HW boring ?...

[Christian Mumford]

Alex S. Garcia wrote:
>
> >I'm a little late here (I just joined the list when the LIS discussion
> >was ebbing out). Just purchased Love In Space yesterday, great fold-out
> >sleeve, fantastic artwork. Too bad its so damn boring!!
>
> *moving out of lurking mode*
>
> Ah yes, hello from the silent side of the list... This little snip above
> from a letter by Chris makes me step out of the shadows to ask you Hawkwind
> fans on the list one question which has been burning my lips for quite some
> time.
>
> Okay, I'm on this list for BOC, though I do also read HW messages because
> I'm interested in rock in a general way and I like to know the going-ons
> from everywhere. Anyway, this to say that I am not very familiar with the
> band, though I *have* listened to a few of their tracks. Mainly because I'm
> also a science-fiction fan and that I was intrigued to read/hear Michael
> Moorcock's song lyrics. But... Well, I found the few tracks I heard kind of
> boring. Now, I have no idea which titles those were, so don't even bother
> asking me, but I found those very, uh, monotonous ? They all sounded kind of
> the same. Since I'm also a progressive rock fan, this sounded bland to me.
> But this has been more frustrating for me than anything else, because I'd
> really like to like the band, if you see what I mean ? I mean, there aren't
> that many bands out there which use sci-fi lyrics after all... So the
> question I wanted to as you guys is : are all the HW songs like that ? (I
> mean, I've heard it say from various people that they were, that it was a
> voluntary choice from the band, sort of a HW trademark or something...), and
> if not what album would you recommend me for starters, one which wouldn't
> sound all that boring, huh ? I'd really like to give the band another try...
>


Try these albums for variation/sci-fi,
they are good starting points.

Hall of The Mountain Grill
Levitation
Quark, Strangeness & Charm
Warrior on the Edge of Time

Much HW stuff is very inaccessible, and, frankly, the droning monotony
of the long jams of much of their stuff is because (in the classic era,
anyways) its music created by people on hallucinogenics for people on
hallucinogenics (and mighty fun it is)...... they are more of a
psychedelic punk-band than a prog-band.
At least in my opinion.

Christian