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'But I've already got this album!' and Other Hawkwind Rip-Offs
These albums are listed below by the names under which they were first released. Each of these entries has a tracklist and then a list of reissues (under different names) of each album. Use this listing to see if some new exciting-looking CD you've spotted is in fact a pile of poo. Album covers are included for easy identification.
First issued May 1985. Recorded at Brixton Sundown, 30/12/72
Tracklist: Space / Orgone Accumulator / Upside Down / Sonic Attack / Time We Left /
10 Seconds of Forever / Brainstorm / Seven By Seven / Master of the Universe /
Welcome To The Future
Reissues:
November 1985. (2nd half of Space Ritual 2 only)
1988 - released on the German Imtrat label (CD 100.075) and referred to in the Hawkwind Codex as 'Hawkwind Live [Imtrat]'
February 1998
May 1998
March 1999
September 1999
July 2001
September 2002. Beware the similarity to the legitimate Space Ritual Alive album.
October 2002
March 2005
October 2005
March 2007, released on the German "Laserlight" label with a catalogue number of 32 905. This one is Space Ritual Volume 2 plus the 'Anthology' version of Urban Guerilla and the Yuri Gagarin version of Silver Machine
First issued January 1985. Recorded at the Wembley Pool, May 1973
Tracklist: Gaga / In The Egg / Orgone Accumulator / Wage War /
Urban Guerilla / Master of the Universe / Welcome To The
Future / Sonic Attack / Silver Machine
Reissues:
February 1998
March 1999
2000 - German release on Falcon
March 2000, on a label called 'Brilliant'. AKA 'Hawkwind Live'
September 2000
March 2001
July 2001
October 2002
March 2006
December 2006
First issued July 1983. Recorded at various BBC sessions 1970-71 (Disc 1) and at Colchester Technical College, 19 February 1971 (Disc 2)
Tracklist: Master of the Universe / Dreaming / Shouldn't Do That / Hurry On A
Sundown / Paranoia / See It As You Really Are / I Do It / Come Home (listed
on sleeve, but not on album) / Sound..Shouldn't..Improvise / Improvise..
Compromise..Reprise (on Text of Festival vinyl only, not on any CD)
Reissues:
July 1985. (Omits Sound..Shouldn't..Improvise)
This reissue has itself been reissued as:
July 1992.
February 1998.
Hawkwind (Disc 1)
March 1999
September 1999
2000 - German release on Falcon. Omits
'Master Of The Universe'
October 2002
March 2005
February 1998. Yes, it appears *twice* on this reissue!
March 1999. And it appears *twice* on this reissue too!
August 1999
July 1985
A compilation of various dodgy live recordings
Reissues:
1985
A Belgian release
November 1987
A compilation of live cuts from 1972-3 (Wembley Arena and Brixton Sundown)
Reissues:
1994
Also 1994, on the German "Cosmus" label
March 1997
Contains nothing live or rare. Well, certainly nothing rare, anyway...
May 2003
A compilation of live recordings from 1971-72, all of which have appeared previously and are currently available on better albums than this one. Taking the tracklisting in no particular order, Space, Orgone Accumulator, Brainstorm, Master of the Universe, Sonic Attack and Seven By Seven are from the 30/12/72 gig at the Brixton Sundown; in other words they're the same versions as you would find on Space Ritual Volume 2. Hurry On Sundown and Paranoia are from the Cambridge Corn Exchange, and so are the same versions as appear on the Text of Festival.
- Space Ritual 2 has fairly good sound quality and a few of the tracks on it equal or even surpass the versions
found on Space Ritual Alive (which is the *real* Space Ritual album)
- Text of Festival has bootleggy sound quality which does not wholly obscure some great performances
- Bring Me The Head of Yuri Gagarin is the worst Hawkwind album in existence, with appalling sound
quality, but it does contain 3 Calvert spoken word pieces (Gaga, In The Egg and Wage War) which are
not available elsewhere
No doubt this is why various record companies get away with continually re-releasing these horrors, but there is no excuse for the way they are doubled up and renamed to con people into buying the same substandard material twice or three times over. If Hawkfans don't buy the things, there'll be no market for them. It really is a case of "ignore them and they'll go away" - and if we can get that to happen maybe Hawkwind will find it easier to sign with a major, as opposed to independent, record label, and be able to get better distribution for new material.
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