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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
When I was 14 a schoolfriend who had taken LSD played this album to me in the dark. Even though I had never tripped, after one listen to "Hawkwind" I knew the experience had something to do with paisley patterns! "Hurry On Sundown" and "Mirror Of Illusion" may be acoustic-guitar-based folk-rock, but they, along with the jam-based remainder of the album, have a haunting, timeless quality in their recording and production which reminds me of the classic tracks of Pink Floyd's "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" - although this band boasted jamming musicians to trump everyone in the early Floyd except Rick Wright. Hawkwind on this first album are not the pumping rock band we know from all their other recordings - they are mainly interested in psychedelic freakouts and do them very well. One of the essential roots records of the early 70's.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Reason I'm giving this CD a five-star rating instead of a four-star one is because of the superb remastering job that EMI had done on this title, Hawkwind's very first album. Every track on this 1970 debut of theirs is simply awesome! 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 stellar cover of Pink Floyd's "Cymbaline". So, here you get the lp's original seven cuts + four bonus tracks. Keep in mind that Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor produced this album. First rate psychedelic, space rock - or just great head music. You decide. Highly recommended.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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yes indeed, this is right out there, songs had been edited from hours of jamming and spliced where needed, all recorded on acid, and it shows, its great.. but it will loose an hour of your life, if you need the high thingy.. then this might send you on a bum trip.. first track is from dave brocks accoustic days and a great song too, but then just when u think its going to be a safe and alright,assured lp... it slighly drops a couple of acid in your fanta and you start trippin, and you dont know if you like it, even to this day... lol..!
me, i love it, but im a hakwind freak..! its not anything like usa trips.. far from it, i say hawkwind were harder and more dangerous than any usa trips band, touring europe and playing under fly-overs or fields..
its a must for a 11pm music fest.. you need the time and attitude to check it.
its a high times master piece. its weird and its hawkwind...! trully a wonderful music trip,
very highly recommended. play it loud and get freaked!
me, i love it, but im a hakwind freak..! its not anything like usa trips.. far from it, i say hawkwind were harder and more dangerous than any usa trips band, touring europe and playing under fly-overs or fields..
its a must for a 11pm music fest.. you need the time and attitude to check it.
its a high times master piece. its weird and its hawkwind...! trully a wonderful music trip,
very highly recommended. play it loud and get freaked!
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Classic
I bought this on vinyl, too many years ago to remember when, and thought it was the most amazing.
Listening to it now brings back much the same feeling, from the folky busking... Read more
Listening to it now brings back much the same feeling, from the folky busking... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Count of Undolpho
years later
still good it nevar ages because the band are producing cds today and hope they carry on doing that their still no1 to me
Published 8 months ago by J. Neil
Memories
Aah this took me back. I remember the first time I heard Hurry on Sundown; there is something about that track. The rest of the album's not bad either.
Published 9 months ago by Vixx H
Sundowners
Takes me back to 1968 to 1971 before In Search of Space, wish my hair was the same though. Excellent CD
Published 18 months ago by wazza
Nicely Quirky
As a teenager I was blown away by "Silver Machine" and "You Shouldn't Do That", both tracks now considered classics by fans and critics alike, but I never bought any of Hawkwind's... Read more
Published on 22 Sep 2009 by Firebird
Moulding a direction.
Hawkwind. The first Album. Think of the early seventies. No group like them. More progressive than the Floyd and while Floyd stabilised, Hawkwind tore at your ears. Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2008 by I. M. Gould
GREATimprovisations
A classic artifact of Album oriented psycedelic rock BEING transcending Jazz GLUED tuned down instrumentals mostly accented with chants,carving out vast SUBterrianian BLACK... Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2003 by "notheredave2"
Hawkwind embarking on their long career
This is a good album from a band who have been around for a long team, leaving a nine mile wide trail of albums good and bad in their wake. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2002 by niall@connell88.freeserve.co.uk
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