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??? schrammelrocknoise, das cover die typo, live, schlecht gemischt 2st ? c
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.
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.
I can’t imagine a worse combo than a two hour, live, 70’s psychedelic nonsense album. This was torture
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.
Bloody awful live album
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.
Hard to listen to, maybe you had to be there and tripping.
dogshit
1/10
j'aime ap
I’m too sober for this 1
Hmm. I think Hawkwind are marmite. I gave it a listen but it's just too way out for me.
cok psychodelic ama iyi anlamda degil cok sanki
I can't. I just can't.
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.
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.
Ist mir zu rockig
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.
Hell, No
WTF
Hadde sikkert vært bra om man va på syre og dette var det eneste bandet i verden
Nekte å høre på live-album
Bof
No thanks. I already don’t like Rush. This is Rush but worse.
Strange mix of electronic/rock/ ?. Like the music, not so much the vocals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hated it and gave up half way through.
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.
Space rock? No thank you. I didn't make it through the 2nd of 21 songs. 10 minutes was enough to know that I won't subject myself to 2 hours and 12 minutes of this.
It's like the Grateful Dead said, let's get an Ozzie impersonator to be our frontman, call ourselves the Interstellar Beach Boys and tour Uranus. Don't get your hopes up; it's even worse than you'd think.
Back in the day I would drop an acid tab and listen to stuff like this. Now I'm completely sober I couldn't contemplate such a thing.
Seltsam, endlos, schräg!
Jam albums suck
Trash
Space is deep, this album is not
My 8 year old son while listening: "why does it sound like he's just turning the pitch knob on my moog modular analog synth?" My 6 year old daughter: "I'm falling asleep, this is really boring. It wasn't so bad when he was singing" Overlong, boring, repetitive, sounds like it was recorded inside a can of Pringles. Terrible synth work. Horrible monologues. Why did they think in the 70s that spring reverb sounded anything like space?
2/10
Monotonous
Weird. Very long.
so… this poop is butt
Not sure if I really listened to this or if it just happened to me. There’s some competent, even fun rock music happening in here, but there’s so much of the same things over and over for a very long time that it obscures the highlights. Whatever works about this album buckles under the weight. I’m sure this goes hard live or on a psychoactive substance (best with both probably), but left me feeling impatient and unsatisfied just listening to it. For something that seems to be reaching for strangeness and experimentation, it’s not very dynamic. It feels a little unfair rating this so low but I just did not have a good time with it at all.
Cool…a genre of music that has no cultural impact & an album that is eclipsed by far more well-regarded psych-jam shit. What do you do when you listen to this? I don’t understand the “smoke a j & listen to this!” review either. I’m doing all the right drugs & this still sounds as empty & soundless as space itself. All that said, even though I didn’t like a track off of this, there were moments where I enjoyed the spacey sounds (I think there was a song with a sax that I liked for about thirty seconds) & I think I could have a much worse time with a similar type of album. Still…one star despite not having the worst time ever.
Nope
Please make it stop ....
This was downright awful. Spacerock (whatever this term includes) seems not for me.
It's just an extremely dull, droning piece of 70's psychedelic rock, I made it through the first two tracks before I was too bored out of my mind to want to keep listening. I can't even fathom sitting through all 2 hours of it.
Apparently a live album. Lots of long boring songs and several short throw aways. Sounds very dated. Just not feeling it. Maybe if I had some drugs ...
did-not-listen
Maybe I don't like psychedelic rock...especially live.
3/10
This LP is when you hear Ummagumma and think "I can do that" but turns out you can't.
I pride myself on the fact that I’ve never walked out of a concert early. I can’t say I’ve loved all the shows I’ve seen, but there’s been enough to keep me listening. I am positive I’d have bolted out of this show. No matter how high I might’ve been. Even when I used to get high, this wouldn’t be anything I’d enjoy. The only thing that kept me going was listening in the car on my drive to work, through a few construction zones no less. It is a DNF as I won’t play whatever is left.
Crazy stuff. Don’t really like it.
nah. why does it have to be so long. DNF. 1/5
< The Beatles No
What the hell is this garbage? How is this something I should hear before I die? No thank you. Author dude! NOT EVERY ENGLISH BAND EVER IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO HEAR BEFORE WE DIE!! 1/5
A chaotic, numbing space rock assault that confuses repetition for transcendence. Endless jams, buried vocals, and overwrought sci-fi monologues combine into a swirling mess that wears out its welcome fast. I just wanted out of this spacecraft. Not transcendent. Just exhausting.
Absolutely not.
I don't understand this music. I don't understand why Space Ritual is included! This live album is SO long, and their progressive rock unremarkable. Maybe I went into this album feeling bitter, but I felt like Hawkwind was so pompous and I'm just like, calm down guys. Yeah, it's music, but I'm going against my rule of "if it's truly music, it deserves a 2" because I trudged through an hour and a half of sludge.
Oddly enough, the main thing that came to mind (with the spoken intonations) was Maggot Brain - but where that album/track is ethereal and hypnotic and kinda sexy, I just found this interminable. I tried to get through as much as I could...
My apologies to anyone who enjoys this, but I had to stop after 3 songs. Just terrible
Hard rock, not into it
More like sucks-ass-wind.
Wow that was boring and dated. I can’t recommend this to anyone, except if they’re really into rock music history. These dudes could never get to the point - sounded like not great Black Sabbath for 10 minutes but like only 1 part of a Black Sabbath song. No good. Strong 1/5 - Lemmy hits the bass hard on some of these Disclaimer: I was not on drugs when I listened to this.
Well that’s two hours of my life I will never get back! Horrible space prog with ridiculous lyrics and noise that went on forever. There are no riffs and there is no groove. This is what happens when you want to be Emerson Lake and Palmer, but all you have is Lemmy and too many drugs. Hated it!
I dislike this.... so ... much. I could see this as maybe background music in a frenetic movie scene, but even then it just goes on too long.
Dieser Band habe ich meinen Tinnitus zu verdanken. Ein Bekannter hat mich am 1996 zu einem Hawkwind Konzert mitgeschleppt. Aua. Naja, selber schuld. Zu Hause kann ich den Schrott leiser hören. Zum Glück.
This is the type of overlong jamband bullshit that I don't enjoy as a general rule. There are good runs throughout certain songs, but there's rarely if ever a single track I enjoy start to finish. What drags this one down is its interminable double-album runtime. Talk about overstaying your welcome.
So I’ve tried 4 times to listen to this album but it’s 2 FRICKING HOURS AND I CANT DO IT. Listened to first disc and I see the appeal but there’s no way I’m listening to a feature length movie of space music.
The moment I saw yet another live album from a psychedelic jam band, I let out a long sigh. How the fuck is this over 2 hours long 1.5/10
DNF. No thanks. I’m so over the psych rock.
Tried to listen to them over the years but it’s not for me. It’s meant to sound trippy and futuristic but comes across as dull and a bit wank.
Психи закрылись на кухне в столовой психушки, стучат по посуде 2 часа, вот и получился альбом
Bruh. So mid. Please don’t give me a third straight miss tmr 🫠
Not for me.
Got on my tits very quickly
I lost interest pretty fast. Not bad, just for me.
Its so long —- pending when I have 2 hours to go through it
Too nonsensical, repetitive hard rock for my taste. And all the songs were so long!!!
Rozumiem, dlaczego włączono ten krążek do listy, ale z drugiej strony absolutnie nie nadaje się on dla mnie do słuchania w dzisiejszych czasach. Zwyczajnie koszmarnie się zestarzał. Dla mnie jest bardzo słabym reprezentantem wszystkiego, w czym starał się być pionierski - prog rocka, albumu koncepcyjnego, imersyjnego koncertu (choć być może wizualizacje i pokazy taneczne, które ponoć były bardzo rozbudowanym elementem koncertu poprawiłyby odbiór - ale to też nie pomaga albumowi, jeśli wydaje się go w formie CD, a wymaga obrazu, żeby się nim cieszyć), albumu-opowiadania. Elementy z recytacją były irytujące, w opór pretensjonalne, a do tego dla mnie cała ta sci-fi tematyka brzmiała trochę jak książki Zajdla - może to i klasyk, ale napisany tak okropnym językiem i z tak małym literackim wyczuciem, że aż człowieka odrzuca. Kiepski storytelling, kiepskie podanie. Perkusja na tym albumie to dramat, jednostajne stukanie, najprostsze przejścia, zero polotu. Gitara w sumie podobnie, choć tu się nie kłócę, bo mało słuchałem, nic mnie do tego nie zachęcało, może tam coś było pod spodem, ale nie zwróciłem uwagi. Plus za wyeksponowaną sekcję basu i elementy saksofonu oraz fletu.
...and to think I was looking forward to some "Hurry On Sundown" kinda Hawkwind...
"Lemmy was kicked out of Hawkwind in 1975 due to tensions arising from his drug use, particularly after he was caught with amphetamines while crossing the US-Canada border, which led to his arrest and the cancellation of several shows. This incident ultimately resulted in the band deciding to fire him, despite his significant contributions to their music." Space Ritual is painfully repetitive and wears you down to the point where you wonder if you can continue listening or abandon the record altogether. Naturally, I stuck with it as I am a sadist; I played it on repeat while slicing my nipples with paper and Salo on the old tele—a delightful time. 1973 did yield a worthy space rock album, Carmen—Fandangos in Space. It is not repetitive, has no spoken word nonsense, and is enjoyable. Sadly, it does not have Lemmy on bass. Seriously, Lemmy rules, Hawkwind, not so much. One star for Lemmy on bass, glad he was into meth and sent packing because Motorhead, well, its Motorhead and thank God for that, or thank Lemmy, same person.
Absolute fucking tosh. I really went in with an open mind as this website has told me, time and again, that I should try to move beyond my musical biases. Made it to track 7 and pulled the plug. The weird Germanic voice cropping up a few times was off-putting.
Another live album? Why?! I disliked it before I played it. I liked it even less after playing it. Samey, psychedelic space rock junk all wrapped up in poor quality live recording. 2 because I disliked it, 1 because on top of that it’s live.
You know that scene from friends where Ross plays the keyboard at central perk? This. With more acid.
Too long and boring. Couldn’t tell you a single song.
Really didn’t like this sound.
Schrott.
Could not finish this. The production on this is dreadful. So many songs are just a muddy wall of noise with the few bright spots being when the bass cuts through, or they strip everything back to maybe one of two instruments.
Nope, can't do it. Maybe I'll try this again at another point if I'm more in the mood, but this noisy (progy?) rock shit ain't for me.
Didn’t like at all Couldn’t listen with headphones
First listen. Yeah, sure, cool. Nobody cares, Luka got traded!?
This is the 17th album I’m rating. I don’t know what this is or who this is. I think it’s metal based on the cover though. Earth Calling - Not Adding to my Playlist. This isn’t good but it feels like an introduction song. I guess this is a live album. Born to Go - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is boring and long. Down Through the Night - Not Adding to my Playlist. Same as Born to Go. The Awakening - Not Adding to my Playlist. Short and bad. Lord of Light - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like the singing. Black Corridor - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is not a good album. Space is Deep - Not Adding to my Playlist. This song is pretty good but way too long. Electronic No. 1 - Not Adding to my Playlist. 1973 electronic stuff sucked. Orgone Accumulator - Not Adding to my Playlist. I tend not to like songs longer than 21st Century Schizoid Man. Upside Down - Not Adding to my Playlist. I really don’t like this. 10 Seconds of Forever - Not Adding to my Playlist. Space Rock isn’t a real genre it’s kinda like Riot Grrrl in that way. Brainstorm - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is too long and Space Rock sucks. Seven by Seven - Not Adding to my Playlist. I can tell why people like this but at the same time it’s bad. Sonic Attack - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’d rather listen to The 8th Cumming. Time We Left This World Today - Not Adding to my Playlist. I think Pussy Whipped is a better album and I hate Bikini Kill. Master of the Universe - Not Adding to my Playlist. I wonder if any Pop Punk is on this list. Welcome to the Future - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is terrible. All in all I liked 0/17 songs. This was like 10 minutes longer than Double Nickels on the Dime at 90 minutes and somehow worse. This was just a terrible album. Who thought a live double album would be a good idea?
Too weird for my taste. Skipped many tracks.
Nope
Argh. Schrecklich.
I think there are enough live albums on this list already, and I'm only about a third of the way through. Never heard of this group before, and sitting through this double album didn't really sell me on them. They're just another psychedelic rock outfit to my ears. Reading up on this live album, it sounds like more was put into the accompanying visual experience for their live shows. Perhaps this was better experienced in-person (and/or under the influence). Regardless, I can only comment on what I hear. It's all very unintentionally corny in the lyrics, and the arrangements are obviously lengthy but mainly come off as disorganized and amateur-ish. Uninspiring when it's trying to be something more I guess. Obviously this is a live double album, so it was created with the audio-visual experience of the group's live shows in mind. It just never peaks at any moment; disorganized chaos that never amounts to anything. I guess I've had it good for too long, 'cause it has been a while since an album on this list has done absolutely nothing for me.
Terribly noisy
Waste of time, a group of punk amateurs trying to sound explicit while reading quotes like Weird Al Jankovich, why?
i didn’t like any of this
Pre-listening thoughts: god damn it 😭 it’s live, it’s psychedelic rock, and it’s long as hell. I wasn’t even a concept when this was made but I feel like they made this album to spite me. Post/during listening thoughts: going to be really candid here I didn’t make it through two hours of this before deciding I didn’t like it. In all honesty, it took me thirty seconds to decide I didn’t like it. I still sat through another few tracks though, just to be nice. The spoken parts are so bad. The electronic parts are even worse. Half of this is pretentious guitar solos lasting 8 mins a piece and yelling resembling Radiohead’s MTV beach house crash out where Thom Yorke jumps in the pool. This is so dookie bro. 1/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no Fav tracks: huh Least fav tracks: everything
Not for me.
It’s been *years* since I’ve been stoned enough to enjoy something like this. 2 plus live hours of this band is too much. I got through ~30 minutes before I could go no further. That said - a brisk 35 minute studio record from Hawkwind might be enjoyable. 🤷♂️
Inspired by the Clangers!!
All sounds like Silver Machine. Bloody awful.
ähm jo jamrock i guess hä. sie sind etz sit irgendwie acht minute am umenoodle. i ha nöd gern weni bis musig denke "jo uf da wäri etz auno choo". aaaaha. es isch de lemmy am bass. jetz machts sinn. he ihr mönd nöd betone dases live isch mer ghörts. und ich glaub wemmer nöd komplett zonked devor stoht ischs au nöd soo geil. space is infinite jooo isch guuuuet. soace is deep joooo ich weiss nöd wiso ich gad so greizt uf die musig reagiere aber s entspricht mer nöd. orgone accumulator okay. jo. okay. ES ISCH NUR NOODLING ES ISCH NUR NOODLING ES PASSIERT NÜT. boah im ernst. brainstorm hani au katastrophe gfunde etz bi 7by7 singeds wenigstens? i ha nüt geg instrumental aber wenns afoch ungrichtets saxophon genudel isch isch nöd geil. und etz redter wieder. aber würkli wieso isch die original version nöd uf streaming dienst? ich bruch d cd reissue nöd etz mueni immer uf wikipedia luege öb d rehefolg stimmt und brainstorm uf dere version wo ich etz los isch afoch 13 minute gsi anstatt 9 ich bruch die vier minute nööööd. NUMENO vier lieder lesgo. shit sonic attack nur 3 minute aber er seit afoch pseudo deepe scheissdreck. time we left hassi au gad, de bass vom lemmy isch s einzig wos no chöönti rette. ich check scho dases für '73 meeega hert isch und so aber etz 7 minute master of the universe hani keeei bock druff. okay jetz numeno welcome to the future, da isch guet. HERTS 1. Z LANG. z ungordnet möchtegern tüfgründig soundtechnisch nöd ahsprechend nai.
This is really not for me. Lots of spoken word verses about space. Noodly songs that don't really go anywhere. A live album, which I don't think really needs to be on this list. Overly long even without the bonus tracks. Only enjoyable to people on drugs, which I am not. Basically it's a lot of the ingredients for an album I dislike
2+ hours is too long for this, plus a live album. bleh.
My love of lemmy might be entirely cancelled out by my dislike of most live albums. This is some kind of scifi proto-punk, but I don’t think I care for it. It feels lazy and uninspired. The recording quality is pretty poor as well. I like the distorted basslines, but that’s about all I can say that’s good here. There’s so many.. noises? Sound effects? I dunno, but it’s very unpleasant. “Space is deep” is about as deep of a sentiment as these lyrics go. I’m sure glad Motörhead exists, because it would be very depressing if this was Lemmy’s only legacy.
A wonderful album. The title track is, of course, an all-timer and is just one of those songs. The rest of the album is mostly covers and a few original tracks, including the fantastic “Behave Yourself”, all instrumental. What I love about this album is the way the electric organ serves as the main melodic device and serves a role in each song that would otherwise by served by either vocals or perhaps a lead guitar. In some tracks, the organ is played more like an organ, and in some it’s used for fast licks; the licks give a very interesting effect because the particular organ used doesn’t allow the notes to “overlap”. The effect is a very digital sound that belies the 1962 release date. The vibes of this album are second to none. It’s summertime backyard cookout, after you’ve already eaten and twilight is setting in and the heat is starting to relent. Beyond the vibes it’s also just excellent musicianship and interesting production. I don’t have any negatives to report really. 9/10
It’s not “bad”, but it’s long, boring and forgettable. Which might be worse
Pretentious and interminably long. I want my 2 hours back.
There were a few listenable moments, the rest was, to be polite, rubbish. Not even remotely deserving a place on this list.
This is a turgid mess of nothing in particular. My oh my it was hard work.
Awful continues.
Too out there for me.
This was rough AF, theres a pretty good guitar solo in one of the songs. Then a kazoo kicks in, then it just beeps for 2mins then I think something dies, then a fax machine boots up, it's dogshit, I didn't finish it and I never will 1
Mid af 1/10
I like a good jam band, but not this.
Awful
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Hard pass
Ugh, this is really just not very good. It sounds like a parody (which I guess could give it point for being influential?) I think they might have hit a grove about 30mins in, but way too little too late. I have zero interest in getting to the end of this live, 2 hour, prog rock, space jam.
Just noise. 1/5
More 60’s psychedelic bs. Actually really can’t stand this stuff now
So boring and so long. The only interesting parts were the weird spoken word parts and those did not make me like it more
Couldn't finish it
oh boy a double album into absolute no where. Whatever the fuck the spoken word part The Awakening is. Orgone Accumulator is pretty good. This damn sonnova bitch is such a painful slog in one go.
Proto Punk, which seem to have the creative concept seems to "see how many weird synthesizer noises one can throw against the wall to See If maybe some of them will stick.”
mmmmmm yes shove mid psych down my throat mmmm space and drugs and boobs mmmmmm wowza!
UNLISTENABLE.
So low energy... really didn't hook me at all. Kind of forgot it was on.
you guys know that Spinal Tap was a JOKE, right?
Painfully mediocre. I can’t wait for it to be done. I felt this way from the first song. It only gets worse. 2 hours!?! No. No more. I’m done. Goodbye Hawkwind.
I would have given this two stars for originality if it had been 30 minutes, maybe if it had been 45. But two hours of this? Nope.
Not my taste.
I might have been kinder to this album had this challenge not just served up the abomination 'Third' by the soft machine directly prior. Together, both albums represented 3.5 hours of psychedelic 70s Rock which is about 2.75 hours too much. I appreciate a good rock opera but add the psychedelic angle, and what seems to be a bunch of random noise, repetitive musical instrument notes and some absolute hippie bullshit space jargon. I'm not stoned = I'm out.
I felt so many emotions during this album! Boredom, anger, frustration, confusion and finally, acceptance (I accepted my need to skip the second disk!) The thing is there was a few interesting bits where I can hear Hawkwind starting to do something cool and interesting - and then we're right back into the weirdo meandering space astral projection transcendent jam session! I maintain the view that live albums are only for the fans, and are mostly too long and too annoying. Plus I'm not high enough to listen to this!
This album is a trip, not a good one, but definitely a trip.
I couldnt get into it
The noodling bits are bad enough but the talking bits are just awful
Oh dear.....
I couldn't do 2 hours of this - what a bunch of noise. NOT MY THING NOT EVEN CLOSE.
DNF. Is this music, or more just a collection of sounds? Album art is cool tho.
Again, I have to question the criteria for albums being added to this list. I had not heard of Hawkwind prior to seeing this album pop up. I read a bit about them and apparently they are pioneers of space rock and ethereal themes, but apart from a few interesting lyrics here and there, I don't see why this was an album I had to hear. The soloing sections were way overdone, although the sax and flute that popped up time to time were a nice break from the monotony. Two hours was way too long. What they had to say could have been said in a 30 minute set.
Not listening to all that…
This was so incredibly bad.
Terrible live playing. The bass speeds up and slows down constantly. Probably fine for people who can’t hear that I guess
Não é meu estilo, não finalizei
Off the bat this kind of sucks, I just have a low tolerance for mediocre vocals. A rambling album, maybe it would be ok without the vocals. 1* because this was much longer than it needed to be, it was torture. After a while I felt like I kept hearing the same guitar riff. 70s rock of jerking off to your guitar for several hours needs to stop. I'm learning psychedelic rock may not be for me. If I had to listen to this live, I would need copious amounts of drugs in me. Or a sleeping pill. I skipped the 3 alternate versions at the end. When they said "see you" in the last song, I took them up on it.
I hope there were some trippy space visuals and hilariously dated Doctor Who style alien costumes to keep the paying audience amused, as the audio alone was an absolute slog to get through. 1.5
Fucking hell this is even longer and even more pointless than that Allman Brothers live album I got a few weeks ago. I would give it 2 stars because some moments remind me of Queens Of The Stone Age which is cool, but that doesn't make up for the 2 hours of my life I wasted listening to this that I'll never get back.
An uninspired funeral dirge for jam band enthusiasts
Unless you’re on far too many mind-altering substances this is mostly unlistenable. I tried and just couldn’t do it.
1. earth calling - 0 2. born to go - 0 3. the night - 1 4. auuakening - 0 5. lord of light - 1.5 6. black corridor - 0 7. zpace deep - 1 8. electronic - 0 9. orgone - 1.5 10. upzide douun - 0 11. 10 zecondz - 0 12. brainztorm - 1 13. zeven - 0 14. zonic - 0 15. time - 1 16. mazter - 0 17 the future - 0 18. do that - 0 19. orgone - 0 20. time - 0 21. do that - 0
I guess if you are very stoned ………. Two hours is 1.5 hours too many.
Not awesome at all.
A nonsensical mess.
Since I do not smoke weed anymore, I can not imagine myself listening to this ever again. Ever.
Here we go again, more psychedelic stuff from the early seventies. On scale of ANNOYINGNESS this scores very high. Big Sigh. Sorry hawkwind, I getting on with my life now
Fuck that space shit
It’s really almost a perfect album.
This was terrible. Psychedelic jam band with a mixture is slam poetry. 🤮
Please what is this and why do I feel like I need to be high on every drug to understand what is going on
Utter insanity. I guess the drugs helped.
Nope, nope, nope. I need a break from the obscure UK bands
Que decir. No me gusta esta música. Marca mucho la época setentosa. Ni
Boring
Did not like
I had to tap out on this one.
It’s a no. I was not on acid when listening to this but I felt like I was on a horrible trip. Far too long. Nil point. Well, one good star. They obviously know how to play their instruments.
Would sound better in Dobly.
Livealbum
what the fuck???
Wtf was this?
Hate it
Didn't see why it's one of the best ever... Just typical drug rock of the era with too many interludes and spacey music. Wasn't a fan. I feel people just rate these albums highly due to it being what they grew up to and it's more nostalgia moments than the music itself
Pretentious pricks
This was if prog rock got drunk and tried to be something it’s not. This was way too long. This was way too weird. This was way too boring. But it was perfectly abysmal. Why oh why are some of these albums on here. 2.3/10
Ummm it was a thing. It was not my thing.
Nope. I do not like live albums. This is a good reason why. Every song that I mustered the energy to listen to was not good. The first song is almost twice as long live then the studio version. Very Jam band vibes. Definitely would not be listening to again.
hated it
Strafpunt voor de lengte.
Unless you have taken a mind bending amount of LSD this gets tiresome pretty quickly
Fuck no.
I can think of a handful of things more painful than a two hour live space-rock jam album, but they all involve the desecration of my genitalia. 0 stars?
I don't enjoy 'live' albums
Von Haus aus sollte ich das eigentlich mögen, tatsächlich habe ich gerade überhaupt keinen Nerv drauf
I’ve tried to get into Hawkwind a couple of times now but just can’t. I know they’re hallowed in some circles and are like the Grateful Dead of the prog world but it just does not click for me at all
My heart sank when I saw this was a live album, a double album, and an album filled with psychedelic space rock. Aka three things that can really turn a record into something unlistenable, which Hawkwind does flawlessly over the course of two unbearable hours. Congratulations! I hated this album.
IDK dude. I mostly hated it. 1 star.
Having to sit through an entire Hawkwind concert. Played mostly on skip what I heard was repetitive and weird. Definitely not for me
What a strange experience that was, first time listener to Hawkwind and I don't think I'll be going back anytime soon. What has this got to do with pop music, oy vey. Still if you are going to do it you might as well kick off your Hawkwind debut with a double live album, as only the 70's could deliver. Yes you read it right Paul Auster fans...a double live album from the early 1970's, it should have a health warning on the front. But wait there's more....the remastered edition goes for 132 minutes, if you wanted your enemies to spill state secrets you'd just wave the cover in their face, "that's right...the extended version..talk!" I've got a funny feeling a hell of a lot of Camberwell carrots went into the planning for this, and I'd strongly suggest that if you listen to this enough times, the wafting stench of a couple of thousand Camberwells will eventually come through. Having said that, thinking about the purpose of this exercise, maybe sparking up a Camberwell while listening to this just might be the right way to push up the daisies. Clearly this drove the Lemster to getting on with doing some serious arse kicking. Other than that can I say: fucking hippies.
Embarrassing. Self indulgent pap proving bad music can be made in every period.
Listenable.
I tried to listen to this twice and couldn't make it half way. A double live album by a mediocre band has no business on this list. Have Hawkwind no decent studio albums they could have included instead?
"Down Through the Night" had a catchy riff that repeated endlessly. However, this album should have been titled, "Wish We Were King Crimson".
What kind of psychedelic nonsense is this? Booooooo.
Not available in Canada
Hippy shit
Terrifying
Super monotonous rock. No melodies and just wild banging on the drums. I really don't like it.
Weird as shit Another space concept album from the 1970s Would like to hear the non live original album. Psychedelic acid trip that I didn't want. Thanks Spoken word poem about orgasms a highlight...until he started shouting at me. Now I'm just scared
Har egentligen aldrig hört Hawkwind, men anar att detta inte är den starkaste plattan. Den mest motbjudande lyssningen hittills tyvärr.
No thank you
Ew!
Alright i’m going to try my best to get through a couple more songs…no chance I listen to 2 hours of this. Not a fan
This can’t be a real band
I could go on and on about all the reasons I dislike this album, but I’ve spent too long listening to it already and I just don’t want to think about it anymore. Hate live albums. 1/5
I couldn’t get myself to finish this one, having gotten distracted, losing my progress, and not wanting to restart it. Never heard of the artist or the album. It’s not bad in an obvious way or even all that boring, it’s just too long.
Weird as shit 3/10
OK, here’s another genre of rock music I didn’t know: space rock. A few chords over a repetitive bass, aggressive drumming, background electronic “space” sounds… hypnotizing in its way, but I get the feeling it sounds better when high… not for me, sorry.
Live album
Took about 10 seconds to realize this album wasn't for me and i was regretting my commitment to listen to every note of every album on this list. I could have given it two stars if it was only an hour long, but someone decided this deserved a double album and 2 hours and 15 minutes of length. I will say that Down Through the Night was a glimmer of interest, but the rest is pointless noodling dreck.
This album is close to 2 hours which is way too long for an album. The songs themselves are not that good either. There were some good parts of the music but those were overextended and the lyrics were crap. Some of the music was just weird too. I started skipping songs. It is better than a one not really a two. I will round down.
Life's too short to listen to this. I did however skip to Orgone Accumulator out of curiosity. The Pop Will Eat Itself cover pisses all over this.
Yesterday's album was a boring and repetitive effort. So I gave it one star and was looking forward to today's effort. When I saw what it was I had low expectations. They weren't met. I kept falling asleep but it sounded like the same song. 21 times! 1001 Alvin's has thrown up some wonderful surprises - PJ Harvey, 1 Eno album, Keith Jarrett, among others. But it has also introduced me to acts that were so unlistenable it defies logic that they made money.
Way too long for some unremarkable 70s stoner rock
I tried it twice but the quality was bad and also I am not a big fan of live albums. And then the music was too weird for me..
a concert album? no
Hawkward.
2nd March 2022 Listened in the day in the office and on the way to book club at Elliott’s. I don’t. Like. Prog. Rock. Don’t get it.
I'm 2 songs in, and if this doesn't get better, not sure I can make it through the remaining 19 songs... I think I need more LSD for this album. Now 5 songs in - I just can't. The looping effects and screeching make this album un-listenable for me. I shudder to think what the remaining 16 songs have to hold.
not enjoyable in the slightest
Not my thing
Terrible. I'm not listening to this. First 4 tracks were more than enough.
I imagine everyone at this concert was high as a kite. Just typical bad sounding 70s metal. 3/10.
Tried getting into this but could not.
Crummy hippie space junk. It fucking sucks and I hate everything about it.
I expected to at least like this, but it's more jazz with metal.
What a load of rubbish!
Ugh.
Had to turn it off 2 songs in, yikes. Really not my thing - a super jammy Phish like band but more metal sounding
Two strikes before I even started listening to this albums: 1) it's two hours long and 2) it's a live album. Uh oh. The best part was when it was over.
I imagine this is some people's idea of an amazing, legendary album. I get that, but it's not mine.
Naff!
Odd
No thanks
Nothing standing out for me here. Only really like live albums if I know the band and their songs.
Space, psychedelic, whatever. 0% my thing. Sorry Hawkwind.
not my vibe :/