HW : Too long albums (was NEW ALBUM ROCKS!!!!) (Forward)

[Christian Mumford]

At 16:02 15/11/97 +0000, you wrote:

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>>Wings
>
>Wings is OK, I've caught myself singing before, it's really not too bad.

It's awful! .....hmmpfhahahaa!!!!  >;^))

>>Techno Tropic Zone Exists
>Um, can't remember how this goes, OK I'll concede this one.

Ah, you too have blanked out most of this album  :)
The only good thing about it is the cover/booklet!!!

>>Good Evening
>
>Top tune! Always liked this. In fact at the time it was a tune I'd play
>to unbelievers.

I agree! I always did the same thing, good for converting sceptical
punks actually. Plus, the f*cked up cartoon noises at the end is the
>hack< high point of XC!!! I made a trip tape once where I looped that
ending about 12 times and segued into the gross caughing intro on Sabbath's
Sweet Leaf which I "rapped" very slowly back and forth on the turntable
as I taped it, for about 5 minutes. Then I did the same thing with Floyd's
Interstellar Overdrive, with just the stereo-channel shifting song-climax
back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.....
a mindblower of a tape it was :)

>Are you saying that Good Evening is not as good as Douglas In The
>Jungle?!

Good Evening is slightly better than Douglas In The Jungle! (though DITJ is
pretty far out IMO)

My contenders for lame HW tunes:

Love In Space (flame on!!!!! Lame In Space??)
Waiting For Tomorrow (just love Huw's flat, slurred
                        vocal delivery and Thompson's drumming
                        with his forehead - IMO boring tune as well)
Solitary Mind Games (same criteria as above!!!)
Wings (cracks me up more than breaks me up to hear about those dead little
birds)
British Tribal Music (hands down for great song title tho!)
Hash Cake '77 (same criteria as above!)

The "real" albums:

96% of the entire IITBOTFTBD
78% of White Zone
61% of Zones (ok, this is IMO halfass live material of mostly cool songs)
53% of Church Of Hawkwind
42% of Space Bandits
37% of Love In Space
26% of Alien 4
2% of Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music (still a **great** album! :-)


Christian