HW-Alien

[Stephen Swann]

Jon Browne writes:
>
> In message <v01530500af228fe7be40@[153.34.146.222]>, Dane Carlson
> <danec at EARTHLINK.NET> writes
> >Hi,
> >   I like damn near every HW album in varying degrees, but I thought Alien
> >was awful, really awful. I put the blame mostly on Ron Tree, the singer. I
> >just hated that album. Anyone else? Is this the HW we can look forward to?
> >
> >DAne
> Aaah, you'll get used to it. Over the last 15 years I have almost always
> been slightly dissappointed with "the new HW album" however a few months
> later I love it, play it to death etc. the only memorable exeptions to
> the "new HW album" effect were Xenon Codex, Electric Tepee and Captured
> Rotation. Every other album has taken time for me to "get it". But I
> *do* "get it" :)

Heh, when I first bought Xenon Codex (sometime in '89, so it was the
newEST Hawkwind album, if not exactly "new"), I detested it so much
that I threw it on the floor in the middle of the room, and trod on it
for almost a week before picking it up and giving it another listen.

Between Danny Thompson's consistently awful THUD-THUD-THUD drumming,
and those weird ambling comic(?) tracks like Mutation Zone and
Good Evening, I thought it was the *worst album I'd ever heard*.

I got over that phase.  ;-)

These days, of course, Neon Skyline/Lost Chronicles, and Sword of
the East are among my favorite tracks (esp Lost Chronicles, which is
my pick for their best instrumental, ever).

Steve
swann at panix.com

obFunny: it still plays fine, despite the rough treatment.