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

[Jonathan Smith]

Dave Brock puts cover or reworkings on his solo albums too.

"We Took the Wrong Step years Ago" comes to mind... Some versions are
probably first versions (as in 'Weird tapes: Demos')' but some can be
better than the Hawkwind ones.

I am not too bothered by this 'self-referential' habit.

Other Hawkwind members churn out their own self covers too!

On 10 September 2015 at 09:00, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> 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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