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Guess you had to be there. And high. Really high.
This was pretty cool. Will likely check them out again.
This was an opus. You gotta respect the length but this was not for me
I wish them the best of luck with Artemis II.
Decent enough and definitely hits the mark in giving a cosmic otherworldly vibe. Just goes on a bit too long and ultimately ends up dragging.
não funcionou pra mim. 0/5.
Psychedelic guitars and drums good. Too heavy on the whale sounds. Weird ass vocals— akin to casting spells and seances. Made Britt anxious.
Worth listening to for any Motorhead fan to hear the beginning of Lemmy. Unlike any Motorhead song though, these are not straight to the point. It’s filled with 8 minute jams with Lemmys playing and synths that are outer worldly. Not bad by any means, but it’s extremely long and all of disc 1 sounds similar.
This album is long, a little too long for its own good. It took me about 4 or 5 different listening session for me to finish, which I've never done before because I lock in on one go. This album requires stamina. The bass is ridiculously good, and I can 100% listen to this shit for forever. The guitar is cooking too. But every single track, none be spared, are way too long. I understand it's a live psychedelic jam for hippies in zen tripping for the albums duration, but I was only smoking marijuana these scattered listens, so it droned on recognizably forever. The substance feels like the cool ass parts of the ocean, so many points are given for its extreme subversiveness. I do really like it.
4/10 Far, far,FAR too long. It seemed to just keep going. There's some average songs in here, but the relentless fiddling and widdling is so tiresome. I don't think there is much talent in hitting pentatonic notes relentlessly for 10mins. Sure, you might enjoy doing it in a jam session, but don't inflict it on the rest and of us. Oh, and the cod dramatics is just lame
Its cool and diferent but too cult like for me. Enjoyed up to a certain time frame then it was meh
First listen to this seemingly run of the mill psychedelic 60's rock. Solid yet unspectacular or really moving.
Wild psyc rock
I do like Space Rock because of its sound. It's nice to hear the band that gave birth to it. Unfortunately, as with most live albums with long songs, "Space Ritual" gets a bit boring. Most of the songs are good to listen to as individual tracks. "Seven by Seven" is my favourite song; the guitar work is magical. 3 stars for "Space Ritual".
I was quite excited by the cover of this album, and, ha I g friends who are massive Hawkwind fans, glad to finally have some of rhe band’s music in my ears. And I think I could really like this - it’s just sooooo long and I’m the context of one album a day, it’s hard to carve out the time to properly listen. I could really get into the theatricality if it - the readings I don’t think are that overly serious, it sounds like fun play to me, and the extended improvisational nature of the live performance is indulgent but also a bit hypnotic and meditative. It would be great to have the time to properly sit with it - will come back for sure! 3 for now
Not for me but good
don’t think I got more than four songs in before giving up. There are few albums on earth that need to be 2 hours and this is not one of them
A psychedelic trip in its own right. Absolutely adored the instrumentals, especially hearing Lemmy’s bass work, but wasn’t as big of a fan of the spoken word bits in their place in the music; I probably wouldn’t mind too much if they were a separate project to be honest.
7 - GOOD
Nope. Not for me AT ALL. I feel like you have to be on some sort of hallucinogenic drugs to enjoy this (unfortunately (or fortunately, depends on how you look at it), I do not use such substances). Because without it, you are just listening to almost one and a half hours of synth and guitar noise with some annoying spoken word moments on top. These jams go on way to long to the point that they either become annoying or boring.
Very proggy. I dig it. 4.5 bumped down to 4.
I’m at a 5. It took a bit for this album to start clicking with me; something about the vibe felt off, and in particular, the mixing of the first real track had me worried – all the reverb, wind, & the spatial sense of everything made the vocals feel muffled, in a way that kept me too distracted towards catching the energy of the rest of the instrumentation. It didn’t click with me on a first pass, if only because I was expecting a bit more clarity. After that point however, once the more hypnotic feel of “Down Through the Night” kind of worked its way into the ears, this album really started to find itself for me & the sci-fi monologue directly after gave me a sort of Star Trek vibe that I just kinda fucked with. After that point, the album settles into a phase of lyrics that loosely tell a story, but actively choosing to let the instrumentation sell the tracks, and once that hierarchy is established, this thing feels remarkable to listen to. A bit long, obviously; 90 minutes before the 11 minute instrumental encore on top, but if you can allow yourself to zone out to this thing, these tracks are great. The “mixing” issues I mentioned earlier become a massive strength of the album, as the space-y stuff blends in way more nicely once the intensity of the instrumentals go up. The muffling is still a factor, but it’s far less of one, since the vocals become less prevalent as well. It’s frankly impossible to go track by track here; there’s a loose plot somewhere involved, and there’s elements of each track I liked, but for the most part, this is practically a 100 minute concert that one has to just feel out. If you’re already attuned towards science fiction technobabble or high-concept alien civilization stuff, then all the monologues here won’t feel as nonsensical as they might – even still, I think the delivery on them is authoritative / varied enough that they add some good campy flavor. Obviously, the instrumentation across the board does a great job, but in particular, Simon King on drums & Lemmy on bass guitar REALLY steer the direction of each track, & this album would feel a bit more lost without them. The guitars do a great job too, especially when they go full blast. If I have any minor complaints, it’s that a few instruments get more muffled in the mix (namely the flute/sax), though I do think some of that is intentional. Ultimately, I really enjoyed it, though I fully recognize it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. In particular, if the mixing choices early on feel too stuffy & the science fiction aspects feel too cheesy, it will be very easy to bounce off of this album & disregard the rest as trite, over-indulgent nonsense that’s making noise just to make noise. That’s the harshest scenario, but it probably happened to at least one person who gave this a 1. To me, the grandeur of this album that reveals itself over time manages to win out, & the atmosphere behind it becomes just as much of an instrument as the band’s stuff. I think it is a little long for what it is, & since the crowd isn’t super audible throughout, it would have been possible to overdub a lot of this in the studio. That said, doing it live & as proficiently as they do it feels like a testament to all of their talents, and that would also undermine a lot of the stage show aspect of this that goes unseen. As an album experience, I think the clarity of the mix to capture all the intricacies of the bass / drums / everything else WHILST retaining the space-y wall of sound in a way that doesn’t feel overly intrusive, is kind of a miracle for 1973. I really enjoyed it, and I’m glad it’s on the list. I can’t say I’m surprised by the 2.69 on the site, but it does deserve to be higher.
A genius album! To really get it, you almost have to be living in 2026 — inside all this synthetic noise. Generative music, artificial lyrics, fake bloggers. And then, right in the middle of that synth-pop blur, you find a decent speaker or a pair of headphones… and press play. Rough. Uneven. A bit raw around the edges. Not polished to death. Not optimized. Not pretending. Something real.
I am torn. Not just by these cosmic unicorns ordered to quarter me above the andromeda galaxy by an omniscient wizard owl from whom I pilfered the silver ball. As his head spins triplicate, my vessel is stretched into kaleidoscopic konfetti, becoming the seeds of a new universe. The greatest risks find the greatest rewards. This is no Motorhead but it did capture grimy psychedelia in a major way. With that said, this album was WAY too long. Oh well. Actual music review is too hard. Let's go back to the cosmos. 2.5-3 HIGHLIGHTS: Experiencing a microcosm of infinity
Fucking EPIC !!!!!
Admittedly I didn't listen to the whole thing, it's a live show and I listened to half of it so I got the vibe. If I was at this show (and on any/all substances required) this would have received a much higher rating. It was decent, but it's made for someone in a very specific state of mind.
This was a decent record overall. The tracks blend well into the next, but there's a lot of filler. I'm not too keen on the time-wasting, so I'm dropping a point. Favourite Track(s): Orgone Accumulator Least Favourite Track(s): Sonic Attack, Welcome To The Future
2.5/3. Meh, not impressed. Pretty repetitive. Dull.
Lots of guitar. Pretty long, but also pretty cool. Was pleasantly surprised
This starts off stronger than it finishes, you can almost hear them slowly losing steam as it goes on. I’m sure this was an incredible live experience back in the ’70s, especially for the LSD crowd, but as an album it doesn’t really translate the same way.
Weird spaced out psychedelia that’s kind of passable as background music. It might be annoying to really focus on this, especially for the full hour plus the album runs. But it was fine. I kind of enjoyed it
I feel like this is best enjoyed while under the spell of something medicinal.
This album didn't particularly grab me but I can see how it could be an enthralling experience for folks in the right mindset, a la Pink Floyd or similar music.
If it weren't two hours long, it would have been genuinely enjoyable.
I'm not a fan of live albums in the first place, and as far as live albums go, this isn't a particularly good one. It also goes on for too long.
Too long
Probably a good album for a long road trip. Too long for just about anything else.
The problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on stage, that was in danger, of being crushed, by a dwarf.
It all blended together to me.
I actually enjoyed this. Heavy and jammy psychedelic
I think you had to be there.. and high.
I Couldn't listen to the whole thing. I stopped doing weed a while ago but I don't even think I would've enjoyed it high.
Drivel
I dunno man. Seems a bit shite to me
Aware of rhem but never listened to an album. Think youve gotta be inn the mood for this. Definitely too long. Good for putting on and doing what youre doing. Impressive Psych and Meatiness. Obvs inspirations for King Gizzard. Coulda done without the Alan Rickman monologues but y'know
Toss Not very rememberable
I had a nice time, I’d have probably left before the encore though.
An absolute blast! Extraordinarily fun intersection of space rock, prog rock and psychedelia. The Pink Floyd influence is not subtle but I think they really made it their own. Nothing but a good time in my opinion.
What a trip! Sad I was fully sober listening to this, as I feel like I didn't get the full experience. Started off a little apprehensive, but once the riffs and solos started on Born to Go I was locked in. Maybe not an album that I would listen to often, but definitely one to throw on and vibe to for a couple of hours. I get that we are going for a space theme here, but some of the songs and monologues almost pull me out of it rather than add to the experience for me (Electronic No 1). Favorites: Born to Go, Orgone Accumulator
Ah, so this is where Lemmy came from. This rips, I listen to a lot of heavy music and there is some definite Hawkwind DNA in sludge metal, stoner rock, modern heavy psych/prog, etc. Really neat stuff and I had never heard a single second of any of these songs before. So cool to find brand-new old music, I guess that is the point of this experiment! Definitely a record to chill out to, light it up and get lost in the riffs.
Couldn't find this on Spotify in my country so can't comment.
No more psychedelic rock
Best Track - "Orgone Accumulator"
Going to play the recently crate dug vinyl. I know just how good this is... ...amazing, stunning album.
It’s pretty bold to assume that everyone’s on drugs and can put up with that for two hours, let alone actually enjoy it. 1.5/5
I got so tired of listening to this so quickly, which is a very bad problem to have for an hour and a half long double album. Just a pain to hear it all the way through.
The weirdness of early Pink Floyd meets the muscle of MC5. Plus Lemmy. You can almost hear Motorhead in some of the heavier parts. I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Song title will be like GAZORPAZORP THE EATER OF WORLDS and it’ll be the most average 9 minute song you’ve heard in your life
If you took all the best parts from this album it would be a 5. If you just shortened the album it would be a 4. But it’s long as hell and there’s too much wasted space with the same old thing.
Wildly interesting sound. A couple songs were ok. Some like Awaking were bazaar
Very weird but I kinda liked the instrumentals in between whatever strange things they had to say
This was pretty interesting! Usually not a huge fan of live albums but this was cool. A bit long for a live album
Zdecydowanie za długie, ale przyjemne. Fajne gitarki. 4
Halfway through and I can’t imagine listening to this in any situation. Alt rock y with some alien y sounds thrown in. Tracks blend together like Melanie album.
Få vokaler Bare ren rock Litt A4 men schpa om du tripper Føles litt som en loop
I’m not saying that you need to be on drugs to enjoy this album… but it would definitely help. I’d forgotten how experimental Hawkwind actually were. This is psychedelic space rock layered over an ever-present oscillator wind tunnel, while Lemmy attacks his bass guitar like it owes him money. And it goes on for almost 2 and a half hours. The only break from the jet engine whooshing is from some dystopian sci-fi poetry read to the crowd in between songs. Probably just to give the band a chance to top up their acid and amphetamine levels. I enjoyed this as a whole. It’s music that’s built up of a lot of different facets that I really enjoy individually: glam rock, psychedelic rock, experimental Can-esque grooves, noise rock and Lemmy. I’m not a fan of live albums in general, and this doesn’t do much to change my mind. Hawkwind were clearly a band meant to be experienced in person, with all the intensity of the light show, dancers and noise. The music is captured well here, but that’s only a fraction of what I’d imagine the chaos of a Hawkwind gig was like.
10/03/26 essa capa é linda, agora o álbum não sei se posso dizer o mesmo como eu não tenho tempo e nem disposição pra sentar 2h e pouco para ouvir de uma vez, vou ouvir um disco por vez, tratando cada um com nota individual e média para descobrir o total primeiro disco o conceito sonoro somado ao visual é bem interessante, esse misticismo cósmico abstrato sei lá o problema é o exagero disso, com durações extremamente longas e/ou essa imprevisibilidade que vai se tornando cada vez mais esperada a medida que o álbum vai sendo escutado 5/10 segundo disco igual o outro, mesmo depois de mais de 10 horas após escutar o primeiro disco, começa bem e vai perdendo qualidade pelos mesmos motivos os monológos são tão abstratos que começam a irritar, porque o abstrato deles tenta ser profundo e só é ruim mesmo 4.5/10 9.5/2 dá 4.75, mas nem aproximando para o inteiro dá pra colocar duas estrelas e meia dou meia estrela a mais para ser possível mais pela capa (uma das melhores capas de álbum que eu já vi) do que por qualquer coisa, 6 sendo uma nota generosa 6/10
Too much of a good thing
Não curti não, muito ruidoso e pouco compreensivo por ser um álbum ao vivo.
Ehhh
Some cool stuff but too spaced. Hørt ikke alt
wierd
It's a super long double live album of Prog Rock, and it's relentless... The basslines are super driving and hypnotic, but the synths are a total mess, creating a repetitive groove that's mind-numbing torture. There are these totally pretentious faux-Shakespearean monologues about "Sonic Attacks" and "Orgone Accumulators". By the time the 14-minute guitar solo was over, I'd forgotten every song before it, it's exhausting and never fucking ends.
I've already made my feelings on live albums pretty clear (that with very few exceptions (see Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison) they don't belong on this list), as well as my feelings on when albums are too long. This is a double LP too, which again detracts in some small way from the idea that this qualifies as "an album". I feel like the people who compiled this list have a much looser definition of "album" than I would. Live albums, compilation albums, greatest hits albums... and in some cases double albums. Get rid of them all. And you know I mean this because one of my favourite "albums" is actually technically a collection of 9 EPs, and so I'd never consider it for something like this on principle. (but do go check out "The Colour Spectrum" by The Dear Hunter, it's fantastic) Thankfully, I checked this one on Wikipedia before listening, and found that the last four tracks on Spotify aren't on the original album release, which saved me 40 minutes of listening. That's right, four songs totalling 40 minutes. Averaging 10 minutes per song. What. Here's the thing, some of this music was not bad... but just about every song got tiresome for being too long, or too much of the same, which I think is almost the antithesis of prog, right? Prog aspires to be weird and different and inventive and keep the listener guessing, and this was bland and one-note. The exception to this is when they took a break to do dramatic spoken word stuff, and even THAT got boring because it went on for too long and they did it over and over again. I'm sure people enjoyed watching this concert live in the 70's when there was a naked dancer on stage to keep them entertained... But just the audio? Almost unlistenable. Heck, even WITH a naked lady dancing around I think I'd be hard pressed to sit through this again. Too long, too repetitive, too far up its own butt trying to be artsy and clever and doesn't really count as an album.
The space rock branch of psychedelic rock is one that I think really doesn't get enough light shined on it in my opinion. I only ever hear it on random youtube mixes. I don't love live albums and judging by the wiki, it sounds like the live visuals added a lot here. The length is also a lot to get through. I think this could have been a 5 if it wasn't for the live production and 2+ hour runtime. Regardless, it was nice background music for work today.
I really hate to say it but I didn't finish this one; got like 80% of the way through but then gave up. If you're gonna make an album that's 90ish mins long it better have variance, or at least be good
It was definitely different and interesting. No that I really enjoyed it. I didn't find myself jamming out to it at all, but I did find myself intrigued at the space noises in the album. Was a cool concept, but execution was pretty ok for me.
Loved this album. Some great bass lines. Really hypnotic and psychedelic to listen to. Haven't put it as a 5 as because of the length of the album (over 2 hours) it's not one I'll listen to again and again unfortunately. But that takes nothing away from the music. Really great listen
Didn't hate it, probably wouldn't relistened
01) Earth Calling - 1,0 02) Born to Go - 6,0 03) Down Through the Night - 6,0 04) The Awakening - 1,0 05) Lord of Light - 5,5 06) Black Corridor - 1,0 07) Space Is Deep - 5,5 08) Electronic No. 1 - 1,0 09) Orgone Accumulator - 5,5 10) Upside Down - 5,5 11) 10 Seconds of Forever - 1,0 12) Brainstorm - 5,0 13) Seven By Seven - 6,0 14) Sonic Attack - 1,0 15) Time We Left This World Today - 5,0 16) Master of the Universe - 5,0 17) Welcome to the Future - 5,0 TOTAL: 3,88 (39/100) Current ranking: 822/841
Rockin instrumentals and cool poetry
This was not for me
I thought Space Ritual was a pretty great album. Apparently Lemmy Kilmister was involved with this show with him playing bass as well as providing vocals on a couple of the tracks and i can really see how a lot of the stuff he did on this record went on to inspire some of the music in the Motorhead albums that i listened to especially in No Sleep Til Hammersmith (Probably because that is also a live album). Lemmy Kilmister stuff aside, my opinions on the music are very positive. I enjoy a lot of the jazzy undertones a lot of these songs have and the bass was obviously incredible here. Granted this one did get long and some of the vocals were a bit weird for me but i still really liked this one. Best Song: Master of the Universe Worst Song: Sonic Attack
It's okay. Sounds a little mix of Deep Purple, Rush, Yes and Pink Floyd.
I really don't like jam bands. I couldn't finish this.
I kept forgetting it was a live album, which is enjoy, since I typically fucking despise live albums. I also typically enjoy when I can't exactly tell where one song ends and another begins, but this one was a bit...much in that regard. Meh. 2.5 rounded up for this one.
Overlong and so very poorly mixed. I don't know if that was a financial limitation or what but it flattened out an album that clearly had some virtuosity going for it if nothing else.
From a band I have never heard of comes a two hour long psychedelic jammy live set with shades of Jethro Tull and Deep Purple. Needless to say I loved it. Favorite songs were Born To Go, Down Through The Night, Orgone Accumulator, and Brainstorm.
Pretty good psychedelic rock
Abgefahrener Trip
If I was in the crowd I bet this would have been mind altering, but unfortunately the proggy mucking about doesn't really land the same. Some good tracks on here inspliced with some guff. 2.5 realistically but looking at what I've given 2s this deserves better. Maybe not the album to have on this list
Le quemaría la casa a la persona que se le ocurrió poner en esta lista un álbum de una duración de *dos horas* y *grabado en vivo*; no es lo mismo escuchar esto presencialmente que haciéndolo desde mi casa, donde se vuelve un embole. Lo único que se me ocurre es que quizás la experiencia podría haber sido mejor bajo el efecto de alguna sustancia, porque al menos lo que yo siento ahora es que perdí dos horas de mi vida en esto y que no las voy a recuperar nunca. Pondría cuáles me gustaron más y cuáles menos, pero como todas las canciones sonaban iguales para mí, la realidad es que no soy capaz de distinguir ninguna entre sí.
Just awful
??? schrammelrocknoise, das cover die typo, live, schlecht gemischt 2st ? c
Could me 3/5 but too long and live
i’m not QUITE sure this needed to be 2hrs long. i liked some of the guitar stuff going on but i did check out about 1hr 20mins in unfortunately
Lemmy on bass........ This album is good but this is an entirely too large dose of this stuff at least for me in my current life .
Good ( at least the first parts that made a strong impression), but really, reaaally, reaaaaaaally long.
I think I need some LSD to understand this shit. This stuff may fuck if you can feel it completely. For me it's just like some incoherent musical sounds that had a stunning idea. Love using of all instruments, but I just can't listen to space rock tracks for more than 3 minutes. Too psychedelic for me
Really don’t get the need for this album given that the show was designed to be an audio-visual experience and therefore would presumably be best experienced as such. Not a fan of live albums anyway. This grew on me on second listen (yes, I did force myself through it twice) but tbh the bar was pretty low to start off with. The sound is terrible though and all the extended jams are tiresome. Not sure I would even enjoy it as a live experience
Interesting prog rick I would normally be into, need right mood to listen to this
4/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/hawkwind/space-ritual/ The single thing I knew about Hawkwind before listening to this album, is that I always confuse them with Alestorm, for no reason but the weather-related word that takes up half the band name. Imagine my surprise, therefore, when this album was a live space opus of more than 100 minutes. One, moreover, that I quite liked! Yes, it’s very long—I listened to the extended album available on Tidal—and not everything is as exciting, but overall the atmosphere created by the band is very cool. Not sure how often I’d listen to it again, but this first listen was very pleasant.
So long
Not bad. Not great. Standard early 70’s Brit rock.
Is this heavy metal? prog rock? punk? I am sure when it was released that it was new and cutting edge but in 2026 it seems unfocused and pretentious. If you like jam bands with a bit of a metal edge, you may enjoy this one.
0.7/5 Maybe if I was stoned off my head in the 70's I would have enjoyed this but this album just felt like 1 continuous instrumental song with random talking through it. Also at over 2 hours long it was a slog.
Now THIS is sick. Really amazing live set of absolute cosmic jams and peak riffs with that wonderful element of flute and early 70's drugged out haze. Would definitely spin again.
This had a lot going against it for me: it's a live album, it's 2 discs, and it's noodling psych rock. I don't like any of those things, so I don't really care to listen to this again before I die.
70s psychedelia which didn't know when to actually end songs. Thought they really captured the doors live sound which turns out to be because it was live. Quite like the general sound of a lot of the music but far too repetitive and peppered with mad spoken parts. Would be good live but couldn't really get into it as something to listen to on headphones, definitely wouldn't go back. That said, 2.5.
Super long, super trippy. Went very fast, despite its length. Quite liked the trippier songs, towards the start and the end of the first disc. Scrapes a 3, for being largely enjoyable.
Used to have a mate that liked hawkwind. Not sure I've listened before but I thought I knew what it would sound like, and I did! Exactly what I was expecting. Kinda 70s stoner rock. I enjoyed it largely, but i wish it wasn't a 2 hour 20 min live album.... I've marked things down for being live albums so I'm going to have to stick to my guns. However, I really like the saxophone in some tracks and the general sound, just would rather it was a studio album. Maybe there will be one coming up 3.5 but 3 for it being a live album and too long. Let the record show that I did enjoy it though
Couldn't be bothered to listen to the full 2 hours, but from what I did listen to, this album is quite good. A bit hit and miss but I'm sure this is a wet dream for any psychedelic rock fan. Being high would improve this
I can’t imagine a worse combo than a two hour, live, 70’s psychedelic nonsense album. This was torture
DUAS HORAS DE ALBUM... MEU DEUS FAVS (top 3): electronic no 1, organe accumulator, master of the universe mençoes honrosas: born to go, lord of light, space is deep, time we left this world, welcome to the future acho q esse foi o maior album q ja ouvi aqui ate agr e GRAÇAS A DEUS ele foi bom, as musicas sao bem grandinhas e tem 21 delas entao da 2 horas mesmo, tem umas q sao bemm repetitivas mas tem outras q da pra aproveitar bastante, tem umas no meio bem curtinhas q vc ate assusta mas é um rock muito bom com OTIMAS transiçoes, principalmente no inicio nota final: 4/5
My first thought upon hearing their name and reading that the album is about space was Spinal Tap’s “Stonehenge” era. I was not particularly looking forward to this one. But I was pleasantly surprised, somewhat. They are good musicians, and there are parts and riffs that are great, like “Time We Left…”, which is reminiscent of Black Sabbath. But some parts, like the spoken word stuff and the endless solos are a slog. Case in point is probably their best effort here, “Orgone Accelerator,” which has a great riff and catchy lyrics. But does it have to be 10 minutes long? No. It does not. That’s this album in a nutshell. Even now I am wavering between a 3 (some parts rocked!) and a 2 (when I remember the lowlights)
a bit much
I like the idea of space rock in theory but I did not like how it was executed in this album. And of course it had to be a 2 hour long live double album. I can happily say I won’t be listening to this album again.
This is really far out. I had heard of these guys but had never listened to any of their recordings. It's a bizarre mix of early prog rock and what seem to be kraut rock (Can, Tangerine Dream) stylings. I like!
Some pretty good jamming space rock. It's pretty long winded for my tastes, and not something I really think I'm going back to, but it's a solid time.
Bloody awful live album
another album where i just wasn’t super interested to continue. it sounded nice but i just don’t think it’s something i’d ever really crave.
Interesting, but not for me
This is one of those album titles/covers that made me groan when I saw it and my instinct was correct. Not at all for me but then again I haven’t been on a never ending acid trip since the 70s. I haven’t no doubt this was a wild concert to experience but so much is lost in making it a poor quality recording.
Unusual blend of hard rock and progressive music. I liked the music much more than the lyrics. Definitely didn't need the overly pompous poems.
You had to be there I guess? What an absolute slog.
I hate to rate this album the same as Kid Rock but this thing is bloated and pure ego. This could’ve been a 30 minute album.
Self indulgent nonsense but I enjoyed it! Probably would have enjoyed it more if I was on as many drugs as these guys clearly were.
Hard to listen to, maybe you had to be there and tripping.
A band I have wanted to check out for a while. A double live album though, maybe not the best place to start. Yup sounds like 70s prog. Fuzzy bassy long jammy sci fi nonsense. It's kind of cool but 3.5 rounded down. Heard before? No Owned: No 48/198 (24%) Will I get: No
When I'm in a selecting unnecessarily long albums contest and my opponent is Robert Dimery
Great album with a fantastic atmosphere. It really fits the most literal definition of space rock, and I love it. One of the rare examples of a longer record actually being a benefit as it immerses you and doesn’t let go. I wasn’t a fan of all the interludes. Didn’t feel like they were adding much, and all their spoken word parts could’ve easily been fit into the long songs, all of which I very much liked, by the way. They’re quite repetitive, but most of the repetitions are great, so they didn’t feel boring. There are bunch of very catchy and groovy parts here. Not the most outstanding music as I thought some of the songs could’ve been a little busier but still very much enjoyable.
Maybe the pinnacle of space rock. I was raised on this by my dad and it is a really great record, although it’s a big commitment to try and get through it in one sitting.
dogshit
1/10
Wow this was a long one. And I wish it was better! There is some great rock parts here, with awesome drumming and a great guitar tone. But man as far as songs go most of these just don’t hold together. And don’t get me started on the weird spoken word sections!
Jeg har gruet meg til å høre denne basert på kommentarene, men dette var jo knall! Har aldri hørt Hawkwind før og det eneste jeg vet om bandet er at Lemmy var bassist og låtskriver. Artig å høre han gneldre i bakgrunnen.
Psychedelic space rock with distorted guitars, wandering sax, and electronic drones, with Motörhead’s Lemmy on bass before and space age lyrics and spoken word poetry (some written by Michael Moorcock). Easy to get lost in while listening, but never boring. Orgone Accumulator and spoken-word Sonic Attack are my favourite tracks.
Meh, låter lite samma hela tiden typ? kanske är live remasterns fel vem vet.
This is exactly the kind of band that demonstrates why punk was so desperately needed. Apparently known as space rock, it just sounds like self indulgent noise to me and very dated. I'll not score it too low though as perhaps it's important in the history of music. To me it is at one far end of the very complex era that was the 1970s. Thank goodness for Bowie, funk, disco and punk for pulling us far away from hippy nonsense like Hawkwind.
Never heard of Hawkwind before or this quote on quote "epic journey across space and time". Turned out to be a very long and dull journey. One where I constantly found myself asking, "Are we there yet?"
This album shows us what would happen if some talented musicians got together and dedicated themselves to making a 2hour plus album sound exactly the same the entire time.
Okay weird, not my thing, but also fun and I kinda got into a few songs - I would say 2.5
Hat nicht gevibet.
Cooler rock, aber nichts weltbewegendes
A bit weird. Didn’t love it or hate it. Some nice guitar pieces that are up my street. But in general not interesting enough. Bit too Flash Gordon for me
O álbum é bem feito. Acredito ser um dos grandes do Space Rock. O porém é que não curti um álbum tão extenso desse tema. QoA Cloudscape.
j'aime ap
Meh pas ma came
J'aime beaucoup la cover. Au début j'étais vraiment wow c'est psychédélique à souhait puis ça devient vraiment long. Par contre à réessayer dans un état second ça peut être fou
I’m too sober for this 1
im so tired of listening to this shit
Er, what was that?! Far too long, with little to enjoy other than some great basslines. Dull, indulgent space rock. An extra star has been added for the spoken word sections, unintentionally hilarious.
Double live album, led, dane loved, psychedelic
2 hrs and 12 mins be so fuckin for real
Hmm. I think Hawkwind are marmite. I gave it a listen but it's just too way out for me.
6/10 I did not enjoy this one for the most part, there were a few highlights such as Sonic Attack but the majority of songs just felt like listening to someone play guitar without any major differences, it was a bit too unfocused for me. Might change my mind on another listen.
a little repetitive
Didn’t enjoy this one much.
Unless your band is metal or goth or industrial or otherwise terrible, if you put out a two hour long album, there is going to be some decent stuff on there, even if it’s only by accident That is certainly true of this monstrosity of an album. They have some cool Sabbathy moments, some cool Pink Floydy moments, and some less cool proto-punk moments. But none of those moments is worth listening to an album this long, especially when a lot of it sucks.
very long
Pretty cool space rock and there are some really awesome parts but the problem is it doesn't really go anywhere. It sounds really intense for like 9 minutes straight but then it just stop, no climax or anything
ya kötü değil ama çok aynı tarz şooldu ytr
cok psychodelic ama iyi anlamda degil cok sanki
Definitely a huge spacey vibe in this one and also love how its a live album. I thought 2 hours would be grueling for an album but it was incredibly immersive and just great to listen and vibe to. Lots of interesting elements in it and even has an ominous element to it that I enjoyed. 8/10, Favorite Song: Brainstorm
The album cover is so cool! Another one where listening through headphones doesn't do it justice, though it did feel sort of "samey" after awhile. Transporting sound, curious lyrics. Favorite song: Orgone Accumulator.
I can't. I just can't.
This is one of the few live albums I’d recommend checking out, especially for anyone interested in the space rock movement of the early ’70s. It’s a strong mix of hard hitting rock and acid psychedelia, blurring the line between structured songs and improvisational jams. The album also has a theatrical feel, with spacey synthesizers, hypnotic basslines, and swirling guitar work creating an immersive atmosphere.One thing worth mentioning is that the album is slightly over two hours long, but it maintains a steady energy throughout. With its long, repetitive grooves, it draws you in and takes you on a musical journey that’s easy to get lost in.
Tricky, kind of enjoyed it, but looooooog album 3.5
It's like Spinal Tap performing a two hour rock opera based on Interstellar Overdrive. Incredibly, THEY . . . NEVER . . . FLAG . . . It is so magnificently absurd and over the top that I can't help but simultaneously wonder at and worship everything about it.
Nice
Huiii bin ich froh hani das no nahglost! Und bin ich froh het hawkwind so gueti musig gmacht bevors vom Vecna überfalle worde isch. Let's goooo und 4 kick is demoorgen füdli
No
Hatte bei dem Cover und der Länge keine großen Erwartungen. Aber das war anderthalb Stunden derselbe Song. Selbst in den Songs war keine Abwechslung, wenn man Teile geskippt hat, war der Übergang fließend, jedes Mal. Außer, wenn er einen drei Minuten vollgelabert hat. Aber das war auch nicht besser.
it was alright, i didn’t finish it
Sendo sincero, se eu estivesse na platéia assistindo ao show, eu tiraria uma pira imensa. Mas a experiência de ouvir esse disco é bem dolorosa. Interminável e maçante. Ele possui alguns momentos brilhantes, mas eles são espaçados por sessões de tortura infinitas, que se estendem muito além da razão. Novamente, ao vivo deve ter sido legal, ainda mais com alguns tóxicos no sistema, mas no fone de ouvido, sóbrio, o efeito fica completamente perdido. Chato e interminável.
4/10… metal / psychedelic rock / *1973
95/1001 First listen. I’ve Never heard one Hawkwind song that I know of but I know the name. Didn’t get the best opportunity to take all this in today but this is rockin’ enough to make me come back for more even with the goofy poetry. 5/10
pretty cool, vocals suck though
Ist mir zu rockig
Legendary huh? In 1973 you can listen to bands such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Stones, David Bowie, The Who, The Allman Brothers or Jethro Tull, in their PRIME! Or you can listen to Hawkwind. In what universe are these guys Legendary? Minus 1 on principle.
Captures the band at the height of their powers. Hawkwind were certainly something else
Did not like at alll this genre, voice, instrumentals etc
Not my thing at all, I couldn’t listen to it all, bored me
Listened while driving running errands. Good lord by the end of the second track I was begging for it to be over and I had another hour and a half to go. Boring songs, trite lyrics that I couldn't discern from the poor delivery and mixing, embarrassing narrative set dressing, self indulgent yet amateurish improvisations. At times I thought I was hearing a Spinal Tap parody but I was missing the joke. I feel bad for any kid who's Dad subjected them to this drivel growing up. Don't do drugs, kids.
This was better than I expected it to be, though I admit I only listened to the original tracks. I’ll definitely listen again soon.
Far out space jams. Whooshy and whoaahhwww whaaawwhh noises a plenty, with lashings of grooving guitar and excellent drums. So I liked this much more than I thought I would. Even the poetry.
Definitely one to chill out to. Sci-fi stories and psychedelia, rock and rockets.
I can see why this splits opinion. I've never liked Hawkwind as much as I should. There's something a little too ragged and jazzy about them. But live it works (I saw them a few years ago at Glastonbury and I remember it was much the same as this album 40 years before). I love the atmosphere and the spoken word ridiculousness too. And Lemmy's bass is great. Best album I've listened to while working too.
some if this was incredible. some of this was really weird in a way i did not like. every time i thought it was over, there was another track. i am starting to think i may have died listening to this and am now living in a nirvana where space ritual plays for eternity.
I enjoyed this... At first... Then it got a bit too pretentious, but was still ok... Then it was fun again... Then it felt like it was going on a bit... Then I checked and I was only on track 8 of 18!... Then some of it really rocked again... Then brainstorm came on and I thought "what a fun end track to riff on for the end of an album, cool pulsing outro, great... Then I checked and that was only track 12... God damn... Double albums should be banned... I'm so conflicted at this point, there is a brilliant album in here, but there are times when I really wanted it to stop, let me go for a cup of tea and think about feeding ducks for a while... As I write this I'm on track 13, will I make the end?... The poetry is back again... I started reading about it, I didn't realise it was a live album, it's a great sounding live album, very well recorded... But I still disagree with comparing live and studio albums, I wonder why the doremi etc album that the tracks are taken from isn't on the list.and that one is only 41 minutes!! Argh!... I'm not sure I need a dalek giving advice on sex, stop poeting!!! Please... Oh man, I still have 4 tracks to go...the riffs are brilliant though! Quite Sabbathesque in places... My ears are tired... It felt very weird to chuck in a load of crowd noise where there hadn't really been any up to that point... It ended Man that was a slog. Really good bits. But also there were other bits. Lot of other bits.
There's some decent hard-charging rock music underneath all the sludge and pretentious blather. You need to slog through a lot of crap to find it.
Important, maybe? But I couldn't take it.
Hell, No
WTF
In five words: Jam band psychedelic wig out. I think I liked the Beatnik poety in between songs the best. "Our drummer would like to know if there are any Liverpool supporters in the audience..." [faint cheer] "...because he digs Chelsea!" Classic misleading live banter! [Snaps fingers multiple times.]
It had its moments but 2+ hours is too much.
No hits or ear grinders. Psychedelic rock. Unusual sounds
Hadde sikkert vært bra om man va på syre og dette var det eneste bandet i verden
Nekte å høre på live-album
SNORK. 2t12m. Hørt på vei til og fra jobb 08/01/26. klarte ikke fullføre. Sikkert fint som bakgrunnsmusikk på et dårlig nachspiel.
Musikk som durer og går, med ganske irriterende space-lyder innimellom.
Def spacey. Hard to get through
prijemne prekvapeni
Liked it overall. Not a big fan of the vocals or constant space noises. Enjoyed the guitar/drums. Standout songs: Orgone Accumulator Brainstorm Seven by Seven
Инопланетный концепт выдержан, но бля лайв альбом еще и двойной....
Probably would have been a 3 if it wasn’t so damn long.
Na trenutke zanimljivo i dosta progy, na trenutke dosadno za riknut. 2/5, 4/10
Bof
I didn't know what to expect from this album, I thought this was a regular psychedelic rock live album from the early 70s but I was wrong. It genuiely surprised me, it's a great space rock (one of the best in the genre) and proto-punk album, and I can hear how influential it was on future bands. It's a really good album, very spacey and far out. A bit too long, but nevertheless a fantastic journey.
Not sure why this is ok with me. I don't normally like this type of music. Oh well.
Very cool insight into what seeing this band live might be like. Good generally, but some standout tracks like "Space is Deep" and some more accessible ones like "Orgone Accumulator". The chat between songs is priceless from the sci-fi nonsense of Sonic Attack to one bandmember asking if there are any Liverpool fans in tonight.
No thanks. I already don’t like Rush. This is Rush but worse.
Хубава музика, ужасен запис. Тъй като е класация за албум, това е лош албум
Interludes were weird but the songs themselves were pretty good guitar rock.
I prefer music that is not like this. I will only give it a 2 because I did dig the driving base on some songs.
Interesting album. I love psychedelic rock and this delivered on that front…but some songs are just too long.
Psychedelic and weird in a trippy 70s way…I surprised myself towards the beginning by liking it, but unfortunately as it went on, turns out I didn’t live-double-album like it. Usually for me the energy of a live album increases the appeal but here I think it was too long and stretched out - maybe I’d like their studio albums more, idk. Thought it would be an easy 4 but it lost enough steam for me to go back to a 3.
One of my favorites. Play it loud and all the way through
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Pure wankery from start to finish. I'm 14 And Space Is Deep. Fave tracks: Master of the Universe
down through the night 1973 united kingdom space rock
Live..
4/5 - This felt way ahead of its time, I'd never guess early 70s if someone asked. I probably wouldn't listen to this as an album due to the interludes and overall length, but I really enjoyed the songs. I found the repeated lyrics a bit mixed, I enjoyed it sometimes and didn't others, but the instrumentals were consistently really impressive.
This started off really not for me but it slowly grew. I may come to listen to this again but right now I don't think so. It's a brand a jam rock with a bit of space theme which I like overall and there's some seriously driving bass in there but it's handful of tunes. I'm sure live this was a great experience but my mind hasn't expanded enough to listen to this sober.
My favourites were Orgone Accumulator and Master of the Universe. Very cool album. I think the bass really shines.
Strange mix of electronic/rock/ ?. Like the music, not so much the vocals.
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
Space Ritual ist ein Livealbum der britischen Band Hawkwind und entstand bei Konzerten 1972 im Liverpool Stadium und im Londoner Brixton Sundown. Die Aufnahmen fangen die Gruppe in einer Phase ein, in der Musik, Improvisation und Bühnenshow zu einem durchgehenden Gesamtkonzept verschmelzen. Hawkwind verbinden hier repetitive Rockriffs mit elektronischen Klangflächen, Spoken-Word-Passagen und langen Übergängen. Besonders prägend sind Stücke wie „Master of the Universe“, „Orgone Accumulator“ und „Space Is Deep“, die weniger als einzelne Songs funktionieren, sondern als Teile eines zusammenhängenden Ablaufs. Stilistisch bewegt sich das Album klar im Space Rock mit psychedelischen und frühen elektronischen Einflüssen. Insgesamt wirkt Space Ritual konzentriert und konsequent umgesetzt und gehört zu den überzeugendsten Dokumenten dieser Phase der Band.
Meh 2.5/5
Exhausting LSD (presumably) fueled Pogrock. Not for me.
I’ve been meaning to get around to this album, and what a ride. So far ahead of its time. I can see how this influenced generations of musicians that led to the development of multiple genres.
I bought the LP back in the day
Oof, a live album AND it is a double...it's too much. The music was decent which was at least a bit of redemption, but then they started jabbering on about space and whatnot. I think I'll pass on any future listens.
Not bad, has some pace in places, but does go on a bit
overrated but ok
Psychedelic music not my thing. Most of it bored me to death. I can hear the influence it had on bands I like though.
Ok this cover is amazing. I hope the music lives up to it. Never listened to Hawkwind before! ——- Yeah. Wait. This is- this- it’s Queens of the Stone Age! It’s Kyuss! Josh Homme must be a huge Hawkwind fan because I hear their fingerprints all over his stuff. ________ EIGHT HOURS LATER Good god. I did really enjoy this record. But - the songs are fat, and the album is fat. We could've done with a single album boiled down to the best moments of the best songs. This is just too much, man. THREE STARS
Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space
And God said, “Let there be Space Rock”, and there was Space Rock. God saw that Space Rock was good, and he separated Space Rock from the rest of the Rock music.
If you like reading old scifi paperbacks, you'll love this album. And I'm a retro scifi paperbacks collector, SO!
I've always liked Hawkwind and am lucky enough to have heard stories from the inside. This remains a great album, but I don't know if would have included it as one of their best in this list - maybe there are a whole bunch of their albums on this list. Anyway, Hawkwind rock.
Tough to get through. The songs were endless and torturous. Even the short ones felt long. The track "Ten Seconds of Forever" really lived up to its name and seemed endless despite only being 2 minutes.
Unexpectedly mesmerizing. Was like watching a movie for my ears. Plus that album cover was very cool.
2 hours 12 Minutes? are you fucking kidding me?^ it's not like i didn't hate everything about it, some parts are quite good but everything is too long and I do not take any drugs that would change my opinion on this.
The music itself is good, but its just wayy too long and monotone for my taste so this is not a good one imo
I don't mind Hawkwind, but I don't take them very seriously, either. The music is, basically, trippy and inoffensive. I quite liked some of the longer, melodic, largely instrumental songs like Space Is Deep and Brainstorm. All the songs were repetitive, though, so if I didn't happen to hook into the basic motif, it soon got boring (like Time We Left This World). Also, the shorter, sonic/spoken interjections were frustrating when trying to get through this in an evening. I do actually agree with a reviewer who said it sounds dated, even for then; it's basically 60s psychedelia, with some added Black Sabbath style riffing, but not really all that progressive - however, I'm not hating on it because of that. Do I want an orgone accumulator? I'm still none the wiser. Sadly, I found the songs on disc 2 less appealing, so a solid three stars may drop to two; let's see how I feel tomorrow. I will say that it's pretty great that Dave Brock is still rocking. But boo, no Silver Machine.
Another wall of noise album. Again this one is great. A little more abrasive than I would like but still thoroughly enjoyable.
Wow, super cool and super weird. The Space Rock genre was not even on my radar, so it's especially interesting to hear this. It's also amazing to see that they went on for decades after this came out.
2.9 I enjoyed the first 30 mins or so (+ master of the universe). Some nice trippy early prog rock. For 1972 this is pretty fucking good. Great driving bass. However, by the end I was exhausted. Three main gripes: - live album without great fidelity. I've said before they shouldn't be included on this list unless absolutely necessary (eg Nirvana's MTV gig), I think this falls into that category. - length. I skipped the alternate takes at the end, but even then we're still talking like 2 hours long. - and most crucially, that fucking narrator voice that completely kills any flow they were having. Once as an intro to a track, fine, but it comes in about 5 times for up to 2 minutes a pop. Wasting my time.
I love having all these double album live albums.
Great musicians but so long and lacking in joy
031225 14:21 3
It was okay
This is potentially a really cool album but faces multiple hurdles. At first I thought this is like a punk rock Emerson Lakes and Palmer but it just drug on too long. After a few songs just all blends together. The recording quality is pretty crappy. If you are doing a live album, it shouldn't sound like I'm listening from the street to some dudes practicing in their garage. Cut out half the songs and get a sound engineer and this is a great album.
De reviewers die hier een 4 of 5 voor geven waren danwel stoned danwel dronken. Ik zat snipverkouden in een trein naar Almere. 3/10
I am reviewing this album two weeks after it was generated for me. Not because it took me that long to formulate my thoughts, or because it impacted me in any meaningful way. Simply because this motherfucking rhino-turd is 2 hours and 12 minutes long, and every single second of it is a bloated, meaningless, boring crap fest. I mean seriously, what the fuck was this like live? 58 middle aged dudes with body odor standing motionless drinking porters and burping? This is so repetitive and pointless it's almost hilarious. The one good thing I can say about this album is that it's got some freaking awesome cover art. Boy was I disappointed to discover that it doesn't earn the design at all. Fuck you, Space Ritual.
131/1089 2 hours… here we go i guess… Down Through The Night was pretty good but then followed up by some borderline-pompous spoken word overall, this was a fine psychedelic rock album, nothing stood out as being particularly bad to me, except from maybe the spoken word sections which just felt pretty naff. faves Down Through the Night, Seven by Seven, You Shouldn’t Do That 54/100
Nope. Too much- a double album, weird lyrics, smacking of pretentiousness...to be fair, I did not listen to more than the first three or four songs, but that was all I needed.
Kinda groovy, kinda long, good fade between songs but all sound similar
That was pretty Epic. I had heard of hawkwind for decades but never listened to them. They lived up to their name.
Classic
OVERALL THOUGHTS (2.5/5) I think this was one of those albums where listening to it was mostly fun as a historical document to see where a bunch of different genres branched off from. I think this would have been a SICK show to see live but listening back to it only offers so much. I can't help but compare it to other rock or jazz live albums where the musicianship is on such a high level compared to this. The soundscapes and synth work here is very neat but are mostly found in the interludes of the songs. It was fun overall on a song to song basis but at almost two hours the full album wore me down a bit STRAY THOUGHTS - Giving King Gizz vibes - THEY HAVE FLUTE - It's kind of camp I dig it - "Space does not care" - Decent amount of power chord chuging on this record - Always appreciate having saxophone in a jam band - Having Lemmy play power chords on the bass while the guitar solos is good fun - Like I don't think albums should inherently be limited by length but MY GOD IS THIS LONG FAV TRACKS: Down Through The Night, Lord of Light, Orgone Accumulator LEAST FAV TRACKS: Brainstorm,
i dont do well on rides
omg i want my 2 hours back
Some cool parts but agree that its a bit too long and flat. Wild that it was live though. Sounded great
Found this pretty boring. I love the idea of the band, and 'space rock' as a concept, but this didn't do much for me at all. Lots of pretty forgettable pentatonic riffs and empty melodies. I'm sure it would have been cool to see live.
I tried to appreciate this one but it put me to sleep. :(
Long as hell but some interesting stuff happening here. Not typically a fan of space rock and the infrequent lyrics are painful but I could see myself listening to this again one day but no rush.
so much.
Absolutely relentless! This album just doesn't quit, but I wouldn't mind if it was cut in half as it does drag on. Killer stuff though
I like the music for sure and I would like going live, this album is too long Will I listen to again: 3%
do yourself a favor. Save 2 hours and 12 minutes uf your life by skipping this album. God awful. Double album - why? I only give it 2 out of pity and because at least they tried...
This is the second consecutive day I've generated a live double Rock album from the 1970s, so perhaps I'm a little burnt out, but for being out of this world, it wasn't...out of this world. The second half of this album saved this album from a bottom tier ranking. Favorite Track: "Brainstorm".
It's always challenging listening to a live album by an artist I know nothing about. I always feel I'm lacking a whole lot o context. This one wasn't too bad, if a bit long. I'm not too sure what makes this Space Rock. I'm probably more used to the revival bands from the 90's, which have a distinctly spacy sound. As far as not that well known 70's rock goes, it could have been a lot worse. Key tracks: Down Through the Night
Driving stoner space rock. A good live album makes you feel wish you went, and this would have been an amazing show.
This is an amazingly complex album. As someone who listens to a good bit of classic rock, this is an entirely different experience. The people who rate this lowly seem to ignore the obvious point of this album which is it's like a stream of consciousness with music. So much goes into it and it isn't devalued because it's a "live album" or because it doesn't match with other artists of the time. This shit rocks and I will come back and listen to this while I'm reading comic books
At times interesting, but overall, there's a reason you don't remember this album—or this group.
I found genuine highs with this, cool instrumentals and fuzzy psychedelic guitars. At first I was a bit unsure about being introduced to a band through a one and a half hour live album, and still not sure having listened. I could do without the spoken word parts, that’s for sure. Clearly influential and I suppose much of it is enjoyable but given this is their only entry into the list, I am unlikely to listen to a studio album, or know if there would be a better introduction to their music. I’m unlikely to return to this also, even though it has its merits.
I can get down with some rockin' psych cosmic storytelling, but why the hell is this two hours long? And live? No way it should be on this list.
I've been on the space journey and it was wonderful, weird, and over the top.
I love nerd rock
Honestly, really kind of enjoyed it! Basically every part of the space rock that was "space" was cringe, but the rock part of it was fun!
I listened to at least some of this album. I don't really like live albums and this one often sounded rough. The music seems fine, not really remarkable. I love the cover though! That's a 5/5.
This was quite the journey. I can't say I was paying attention the entire time, but I didn't hate any of it. Some of it was pretty interesting. The spoken sections were awesomely nerdy. There were a few songs that I really got into, but I didn't notice or wouldn't remember the names of them. Fun journey that I'm not sure I'll take again but I'm glad I did it.
2,5
Very good
p292. 1973. 1 star. If you want an example of how bad music was in the early 70s, look no further than this double live album of pretentious hippy-trippy wankage. Saved from zero stars by some thunderous bass lines from Lemmy. And it goes on for 132 minutes. Not going to lie, listened to the first album and quit. Life is too short to waste on shit like this.
Hmmm ... it is ok ... but is sooo long and not really so special
I like this kinda odd music but I'm just not big fan of most live albums, there was nothing too outstanding to make up for it. That combined with the length probably keeps me from listening to it again anytime soon.
A 2 hour live double album isn't the best introduction to any band, much less one as, erm, unique, as Hawkwind. Every time I found myself thinking "yeah, ok, this isn't bad," I would then realize that there was So. Much. More. of this album to go yet.
hell YEAHHHHH
2.5
I mean, it certainly sounds like a space ritual. They got that part of this album right. Space Ritual is pretty cool. I think it has some faults, but also some cool elements. I think Hawkwind's style is quite good. It leans pretty heavily into the space-rock archetype, which I don't think I've seen enough of on this list. The band's instruments are nice as well. They even have Lemmy playing on bass! Hell yeah! Apparently he also has some vocals on here, but I couldn't really recognize them definitively. This must've been before he shapeshifted into the living embodiment of whiskey and cigars. His work here is a highlight for me. However, there are some faults with Space Ritual for me personally. For one, this thing is just too long. I'm fine with long songs and albums, but I feel like this one goes a bit overboard with it. I checked how much was left and one point and was stunned to see that there were still 5 songs remaining. So yeah, a bit too long for my taste. Of course, long-ass live albums can be really cool, but I don't think Space Ritual has enough variety for it to feel warranted. It's not the least varied thing I've heard, don't get me wrong. I'd say this has more variety than any of Motörhead albums I've heard. However, it starts to lose its luster by the end. I think the spoken-word stuff adds to these issues as well. They do a pretty good job of world-building and making you feel like you're hearing an actual space ritual, but they do also kinda pad out the runtime. Overall, Space Ritual is an album that's got some really cool things going on in it, but is also not something that I plan on going back to much at all. High 3/5.
It surprised me. Almost 4 stars
Hated it and gave up half way through.
I did 👏 not 👏 like 👏 this 👏 If I could give it 1.5 I would but I don’t think this really deserves a 1.
I envy those who attended this concert. Their experience was over in a couple hours. It took me three days to get through this album. It was dreadful slog. I found it repetitive. I love space but the silly little nonstop "space sounds" got on my nerves. When they launched into the spoken word "Space Poetry" I thought for sure this was Spinal Tap! There are just some bands that are popular in the UK that just don't click with the average American. This must be one of them. This went to number 9 on the UK charts. Yeah this didn't do it for me.
Intetesting
Ground breaking for that era...awesome
I just am not into psychedelic rock right now