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Uncut July 2007
If anything could ever satisfactorily record the work of a drug fuelled, commune-dwelling jam band with a large breasted dancer, then Space Ritual was the Hawkwind album that did so. Trance-inducing occasionally nightmarish, and filled with some inspirational moments, the album was a turbulent ride through psychedlic experience. Impressively it still is. Fashion has undoubtedly come and gone around this music - but like a footprint on the moon, this remains as strongly defined as it did when it was first made. ****
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2CD set. Digitally remastered! Original double album masterpiece reissued with 3 BONUS TRACKS!
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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful
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Probably the most significant live album of all time. An absolute masterpiece. No other band has ever been as simultaneously chaotic and tight as Hawkwind are in this, their supreme offering. A piece of uncontrollable Godness come down to earth.
I still regularly (at least once a week - often more) listen to this album, despite first hearing it 30 years ago. I never tire of it, I never get bored. It still sends the same shivers down my back as it has done from day one.
Buy it. Play it. Revel in it. Faultless.
I still regularly (at least once a week - often more) listen to this album, despite first hearing it 30 years ago. I never tire of it, I never get bored. It still sends the same shivers down my back as it has done from day one.
Buy it. Play it. Revel in it. Faultless.
32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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This is the album that defines space-rock. Never mind all the electronic tweaks & twiddles of Tangerine Dream et al. Hawkwind had those, too, but they also had unrestrained power. Before you buy this CD, be warned that it is LOUD. I don't mean loud: I mean LOUD. The version of Brainstorm here is probably the loudest and fastest piece of rock music you will hear, and several other tracks on the album come close to it.
The atmosphere is eerie and echoing, with even moments of relative peace such as Robert Calvert's The Awakening (actually the first stanza of his poem, "The First Landing on Medusa") and Calvert's recital of Michael Moorcock's The Black Corridor possessing a definite feeling of menace; some quieter songs, such as Down Through The Night and Seven By Seven shiver with an eerieness that was not so apparent in their original studio-recorded incarnations on the Doremi Fasol Latido album and the B-side of Silver Machine, respectively.
But when the peace is broken: boy, is it shattered. Calvert's Ten Seconds of Forever quivers into a stunning collision with Brainstorm, while his astounding performance of Moorcock's Sonic Attack (itself an unsubtle but potent rip-off of Peter Porter's famous poem, "Your Attention, Please") segués into a storming rendition of the Doremi-chant, Time We Left This World Today.
From the opening bars of Born To Go to the collapse of Master Of The Universe the band plays furiously but flawlessly. The CD bonus tracks include a frantic medley of You Shouldn't Do That and Seeing It As You Really Are that was a highlight of the mid-seventies collection, Roadhawks. This is definitely a CD to own, if you can stand the headaches.
The atmosphere is eerie and echoing, with even moments of relative peace such as Robert Calvert's The Awakening (actually the first stanza of his poem, "The First Landing on Medusa") and Calvert's recital of Michael Moorcock's The Black Corridor possessing a definite feeling of menace; some quieter songs, such as Down Through The Night and Seven By Seven shiver with an eerieness that was not so apparent in their original studio-recorded incarnations on the Doremi Fasol Latido album and the B-side of Silver Machine, respectively.
But when the peace is broken: boy, is it shattered. Calvert's Ten Seconds of Forever quivers into a stunning collision with Brainstorm, while his astounding performance of Moorcock's Sonic Attack (itself an unsubtle but potent rip-off of Peter Porter's famous poem, "Your Attention, Please") segués into a storming rendition of the Doremi-chant, Time We Left This World Today.
From the opening bars of Born To Go to the collapse of Master Of The Universe the band plays furiously but flawlessly. The CD bonus tracks include a frantic medley of You Shouldn't Do That and Seeing It As You Really Are that was a highlight of the mid-seventies collection, Roadhawks. This is definitely a CD to own, if you can stand the headaches.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Simply put, if you have not heard this album, and you consider yourself a rock fan of any description, do yourself a favour and spend your fiver now. Not only the greatest live album by anyone ever, at this price its daylight robbery. Forget Silver Machine, this is Hawkwinds epic concept realised. An album that transports you to the future, not a pleasant one, in places you feel armageddon is imminent, with special effects that only Floyd would improve upon(at enormous expense I hasten to add) All the psychedelic post-rock that has come to pass since, owes everything to this album. 5 stars is an insult, turn it up to eleven!!!!!
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Influenced my life
I did not get this album until about 1977 - I missed 5 years of stunning music. If you are into Si-Fi books and films, and you liked Tomorrow's World and Horizon, and also listened... Read more
Published 26 days ago by Psyber
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Published 4 months ago by Jimothy
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Love every track, the bonus tracks are a treat as well.
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Love every track, the bonus tracks are a treat as well.
I am surprised there is no 'Silver Machine' included. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Bring_back_the_60s
Scarily Brilliant
I bought this on vinyl on the day of its first release in '73 (I was 13) - almost 40 years later I still play this often. Read more
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Riff, riff and thrice riff.
This album is still like having your head rewired, even thirty odd years after it was `laid down'
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