Hawkwind Live

Just added on that electronic music service which shall not be named…

10 Live Hawkwind recors
5 regular releases

plus other prog rock favs from Voiceprint records

Gentle Giant, Gong, Bill Nelson, Daevid Allen

Prog rock? Shouldn't this be on the lame thread? ;)

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Just added on that electronic music service which shall not be named…

10 Live Hawkwind recors
5 regular releases

What be the titles, argh matey!

I only own Space Ritual, which is great, but I'd love a suggestion for a studio album or two…

Originally posted by snarfle the garthog:

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Just added on that electronic music service which shall not be named…

10 Live Hawkwind recors
5 regular releases

What be the titles, argh matey!

I only own Space Ritual, which is great, but I'd love a suggestion for a studio album or two…

paging snailhook…

I own 18 Hawkwind discs and I don't have any of those listed on emusic…just to give one the vast scope of the HawkwinD back catalog. I guess I'd go for Weird Tapes 1978, if I was gonna pick one from them.

As to others, my personal favorites are PXR5(1978) and SONIC ATTACK(1981). Or if you'ld like a good overview get Ambient Anarchists(double album). Ambient Anarchists even has the rare cut PXR5 on it by mistake. Levitation, 25 Years On and Mighty Hawkwind Classics are solid rawkin' albums.
Quark Strangeness and Charm or Space Bandits would also be wise buys.

Then there's Nik Turner's INNER CITY UNIT, or Robert Calvert's solo work, among various HawkwinD -splinter bands. But it really all depends on if you like your HawkwinD proto-punky, or hard-rocky…

Originally posted by BookerT:
paging snailhook…

or Jaguar, or Sparx, or…

wow, there's another hawkwind fanatic on this forum?!?

i even have snarfle beat in terms of hawkwind product. i have every official studio and live release from 1970-1980, and almost every album up until the present. hawkwind are one of the very few bands who have been around since 1970 that rarely put out crap. of course, some are better than others, but they never sold out or altered their sound and vision to appeal to the masses. my favorite studio albums, in rough order:

the hall of the mountain grill (1974)
doremi fasol latido (1972)
warrior on the edge of time (1975)
in search of space (1971)
quark, strangeness, and charm (1977)
levitation (1980)
pxr5 (1979)
hawkwind (1970)
astounding sounds, amazing music (1976)
25 years on (1978) (credited to hawklords)
sonic attack (1981)

as for live albums, space ritual is of course the essential one to get, and equals the first three albums in quality. the 1999 party is a great document of a live 1974 show, and bbc radio 1 live in concert is a killer 1972 performance.

one has to be careful when purchasing hawkwind, as there are over a hundred different releases, some of which have duplicated material, and some of which have extremely poor sound quality. if anything, the musical quality is solid, though i'd advise to explore '80s hawkwind after all of the '70s recordings are exhausted.

inner city unit, nik turner's '80s post-punk/psych band, were pretty damn good, as is most of his solo output. in fact, most of the musicians involved in the hawkwind universe remain fairly true to the initial dark sci-fi acid vision, including simon house and harvey bainbridge.

also, it must be noted that lemmy was an integral part of hawkwind from 1972-1975.

Snailhook, do you recognize this?

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inner city unit lp insert?

Wow. This is weird. I was just talking with my Shoegaze friends last night about Hawkwind.

My fave is Quark, Strangeness & Charm.

Guess my timing is just right as I placed a Hawkwind song in my next TAU show yet to air. More have already been planned to follow.

Originally posted by snailhook:
inner city unit lp insert?

I possess all 3 versions of this song. It's on a Friends &amp; Relations album, too. A video game come to life!