Hawkwind - Space Ritual
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Artist: HawkwindEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-08-27
Music Label: Caroline
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- 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
- 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
Free Music Notes for Space Ritual
Free Music Review: Amazingly amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the live album from the tour which Hawkwind funded from the profits of their top 3 hit 'Silver Machine' in 1972. There are god knows how many versions of this album, and IMHO they all sound pretty much the same, so go for the one with the most tracks.
This is often called Hawkwind's best album. Is it?
Well, it's hard to say. How can you compare this ballcrushing, chaotic, anarchic noise, poetry, sax squonks and synth wobblings with something like the hilarious, precise and shiny 'Quark Strangeness and Charm' (1977)? IMHO they are as good as each other. This is just the best of Hawkwind at a particular point in time.
That point was shortly after they'd added the monster rythm section of Lemmy (later of Motorhead) and Simon King (one of the most underrated and instinctual rock drummers ever), cranked up the volume to horrific levels, and committed the brilliant Robert Calvert to vinyl for the first time (he would later become the driving force of the band).
Basically, 'Space Ritual' is a unique, thunderous, ambient, totally mad document. Stoned poems alternate with blasting heavy metal space rock (and when we're talking 'Space Rock', Hawkwind are the true gods of the genre. How can you beat lines like 'Space is deep, it is so endless'?)
It's a shame the CD doesn't include a live show, with the nude dancer Stacia, and the amazingly wasted Dik Mik and Lemmy, who admitted that during the the recording of 'Silver Machine' he had to be propped up by roadies and told which direction the audience was in.
Above all, regardless of the style of the music, this is a document of a band who were utterly devoted to their music and audience, without a care for commercial success. The true 'people's band'. If the offer still exists of buying this along with 'Hall of the Mountain Grill' (their next LP), buy it. You'll also get HotMG, which for my money is the best of their early studio LP's.
To sum up: blistering, unique, amazing, but if you are after perfect musicianship and tightness, forget it. A classic. It just may not be your sort of classic.
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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.Digitally remastered with 3 bonus tracks!
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