HW: Where to now

[Hall, Russell J]

The ones listed are already mine - where to from hrere?

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> From:         Andrew A. Apold[SMTP:mordru at FLITE.NET]
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> Subject:      Re: HW: Where to now
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> >My collection to date consists of
> >Choose Your Masques
> >Hall of the Mountain Grill
> >Sonic Attack
> >Independent Days v1 & 2
> >Levitation
> >Mighty Hawkwind Classics 80 - 85
> >Space is Deep
> >Hawkwind Classics
> >
> >I would like to stay away from any more compilations or live CDs.
>
> Recommend the following first:
>
> 1.  Hall of the Mountain Grill - classic stuff, Paradox, You'd Better
>         Believe it, Lost Johnny, D-Rider, Psychadelic Warlords, etc.
>         As one album rater put it, "If you collect Hawkwind and don't
>         have this, you don't collect hawkwind" (paraphrasing)...
>         They don't get much better than this.
>
> 2.  Levitation - somewhat debated on here at times.  Smooth as silk,
>         polished stuff with Ginger Baker's excellent drumming (oddly
>         the source of some of the debate)...  Some argue that it
>         lacks "soul"...  "The 5th Second of Forever" in particular
>         always gets me in a certain way, as well as "prelude/who's
>         gonna win the war"...  Regardless, a must have...
>
> After these two, based on your desire to avoid comps, I'd probably
> go with Choose your Masques and Sonic Attack, since they are legit
> albums.  There are quite a few HW albums I'd place above them, though,
> assuming you already have them).
>
> The rest are comps, IIRC.  Check the Codex.  Or Sonique's page.
>
> Oh, yeah, and after these, I'd advise "Caution", if you can find
> it.  Try SFR.
>
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