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    Posted: October 31 2013 at 06:42
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In Search Of Space
1971
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Hall of the Mountain Grill
1974
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All superb in their own way, I think although `Warrior’ is probably the best overall, `Mountain Grill’ is the first one I bought, so I have a lot of love for that. That album has quite a lot of variety, and some lovely Mellotron passages! It gets my vote.

I do love the messy and sinister overwhelming murky moods of those earlier ones as well!
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Warrior is for me the best Hawkwind album of all so gets my vote.

I got the new remastered Warrior cd for my birthday yesterday too Smile.
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Warrior On the Edge of Time's first two tracks, Assault & Battery/The Golden Void, which play like one long track, are my favorites by Hawkwind. Plus there's the track Magnu, which is a classic as well. Overall, I think Mountain Hall has the most consistently better songs. However, Warrior *sounds* great (in a lo-fi kind of way), even if those spoken-word moments sound horribly dated to me, like they belong on a Moody Blues album or 50s Flash Gordon soundtrack. If only Mountain Hall had Warrior's magic production... So, Warrior, for its great production and the aforementioned tracks.


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WotEoT. Jude pretty much covered it above. One of the three Hawkwind albums I like the best, along with QS&C and CotBS.
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Warrior by a mile...Mellotron & Michael Moorcock, what more could a prog fanatic ask for Wink
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It's between the last two for me. 

Voted Hall of the Mountain Grill.
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Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Warrior by a mile...Mellotron & Michael Moorcock, what more could a prog fanatic ask for Wink
What more can I add ??? Warrior all the way....
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Doremi Fasol Latido! Shortly followed by X In Search Of Space.
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Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz!

Please drop me a message with album suggestions.
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Warrior without a doubt, although Hall has some very good moments. Some bloody awful ones too..

As much as I love Hawkwind they were in the habit of recording albums which hosted a selection of near perfect space rock masterpieces alongside tracks which sounded like I had recorded them in the bathroom after getting back from the pub.

Someone posted a very entertaining clip of a recent line up of HW performing spirit of the Age with TV presenter Matthew Wright on vocals. UK folk will know who I mean Pretty good version too. I can't post YT clips at work. If you want to see it, you'll need to search on it. It'll be worth the effort

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I guess Warrior, followed by Hall..., then In Search.... I haven't picked up Doremi..., since all the songs are in Space Ritual and the first Motörhead album, which I have. The only reason I might pick it up is to hear the studio comparisons - that and it's the only convenient place I can think of that has a decent remastering of "Urban Guerrilla".
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Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Warrior by a mile...Mellotron & Michael Moorcock, what more could a prog fanatic ask for Wink
 
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Hi,
 
Hall of the Mountain Grill
 
I did not take to Warrior at the Edge of Time a whole lot, and will re-listen to it. Of course, Electric Tepee is one of my all time favorite rock albums, anyway! And while I did not dislike the Michael Moorcock stuff, it was nice to see something different in rock music, but I did not think it was as good, or interesting as Arthur C Clarke had impacted literature and film.
 
By comparison, Michael is just a fun and enjoyable read.
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'In Search Of Space' has a lot in common with Krautrock !!!
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Points: 12945 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 02 2013 at 18:06
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

'In Search Of Space' has a lot in common with Krautrock !!!
 
True that and that's where my vote went.
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 03 2013 at 00:54
Doremi Fasol Latido
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