HW 97

[Jonathan Jarrett]

        Well, um, I think I probably prefer the 'Sonic Attack'/'Choose
Your Masques' mix of styles. Admittedly there probably aren't more than
four chords between the albums, but 'Live '79' and 'Xenon Codex' I find
emptier than the two eighties albums, although the songs are unarguably
better. But Harvey's synth stuff interests me, as do Moorcock's words, and
'Arrival In Utopia' and 'Fahrenheit 451' are good tracks, probably better
for me tha anything on 'Xenon Codex', although the eighties production
smothers everything so much that none of the 'Xenon' songs really reach
their full potential I think.
        I'm not really sure I can fit 'Live '79' into this comparison
though.
        My favourite three albums are probably ISoS, SR and LiS, with
'California Brainstorm' following at a distance, though, so in that
respect I'm with you. Yours,
                             Jon

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

>      I respectfully disagree :)  I thought Sonic Attack and CyM
> were pretty limp--OK, it was a interesting experiment, but IMO it
> didn't work.  Hawkwind are always at their best when doing space
> *rock* and leaning too much on any variety of space never seems
> to work out, IMO.  I like the Chronicles > Xenon era rather
> better than the early 80s, and like Levitation-Live 79 for the
> same reason.  I like Calvert similarly well, just not nearly as
> much as the early daze or the 90s trio (I thought _Space Bandits_
> was weak, but loved _Palace Springs_ and the rock tracks on
> _ET_ :)  _IITBOTFTBD_ I thought was grim, but _A4_ was pretty
> damn good).
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
> St. John's College, University of Cambridge
> mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/
>

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