It's the HAWKWIND (1970 - 1980) epics poll!!!!

oof this hard - between Orgone Accumulator and Time We Left This World Today...?

Spirit of the Age

gonna go with Born to Go esp. the live version on Greasy Truckers Party

Vacillating between Brainstorm and Assault & Battery...Assault wins for the lashings of mellotron. Getting Simon House in the band was a good idea, his later experiments in cross-dressing not so good.

This is going to be split many ways

WE WERE BORN TO GO>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Orgone Accumulator

Involves the man on the left:
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/WilhelmReich.jpg

Brainstorm

I see Hawkwind are touring again, but not playing Scotland - pah, looks like a decent enough band membership too (well, Tim Blake's there) after the wretched three man line up I saw at the cathouse a couple of years ago, I could do with a good Hawkwind gig.

turn your eyeballs into craters

is anyone else here familiar with the Moorcock sci-fi novel about Hawkwind, Time of the Hawklords? The band has to keep jamming or else the world will be torn apart by "bad vibes" - it is total hackwork but chapter titles alone are lolz

That sounds kind of rad.

http://www.blaskan.nu/Bilder/moorcock_butterworth_the_time_of_the_hawklords_i1750.jpg

this is the edition I have... Moorcock claims his involvement was "negligible" (which is certainly apparent from the quality of the writing. Also he's featured as a character called "Moorlock" who's like an ancient rock n roll wizard and lives in a house in Blenheim Crescent that's "alive" lolz)

Is that a list of song titles or the combined filmographies of Stallone and Shwarzeneggar?

psychedelic warlords

though i don't really think of it as an epic, it could easily be ten minutes longer and i'd still love it. hall of the mtn grill is so great.

i'm with you. i feel that way about "you'd better believe it" too

shakey, i couldn't read past the first five pages of hawklords. you are my hero if you got through cover to cover. those chapter titles are awesome though. they could supply a band with song and album names for its entire run

If memory serves I posted an exegesis on one of the other Hawkthreads on just how Fucking Awesome(tm) the 5:50 mark in "You'd Better Believe It" is when the main guitar riff kicks back in like an old forgotten starship rediscovering it's warp drive. If I was driving a car when that song was playing, I'd probably crash it.

Brock & co.'s LSD headspace + Lemmy's bad biker speed = space rock gold!

I went for Psychedelic Warlords but could easily have gone for probably half the others, Brainstorm/Born To Go especially.

http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/ts/tsten.htm

I could remember nothing I did not love

"You Better Believe It" is one of the first Hawkwind songs I fell in love with, so I guess I'll go with that

motorik, endless boogie

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Orgone Accumulator

"Spirit of the Age", specifically for the bit towards the end where it locks down into its mantra.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Sometime this week (probably Friday afternoon) I'm gonna put Space Ritual on the office stereo at ridiculous volume.

Why haven't I been able to find a copy of Quark Strangeness and Charm?

^Me neither. Meanwhile, my horse came in first!

ATH (stonerrock.com) were selling it a month or 2 back

http://www.stonerrock.com/store/info.asp?item_num=ATH-4329

Scroll down that page for lots more Hawkwind

Has anybody else heard the album Otherworld, by Space Ritual? It's a new band featuring Nik Turner, Dave Anderson, Terry Ollis, Del Dettmar and some other folks, playing...well, very Hawkwind-y space-rock, just not as good.

i haven't heard that. i wonder if it's a better or worse hawkwind impression than that last litmus album.

'Quark Strangeness and Charm' is so fucking good. more people should rep for that instead of all the early ones all the time

i'd rep for it if i thought it was that good. it seems really slight to me, but there are great parts.

I love QS&C, fwiw. I think that Hassan I Sabbah song is cool.
HASHISH HASHIN<><> Damnation Alley is awesome, too. I want to see that movie.

Damnation Alley movie was fun and remains a guilty pleasure for its cast alone - Jan-Michael Vincent! George Peppard! Paul Winfield! - but doesn't do justice to Zelazny's book, ignoring just about everything except the post-WWIII scenario and some of the character names. Now, that would be a welcome remake. Romero might be the right guy for the job, since Land of the Dead was virtually the same story, subbing the undead for radiation.

another rep for QS&C. but it's still <<<<HOTMG

BUT THEY HAD A COOL TRUCK!!!

cool truck, yeah. but not as sweet as Dead Reckoning.

Does anyone have that 25 Years On box set put out by Griffin Music in 1994 or 1995? It lists "Spirit of the Age" and "Hassan I Sabha" as "recorded live in December 1972." But they're identical to the versions on my vinyl copy of Quark, Strangeness and Charm which was recorded in 1977 according to the back of the album. That's a rather bizarre fuckup. Anyone know what happened?

Also: I want to get rid of the box set but I think I tossed the actual box itself because it got mangled. How much does this set usually go for? I still have the two comic books.

P.S. Forgot to vote. I would've pushed "Brainstorm" into third place.

"psychedelic warlords" is a great song but "better believe it" is my jam. mountain grill rules

own(ed?) a cassette version of Hall Of The Mountain Grill and the mastering sounds brighter than my LP. the tape version made Warlords sound much stronger! wonder how often this discrepancy exists between formats / pressings (latter = lots!) ?

srsly, as I've said elsewhere, Damnation Alley is just a godlike piece of music, an absolute wonder, an ecstatic spacerockpunkprog vortex into oblivion with one of the most brilliantly managed A-B-A structures I've ever heard - how on earth could it have 0 votes here?!

i like "damnation alley" lots but can think of a lot of hawkwind tracks i love more. "psychedelic warlords" rules but i've never understood why it universally seems to rate so highly with hawk fans.

Hawkwind are a weird band for me in that lots of their stuff washes over me, but they have a handful of songs that absolutely nail me to the floor, such as Assault And Battery/The Golden Void and maybe one or two others from Warrior (it's the Mellotron y'know)

"psychedelic warlords" rules but i've never understood why it universally seems to rate so highly with hawk fans.

Uh, really? It's kind of as close to a "Rock and Roll All Night" as they got. And the lyrics are kind of universally relatable to heads, freaks, burnouts, stoneroids of all types...

Alright, Silver Machine is probably closer to R&R All Night, but as a statement of purpose...

imago u r otmfm about Warrior; that album is killer!

Damnation Alley still completely stuck in my head; feels like an elemental work of rock music by now