OFF: Re: Sympathy For The Devil (Motorhead new album taster)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 08 Sep 2015, at 07:12 , Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU> wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2015, at 12:22 PM, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM> wrote:
>> Is it my imagination, or is the last HW studio album to not include any self-covers actually … _It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous_!?
> 
> Probably not: if you set aside the inclusion of "Gimme Shelter," which was released previously, there's "Letting in the Past," which is a cover of "Looking in the Future" from _Church of Hawkwind_. :-)
> Also, isn't "The Camera That Could Lie" a patchwork of old songs?

Argh, you’re right. 

I’m willing to leave aside "Gimme Shelter”, inclusion of which (though a cover itself) is no worse that the usual good old practice of bands releasing a single from an album in advance of the album on which the single also appears. I recognize that the album version replaces Sam Fox with Richard (which, IMO, kind of spoils the novelty value of the track that gave it most of its interest!), but it’s really just a remix of the single track.

Yet "Letting in the Past” and "The Camera That Could Lie” _are_ basically self-covers, so _It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous_ does NOT escape this charge. And even _Electric Teepee_ had “Mask of Morning”, which was a reworking of “Mirror of Illusion” (albeit a fairly significant one; they could just used new lyrics and no one would have noticed — but they _didn’t_, so ….).

So the last Hawkwind studio album devoid of any hint of self-covers was actually … _Space Bandits_ in 1990! It has been 25 years (“… doesn’t matter anymore …”) since Hawkwind have released a studio album without a self-cover of some kind!

Cheers,
Carl

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