- Audio CD (22 Mar 1996)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
- Label: EMI
- ASIN: B0000070SN
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 118,506 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Earth Calling | |||
| 2. Born To Go | |||
| 3. Down Through The Night | |||
| 4. The Awakening | |||
| 5. Lord Of Light | |||
| 6. Black Corridor | |||
| 7. Space Is Deep | |||
| 8. Electronic No.1 | |||
| 9. Orgone Accumulator | |||
| 10. Upside Down | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. 7 By 7 | |||
| 2. Sonic Attack | |||
| 3. Time We Left This World Today | |||
| 4. Master Of The Universe | |||
| 5. Welcome To The Universe | |||
| 6. You Shouldn't Do That | |||
| 7. Master Of The Universe | |||
| 8. Born To Go | |||
Product Description
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. ****
Record Collector July 2007
There can never be another album quite like Space Ritual. Captured live, for many, it's Hawkwind's very apex - the sound of your brain being fried. Originally edited into four glorious sides, it now spills across two extended discs with bonus tracks. From hereon in, Hawkwind were permanently cast as sonic overlords with wit and intelligence just as strong as the substances coursing through their veins. There was always something of the whiff of Campari about poet and sometime frontman Robert Calvert among the heavy sweating hairies, as if he was puffing a cigarette through a holder, observing, detailing. The doom metal of Time We Left This World Today slamming in after Calvert's Richard III-isms on Sonic Attack still thrills. Space Ritual is as central to the 70s as The Dark Side of the Moon of the three-day week. *****
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50 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you value your immortal soul, buy this album.,
By S. Durrant "Steve Seethrioux" (Directly above the centre of the Earth) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Space Ritual Alive In London (Audio CD)
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.
31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is space rock,
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This review is from: Space Ritual Alive In London (Audio CD)
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.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best Live Rock Album Ever Released. Period.,
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This review is from: Space Ritual Alive In London (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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