Reviews (page 5 of 8)
I know what Hawkwind IS but I've never actually heard them. Pretty sure I know what to expect. But a 2 hour live album.... fuck, ok. Not too bad all things considered. Definitely played its whole hand by about the 15min mark, but enjoyable enough. Interesting little footnote in the history of rock with the whole Lemmy connection etc. Could have probably done with a studio album instead, but whatever. 3/5.
These guys rock harder than prog, maybe Lemmy joining by this point made the difference but I don’t like ‘em enough to go back and do a thorough investigation. Good riffs, but with many songs jamming over the 6-10 minute mark, I wish they were more economical (and less lyrically gimmicky).
Not bad but not super strong either. Some great elements, so others not so much
Whoa, dudes, total heavyosity alert. One is a heavy metal hater but they create a more ambient vibe that doesn't seem meant to achieve black-hole darkness or outright scariness. The guitars while driving, are accessible and fuzzy to the point of softness or at least accessibility. The yrics are laughably un-profound -- see "Orgone Accumulator," which the vocalist has and which makes him feel greater and who will see you later; bookier prog-rock types would look seriously down on its intellectual merit. One recognizes and is vaguely intrigued by the subculture – maybe cult – suggested by such an extensive back catalog (the same people must be buying these records, sad and friendless people, one reckons) but not enough to go exploring.
Pretty cool!
Lite mastigt album. Men Lemmy är ju med.
3.25
6/10. Got on my nerves after a while, but had some kinda cool bits.
I've listened to this before, and I'm mixed on it. There is some good stuff but it's also quite long.
Weird shit
Psychedelic space rock. Not bad but not great. I only made it partway through, it’s a veeeery long album.
Hawkins, what a name for a band.
Interesting album, but after awhile it just drags on and on and on.
Well that was weird! Psychedelic rock is my jam but most of this album is too far out even for me.
Never heard of this band before but they’re totally the kind of group I like. This album can be a bit much (lots of long, dense, sludgy jams) but I’d be curious to hear a more streamlined batch of studio-recorded songs from them. The opening number “Born to Go” has a big thunderous energy! And “Down Through the Night” keeps the momentum chugging along. Their rhythm section in general really keeps things moving on these long songs. “Lord of Light” has some ripping saxophone in it! 🎷🕺🏼 There’s a fair amount of druggy instrumentals and spoken word nonsense that I could do without. But this was a live show so I understand the theatricality of that. “Master of the Universe” is a heavy, hard-rocker. 😎👍 Sometimes the live recording makes the songs feel a bit distant when I wanted a louder, more immediate sound. I felt like I was in the third mezzanine wishing I was upfront next to the stage.
Lemmy and Ginger Baker were both in this band and that's great. Even from track 2 (which is really the first track as track 1 is an intro) you can hear the big time bass driven sound. Solid rock album. I like the weird in between songs too, like "The Awakening" which is very different than the tracks around it. There's definitely some thematic space / cult stuff going on that is very interesting. This is an album I'll have to hear again to pick up all the details.
Interesting acid rock album
“In case of sonic attack on your district, follow these rules: if you are making love it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously.” Spacey. Some of that guitar was surprisingly grungy.
crazy lunatic stuff
not bad but live and 2 discs... kinda annoying
The album starts very well; the songs are likable, even psychedelic rock not being my favorite thing. After 1st hour, the songs start to lose any sense...why I'm still listening to it? After 2nd hour: Is this real life? The album's end is in a melting brain by psychedelia, "space rock" (whatever that means), and poetry(?). I got why this album is on the list, but more than 2 hours (only 2 hours?) of anything is enough to enjoy and hate that thing. Watching the live presentation looks like an authentic experience, but listening to it is just part of it and, at the most, is enjoyable. At its worst is annoying. A perfect 3-stars
3.5 some song feel like they don't belong, the album absolutely over stays it's welcome. But they do a great job of giving the feeling of being in space for most of it. If I was on shrooms this would probably be 5 stars.
Een trip, door het universum
I haven’t been attracted by it.
Hard to know if they take themselves too seriously or not seriously at all. Better than I expected.
Fun album - but up to a point. Space rock at its best, allegedly, is very entertaining in small doses. Listening to a song or two was a great experience, sound of guitars really could take light years away from Earth. But the whole album was almost 2 hours, and trying to listen to those 'sounds of future' quickly became unbearable. I won't recommend this album to anyone, but I would gladly put a random song from this album on a party, as a 'something different and weird'. But that has to be reflected in the rating as well.
I get there was a whole art scene thing behind this, and this space theme I guess would have come out more strongly if I’d paid better attention to the lyrics? But as a purely sonic entertainment I’m not sure it’s distinguished much from any regular old hippie jam-a-roo, and one (at double length) I found increasingly tedious. Scrapes the barest three stars with me for style and the in-your-face artiness.
Lots of incredible parts, but too long and filled with a quite a bit of fluff.
I didn't know this band. Not bad.
Rock psicodélico setentero. Ni fu ni fa.
Space rockpsychedelic rockprogressive rockproto-punkhard rock. Un poco rollo.
It is a strong 3 though…. It’s fun…..
Man I got no clue on this one but I still don’t like the inclusion of live albums in the book… The set starts with earth cooling a perfect intro for a gig… Then rip roaring guitars come crashing in to announce the entry of born to go. The songs nearly 10 mins long which I think would be good if it held more lyrical ground other than just being 95% cool guitar solo, also the vocals aren’t even that great, but I’ll give that a pass as it’s a live album, so therefore it’s much harder to enjoy as the listener isn’t where the band originally intended to hear it. Then is down through the night it’s more compact than the last one which makes it better only at a fairly average 6 minutes. Again the guitars are by far the stars but as it’s shorter the vocals aren’t just a super super minor part. The awakening is just a small spoken part just to add “ atmosphere” to the set. Rolling out of that bolts in lord of light, it’s more vocally driven than the others but still holds awesome punching instrumental work,nice song! Out of the rubble ascends the black corridor just the same as the awakening to be fair. Space is deep really mixes choppy guitars with the background noise. I’am not sure if the vocals work too well with it but it’s still a good enough song. At 8 minutes the song does drag but what one on here doesn’t? Then is electronic No 1 it’s just a passable instrumental to be fair. Orgone accumulator is a 10 minute epic, this one’s really rocking probably a favourite of mine ( even if the instrumental is too long)! Upside down has such a cool guitar riff it’s short and sweet very enjoyable. 10 seconds of forever is just another spoken bit. It’s alright. Brainstorm is 13 f-ing minutes long and it’s an alright sonic just these longer songs don’t tend to strike the right chord with me especially on this generator. Still good enough though. Seven by seven is a slightly slower track at 6 minutes it’s certainly very enjoyable still just hard not having herd the original versions before. Sonic attack is the best spoken track it’s still odd as fuck but it’s cool. While it has repetitive lyrics, time we left this world today is a decent tune not too special but not shit. The penultimate track on the tracklist I’am going by master of the universe it’s cool very heavy it’s only 7 minutes, which isn’t bad for this album, so yeah cool song! It ends with welcome to the future it’s like most of the spoken tracks but with nice guitars. So a pretty druggy track. And a very druggy album, also not an album i’am a huge fan of. There’s bits I like and I won’t call it bad but without the knowledge of studio releases I have to give it a…
Better than I thought after reading the wiki.
Really enjoyed listening to this album, but not quite a 4 for me.
I've been recommended Hawkwind for over a year now, and I'm glad to finally get around to them. Most cosmic rock I've heard is more on prog rock side, with some on the more krautrock end. But this is heavy, a derivative of the acid metal of the late 60s and early 70s. It's a very atmospheric work. Guitar solo isn't what I think of when it comes to this album. There's the wobbly synth effects that give off the cosmic feel extraordinarily well, always the focus but never too reliant on its effect. You have to be really careful when your album and each piece goes on for so long, and they pull it off well. Brock on the vocals and guitar feels more like a compliment, as if he displays himself as the star to the audience, but the atmosphere just overtakes and shrouds him in a cloak. Such characteristics make the album perfect for listening to while high. Nik Turner on the sax and flute are more familiar noises to us, complimenting the synths to add to the surreal nature, while still accessible to audiences. But by far Lemmy takes it away on bass. I can't believe his creepy voice is the same raspy cowboy voice he has on Motorhead. The major downside is its length. By the time you're half way through, there aren't any highlights to look forward to. It's still cool, but after listening to this album twice, I sighed both times by the time I got to the 14-minute "Brainstorm." If the album were cut in half, I would appreciate each track much more and award it a 4. But with an atmospheric album like this, especially considering the time era and the fact it was live, there are limitations on what can be done.
I'm a sober man now a days. So this maybe didn't hit like it should have. However, if I ever decide to smoke again and have the time, I'm gonna slap this one on in the background.
Je partais avec un préjugé défavorable puisque c’est un live. Et bien peut-être à cause de la forme du spectacle, on oublie que c’est un live. On y découvre du rock psychédélique où on entend les fondements du stoner rock. Je vais sûrement revenir à cet album et explorer d’autres albums du groupe.
De va bra!
Space rock is what space rock does
Weird. Strange. But not bad. Let it run as background music for most of the day. 3
Too long
Les falta capacidad de síntesis, esas idas en la mitad de tiempo sería un discazo.3
A little out there for my tastes but great musicianship.
Classic. Didn't finish it.
This left me so cold. I’m already half out with the live album aspect but it’s also sooo long
Throughout this bloated record, I had moments of "oh yeah, I'm digging this guitar, I can totally headbang", but for the most part I felt like the only thing this album did was make my dishwashing slightly less dull. Pleasant enough of a listen (minus the spoken word...I personally wasn't into that) and at times unique. I might re-visit some songs or try this again at another time in my life.
I don't have enough time. But what a good jam for what I've heard. A little boring psychadelic in the short while I listened. Think this is a 3
i can do hippy, and can do space, but this didn't grab me
Strange.
A pretty alright older album. One recognized song
Decent prog rock live album that does lack great songs though and thus remains average
Boy, it's a good thing that the actual performances on this thing are so good because the length and the spoken word bits really kill any other enjoyment I might have here
6/10
Not what I was expecting. So long and so Spinal Tap. Didn't know Lemmy from Motorhead was in this band. Some weird stuff, some pedestrian. Glad I listened to it once but don't imagine going back to it.
Alright, but it dragged on way too long. First of time I got bored listening to an album on this site.
Rockigt och spaceat livealbum. Långa hårdrockslåtar varvat med lugnare låtar där dikter framförs, de flesta med temat rymden och dystopisk världsundergång. Låtarna flyter ihop i varandra, vilket ger känslan av en två timmar lång kontinuerlig ljudupplevelse, som är svår att greppa efter en lyssning (men jag orkar inte lyssna en gång till, sry). Även om det är ett livealbum så hörs det inte, inspelningarna låter väldigt kontrollerade, och hade lika gärna kunnat gjorts i en studio, vilket är tråkigt. Har annars inga egentliga invändningar. Bra sång, tunga gitarrer, fet rymdrock helt enkelt! Bästa låt: Seven by Seven.
Oooh, spacey. I was not pleased to see a 2 hour live space rock album waiting for me this morning, but I actually enjoyed it. As live albums go, this one's pretty solid. It rocks much harder than I expected and it was just fun to listen to. The album suffers from some of the sound quality issues that a lot of live albums do, but the actual performances are absolutely on point. I will add that this album is very, very jammy. Some will absolutely not have the patience for it. Some people here are dogging on the spoken word parts, but I'm cool with them. They're never overly long (which is key to making it work), and admit it, Robert Calvert has a perfect voice for spoken word. Lemmy and Simon King make for one hell of a kickin' rhythm section and Dave Brock's guitar is splendid. Fave Songs: Master of the Universe, Time We Left This World Today, Down Through the Night, Space is Deep, Brainstorm
I quite enjoyed the first half of this album. It seems like it would have been a really cool concert to go to. After a while this album gets to be a bit much, though. Some of the lyrics/voice overs are really cheesey, which is expected for this era and this type of music, but it doesn't age well. I often find double albums frustrating to rate because they could often be reduced to a single album that is good, but as a double album they are often not worth the time commitment. I understand it more for a live album like this, but I also don't have all day to listen to Hawkwind talk about space 3/5
Spacey live album that has its moments.
Rating: 5/10
Listen again
Spacey
Rock y psicodelia a partes iguales, no siendo muy incómodo de escuchar al no ser demasiado experimental. Mayormente instrumental. Propia de la época en la que fue elaborado
I thought I would really like these guys, but they were okay. Really cool album art though.
I sort of feel like the best I can say about this is that it definitely inspired more interesting things. A lot of this feels like it could use more focus and editing. The bass is pretty great though. Given what I know about Motörhead, it’s pretty interesting that Lemmy was in a band like this.
Its like a hard rock space symphony. The motif of space is deeply explored; sonically and philosophically. Still not really my thing.
Bizarre
sometimes overdoes it but maybe that's OK I was listening to a live performance recording and the real deal is probably better but I am rating the recording anyways
Love Hawkwind but this isn’t their best.
A decent space-rock live album. 7.9/10
This is the band that had hosted musicians such as Ginger Baker and Lemmy, but this live concert drips with the excesses of Prog Rock & Psych Rock. While bloated in areas, it is still an impressive effort.
It was OK but the repetitive and long songs get pretty boring quickly in my opinon. I don't mind listening to it once, but I don't think I'll come back to it.
I quite enjoyed this for a short period but it just goes on a bit. It again makes me thankful that punk happened.
Much as I enjoy Hawkwind it does get a bit same after a while. ***
Really wasn’t in the mood.
pyschodelic guitar experimental rock
Probably not a far go because I was away from home. Seemed OK in what I heard.
Interesting, psychedelic rock. I need a certain mood for it, but it is impressive.
Really like it but far too long
I think if you drill down through the muddy production, the song-writing is actually pretty good. The riffs are solid, the music is driving and relentless, and while there’s very little variation in the 8, or 9, or 10-minute pieces, save for a sax solo, they don’t seem too long. The poetry and outer space build ups are amusing. It’s easy to see why these guys have garnered such a cult following.
Prof rock. Interesting and weird. Need to be in the right mood for it
Scorching driving guitars and wicked bass from Lemmy. I think to appreciate this you'd need to be banging your head in a room smoking some weed, the folks talking between the song are certainly high on something. Can hear the early origins of prog metal here. The first half dozen songs were great, but after that it got very repetitive.
Lot o’ jamming but I liked the one song with the weird dialogue
Mucho rock, casi que puro instrumento y pues se oye bien, sin duda, pero no regresaré al disco. No es lo mío, vaya, y de repente son canciones larguitas. Eso sí, están chistosas esas canciones en donde hay más voz, como manifiestos, proclamas, por ejemplo "Space Is Deep", "Sonic Attack" o "Welcome to the Future", ya se nota cierto patrón con los títulos... Igual, seguro alguien más versado podrá decir qué instrumentos o qué arreglos suenan mucho mejor, pero para mí en algún momento fue repetitivo. 7/10
Looooong
What a journey! Too long though. But I liked it.
Sehr lange gezogen aber gute Riffs
I mean it's good, but nothing really sticks. They sound similar but it's space rock.
Just a jam album, not fantastic but not bad, probably shouldn’t be sober to fully enjoy this album.
So everyone always says, "yeah, I wish I was high as a kite while listening to this", but I feel like that detracts from the media you are enjoying. If something (music/movie/food/etc) is good, you shouldn't have to be in an altered state to find it enjoyable, or even incredible. And that's where I find myself disagreeing with myself as I listened to Space Ritual. This album is so damn long that you absolutely need some kind of substance that speeds up time in order to find it thoroughly enjoyable. Each song? Cool. The whole thing? A crawl to the end. Only HyperLSD will work here.
Not bad. Some good tunes
Got exhausting
Great live rock album. I think one would have to take this in the moment to get the full experience (the out-there interludes don't make for easy listening), but even as a recorded experience the energy and life behind each track is apparent. Reminds me of a prog King Gizzard.
some good stuff, some really weird stuff, semi-interesting
Ok cool
3.0
I have never been high enough to appreciate this album. Even so, it was almost good until the pseudo-intellectual nonsense monologues started. Kind of a mood killer.
Long and empty sounding at parts but mostly cool
prog qeyf
Great music but too goddamn long.
Muy mafufo. Bye
Nothing really sounded bad, but nothing really stood out to me either. It looks and sounds interesting, but it just isn’t my thing. Not to mention it’s two hours long…
Something about that 1970s cover art that just tickles me. Good to know overwrought psychedelic nonsense was happening this early on!
Hawkwind is hawkwind major wig out but all good fun and tuneful if pretentious. Of it’s time.
LONG ASS ALBUM
Pretty goofy, but they own it. I am a sucker for lazer sounds. I'm guessing there were dump truck loads of drugs at this show. Can you confirm? Space is neutral and it is cold. Space does not care. It does not sleep. Space cannot be measured. Space is there. It is not large?? I wish I would have known about this in highschool, I think it would have radically altered the arc of my life, or at least given me some good material to make fun of with my amigos. I liked it at first but really hard to listen to for any extended period of time sober.
Hawkwind? More like Passedwind, amiright?!?!?!?!? OK, the Generator is clearly messing with me now. More 70s bollocks, this time - SPAAAAAAACE ROOOOOCCCCCKKKKKKK!! The music isn't absolutely terrible (but it isn't great, either), but the ridiculous, portentous voiceovers between some of the songs have to be heard to be believed - total shite!! How anyone can think this is an essential album to listen to before one shuffles off this mortal coil and back to being part of the space rock that we formed upon, it's just totally beyond me. Nearly 2 hours that I’ll never get back…….
Tja, hva skal man si. Å bare repetere en akkordprogresjon i det uendelige med noen tynne gitar og fløytesoloer er ikke akkurat innertier hos meg. Mye spamming av pentatoner skala, lite melodisk solo, slitsomt
Vippen mellom 2 og 3. flere digge 3-4-perioder, men for mye rot og støy mellom.
Tidvis ok, men for mye dritt. Ble ikke to gjennomlytt på denne
Not many songs on this I vibed with, almost a cliche of 70s hippy rock. Also, live albums don’t count.
They’re really good at playing their instruments, and the melodies are pretty good. Some nice choruses too. The vocals are whatever, and the talking bits are insufferable, and go on for far too long. So does the album. 90 fucking minutes of this. Come on.
I would have far preferred a studio album from Hawkind, although this was an experience. But it’s messy, sometimes in a good way, sometimes not. The songs can get repetitive which isn’t a surprise for anyone that knows Hawkwind, but the longer songs can really drone. The spoken word doesn’t work for me at all. Probably a great live album for fans and I like the band, but this wasn’t for me.
It’s too psychedelic tune for me to continue listening
Very very long. Would have been better while under some influences.
If you’re not in a chemically altered state, this starts to drag on pretty quickly
Earth calling - 2 Born to go - 3 Down through the night - 3 The awakening - 2 Lord of light - 2 The black corridor - 2 Space is deep - 2 Electronic no 1 - 2 Orgone accumulator - 2 Upside down - 3 10 seconds of forever - 2 Brainstorm - 3 Seven by seven - 2 Sonic attack - 2 Time we left this world today - 3 Master of the universe - 3 Welcome to the future - 2
Too long!!! The 1970s are starting to piss me off
Hmmm bit slow, bit long, but not without merit
Astronomy Dominatrix.
This would have been great if it was about 45 minutes long instead it’s twice that so it becomes repetitive.
2 hour plus live album by a British psych rock band… Yeah that went about as expected. Got through most of the first disc, and couldn’t take any more. It’s not the worst album, but not worth 2+ hours of my time
This is just too long. 2 and a half hours on a live album is ridiculous, even if there are some good moments here. Was bored halfway in
There’s some good stuff on here, but, between the awful spoken word stuff and the meandering wank sections, the miss to hit ratio is off the charts.
687/1001 2026.08.25 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
Not for me
This feels generous
Not a fan
Weird that this album alternates between 2 and 9 minute songs. A little too long for me though for songs that sound so similar
Psychedelic / space rock. I like the vibe but all of the tracks turn into long jams that just meander along. The spoken word poetry doesn't help with the pace either. I'm sure it was great to be in the audience but as my first exposure to Hawkwind I was ready for it to end about 30mins before it did. Lemmy's bass playing is a highlight on just about every track though. The bluesy Orgone Accumulator was my favourite track, although Down Through the Night and Master of the Universe were quite good too. But I'm not going to put them on my playlist since they're twice as long as they need to be.
There’s something here, but this is just way too much
In the likes of epic opera rock. Too many instrumental and long winding tracks. 2
Muddled and meandering
Space-rock, abstract & … actually shoegaze-y? (Cool art, though.)
A lot of guitar wankery with pretentious speeches between the songs...and I am only 2 songs in. I ploughed through. it was a real task and everything sounded like the rest. I guess it has some merit to be here, but not for me. 2.5 stars
It sounds interesting but I really wish there was their best album in this list instead of a stupid live album. Tired of live albums in this list!!!!!! *yells at clouds*
4/10 - The sound like as cool, but 2+ hours of a live album is too much. Probably would have been cool to be there but it’s too much.
Far too long and not interesting enough to justify a 2 hr runtime. 4/10
Live albums are always a hard one. There are some that are truly masterpieces, and others that are abysmal. This album isn't good. It doesn't seem to have any direction.
too long
This is not good. I’d go so far as to say it’s completely tedious. The mix alone, or maybe it’s just how they sound, but it’s so bad. Murky, bleary, indistinct… the songs all kind of segue into each other in a really meandering way. There’s plenty of jamming (way too much jamming) but it all feels kind of generic with no real oomph. I do like the idea of psychedelic space rock, but it’s not delivering on that title for me. Maybe I need to be high? I’m afraid I didn’t listen to the second half. I got the idea.
The quality of this recording leaves something to be desired
Very mid, can't believe Lemmy was their roadie
I guess you had to be there...
2/5 mindless boring
Another best of live album that shouldn't be on this generator. Also all of these songs would be so much better if they were 75% shorter. Seriously ive been listening all morning and I'm only on the 3rd song. I'm amending my statement. All of these songs would be so much better if they were 85-95% shorter. I added another star because there IS some good interesting stuff here. Just not enough
Again, I appreciate what these bands are doing. Pushing the envelope, responding to their own creativity. It’s just not good to listen to dude. This is memorable and deserves a 2 instead of. 1 just because it’s called space rock and I got 1-2 chuckles out of the songs.
Starts off good, but eventually starts sounding repetitive and droning. Poetry sections got old quickly.
4 - did an hour, 2 is too many. Ok but kinda crappy psychedelic music. Bad voice.
Props for being different but definitely not my (space) jam. Psychedelic Brit rock album that sent on way too long. DNF (2)
An absolute shift to listen to this. Wasn't as bad as I had feared but I have little room for 12 minutes songs. Won't get another listen.
"Silver Machine" not on this one sadly. Boobs though.
Two albums in a row with boobs on the cover that suck, coincidence?
There is some okay music here, but 2+ hrs of anything is just entirely too much. 2/5
2.5
Somewhere, there's a cool album in here. At it's best, it kind of sounds like early Pink Floyd mixed with the hard edged British rock of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. However, every song overstays it's welcome by a good five minutes. Unless it's one of the spoken word interludes with random noises, which overstays it's welcome by however long it is. I guess you had to be there on a crazy amount of LSD to fully appreciate it. 2.5 stars.
Mira que me gusta el rock progresivo, psicodélico y sinfónico, pero se me ha hecho eterno. No suena mal, pero un directo y así de largo me supera.
2 fucking hours!?!?
Yeah. Someone took a bunch of drugs and thought they had a great idea. Would this be better without the random sound effects? Would it still be below average? Should this be on the list at all? No, Yes, and No.
Ugh.
not for me
Good lord was that unnecessarily long. Would have much preferred that as a tight 40 minute album.
So this was just spacey weird. I took away a star for all the inane narratives. Maybe if I was on drugs I would get it but then again.
I like goofy stuff, but even I have my limits! I think I would have liked it more if it wasn't live or wasn't quite so long.
Jam bands cap at 2 stars
Is this a 1 or a 2? On the plus side: much of this music is decent. These are not bad instrumentalists, and there's some good composition in there; at times this really rocked. On the negative side: it's way too fucking long. I get that they're going for a jam band sound here, but some of this stuff just draaaaaaaaags forever. What would be fine as a 20 second bridge or guitar solo is grating after 100 seconds on repeat. Also, this is a live album?? It doesn't sound like a live album beyond the audio quality being a bit shitty. They're just using "live album" as an excuse to play long versions of previously written songs. My general rule of thumb on here is to give a 1 to any album that I can't force myself to finish. However, I did legitimately enjoy bits of this album. I can imagine a version where the runtime of every song is cut in half and I give this a 4. I think there's enough good to push this to a 2, but I did not care for your bloated chicanery here, gentlemen, and you can't make me listen to all of it. Harrumph. 1.8
Fucking way too long and way too weird.
It is weird and way too long. Whatever the meaning of this album is got lost really early on me
It looses a star just for being a double album. Long, rambling psych rock tracks…..and the ones with only spoken word-nope, nope
It's with a heavy heart that I say this is total bilge. And the main reason is that they seem to have accidentally left endless loads of nothing on the record, in between which a very occasional song breaks out. And this - let's not forget - goes on for well over two hours. The songs that do exist in here are sort of vaguely OK, and if the whole thing lasted 25 minutes or so, it'd probably be acceptable fare. But it doesn't and it isn't. No thanks!
Motörhead
I could get into some of this, but the recording is really not good. Makes it tough to listen to. Also, this is way too long. By like an hour and a half. Again, I kinda like the music. I just don’t like this recording. LSD seems mandatory for this epic. Tedious otherwise.
Naw
Didn't mind some of the jammy bits, rest wasn't for me
2,5
some songs are way too long
So very wanky. Yet again, I am not down with prog or prog adjacent rock. I will be forever grateful that Lemmy got canned from this band. Motorhead FTW!
Made by people on drugs for people on drugs. Unfortunately I wasn't on drugs but by the end of it definitely needed a load of drugs. Man.
Not my thing but to be fair I didn’t drop acid before listening.
Early hard (metal) rock. I wanted to like it, but it was just too long and tiresome, with relentless guitar riffs.
Just an all around boring album that doesn't feel particularly ambitious or interesting.
another one i was excited about. great spacy, trippy grooves -- but overall didn't dig the spoken word intermissions and it ultimately just went on way too long.
Fine to middling and fucking weird.
I can see why this was popular when it came out. Pink Floyd did space rock way better though
Maybe this is super influential or whatever but I just found it boring.
fine
Two hours? It’s just too much. I can handle this in small doses. One or two tracks per day
Idk I know some people like these crazy drugged out riff frenzies live but it’s just not my thing. Maybe if this was all a studio album I’d feel different. This album leans more into the drugs than the rock n roll so there’s not much to grab onto here. I think these dudes can shred but damn let’s get some actual songs going. Just another sabbath rip off with nothing to take away tbh. I swear If the 1001 gods end this week on some red hot chilli peppers shit I’m gonna KMS.
Long instrumentals. Boring lyrics
I like the idea for this album but it probably came out too late to be innovative at all and it's too stuck in the 60's/70's to have the really hard rock stoner aesthetic that would suit the subject matter and theme a lot better. As it is, it's just a winding, unremarkable, decidedly average psychadelic rock album. Nothing really sticks out, but as a whole it's not that bad. There are plenty of other albums of this type I'd rather listen to. None of the instrumentalists really seem as talented as they may actually be; you'd never know because the songs are simplistic despite having plenty of improvised soloing. Really didn't need this to be live, it adds nothing and the recording quality actively makes it worse. I might end up listening to a studio album from these guys because the potential is there but it isn't shown in this.
Sometimes this album list really baffles me. At some point in trying to compile 1001 albums, does the author just run out of ideas? Does a devilish sense of humor make them try to sneak some piece of crap into the list to see if anyone notices? I ask in particular when I am struggling to get through Space Ritual by Hawkwind. I like a lot of off the wall stuff, and I generally get excited when I discover a cool band that I never heard of before. But this almost feels like a joke,but instead of just hitting it with a 1 and quitting it, I feel stuck trying to understand it. Having never heard them before, I got Black Sabbath vibes pretty much immediately from the first track. I didn't hate it, but it was hard to hear because this is a live album. That's the big problem I had this with this one. Live albums are already a bit of a tough sell. Either it is a masterfully recorded live album (like Eagles' Hell Freezes Over) or else it somehow captures of the live energy of a band in a way that a studio never can (like Grateful Dead or Phish). This album did neither. It's poorly recorded, often muddy, the lyrics sometimes indecipherable, sometimes the band skews out of key. It makes for a poor first impression of this band for me. I am wondering what their studio records sound like. I'm not sure I'm curious enough to go give it a listen. Ultimately, I am not leaving here a fan of Hawkwind (that's a dumb band name, btw), and truly wondering why this album merited a position on this list.
Is ok, but meandering live psychedelic rock isn't really something that captures my imagination.
Ouch. Seriously guys. Well I guess in the 70s
One disc was enough.
a 2+ hour long psychedelic space-themed rock opera AND it's a live album? why is this challenge constantly putting me in worse and more torturous saw traps.
hawkwind's unique sci-fi prog rock sounds awesome on paper, but a TWO-PLUS-HOUR-LONG DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM is not the ideal on-ramp for new listeners. i'm not even sure how many existing listeners want this... favorites: down through the night, lord of light, master of the universe
ok this'll be a trip for sure. not a fan of the intro, but the beat of the first actual song is good. not sure about the vocals yet. talk about a concept album, damn. even cutting the remaster bonus tracks, it runs an hour and a half. with seamless transitions on every track. the songs are jams orgone accumulator--zz top vibes on this one the spoken word is ... something. sonic attack--oh. my. 1.5 hour space rock opera. ok. that was an experience. props for having a strong concept and carrying it through. very thorough, dare i say flawless, execution. tragically, this is not my vibe. the musical parts were fine. singing was hit or miss. spoken word, though... no thanks i'll pass on that one. 2.49 rounded to 2/5.
Esperaba muchísimo más con esa tremenda portada. No me interesó nada del álbum
Eh
No live albums! The only redeeming part of this marathon album were some of the really heavy base lines and riffs.
i don't man all these rock albums with these crazy sounds just are not my thing i guess... some songs are decent but it's just a little too much, especially when some songs are completely random and dissonant noise. still better than frank zappas thing though, genuinely worse three songs i've ever heard in my life
A little too long and repetitive but I did enjoy some songs
2/3
I could not get into it, even as background music. The singer's voice was not pleasant to me neither.
I had a boyfriend when I was young that was a huge Hawkwind fan, I never was. It really seemed like teenage boy music. I can admire it a little more nowadays but it still doesn’t float any of my boats.
My friend DC said he likes the idea of Hawkwind more than the reality, and I have to agree. The Bevis Frond did it better. Plus, I can't help but think of Spinal Tap during some of this. Still, no hate. I'm sure it was a good time if you were there.
Nope
WTH did I just listen too? Weird but I was kinda digging it.. Like 70s C&C?
Looks like it's regarded as highly influential, and I'm sure it is, but I think I need more context and more exposure to be interested.
To take a note from the album, you shouldn’t do that. Don’t make me listen to a 2 hour live album under any circumstances. And the songs are way too long and make no sense. The space crap is also just not my thing at all. Would give it a 1.5 if I could. Not totally unlistenable tho so a 2.
Ha‘s irgendwänn halt ghört. Über 2h halt z lang
viiiel zu lang leider
painful, janky, over the top prog, urr "space" rock.
Down Through the Night // Lord of Light // Brainstorm // 2.5/5
2 hours is always a tough sell - I don't feel the album quite earns it's length. I appreciated parts of the album, and feel that bands like King Gizzard and The Flaming Lips must love this shit, but I'm ready to listen to something else now. 4/10
Took "space rock" literally.. it's just endless cosmic traffic jams here. Every track feels like a jam session on autopilot with some psychedelic navel-gazing thrown in for good measure. It's exhausting, to be honest. Cool album art, though. Spins: 2 Playlist Additions - Down Through the Night - Orgone Accumulator
Guess you had to be there. And high. Really high.
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.
Psychedelic guitars and drums good. Too heavy on the whale sounds. Weird ass vocals— akin to casting spells and seances. Made Britt anxious.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 think you had to be there.. and high.
I dunno man. Seems a bit shite to me
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
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.
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.
Didn't hate it, probably wouldn't relistened
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.
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
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
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
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.
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!
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?"
Okay weird, not my thing, but also fun and I kinda got into a few songs - I would say 2.5
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 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
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.
2 hrs and 12 mins be so fuckin for real
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.
ya kötü değil ama çok aynı tarz şooldu ytr
it was alright, i didn’t finish it
4/10… metal / psychedelic rock / *1973
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.
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.
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
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
Хубава музика, ужасен запис. Тъй като е класация за албум, това е лош албум
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.
Pure wankery from start to finish. I'm 14 And Space Is Deep. Fave tracks: Master of the Universe
Live..
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
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.
Psychedelic music not my thing. Most of it bored me to death. I can hear the influence it had on bands I like though.
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 love having all these double album live albums.
Great musicians but so long and lacking in joy
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.
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,
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.
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...
At times interesting, but overall, there's a reason you don't remember this album—or this group.
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 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.
2,5
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.
2.5
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 just am not into psychedelic rock right now
It’s too much.
This was prolly a real experience to have been at and would perhaps make for a good concert film, and it is prolly satisfying if you already like them, but I could not stay interested long enough to finish the first disc.
Þetta er allt eins. Í tvo klukkutíma. Það má hafa gaman af geim-effectunum og einræðurnar eru skemmtilega hallærislegar, en þið þurfið ekki að hlusta á þetta.
This is like if Fatboy Slim played actual instruments. I am so sick of hearing the same driving drum and bass lines for nearly 90 minutes. The tracks individually are pretty cool, but the album experience is a tough, tough listen
I'd love this high, but I've rated every other album sober so it seems quite unfair if I was to make an exception for one album. The music itself is decent and I like the space themes, but it gets too much even after the first side, let alone through to the full two hours.
Not for me
This was a trip. Parts were great parts were trash.