Croydon

[Sam Kirwan]

check out Emergency Broadcast Systems on Amazon.co.uk and it's the only
album they have.  Think it's called Samples or something like that.  I might
be able to get a copy of the CD off to you if u need.

Sam




-----Original Message-----
From: Alastair Lee Sumner [mailto:als at POSTMASTER.CO.UK]
Sent: 27 March 2001 13:19
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
Subject: Re: Croydon


Sam, I'd be interested to know which album contains that version of 'You
Shouldn't Do That'. I'm trying to find as many versions of it as I can but
I don't have many of the albums from recent years.

Thanks,
Alastair.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:51:23 +0100, Sam Kirwan <samantha.kirwan at NTL.COM>
wrote:

>Agree with that entirely.  On the Emergency Broadcast Album (might be
>collection - can't remember) there is the harshest most industrialised most
>spankingly top version of Shouldn't Do That.  It's amazing, I couldn't
>praise the track enough, no other version since the original has affected
me
>as much.  Tracks lik Black Elk Speaks on Space Bandits and Sputnik Stan
>shouldn't be cast off either and the whole of Xenon Codex, Business of the
>Future, Electric Teepee even Palace Springs has moments.  As a final point
>'cos I'm no expert but I don't know of many bands that can turn out more
>than ten top class, blinding albums in a lifetime.  Hawkwind have
>loads.......
>
>Sam
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Medford [mailto:nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK]
>Sent: 26 March 2001 21:30
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
>Subject: Re: Croydon
>
>
>In message <002e01c0b61f$c49897f0$0100a8c0 at rattus>, John Rennie
><john at JMAIL.FSBUSINESS.CO.UK> writes
>>I didn't get there (I didn't even know about it :-( ) and am now deeply
>>regretting it.  However I have to say that the set seems to owe a lot to
>the
>>pre 1980 albums.  Fair enough, since that's my favourite Hawkwind era too,
>>but apart from a few exceptions there just don't seem to be that many
>>classic tracks from the post 1980 stuff.  I'd be interested to hear what
>>others regard as post-1980 classic tracks, or even post 1980 classic
>albums.
>
>Well, they threw a few new numbers into the set, but I think most fans of
>the band would accept that '70-'79 were the classic years- responses to the
>top 5 albums thread reflect that. The studio output since then has been
>patchy but the live shows- and live albums- remain top quality. 'Electric
>Tepee' would be my pick as best studio Hawkwind album of the last 20
>years.
>
>Ten great Hawk-tracks of the last two decades (in no particular order):
>
>Damage Of Life
>Ghost Dance
>LSD
>Treadmill
>Angels Of Death
>Dream Worker
>Space Is Their Palestine
>Hippy
>Levitation
>TV Suicide
>
>...there are others...
>
>How many of these would get in my all-time HW top 10? No more than a
>couple. But worth remembering that the band continually re-invent the old
>classics too... see any live show for confirmation.
>
>FWIW I think the main weakness of the more recent output is not the
>quality of the good stuff- which remains superb- but the lack of quality
>control, with too much second-rank or filler material finding its way onto
>the albums. But, I'm grateful that the band still exist as a quality outfit
>and
>haven't lapsed into self-parody or bloated middle age like so many of their
>70s peers. That in itself is an achievement.
>--
>Nick Medford
>
>
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