HW: Ridicule? (Distant Horizons)

[Bill & Cynthia]

Moonglum  wrote:

> What's the general view of Distant Horizons?  I have avoided it on the
basis
> of comments that it was a techno album (didn't much like IITBOTFTBD)

What a great excuse to play this album again....
Distant Horizons, IMO isn't a techno album. But the songs Distant Horizons
and Phetamine Street may be classified as such.
Techno music for me is  dance music played at a million miles an hour.
Now-a-days they classify music in so many dimensions it's hard for "oldies"
like me to keep up with it. Bring back the good old days of commercial,
heavy metal and alternative music.

There's 10 new songs on this album plus an instrumental version of Love in
Space.
This album takes a bit of getting used to as it bends and twists all over
the place. I like HW albums where each track blends into the next, which is
something HW do very well. Songs like Alchemy and Reptoid Vision are good,
but they just don't belong on this album. They seem like left overs from
Alien 4. Should have been done as singles maybe?
The rest of the album is true Hawkwind tradition though. Great instruments
like Love in Space, Population Overload and Kauai.
My favourites are Wheels and Population Overload.

You have avoided this album for too long :-)

Bill