Space Ritual

Music made by people called Hawkwind for people who wished they’d call themselves Hawkwind.

The only Hawkwind song I knew before listening to this album was Silver Machine. This isn't my bag, but maybe a double live album isn't the best starting point...

Lemmy does more interesting things later. I think I don’t like psychedelia? This is … meh. Self indulgent. God, bring on punk.

I am putting this in the "unusual" pile. Having at least *heard* of these guys, I flicked off the actual album, went and listened to hits Master of the Universe & Silver Machine. And then I remembered Motorhead. The band. Music doesnt need a point, or message, or form, it can just be. I seek not to understand. I bare witness. It has its moments. Guitar grind. But I do wonder though what potion you need to take it with for this music to fully 'work'. Steve Halpern is far more transporting. And pleasant I feel the need for a towel folded under my feet to reduce the disorientation and nausea. The guitars are good - but is it because of Lemme? For me, this lacks the pleasant vibe I'd like to have during space travel. This is akin to riding in the back of a Transit van with a broken muffler all the way north on the M6. I'll take an early exit.

Hippy that I was in the early 70’s, I somehow totally missed Hawkwind. This is the first album of theirs that I’ve ever listened to & I have to confess that I only skimmed quite a few tracks (so many of them are so bloody long). I find the whole cosmic space thing just a bit irksome - all that constant whirling synth & all that serious spoken-word sci-fi bullshit. Still I did find a couple of decent rock tracks here - Orgone Accumulator (whatever that is) & Time We Left This World Today. Unsurprisingly the latter is one of the songs Lemmy is the vocalist on. I own a single by Inner City Unit, who I’ve always thought were Hawkwind under another name. Having googled the name , I find that only Nik Turner & Dead Fred were members of this band - but do yourself a favour & listen to their last single, Bones Of Elvis. I find this more listensble than anything on Space Ritual. And it’s funny. In a good way.

Some of the jams are really good but this was just really long, sci-fi space psychedelic rock that sort of just noodles all over the place. All of the spoken word stuff sounded really corny to me and most of it just ended up feeling completely nonsensical. Really wasn't a fan of this much at all but I can respect the skill they had and some of the riffs and instrumental passages. Maybe baked out of my mind I'd love this, who knows?

just kind of boring all sounds the same, corny lyrics

a 2 hour live album is a rubbish way to be introduced to a band...

too jamband for me

It was either kind of good or 'turn on, tune in, drop out' new age hippie bullshit. Somewhere in between maybe... some of it was listenable.

Interesting

There's a couple of really good songs in there, but the whole thing, and even the good songs, are far, far too long. I like some long songs and albums, but they have to go somewhere... this did not.

meh, not my thing

видимо надо быть в особом состоянии чтобы полностью преисполниться... местами интересно звучит, ухо цепляется к вокалу, ритмике и мастерингу, но так как это слишком долго идет, то я уже очень устал это слушать

Страшно, очень страшно! Мы не знаем что это такое, если бы мы знали что это такое, мы не знаем что это такое. Ну во-первых начнём с того, что это очень долго. Неоправданно? Не факт. Ну то есть, если сказать "А, ну это психодел" - всё становится понятно. Там в песне идёт два-три развития, куда уж там в 3 минуты уложиться. С одного раза послушать довольно тяжело. Во-вторых, может быть, у меня конечно крыша едет, но... басист не успевает за остальной группой? Да и вообще сведено как-то странно: если планировалось делать бас-гитару солирующим инструментом - чего она тогда такая глухая? И конечно же: всратое стерео! Не, ну ладно, здесь они пытались играться с динамическим панорамированием, но иногда получалось прям-таки слишком глючно, что хотелось сразу выключить. Окей, вопросы к сведению снимаются: это лайв. И всё равно, инструменты звучат как-то очень гулко, невыразительно... это сбивает с толку. Не знаю, впечатления смешанные. Вспоминая Spiritualized (кажется, это самое близкое из уже прослушанного), там был просто до отвала балдёжный звук. Здесь идеи вроде всё те же. Но запись говно. Альбом в списке, скорее всего, чтобы показать, что может получиться, если смешать шугейз, психодел и Спейс-рок. Везде всё абстрактное, получилось ещё более абстрактное.

"это она звучит в аду" ладно, в целом неплохо. чуть (достаточно) меньше и качественнее и ебать мы бы кайфовали, а так 2+, с рекомендациями особенно ебанутым

Genres: Space rock, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, proto-punk, hard rock Formed: London in 1969 Run time: 21 songs, 2 hours, 12 min Two hours, now that’s an album. Does the quality a match the quantity? If you’re looking for deep meaningful lyrics, this isn’t the place to find them. The album explores space and our place in it. The lyrics are very basic, almost childish in their simplicity. The original was shorter, and this reissued/remastered version was expanded. I suppose it gives fans more of what they want, but for the rest of us it’s a bit self-indulgent. Instrumentally good, lyrically poor. If you like Prog, you will probably like this. I’m not in that camp. It drags on for me and some of the sound effects are jarring and unpleasant. I know some groups like to experiment and push boundaries, but this album is too much. Four tracks are close to or over 10 minutes. Half the tracks have less than 500k plays on Spotify and the rest are less than 100k. I like the Hawkwind track “Silver Machine” but found nothing comparable on this album. I will never listen to this album again. Two hours I’ll never get back! I may listen to a “best of”. My Rating: **

can’t get into it

I usually like Hawkwind, but this live album was a bit of a struggle to get through in one go.

psych rock style

OK baseline and some of the kisic good. Shame about the lyrics and some of it sou ding like Ross ' keyboard playing!

I can't stand this band, at all. The vocalist is whiny, the musical movement is to trippy and out there for my tastes. But, I was very impressed by the bassist powerhouse Lemmy Kilmister. I doubt I'll give this album or Hawkwind more proper listening time, I just can't gel with the genre. 3 out of 10

Blaah, kokonaisuus pitkästyttävä ja jäi lopulta kesken.

Ei nyt jaksanu vetää happoi ja fiilistellä kokonaan. Ihan makeita juttuja välillä, mut liikaa trippailua. Musa musana sanon minä

The only cool thing about this band is the fact that Lemmy was in it for a time and appears here. Sadly, he cannot save it. Dull, shitty sound, and too long. I really didn't like this much at all. The only thing saving it was the occasional kinda cool riff and the fact that I can't give anything Lemmy was involved with a 1. I'd rather listen to the worst Motorhead album than this any day.

God, was I relieved when this was over. It's really hard to motivate myself to listen to longer albums like this. That being said, it was okay. The music kinda felt like it was going in one ear and out the other, only grabbing my attention a few times during the duration of the album. It's an impressive album though, and good on anyone who enjoys this. I liked the interlude/introductions that some of the songs had. My favourite song was probably Down Through The Night, but barely anything stood out.

Weak, trying to do a Zed thing, I guess

Holy crap. Was the name Hawkshit already claimed?

Great, a live double album by an obscure British space rock band. Muddy production, noodling, weird noses, droning vocals. Bleh.

This was unbelievably boring

Oh no. For two hours? Hopefully it grows on me. Update: it didn't. Not actively offensive to the senses, but ponderous, overwrought, and absolutely boring.

Really this just confirms to me that I don't like Psych Rock, could be the fact that I was going through some nightmare anxiety but I think mainly the Psych Rock, I'm giving it like 1.5 stars

3/10 there were some cool sci-fi-y rock moments but Christ this was a slog to get through

Quite bad. 3/10

The mixing is kind of nice, and some of the riffs are very cool, but I simply cannot get past 2 things: the length of this album, and how terrible the lyrics are. I feel like at this point (1973), this was just kind of an unexplored space (no pun intended) and so, like, "a vaguely dystopian album about space" was a novel enough concept on its own, but man, does this feel trite now. These guys are kind of contemporaries with Rush and man, would I rather listen to a Rush album right now. Skipping standouts because none of the tracks really did anything to differentiate themselves from any of the other tracks. Rating: 2 (maybe 1?)

decent

This album is alright. I really like the guitar playing in the songs, but not enough to listen to it for 90 minutes straight. Also I didn't like the singing or the weird transitions between songs. If the album was shorter I probably would enjoy it more, but that's not the style of the genre. Favorite song: Brainstorm Worst song: Born to Go

Probably huge in the day, but seems overdone & drawn out by current standards

Now I know what happens when I remark that an album is a tad long. I apologize, oh 1001 Albums overlords! This was indeed a case of Sonic Attack. I know this because I felt dizzy, and the need to vomit, and there was bleeding from orifices, and an ache in the pelvic region. Thankfully I knew what to do! There were some fun and interesting moments on this album, so I give it credit for that. I can even imagine that watching them live with the assistance of a substance or two might have made it more compelling, but as it was I was subject to fits of hysterical shouting Or even laughter.

At first glance at what I was into with this double album, I felt dread. Then I started to listen, an although I thought the production quality was a bit lacking, I wasn't terribly opposed to what I was hearing. Hmmm...I think I kind of like this psychedelic guitar rock...Wait, what is that somewhat irritating noise...Phew, that went away, but this one is dragging out a bit...Oh god! Spoken verse...Why?!?...When will it end...Okay, back to the groove and kind of diggin...aaaand he's talking again...How much longer is this?

I find this kind of music rather silly. When I wasn't bored, I was embarrassed for all of us. My favorite parts were the spoken word bits where the guy sounds like Hans Gruber stating his demands to the miracle that is the Eff Bee Eye. "The following people are to be released from their captors: In Northern Ireland, the seven members of the New Provo Front. In Canada, the five imprisoned leaders of Liberte de Quebec. In Sri Lanka, the nine members of the Asian Dawn Movement. Small babies should be placed inside the special cocoons and should be left, if possible, in shelters."

There's too much, too many ethereal moon sounds, too much indulgence. Whittle it down to a strong 6-song album.

a little too out there for me

Ooof! This album was entirely too long. It was just noise after awhile and the lyrics were very interesting at times.

Echte ouwe rock inclusief schreeuwlelijk :-). Niet mijn ding. **

Hawkwind reminds me a lot of Pink Floyd, Rush, and The Doors. They are definately in the psychedelic rock genre. I've never listened to any of their stuff before this exercise, but heard about them, and how "out there" their music was. You can definately tell that the "space race" of the 60s-70s had a major influence on their song style. The use of synthesizers, theramins, trumpets, heavy bass grooves, lasers... (basically whatever they could get their hands on) gave the music a very futuristic feel, and was very exploratory in nature. Something I noted, given this is a live album, you barely hear the crowd at all throughout the duration of the album. The end of "Welcome to the Future" is the only time they are heard to any degree. I think the music and copious amounts of hallucinogens lulled them into a trance for the duration of the concert, lol. I didn't hate this album, like I thought I would. There was definately some experimentation going on, and the long drawn out solos sometimes are hard to keep focus on, but there were a few songs that weren't bad on the album. Favourite songs: Time We Left This World Today, Upside Down, Orgone Accumulator Least favourite songs: The Awakening, The Black Corridor, 10 Seconds of Forever, Sonic Attack, Welcome to the Future (these songs are just noises and talking), Electronic No. 1 (just God awful theramin noises), You Shouldn't Do That (almost 11 minute drawn out, acid induced solo) 2/5

This was briefly engaging in spurts but overall, not my thing. Literally needed to take ibuprofen towards the end.

Definitely not high enough for this one.

Not that bad, but 2h12m is too long... and a live album should NOT be in this list, period.

Am I in an arcade? They have more than one album? Someone remastered them? It's not my cup of team, but there are some moments of rhythmic music.

Not really my cup of tea.

I need more drugs for this one.

Сложный альбом, трудно было слушать, интерес какой-то был, но его надо искать, с учетом 2 часов это тяжко.

Just to much

similar to the grateful dead in that its a really long album that is meant to be listened to high and in person 2.5

just sounded the same throughout the album. May have needed to take or smoke some things beforehand to appreciate.

Self-indulgent prog rock jam with a bit harder edge. I didn't notice when the album started repeating again from the beginning.

This didn’t do much for me too weird but can see why it’s on the list.

listened to about 10 minutes then decided a couldn’t be bothered. silly space noises for 2.5 hours is not my cup of tea 2/5

Thanks to this album leart about Space rock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rock good sounds but a little boring.

Nope. Too long and meandering, lyrics are goofy, and the chord progressions are by-the-book. Nothing special here.

2 stars. The tracks that were actual songs were like 3-4 stars, but so much nonsense in between. Why?

Oh no. I’m not that kind of girl.

För långt... stenar ibland men det här ljudet kan inte bära 2h av musik för mig.

"The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London" is a mix of two live performances by Hawkind, recorded eight days apart in England. It's an somewhat interesting record of space rock in his development, but not a particular good one. For a band focused in adding psychedelic and progressive references to their music, they're too focused on Dave Brock's guitar riffs (and maybe that's the reason why he is the sole continous member of the band after all those decades).

Thank goodness for punk.

One of the most boring psychedelic rock I've ever heard

the first few songs were like okay yas! but then i was like uhhh… 13 minute songs that sound exactly the same… for two hours…? not okay yas! it got very boring very fast. the space talking and stuff was cool at first but then i was like omg just stop. if it was shortened by 70 percent it’d be a lot better.

Zzzz. I'm a fan of some of the early-70s Gong material and there's definitely a parallel here at least in terms of the long-form space rock...hanging on to one chord seemingly forever through an extended trippy section...sax solos...heavy heavy reverb... A big difference to me is complexity and interest... both of which are considerably lower here (again comparing to Gong). I'm not sure the musicians ...vocals...guitar...bass (sorry Lemmy)...drums... are any good at all, nor am I sold on any of the songwriting - "Time We Left This World Today" is akin to a slightly sped-up terrible Black Sabbath jam. I do respect that this is supposed to be more of a "feel" or a jam and given that this is a live recording I would accept that maybe [under the influence of something] this would have been super-trippy to experience in person. There's just nothing worth mentioning that's anywhere near adventurous or dammit just *interesting* on the instrumental side. Take "Orgone Accumulator" for a 10-minute example. It goes nowhere. Which...ok. But how is it any different than any other "song" on this album. Positives? I enjoy the effects; i.e. the synths are quite good and might be the only thing in this band/performance outside the occasional flight on the sax that elevates what would otherwise be completely base 2-3 chord songs into something slightly edgier or different. It's tough - I really wanted to like this; I like the idea of it - this weird fake mysticism, spacey/trippy rock that's not adhering to standard 4-5 minute songs but .... not even halfway through I wanted to hear just one standard 4-5 minute song. "10 Seconds of Forever" - I couldn't come up with a more appropriate song describing the album. It's disappointingly bad. 3/10 2 stars.

Me parece que more jam band than psychedelic or prof. An impressive feat of recording technique and player’s endurance but everything goes on way too long.

Listened before? N Meh. It was okay. I’m sure it’s considered a prog rock classic but it’s a very tough intro to a band. Very long and difficult to understand lyrics. Maybe younger stoner me would have loved it? Added to library? N

maluco

Very psychedelic.. some I enjoyed but most were confusing? Also a bit spooky.

First of all, the typeface (or font, which is a subset of typeface) they used for the album cover teleported me right back to childhood when most space-related stuff used it. Love it. Musically, this is certainly some interesting stuff to my ears. It quickly gets spacey and trippy at most points, and I do understand that's what they are going for. They can play and orchestrate superbly; mostly, however, the songs are not all that enjoyable for me. It can get really jarring to my ear.

I didn’t finish this album not because it was bad but because I just got tired of it. Each song sounded like the same type of space rock with ambient noises and some good guitars/drums

Wow this is a loooong album. I didn't hate it, but it's not really ticking my boxes. I like my prog a bit more melodic and less droney.

Long, sprawling psychedelic rock with some Joy Division vocals. Dated and uncreative overall

Not my cup of tea. These albums, while more psychedelic, simply give prog rock a bad name. Way too long, far too little interesting.

Didn't really like this. Pretty boring and it just sounds very similar. Also very long.

Progressive nope

Hawkwind's fourth album is a live recorded double album of psychedelic/space rock and/or hard/progressive rock, released in 1973. The album comprised most of the set list played during their tour of 1972 and was intended to be one continuous, intertwining melody. I loved how every song faded into the next and I can just imagine myself spending an afternoon, getting lost in their music as the record played. There are a few spoken word songs which took away from the musical immersion and was probably better received when watching the performance live. Overall, this album was a serious trip and I'm glad it found its way to my ears!

Har lite svårt att köpa live-album grejen. Om man ska se det som vilket album som helst så är det för det första alldeles för långt och sen är det för tjatigt. Men rätt gött sound.

Not my thing

Not for me. I don’t care for psychedelic rock.

Not my thing i'm afraid

Just couldn't get into it. Too dense by half

This is my first dalliance in space rock. I didn't expect it to be quite so literal. Their interpretation of space is quite sci-fi, robotic, and distopian except for on "Electronic No 1" where they even seem to have gone to the moon and recorded Clangers. I guess a lot of the tracks get into nice chugging grooves, but there is little to distinguish them from one-another. Overall it's all just a bit weird and impenetrable.

Não funcionou para mim, álbum duplo com faixa ao vivo, doses excessivas de psicodelismo.

I couldn't even make it through this today. Monotonous. I don't hate it, it just wasn't interesting enough.

I mean...it's a long-winded prog-rock album. I don't really understand it, because for "space sounding" it just sounds...like a LOT of progressive rock. and it's wayyyy too long.

This is another one I couldn’t get into when I first gave it a spin. I decided to give it 24 hrs and try again. It was a little better but still not really rocking my boat. Is Dino Rock a genre? They sound like a dinosaurs band before being old enough to be called such. Some was OK but it lacked consistency.

Good music that is sorely held back by artists that are too full of themselves to realize that maybe they should cap it out at one hour so that it's a more concise and focused album. I understand this is peak space rock but man is it a slog to get through. Going to use this opportunity to say now that a long album does not make it a bad one. There are great double albums and longer albums! The issue I tend to have is that if you are going to structure a record to be longer that 40-50 minutes, you need to have a good reason. Do all the songs make it so that the album is greater than the sum of it's parts? Does it lend itself to an overall experience rather than just a collection of songs? How does that experience fare in the end? These are the questions that put longer albums like Space Ritual on trial, because the artists behind the album are ultimately asking me to invest more time and attention than I would a regular album, so they need to make it worth my while. Ultimately they nail certain thematic ideas (the length of the album could be equated to the vastness of space), but when I'm in the thick of it I find I'm not so impressed. The smaller moments that I enjoy don't make up for the fact that the whole piece, front to back, is not as incredible as it would lead me to believe. And no, I'm not going to listen to it while high.

Pretentious and kind of boring. I'm sure it was much better seeing it live.

Sure if I had listened to this before Spinal Tap I wouldn’t have found it as hilarious.

Joo-o… Ei nyt oikein puhutellut tämä pläjäys. Soundit olivat aika nuhaisen kuuloiset ja tuntui että basso oli miksattu aika kovalle. Wikipedia paljasti että bassoa soitti kukapa muu kuin Lemmy. Olisin pärjännyt oikein hyvin ilmankin tätä pitkää live-levyä, mutta annetaan nyt kuitenkin kakkonen.

Sounded like Spinal Tap. One extra star for some good hooks.

Toooo long, baby

Not really my thing now,but I remember seeing them in 1973 at Dunstable Civic.Far out man!!!

i actually liked some of the music i just couldn’t listen to it for that long, was like my brain was under attack

Bastante coñazo. Psicodélico. Tiene algunas cosas que podrían ser interesantes, pero siempre usan sonidos de fondo en plan espacial... Se hace pesado. Muchas partes habladas.

Marijuana helped greatly with the enjoyment of this album, probably helped with the recording of it as well. If you like this, I recommend giving King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard a listen.

This would have been a stoner concert

meh

Definitely some interesting rock sounds, but nothing groundbreaking or particularly creative.

Interesting but a bit weird

This should be my thing but none of these songs really excited me much.

1973: Born To Go, Down Through the Night

I am so tired of live albums. This was pretty much unlistenable. The sound was so muddled. The vocals were so quiet at times it sounded like the singer was 10 feet from the mic. This is a 1 star purely for how badly it was put together

I really did not enjoy this one. Sure, its a good enough live album for prog rock (space rock) but I just did not enjoy it for a first listen. Only did the first disc though because this thing is dang long.

This is a ritual to listen to. For a start it's far to long. The version iv got is over 2 hrs long with added poetry. If ever an album didn't need to be lengthened it is this one. Of coarse there is flutes and endless noodling. That was tedious I actually looked forward to the poetry so the din would end

There are some good parts, but

No 2 hour experience I need

I never have, nor probably ever will be, on the correct amount of whatever drug I'm supposed to be on to listen to this. And even if I was, I don't know if I would want to if we're being honest. 2/10

Just looking at the runtime brought me closer to skipping than any other album so far in this challenge, and getting to the end of the first disc made me wish I had. I dragged myself kicking and screaming to the end but Jesus, what a slog.

This was a difficult listen. One person's classic rock is another person's pretentious crap and I don't like it at all. It's just a noise with wibbly 70s sound effects, very psychedelic with serious yet meaningless narration trying to sound important in between the never-ending guitar solos. I think Space Is Deep was OK in some parts, but I lost interest quickly on the first playing of the album, more quickly on the second and I'm not attempting a third. I have better things to do. 1 star, barely.

Long and meh

If this was half as long it could have gotten away with 2 stars but c'mon.

Lots of echo, reverb and weird supposedly space type noises. Talking parts also get tiring. Production is terrible. Guitars just a wall of fuzzyness mostly. Listened to half of it before becoming very bored.

This is so tedious. All the random noises are irritating, but there wouldn’t be much there without them. I couldn’t suffer through nearly 2 hours of this, so it’s a 1.

This album is not available in my country so I can’t rate it. I Will look for other audio platforms.

The rock numbers here are Stooges knock-offs with electronic noodling on top and the non-rock numbers are basically electronic noodling. Lemmy here is the only one with any groove but he's basically stuck playing two or three variations on the same bassline.

It was a jam band live album, so right there it had two strikes. I managed to listen for a whole hour before I realized I wasn’t even halfway finished.

That was a trip . . . I think you need to be in another dimension to get through this intact Kids - this is why we say no to drugs I sort of enjoyed Master of the Universe, or maybe that was just the song they f*cked up the least Anyway, this is a Once In A Lifetime, never to be repeated experience Keep out of reach of the children

Lol this is self-indulgent hippie nonsense.

Such a snooze fest. There wasn’t anything instrumentally that I thought was slightly impressive. So boring. Drags on to the point of being unbearable at times. And WAY too fucking long.

Space Ritual by Hawkwind is certainly an experience, although I'm not entirely convinced it's one I want to repeat. One thing I discovered before listening was that a young Lemmy plays on this album, which was news to me and definitely raised my expectations. I went in hoping for some great bass lines and classic Lemmy moments. Unfortunately, the album itself confirmed something I've learned repeatedly during this challenge: space rock and progressive rock just aren't genres that really work for me. Space Ritual is long, sprawling and never really grabbed my attention. More than anything, it feels less like a collection of songs and more like one long piece of theatre or storytelling, with tracks blending into one another as part of a much bigger concept. I suspect this album was designed to be experienced live, with the visuals and stage show being just as important as the music itself. Perhaps something is lost listening to it purely as an audio experience in 2026. Or perhaps I'm being generous and this simply isn't for me. Either way, I still don't get prog rock, and I can't see myself returning to this album in the future. Favourite tracks: “Time We Left This World Today” was okay and probably the closest thing to a standout for me Least favourite tracks: “The Black Corridor” was particularly hard work, along with several other sections of the album Album artwork: There is a lot going on in the cover art — I have absolutely no idea what any of it means, but it certainly fits the music!

Couldn't finish it

No manen con el space rock. Como aguantaban eso en ese entonces?

God this is terrible. Too long and just a barrage of noise.

The best thing I can say about this album is, for one brief moment, side 2 was better than side one. Otherwise, I felt on the verge of a panic attack throughout, particularly during “Sonic Attack”. That was… something.

Live double album of 70's psychedelic rock? For fucks sake! 1/5

Repetitive, indistinguishable, pretentious hippie crap. Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to Lemmy.

No, this isn’t what I have in my record collection. One star...

Guessing this album was a trailblazer for the form or something, I’m just not on enough drugs to appreciate it

long af

This album is just not good. The vocals and sounds are poor. Also it is way too long of an album.

This sucked butt. They just ramble on and on and on and on for entirely too long. The lyrics are boring, nonsensical, bs that makes zero sense and just gets on your nerves. Waaaaaaaaaay too long for so little happening too.

This…was not for me. Did not make me a believer in space rock, had to admit defeat after like 5 songs (normally I always finish the album).

Weird, trippy, esoteric - readings over seagull sounds and electronic sounds - did not enjoy. It's also SO LONG for being so annoying.

I didn't vibe with this album at all. I know its a live album but the sound quality is bad. The synth sounds don't fit and the singing and instruments aren't catchy. Total miss for me unfortunately.

Muy lsrgo

I did not expect to encounter Hawkwind on this list, although given the general quality, I probably should have. If you liked the songs in Spinal Tap, this could be for you.

szczoch imo

491/1089 - This album could've been half the length. The songs are so jammy and vamp-y which is complete bullshit to listen to. Where is the variation? Where is anything of interest? It sounds like bad EDM before EDM even existed!

DNF - really not for me and way too long thus creating for a grueling experience that i don't ever want to repeat. First 30 seconds of a song would be great and then it would just keep going? Like just don't do that? Please?

Gosh this was hardwork, felt endless. Not for me.

Just wasn’t for me at all. Far too long, repetitive and full of drawn out spacey jams that never really seemed to go anywhere. This felt more focused on atmosphere and weird noises than actual memorable music. Ended up being a complete slog to get through. 1/5 starts for me

Yikes guys this album is nothing to me I do not want to hear this I am bored move on ya know I DNF this tired of random nonsense in this list

Every second I hate it more. Like being abducted by aliens and the sound itself is also shit

Wtf is this? 2 HOURS. I’d never heard of space rock and hope never to again

I guess this is my punishment for a few good albums in a row. This was an awful waffle.

Too electronic

Δεν μπορώ να πω οτι δεν μου άρεσε η μουσική καθόλου αλλά υπάρχουν δύο τεράστια αρνητικά. Το αλπμπουμ είναι απλώς το λαιβ χωρίς production μετά και επίσης κρατάει 2 ΩΡΕΣ. Η ποιότητα είναι μειωμένη και δεν έχω την υπομονή να ακούσω κάτι δύο ώρες με τέτοια παραγωγή ...

Canciones eternas, no me gustó como suenan y el hecho de que sean las versiones Live no ayuda en nada porque hace que la calidad sea peor. Ademas demasiada instrumental que no me gustó.

Not my cup of tea

demasiado raro

Album 84 and the second one I couldn’t listen to all of. Have always thought silver machine was terrible. This is like a double album of poorer versions of that

One single drum beat over and over across an entire album full of 7+ minute songs, with uninteresting vocals, and a few solid guitar riffs. I definitely did not need to listen to this album before I died.

não funcionou pra mim. 0/5.

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

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.

I feel like this is best enjoyed while under the spell of something medicinal.

Too long

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

Toss Not very rememberable

No more psychedelic rock

Best Track - "Orgone Accumulator"

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.

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.

Too much of a good thing

Não curti não, muito ruidoso e pouco compreensivo por ser um álbum ao vivo.

Ehhh

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.

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

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

This was not for me

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.

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

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.