What the hell are you waiting for? This is one of the greatest bands of all time at the top of their creative powers.

Need a little help with this one.......2006-01-13

I am an old fan of spacey music. My roots are in heavy classic material but I have very much ventured out to ambient, jazz, space rock and many other types. I love Ozric Tentacles and Porcupine Tree when in the Psych/Spacey mode. Hawkwind seem to be a staple of spacey hard driving music based on reviews and their popularity. I need to know why this album is one of their top sellers. I bought it but don't see the magic in this. This is average garage burnout music (I should know, I'm one of the burnouts). I find it generally pleasing and do play it from time to time but nothing here that strikes me. Someone please recommend where to go in the Hawkwind collection to experience the greatness that is cast upon this band. I'm ready. I'm willing .. but not getting it thus far.

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ASIN: B000OYCN98
Release Date: 2007-07-02

Tracks:

Earth Calling/Born to Go
Born to Go
Down Through the Night
Awakening
Lord of Light
Black Corridor
Space Is Deep
Electronic No. 1
Orgone Accumulator
Upside Down
10 Seconds of Forever
Brainstorm

Tracks:

7 by 7
Sonic Attack
Time We Left This World Today
Master of the Universe
Welcome to the Future
You Shouldn't Do That
Master of the Universe
Born to Go

Album Description

2007 special three disc (two CDs + PAL/Region 0 DVD) Collector's Edition of the veteran UK Space Rockers' 1973 live opus. The CDs in this edition feature the original album with some extended tracks (they were originally edited due to the time restrictions of vinyl) plus three bonus tracks. The DVD is more a DVD album than DVD video; it allows the listener to enjoy the album as it was originally recorded: as one long continuous piece of live music. There is a brand new 5.1 mix as well as the standard stereo mix and a visualizer will appear on screen while the music plays. The DVD also features two promo videos which are previously unreleased - 'Silver Machine' and 'Urban Guerilla'. EMI. 2007.

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Collectors Edition of Two CDs and One Dvda.

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Best Hawkwind Album
Light Years Ahead Of Their Time
'You Shouldn't do That' track ruins half the album!! Because it's 15 minutes long!!
Their best studio cd?
Stepping Forward

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ASIN: B00005MCX0
Release Date: 2001-08-27

Tracks:

You Shouldn't Do That
You Know You're Only Dreaming
Master Of The Universe
We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago
Adjust Me
Children Of The Sun
Seven By Seven (Original Single Version)
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Album Description

UK remastered & repackaged reissue of the British progressive rock act's 1971 album with 3 added bonus tracks 'Seven By Seven' (original single version), 'Silver Machine' (original single version) & 'Born To Go' (live single version edit). 2001.

Album Details

Digitally remastered with 3 bonus tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Best Hawkwind Album.......2007-04-28

I love this album pop it in maybe 1 time every week, all you really need to know is You Shouldn't Do That, it has to be my faviret song of all time.

Light Years Ahead Of Their Time.......2007-03-13

Worth the price of admision for the 2 tracks-'You shouldn't do that', and "Master od the universe'. Absolute masterpieces. Firsy track clocks in at over 15 minutes and I never get tired of it. Sensational feel, full of synths, sound generators, hippy vocals, all backed by solid drumming and Rickenbacker bass (Dave Anderson,-whatever happened to him?)-superb line up! A must have for any Hawkwind fan. Forget about the rip-off compilations and live stuff-get this, and the later 'Electric Tepee'

'You Shouldn't do That' track ruins half the album!! Because it's 15 minutes long!!.......2007-02-03

I went through a big Hawkwind phase in the early 90s and remember the excitement and joy when this CD arrived at the local mall from being specially ordered (This was before the internet was big, and odd, weird, unpopular stuff had to be special ordered by phone or catalog)

On first listen, I was let down. 'You Shouldn't Do That' can be described as one of most atrocious instrumentals known to man. It does start off cool enough with an eerie, trippy special effect intro simulating something taking off into space. Then as soon as the saxophone kicks in, everything turns to crap! It's one thing to know how to play the sax and quite another to just mindlessly blow into the stupid thing. Anyways, when all the key instruments get introduced in the beginning and kind of work their way up into the main riff, it then sounds like the sax and guitar start vomiting on eachother, and then it repeats and repeats and repeats and repeats until they vomit on eachother again; then repeats a few more dozen times for a total of 15 painful minutes!! At one point, everyone in the group seemed content to plunk out any old note which made the song barely listenable at all. By then, the only musician holding this fiasco together was the drummer. And the lyrics? Why would you put non-sensical hippeeisms into a so called 'space rock' song? I dont know. Out of the 30 or 40 times I heard this song, I only sat through the WHOLE thing twice!! Apologies to die-hard fans for slamming this track, but it really IS that bad and puts a big dent in the album considering its length.

Now that that atrocity is out of the way, on to the rest of the album- the other songs aren't really that bad and make for some interesting soundscape music. 'You're Only Dreaming' has a wonderful 'breath of fresh air' motif as a backing to it's graceful swirl of electrics. 'Master of the Universe' was the sinister heavy metal track about the all supreme being- the guitar chords to this are nice fat and distorted. I do prefer this version to the 'Space Ritual' version because even though the Ritual's version is faster and heavier, it repeats itself beyond all levels of tolerance. 'In Search of Space's' version seems slower but shorter and to the point at the same time.

'Adjust Me' is another exploration of atmosphere and fuzzed out electronics. It conjures up images of an android assembly plant and one of them seems to malfunction beyond control: 'adjust me... adjust meee adjust meeeee adjust meeeeeeeeeeee'. Very cool.

'We took the Wrong Step Years Ago' and 'Children of the Sun' are very extremely well played acoustic works that draw beautiful, lush, vivid images. I would say that mr. Brock fares better with the acoustic guitar than the electric. He has very good rythm.

All in all, a decent early 70s space rock album save for the first 15 minute bowel movement. It renders this album rather short but thankfully, the re-issue has bonus tracks to make up for this.

Their best studio cd?.......2005-03-17

I came to Hawkwind through their live cd "Space Ritual", which is one of the outstanding live cds of all time. This studio cd is from about the same time period, and is the only cd that replicates the power of Hawkwind's live performances.

The opening cut, "You Shouldn't Do That", (which clocks in at 15:41!) is a good test of whether you are or are not going to be a Hawkwind fan. Many of my friends find the song boring and repetitive - but in fact it makes good use of a repeated themes intermixed with background variations, and is in the same league as songs like "The Sheltering Sky" by King Crimson. The next three cuts keep things moving at a nice pace. "We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago" is particularly noteworthy - it is a powerful acoustic song that in some ways reminds me of some of the acoustic pieces on Led Zepplin's zoso cd (Led Zepplin 4). The final two cuts on the cd are a bit weaker, and the three bonus tracks, while good enough, are hardly essential (though one of these, "Silver Machine", has achieved near legendary status among some Hawkwind fans because of a rumored live cut of the song that was apparently left off the "Space Ritual" cd.

The question mark in my review refers to the fact that I have yet to listen to any Hawkwind cd more recent than "Quark, Strangeness, and Charm". Certainly "In Search of Space" is their best early studio effort, and though not perfect, it is well deserving of a five star rating.

Stepping Forward.......2005-03-12

The second album from legendary star-traveling metalloids Hawkwind is a big step up from their charming if flawed debut album...and almost where they'd plant themselves with their magnificent third album. They're getting there, though, and for the most part it's an engaging listening in. Especially since the beginning of the best-known Hawkwind lineup is now in place: aside from the early mainstays (guitarist Dave Brock, saxophonist/flutist Nik Turner, drummer Terry Ollis, keyboardsman/electronicat Del Dettmar), second guitarist Huw Lloyd Langton is gone, bassist Dave Anderson is succeeded by Ian (Lemmy) Kilmister before the album is done (Anderson co-wrote two songs), poet/vocalist Robert Calvert is aboard, and Dik Mik Davies (who seems to have exited briefly after the debut album) returns to team with Del Dettmar (who joined when Davies first departed) on keyboards and electronica.

The good news: It has their first bona-fide band classic, the extraterrestrial thrust of "Master of the Universe" (which beats the bloody hell out of Black Sabbath and their "Masters of Reality" any day of the week, and has probably been beaten to death for its popularity in concert over the years) and a pair of exquisite electro jams, "You Know You're Only Dreaming" (written by Brock) and "Adjust Me" (a group composition). Not to mention a pair of sweet acoustic dreams, "We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago" and "Children of the Sun."

The not-so-good news: "You Shouldn't Do That" is fifteen minutes of grandly pounding rock and roll with perfectly understated electronic lacing and transdimensionally spare flute and guitar lines, as if the Velvet Underground had scored a 1950s sci-fi B-movie, but disrupted rather unconscionably by a lyric which doesn't exactly sound like it really belongs to this music.

The bonus news: Two brilliant earlier singles--the underrated "Born to Go" and the coming major hit "Silver Machine"--are included with this remastered version. So as a package of stepping forward and then kicking themselves right into their own future, the new "In Search of Space" probably outpoints the original album.

The best news: "In Search of Space" is a direct line to the beginning of their best studio work and, probably, their best-remembered period.

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My Favorite Hawkwind Album
hawkwind daze....
Another mighty Hawkwind classic!!
Sitting alone in the den
Space Rock Classic : fasten your seat belt for a real trip.

Doremi Fasol Latido
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ASIN: B00005MCX1
Release Date: 2001-08-27

Tracks:

Brainstorm
Space Is Deep
One Change
Lord Of Light
Down Through The Night
Time We Left This World Today
The Watcher
Urban Guerilla
Brainbox Pollution
Lord Of Light (Single Version Edit)
Ejection

Album Description

UK remastered & repackaged reissue of the British progressive rock act's 1972 album with four added bonus tracks, 'Urban Guerilla', 'Brainbox Pollution', 'Lord Of Light' (single version edit) & 'Ejection' (previously unreleased version). 2001.

Album Details

Digitally remastered with 4 bonus tracks!

Customer Reviews:

My Favorite Hawkwind Album.......2007-01-13

I guess it's mainly because I love the studio versions of "Down Through the Night" and "Space is Deep" so much, but the rest of the album is pretty fine, too.
However, I did notice that it doesn't sound quite as good as it did 30+ years ago, when I used to crank this thing after a bit of "chemical enhancement".

hawkwind daze...........2006-11-28

THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THIS ALBUM WAS AT A PARTY IN 1973 WHILE DRINKING BOONESFARM STRAWBERRY HILL AND EATING PEYOTEBUDBROWNIES.SOMEONE PUT ON AN EIGHT TRACK OF THIS ALBUM AND JUST LET IT PLAY CONTINUOUSLY FOR ABOUT 6 HOURS.I GUESS THAT JUST ABOUT SAYS IT ALL..................

Another mighty Hawkwind classic!!.......2006-09-27

For review number 200 on Amazon (do I get a prize or something?), I thought I'd write a review for an album by one of my all time favorite bands.......Hawkwind!!! My brother John originally bought this on vinyl sometime around 1980, and my biggest memory of it was the story that appears on the back cover, which has Hawkwind and it's road crew as super heroes who were called upon to fight evil on distant planets and/or universes, or something like that! When I finally bought Doremi on CD in 1991 (on ONE WAY RECORDS, whose version did not include the story), I was initially not overwhelmed by how GOOD this album was, but how LOUD it was. As a matter of anti-fiction, I first thought that other than the song 'Space is Deep' that this album was horrible! After a another listen or two, however, I grew to love this album.

As stated earlier, this is an extremely LOUD album, with much emphasis on drums and bass guitar. This was the 'Winds first album with drummer Simon King and bassist Lemmy, the band's tighest and heaviest rhythm section up to that point (and maybe their heaviest rhythm section ever). This album and Space Ritual were Hawkwind's first two (or maybe only two) heavy metal albums. Lemmy was a great addition to the band..not only was he a great bass player, he could also write songs, play guitar and sing...if you consider what Lemmy does singing, that is! Given all this, it is pretty odd that Lemmy provides the album with it's most quiet and laid back song, with the acoustic guitar ballad 'The Watcher'. Personally, I prefer the version of this song that would later appear on Motorhead's On Parole album. Synthesizer and audio generator player Del Dettmar provides the album's other truly quiet moment, the 49 second synthesizer and piano instrumental ' One Change '.

The album gets off to an overwhelmingly loud start, however, with Nik Turner's 11 and a half minute spacy , three chord hard rocker ' Brainstorm ', one of the most well known Hawkwind tunes of all time and one that would remain in their live set for the rest of their career, which in 2006 is still going strong. Certainly not Turner's best set of lyrics, but the song has a powerful and very catchy guitar riff, and some very prominent backing vocals from Lemmy. The best way to enjoy this song (if, like me, you don't do drugs) is to just turn the volume all the way up and let the song overwhelm and surround you and take you in. Next up is my favorite song on the album, Brock's acoustic guitar led ' Space is Deep ', which I think is the one of the more melodic songs here. I love Brock's vocals (he has always been my favorite vocalist for this band), the acoustic guitar riff, and particularly the synthesizers...the best use of synthesizers on a Hawkwind album up to that point.

The second half gets off a very strong start with the fast-paced and heavy riff rocker 'Lord of Light'. Great song, but not the best mix, with way too much wind effects (or should I say just to be clever, 'Hawkwind' effects?) on Brock's guitar. Still, this song has more powerful drumming and bass playing from King and Lemmy. 'Down Through The Night' is another acoustic guitar and snthesizer driven number, quite listenable like most of this record. I like the version of this song from Space Ritual, which has more electric guitar on it. 'Time We Left This World Today ' is another hard rocker, though I think it is one the weaker and more sloppy tunes on the album. Still, it is very catchy and has more of Lemmy's prominent and distinct background vocals.

As for the bonus tracks, well...I haven't bought this remastered version, but two of the tracks, Urban Guerilla and Brainbox Pollution, show up on the compilation by Cleopatra Records, 'Psychedelic Warlords', 'Lord of Light' shows up on another Cleopatra Records Hawkwind compilation LORD OF LIGHT, while 'Ejection' originally popped up on Bob Calvert's wonderful Captain Lockheed album. All four of these are great songs, but if you own these three albums (and One-Way Records Doremi) then I guess getting this remastered version would be redundant, even though I bet it restores the story on the back of the LP (the pun wasn't intended!) and probably includes some pics, so maybe it isn't a waste of your time getting it!

In either form...this is certainly not the best SOUNDING Hawkwind album, but it is still one of their best in terms of songs and definitely their loudest album. I like it a bunch!

Sitting alone in the den.......2006-06-26

Watching the eel. No, I go too far. If like me you are partial to regular stretches of extreme indolence you probably already know that this rock solid record right here is one of the great musical accompaniments to near total inertness. Talk about floating away. The time I read Laurence Sterne's magnificent chapter on sleep in Tristram Shandy I was pretty much horizontal on my recliner with Doremi cranked up in the foreground and for one transcendently slow motion moment I thought I'd died and woken up asleep in heaven. Brainstorm, the first song, rumbles on for over eleven surging and driving minutes and is, if anything, far too short. Space is Deep's majestic slide from one kind of acoustic groove into a bigger, crunchier sound will break your heart if you've got the volume up to where it's supposed to be. Same goes for the spectacularly collapsing intro to Lord of Light and the whole tribal stomp that powers Time We Left This World Today. The sax on Brainbox Pollution is none too shabby either and this bonus track just maybe might even be the diamond in the rough here. I like the vocals all through this album too--is that Lemmy on The Watcher? Lemmy Kilmister, eh? Now there's a dude stands ten feet tall with a knife. And yes I have heard the usual (sigh) complaints about Hawkwind's lyrics being on the cheesy side but honestly I can't say they bother me that much--storms of innocence mostly and rather appealing at that. What are lyrics anyway only words and what are words most of the time only the toy bows and arrows of those credulous simpletons who would have their imaginations brought to heel. Memo to Thom Yorke: uncork your thumb once in a way, lose the anguished falsetto stylings and lyrics that really make you think and start pretending like you're in an actual rock and roll band.

Space Rock Classic : fasten your seat belt for a real trip........2006-06-15

Yup, it was my teen years and I was in Search of something different. I got my original Vinyl copy of this album at a pawn shop and even though it had a warp in it and it skipped, I loved this album. My favourites include Brain Storm and Lord of Light. This is a very spacey album and it has a lot of energy. This will not appeal to everyone. But, in my opinion one of the best Hawkwind albums.

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above average for a compilation.
My introduction to Hawkwind

Epoch Eclipse: 30 Year Anthology
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ASIN: B00008OP0V
Release Date: 2003-04-14

Tracks:

Hurry on Sundown
Paranoia, Pt. 2
Master of the Universe
Children of the Sun
Silver Machine
Seven by Seven
Brainstorm
Space Is Deep
Urban Guerrilla
Brain Box Pollution
Sonic Attack
Orgone Accumulator
Lost Johnny
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Motorhead
Assault and Battery, Pt. 1
Golden Void, Pt. 2
Magnu
Kerb Crawler
Steppenwolf
Back on the Streets
Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Hassan I Sahba
Spirit of the Age
Psi Power
25 Years
High Rise
Death Trap
Uncle Sam's on Mars

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Shot Down in the Night
Motorway City
Levitation
Angels of Death
Coded Languages
Some People Never Die
Choose Your Masques
Night of the Hawks
Needle Gun
War I Survived
Black Elk Speaks
Right to Decide
Sputnik Stan
Love in Space
Silver Machine

Album Description

Full title - Epoch - Eclipse 30 year Anthology. Three disc retrospective to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the kings of space rock. 44 tracks, including some remixes, single edits, original versions and other hard to find gems. A must have for their many collector's and a great introduction to one of the most influential prog rock groups of all time. EMI. 2003.

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A Wonderful Three Disc Set Chronicling the Entire Career Recordings of the Space Metal Pioneers in all their Variant Styles. Includes Plenty of Rarities and Familiar Tracks to Delight Even their Staunchest Long Time Followers.

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above average for a compilation........2006-07-13

These three discs spanning Hawkwind's career up until 1999 is a rather accurate representation of their music through the years, which is why this gets five stars. However, this doesn't mean ALL the songs are good. Whether just starting out with Hawkwind or a long time fan, this collection provides most of the highlights of the albums. But still, having the experience of hearing the full albums cannot be replaced by a mere 3 disc compilation.

My introduction to Hawkwind.......2005-09-26

I picked up this disk after hearing some good things about Hawkwind over the years. I am not an expert on the band but to me I really like the first disk of this set but found the other two disks pretty tedious. If you are interested in this band you might be better off getting their best albulms in their entirety.

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IF THIS DISC HAD "SILVER MACHINE" ON IT, IT WOULD BE THE GREATEST LP OF ALL TIME
Hawkwind - self-titled (EMI)
A Nice Enough Debut, But Better Would Come

Hawkwind
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ASIN: B00005MCWZ
Release Date: 2001-08-27

Tracks:

Hurry On Sundown
The Reason Is?
Be Yourself
Paranoia (Part 1)
Paranoia (Part 2)
Seeing It As You Really Are
Mirror Of Illusion
Bring It On Home
Hurry On Sundown
Kiss Of The Velvet Whip
Cymbaline

Album Description

UK remastered & repackaged reissue of the British progressive rock act's 1970 album with 4 added bonus tracks 'Bring It On Home', 'Hurry On Sundown, 'Kis Of The Velvet Whip' & 'Cymbaline'. 2001.

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IF THIS DISC HAD "SILVER MACHINE" ON IT, IT WOULD BE THE GREATEST LP OF ALL TIME.......2006-03-09

Perhaps you've heard of Hawkwind? Perhaps you've heard a song or an album? Well, nothing beats this first disc, originally issued on vinyl in 1970. Great on 'shrooms and hash brownies.

Hawkwind - self-titled (EMI).......2006-01-23

Only reason I'm giving this CD reissue a five star-rating instead of a four-star one,is BECAUSE of the superbly done remastered pressing of this title,Hawkwind's debut 1970 lp.Every cut here is total awesome sounding!From the trippy opener "Hurry On Sundown" to the rocker "Be Yourself","Mirror Of Illusion",the pre-Hawkwind blues cover "Bring It On Home" and their Pink Floyd cover of "Cymbaline".Now THAT'S class!You get the lp's seven original tracks remastered,plus four(4)bonus cuts.Do keep in mind this record was produced by Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor,plus it's got some chart HW members that are rarely heard from anymore,like Dik Mik on electronics and Terry Ollis on drums.I've always thought as Hawkwind as being 'sort of' Floyd's rival.Listen for yourself and YOU tell me.First rate psychedelia,space rock or head music.Pick up a copy and you decide.Most highly recommended.

A Nice Enough Debut, But Better Would Come.......2005-03-12

(Techincally, three and a half stars, but they don't allow you to offer halvesies here. No matter.)

If you can imagine the early Pink Floyd ("The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," "A Saucerful of Secrets," "More") as what would eventually become "speed metal" in extraterrestrial wrapping and a peculiar theme of Michael Moorcock (a future contributor, as it happened) meets the Marvel Super Heroes on more than a few controlled substances, that was Hawkwind.

At least, that was Hawkwind as they'd become known beginning an album or two later. This debut set, long enough overdue for a remastering, displays much of what would soon identify the band, particularly its shifting between ethereal acoustic music and transdimensional electronic hard rock, but here it retains the very loose and very random feeling you might expect they'd have shown in their previous days as park buskers known for such performances as setting up and playing free outside the Isle of Wight festival and like appearances. Their future lyric hybrid is yet to be developed fully; here is a band which has found its sound but is trying to decide exactly what it is they really have to say.

Still, it's a charming sounding album with much good music, particularly their three earliest near-signature numbers, the cheerful post-hippie acoustic tapper "Hurry On Sundown," the stark surreal sonic wash of "Paranoia," and the spry jam, "Be Yourself," highlighted by reedman Nik Turner's half-Ayler, half-King Curtis saxophone squonk and guitarist Dave Brock's piercingly melodious break, both over a taut rhythm section and keyboardsman Dik Mik Davies's tastefully understated electronica. (True: erstwhile Pretty Things founder Dick Taylor not only helped produce the set but played some support guitar and bass on it.) This Hawkwind lineup--Brock, Turner, Davies, bassist John Harrison and then Thomas Crimble, second guitarist Huw Lloyd Langton, drummer Terry Ollis--wasn't destined to last: exit Crimble, Langton, and Davies after the album's release; enter ex-Amon Duul bassist Dave Anderson, keyboardsman Del Dettmar, and poet/vocalist Robert Calvert. Ahead lay "In Search of Space." And, Hawkwind's truer future.

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Magnum Opus of Brock et al and Best Psychedelic Album Ever

Warrior on the Edge of Time
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ASIN: B0000AEKCG
Release Date: 2004-05-25

Tracks:

Assault & Battery
Golden Void
Wizard Blew His Horn
Opa-Loka
Demented Man
Magnu
Standing at the Edge
Spiral Galaxy 28948
Warriors
Dying Seas
Kings of Speed
Motorhead [*]

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Magnum Opus of Brock et al and Best Psychedelic Album Ever.......2003-09-05

A lot of nonsense is talked about psychedelic music (and yes, I know it's all subjective) but this is quite simply the most effective rock album ever made for enjoying and promoting altered states of consciousness.
Until the advent of the synthesizer as an affordable item, it was impossible for rock music to be as colourful (in a tonal sense) as it needed to be to be as psychedelic as it could be. With 'Warrior on the Edge of Time', Hawkwind hit their high water mark: similar to Roxy Music in the breadth and richness of their musical pallette (electric and acoustic guitars, bass, drums, percussion, flute, saxes, electric violin, piano, synthesizers and mellotron, plus 4 different vocalists), Hawkwind at this time were the consummate painters in rock - Dalinian mindscapes filled with the awe, terror and sheer bliss of Coleridge's 'Kubla Kahn'.
The musicians are at the height of their stylistic powers - Brock has never sounded so mournful and folky as on 'The Demented Man' (make's Floyd's 'Echoes' seem childish by comparison), nor more messianic on 'Assault & Battery'. Turner's sax on 'The Golden Void' transports the listener into an opium dream in an Egyptian tomb while has weird vocals on 'Dying Seas' remind us of how avant-garde Hawkwind were. Lemmy's bass paints pyramids in the minds eye at the opening of 'Assault' and his lyrics on the original version of 'Motorhead' ( a bonus track on some versions of this CD) are utterly original: 'we're moving just like a parallelogram' to 'all good clean fun - have another stick of gum', pure British Amphetamine Rock ! Drummers King and Powell are at their hottest, especially on the throbbing 'Opa-Loka' which would not need a remix to become an acid house hit today and Michael Moorcock's spoken word pieces like 'The Wizard Blew His Horn' will blow the mind of any Tolkien fan. Finest of all perhaps are the contributions of Simon House, whose sublime electric violin's piercing entry at the start of 'Golden Void' is one of the most apocalyptic moments in rock history. House's 'Spiral Galaxy' is utterly cosmic - they don't make synthesizers that bright anymore ! There are no duff tracks here either - all have their unique and frightening pleasures: more variety in 45 minutes than most bands manage in a lifetime.
Why this album escapes all the prog rock reference books is beyond me - actually, it doesn't: Hawkwind were always a little but rough and grungy for prog purists, which is why they survived Punk with critical status unchanged. Their roughness is here spattered with diamonds, a perfect balance between thudding rock noise and symphonic beauty with none of the pompousness of ELP or Yes.
Oh and yes, the production is magnificent. If you like classic colourful seventies rock like later Bowie, early Roxy, then this album is a must. Its mind may be on space, fantasy and the unreal, but its heart is as romantic and existential as any of the serious Glam or Punk artists of the finest decade in rock. A prismatic beacon in the murky mists of rock and roll. Essential.

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My favorite

Quark Strangeness and Charm
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ASIN: B000HOLLJI
Release Date: 2007-03-12

Tracks:

Spirit of the Age
Damnation Alley
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Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Hassan I Sabha
Forge of Vulcan
Days of the Underground
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My favorite.......2007-07-17

My favorite Hawkwind album. There is a lot of variety on this one, and the melodies are more accesible to non-hawkwind fans.

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The Captain has Landed...
Would be 5 stars but...
Hawkwind - 'Take Me To Your Leader' (Voiceprint/Hawkwind Records)
Do Not Panic
Hawks are back

Take Me to Your Leader
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ASIN: B000AIZ8G8
Release Date: 2005-09-19

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Spirit of the Age
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Take Me to Your Leader
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1. Spirit Of The Age
2. Out Here We Are
3. Greenback Massacre
4. To Love A Machine
5. Take Me To Your Leader
6. Digital Nation
7. Sunray
8. Sighs
9. Angela Android
10. A Letter To Robert Of The Micro Man

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Customer Reviews:

The Captain has Landed..........2007-01-12

Another outing from Captain Dave and Crew..Seems to be another good cut of the Hawklords.....Glad to add it to my collection. . .

Would be 5 stars but..........2006-12-16

Well, the last track "Letter to Robert" is basically rubish.
Apart from that, the album is great!

Hawkwind - 'Take Me To Your Leader' (Voiceprint/Hawkwind Records).......2006-03-02

A very good effort for the long-running British space rock pioneers. Starts off with a modern day re-working of the Bob Calvert gem "Spirit Of The Age" with Mathew Wright on vocals, which was nice to fully take in. Then you get tracks like the typical later-day HW compostion "Greenback Massacre" (where bassist/vocalist Alan Davey takes control-glad you're back,Alan!), "Digital Nation", the awesome "Sunray" (with guests Arthur Brown on vocals and Simon House on violin), the off beat "Angela Android" with guest vocalist Lene Lovich (remember her?)and "A Letter To Robert", which turns out to be a spoken word cut with Arthur Brown once again as guest vocalist. Better than their 1997 'Distant Horizon' release (see my review). Comes with a full color 12-page booklet complete with new artwork and song lyrics. What true Hawkfan could ask for more? Highly recommended.

Do Not Panic.......2006-01-28

I have read all of the reviews posted for this album and all are not only accurate, but it is obvious they are written by true Hawkfans! That is, people who know their subject well, and knew what was necessary for the members of this band to achieve in order for the new album to live up to those of the past. And what a long, glorious past it has been for the technicians of spaceship Hawkwind!

While I would like to give a tune by tune critique, it is my belief that each album from this band is a different spiritual, and psychological journey, and must be undertaken by each listener in order for its value to be measured. It is up to each of us alone to find our particular niche in the auditory trip Hawkwind unravels for us on every studio endeavor. That being said, I was pleased to find that the current trio of Brock, Davey, and Chadwick have not only lost none of their grit and electronic savvy, and are not content to merely hover, but are still moving forward at light speed!

The only complaint I have is the final track, which I was anxiously awaiting (being a fan of the late Robert Calvert). Strange and somewhat experimental, it simply seems to have been put together on the spot and without much effort toward its construction. Unfortunately, this track could have been left off in favor of one or two more songs by the band.

Conversely, the first track, a remake of the Quark, Strangeness & Charm classic, Spirit of the Age, was not only excellent, but done very much in the Spirit of Mr. Calvert. The rest of the album is excellent as well, and I seem to grow more and more fond of it with each listening.

As for those who are for the first time discovering this band, I can only advise you that while some Hawkwind albums are stronger or more unique than others, there is no such thing as a poor studio Hawkwind album! As I stated at the start, each has its place in time, space, consistency, and intention. 'Get your mind right', put the headphones on, turn the lights out, and let Hawkwind take you where they must. Your only regret will be that you must eventually and inevitably return to earth!

Hawks are back.......2006-01-19

Overall, a really good record. Any fan of electronic music, progressive rock or 'spacerock' should be able to enjoy this, and it won't fail to please the rabid Hawkwind fan. However, if you are a Hawkwind fan that is acutely attached to the raw energy and lack of dynamics of 'space ritual', you won't find much of that here. 'Take me to your leader' continues to explore different sonic landscapes and the band continues to improve thier skill at doing what they do. Hawkwind has always changed with the times in their own way, and this record looks towards the future - not the past - in the same way that all the other Hawkwind discs do.

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