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

[Jonathan Smith]

*Spacehawks* was a special case. It was supposed to be for the US market,
as I understand, to accompany their tour, which obviously didn't happen. I
would see that as a compilation rather than a new album.



On 10 September 2015 at 11:01, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> All fair points, though I feel increasingly like Hawkwind have gotten a
> _bit_ carried away with the self-covers.  The can be good — even very, very
> good indeed. Like I say, I’ll put the _Palace Springs_ “A&B>GV” or “Mask of
> Morning” up against just about anything …. But I’m not sure that _all_ of
> the self-covers fall into the “essential re-imaginings" category.
>
> I mean, on _Spacehawks_ (not winning any prizes for "world’s most
> imaginative album title", but, anyway, moving on …) something like 7 of the
> 16 tracks are (I think) self-covers?
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> On 09 Sep 2015, at 21:00 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > 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!
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>