t/s: hawkwind vs motorhead

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This is a tough one. I'd have to come down on the Motorhead side, because, in the end, the one thing they do perfectly over and over trumps Hawkwind's career of cosmic exploration.

Agreed, I think.

But still . . "Space Ritual". It's like the NHS or the BBC. We take it for granted, and yet . .

hawkwind. their career of cosmic exploration trumps the one thing motorhead does over and over again

Fair point.

Hawkwind because I like the desolate void of space more than the desolate void of Lemmy's soul.

Fucking hell this is a toughie. I'm erring on the side of Motorhead, although I don't really want to live in a world without either of them.

Space Ritual is fucking godlike, but no other Hawkwind album comes close to it, whereas Motörhead have four or five brain-crushingly great songs on every one of their albums, and sometimes more. Plus, they're as good now as they've ever been, possibly better (their last three albums have been amazing), and no rational person would call whatever version of Hawkwind exists these days anything but a withered relic.

Yeah, the latest Motorhead is better than most of their 90s albums. And almost certainly better than anything Hawkwind have done since er I guess 1980 or so. Although every album Hawkwind did up til about 76 is super great.

Doesn't this basically come down to Hawkwind with Lemmy being as good as Motorhead, with any other line up of Hawkwind being not as good as Motorhead?

Pretty much, yeah.

except "as good as" is "better than"

a hawkwind 'space ritual' tshirt is just as cool as a 'motorhead england' tshirt.

except "just as cool as" is "cooler than"

yeah definitely. I kind of hate Motorhead England t-shirts. Any other Motorhead t-shirt is fine tho

You guys are insane. Motorhead are good, but Hawkwind are just GREAT times 1000000000000000.

Y'know what's really weird is those Exploited England t-shirts cos like the Exploited are Scottish WTF!

t/s: lightspeed down the black hole vs driving 150 mph at night, wearing shades

both mean the world to me and i'd probably have plumped for hawkwind if it hadn't been for the fact i saw them three weeks ago and they were beyond dreadful. i ended up heckling.

Hey stirmonster - nice to meet you at C&A's wedding.

FWIW I know nothing about Hawkwind, but it seems clear that I should. In the 80s, Motorhead were the only 'heavy metal' band I liked, because they clearly weren't heavy metal. Can't really decide. Silver Machine is probably all I know.

I'm glad you posted that stirmonster cos I had been thinking about seeing Hawkwind just in case they were still good!

HORKWIND

they both could've stopped at some point, though.