or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
More Buying Choices
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Available to Download Now
 
Buy the MP3 album for £14.98
  
 
 
 
It is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous
 
See larger image and other views 
Share your own customer images

It is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous [Original recording remastered]

Hawkwind | Format: Audio CD
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
Price: £11.97 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock but may require up to 2 additional days to deliver.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.
Only 2 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).
Buy the MP3 album for £14.98 at the Amazon MP3 Downloads store.

Shop on Amazon.co.uk, pay with your currency
Amazon.co.uk Currency Converter
Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More.

Amazon's Hawkwind Store

Music

Image of album by Hawkwind

Photos

Image of Hawkwind

Biography

Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures.

Formed in November 1969 by singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Brock, Hawkwind have gone through many incarnations and styles of music. Critic Jim Green… Read more in Amazon's Hawkwind Store

›
Visit Amazon's Hawkwind Store
for 210 albums, 4 photos, discussions, and more.

Frequently Bought Together

It is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous + The Business Trip + Onward (Ltd)
Price For All Three: £40.46

Some of these items are dispatched sooner than the others. Show details

Buy the selected items together

  • In stock but may require up to 2 additional days to deliver.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • The Business Trip ~ Hawkwind Audio CD £15.00

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • Onward (Ltd) ~ Hawkwind Audio CD £13.49

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Product details

  • Audio CD (30 Jan 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Atomhenge
  • ASIN: B006GE6B5W
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 58,947 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s

Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or view the MP3 Album.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         


Disc 1:

Samples
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous 6:25£0.69
Listen  2. Space Is Not Their (Palestine)11:46Album Only
Listen  3. Tibet Is Not China (Part One) 3:41£0.69
Listen  4. Tibet Is Not China (Part Two) 3:18£0.69
Listen  5. Let Barking Dogs Lie 9:01£0.69
Listen  6. Wave Upon Wave 3:12£0.69
Listen  7. Letting in the Past 2:53£0.69
Listen  8. The Camera That Could Lie 5:01£0.69
Listen  9. 3 or 4 Erections in the Course of a Night 1:57£0.69
Listen10. Techno Tropic Zone Exists 4:31£0.69
Listen11. Gimmie Shelter 5:36£0.69
Listen12. Avante 6:01£0.69
Listen13. Gimmie Shelter (feat. Samantha Fox) (Single Version) 5:56£0.69


Disc 2:

Samples
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Spirit of the Age (Radio Edit) 4:08£0.69
Listen  2. Spirit of the Age (Full Vocal Mix) 9:52£0.69
Listen  3. Spirit of the Age (Cyber Trance Mix) 9:53£0.69
Listen  4. Spirit of the Age (Flesh to Phantasy Ambient Mix)12:08Album Only
Listen  5. Right to Decide (Original Mix) 4:24£0.69
Listen  6. The Camera That Would Not Die (Original Mix) 5:17£0.69
Listen  7. Right to Decide (Alien Prophets Radio Edit Mix) 4:09£0.69
Listen  8. Assassin (Magick Carpet Mix By Swordfish / Astralasia)10:21Album Only

Product Description

CD Description

* Newly Remastered Reissue Of Hawkwind's Classic Album Released In 1993
* Expanded To Include A Bonus Cd Comprising The Rare 1993 Ep's "The Solstice Remixes" And "The Right To Decide" Plus The Bonus Track "Gimmie Shelter" By Hawkwind & Samantha Fox
* All Tracks Remastered From The Original Master Tapes
* Lavish Booklet With New Essay

Atomhenge, the home of the Hawkwind catalogue of 1976 - 1997 announce the release of a newly remastered edition of the classic 1993 album "IT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE FUTURE TO BE DANGEROUS".

Released in November 1993, the album was a journey in a new direction for the band, seeing them embrace the emerging Ambient music movement (which had taken inspiration from Hawkwind's earlier work), creating a lengthy album of experimental music in the distinctive Hawkwind style.

Featuring outstanding tracks such as "Space is Their (Palestine)", "The Camera That Could Lie" and the album's title track, "IT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE FUTURE..." brought Hawkwind to a new audience and gained critical acclaim.
This ATOMHENGE reissue features a new essay and restores the original album artwork. It has been expanded to include the track "GIMMIE SHELTER", recorded with SAMANTHA FOX for the charity album "PUTTING OUR HOUSE IN ORDER" and also includes a BONUS CD comprising the rare 1993 EP's "THE SOLSTICE REMIXES" (featuring mixes by ASTRALASIA) and the "DECIDE YOUR FUTURE" EP.

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
(11)
(9)
(8)
(7)
(4)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

Customer Reviews

3 star
0
2 star
0
1 star
0
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
I had not bought a HW album for about10 years, but had gone to some early 90s gigs. I bought this just before the Hawkestra gig in 2000 and was blown away. This album is HW at their total best. The first few tracks are instrumental brilliance. Track two - Space is their Palestine - is HW doing the extended live, rythmic ramblings that really get inside your head, but on album. Chadwick's drumming is spot on. It's been compared to Hassan I Sahba, which is not far wrong. This theme continues up to track seven, when the mood changes completely with "Letting in the past", which reworks some previous material - the words being from "Looking in the future" (Church, 1982). From here on, we get a more riff based HW, doing "songs" - there's also the first real reggae influence shown in "The camera thatcould lie". Last but one on the album is Richard Chadwick doing an excellent version of "Gimme Shelter".

Overall, this is just excellent. Alan Davey does some superb playing throughout, Chadwick is like a metronome and the Captain is just the man he is. Why haven't you bought it already?!

Graham Manson

Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Superb 5 Sep 2002
Format:Audio CD
For some reason best known to themselves, hard-core HW fans sniff at this album, preferring the more familiar grounds of other HW incarnations. Pity, that, because they are dismissing an absolute classic.

Hovering somewhere between ambient,techno, metal and psychedelia, this music forces itself into your heart. It's easy to get lost on the track sequence - they all seem to flow into each other, or sound pretty similar. But that is no criticism.

As a cohesive, quirky, mesmering whole this album has few peers. Good for HW, good for Dave Brock. If you want an HW experience which can surprise a few guests, put this one on.. light the blue touch paper and retire. You won't be disappointed.

Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By DD VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
I am a new convert to Hawkwind's later material (i.e. post Xenon Codex, which I hated!)having been a fan since '78. I understand that this is one cd that many fans dislike and I cannot understand why? I have seen the band 30-40 times and they have always gone off on long instrumental jams. This cd is predominantly instrumental and epitomises the reason why Hawkwind have stayed around for so long. Hawkwind were created to play music like this! It is what they do best. No matter how they may have seemed in the 80s, they were never a mainstream rock band. They were always just that bit special, that bit different. This cd is superb and I recommend it wholeheartedly, if you can get it.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

› Explore similar items

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject





i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Amazon.co.uk Privacy Statement Amazon.co.uk Delivery Information Amazon.co.uk Returns & Exchanges