HW: Best Prog Rock Album in the World

[Jill Strobridge]

I saw this album being advertised on cable TV the other night.   They
didn't play the Hawkwind track but the name HAWKWIND in neat curvey
letters floated across the screen along with Focus and several others.

jill
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Jill Strobridge <jill at theta-orionis.freeserve.co.uk>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Taylor" <Alan_Taylor at MADASAFISH.COM>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Best Prog Rock Album in the World


> Matthew Wright is a journalist who used to work for the Mirror in the
UK. He
> has a radio show in London and a daily morning TV show on Channel 5.
>
> He has an entry in the guestbook on PhilmFreax's site from 1999 I
think,
> about being at Stonehenge in 1984.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henderson Keith" <keith.henderson at PSI.CH>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:20 PM
> Subject: RE: HW: Best Prog Rock Album in the World
>
>
> > BH enquired...
> >
> > > Best Prog Rock Album In The World Ever
> >
> > Van Der Graaf Generator - Theme 1
> > Genesis - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
> > Yes- Roundabout
> > Manfred Mann=B9s Earthband - Joybringer
> > Curved Air - Back Street Luv
> > Hawkwind - Silver Machine
> > Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
> > Focus - Hocus Pocus
> > Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Hoedown
> > Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow Night
> > Deep Purple - Child In Time
> > Colosseum - Valentyne Suite
> > Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood
> > Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Part 1) (Edit)
> > Caravan - Winter Wine
> > Kevin Ayers & The Whole World - May I?
> > Rare Bird - Sympathy
> > Procol Harum - A Salty Dog
> > Barclay James Harvest - Mocking Bird
> > Anthony Phillips with Mike Rutherford & Phil Collins - Which Way The
Wind
> > Blows
> > Emerson, Lake And Palmer - Lucky Man
> > Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache
> > Electric Light Orchestra -10538 Overture
> > Hatfield & The North - Mumps
> > Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
> > Camel - Rhayader (From The Snow Goose)
> > Gentle Giant - Pantagruel=B9s Nativity
> > Egg - Germ Patrol
> > Matching Mole - O Caroline
> > Greenslade - Bedside Manners Are Extra
> > Steve Hillage - Meditation Of The Snake
> > Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings
> > Be Bop Deluxe - Ships In The Night
> > Man - Keep On Crinting
> > Van Der Graaf Generator -Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
> >
> > > Anyone know what HW track(s) are included?
> >
> > The usual...did you expect anything different?  :)
> > Not that Silver Machine represents the most "prog" effort
> > by Hawkwind ever...by quite some distance mind you.
> >
> > Grakkl (FAA)
> >
> > P.S.  Who can tell me exactly who Matthew Wright is?
> >
> > P.P.S.  BBC-Prime has been showing episodes of Red Dwarf
> > here in der Schweiz recently.  At first I was rather
> > disappointed, as the humor didn't seem to be much connected
> > to the Sci-Fi aspect of the show's presumed setting (a la
> > Galaxy Quest)...but rather more like 'Blackadder goes Forth
> > into Outer Space' with the characters just making fun of
> > the relative failings of each other.  But then I saw the
> > episode where they put on virtual reality helmets and
> > keep stepping on each others' fantasies, and then last
> > week was the 'alternate (female-dominated) universe'
> > episode, and these were quite funny and gave me some more
> > faith in the virtue of this series.  Does it get better
> > from here on out, or worse, or what?
> >
> > P.P.S.  I've just seen (and 'toured with' briefly) Circle
> > in Bern & Zuerich...Jyrki Laiho (one of the guitarists),
> > has (at-least-temporarily), split from the band, and so
> > they played almost all brand new music with the remaining
> > four (as before).  Some interesting stuff in the works,
> > not so unlike other recent efforts.  They now go to visit
> > Faust's new home in Bayern (where they will build a new studio
> > soon) and then off for a few more dates in Germany.  And
> > then soon will start to record this new material, with or
> > without Jyrki (Jussi says "We need to talk first...").
> > The new Pharaoh Overlord is out (on a US label), as is
> > another Ektroverde and another spinoff with Jussi & Mika
> > Ratto.
> >
> >
>