HW: Assassins and You Shouldn't

[Stephen Swann]

J Strobridge writes:
>
> Stephen Swann writes:
>
> > The song that disappointed me on the last tour (aside from sticking
> > the ambient bit in the middle of Hassan I Sahba)
>
> Can't understand why people dislike this so much!   Hawkwind have been
> melding different tracks into seamless segues since almost their first
> album and this is one of their finest.   ok - it breaks the flow from a
> fast hard sound into a quiet reflective ambient mood and back again but
> this is a fine intelligent piece of construction - from the aggression/
> violence of the Assassins through the Arabic trance-scape and out again.
> There's a tension in the ambient flow (or there should be if it's
> done well) all the time since you are still aware of the memory of the
> heavier rock track previously, while waiting - knowing - that it's going
> to return... any minute... to destroy the tranquility.   Brilliant!

Yeah, it sound good on paper, classic poetical juxtaposition.  But in
practice I can't describe how badly my heart falls when they break the
pace of that killer song.

Steve
swann at panix.com