Yeah, I've got nearly all the studio albums and a few live ones on CD. Would like to get Canterbury Fayre and a couple of other classic live sets but the prices are high and copies limited. Also collected some cool picture discs way back.
"Quark Strangeness and Charm" was my Hawkwind "discovery" album, so, PXR-5 was a walk-up-start when it was released. From there, I went on to lap up anything Hawkwind. Love it all. I was always into prog, but turned punk in the late 70s, hey, just as Hawkwind were paying homage to it. As prog goes, there's a kind of middle-class agreement and nod to the working class politics of punk, so I've always given more of a fraternity to both than most music writers and fans would. Yes' Chris Squier and his gritty bass sound, finds its way into punk. Hawkwind having lots of UK pub folk and that hippy restaurant, Hall of The Mountain Grill, that Hawkwind had a residency at for a long time and named an album for, has parallels in punk's links to political folk, too. Yeah, maybe I'm stretching it, but I find patterns in prog and punk that are compatible and mutual. Maybe it's my autism, lol. Anyhoo, great work, agree with most of this list and its order, and Space Ritual would be my number 1 with Spirit ofThe Age as my all time fave individual track. I even did an EDM cover of it in the noughties.
Overall I'm in step with these rankings but Hawklords that low?? It's easily in their top ten for me - brilliant tight songs, no waste, clear, crisp production. If you don't know it you NEED to listen,
I actually went through the entire discography but I admit that mistakes may have been made. Just my impressions. But you are not alone. A couple people have come to that album’s defense!!!
I got into Hawkwind in 1970 when they were still playing the first album live. They were on stage with just a strobe and it was mindblowing. I later did an interview in late 72 during the Space Ritual tour, met the whole band, including Stacia, and interviewed the new guy, Lemmy. Drank a bottle of wine together. He was a great guy, much missed. Difficult to rate all the albums but my top 5 are: 1) Hawkwind. The first album. I love listening to it in total darkness. 2) Warrior on the Edge of Time. 3) X In Search of Space 4) Doremi Faso Latido 5) Live Chronicles. Another amazing album is the pseudo-Hawkwind, Bob Calvert solo album Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
Awesome band, saw them live in Glasgow just over a week ago, still phenomenal. Definitely one of the most prolific album releasing bands of all time, been with them since ‘71 and attended over 30 of their live shows. ✌️❤️
I didn’t discover Hawkwind until the 2000s, when my husband introduced me to them - lol. Not sure how I missed that boat, but I did. I enjoy a lot of their stuff. Then I find out Lemmy was in the band for a short time! And by the way, my husband agrees with your #1 & #3. 👍 I don’t know enough yet, but I’m getting there. 😎
I also like Church of Hawkwind. PXR5 is one of my favourites. I lost track during the 90s and early 2000s, so have some listening to do. Some of those records are very hard to find in the UK.
Hat's off to Scot, this was a great effort ranking all those albums. I'm a big Hawkwind fan but I couldn't do it. The top 2 are interchangeable for me, I couldn't live without either.
A great ranking Scot. can't disagree for the most part, and will listen with interest to some of the later albums you ranked so highly. Have been with Hawkwind for the duration and went to the Space Ritual tour back in the day. That's a monumental live album as was their Live '79 album which is really elevated by the presence of Tim Blake on synths and the great guitar work of Huw Lloyd Langton. Also contains the best version of Spirit of the Age ever.
The problem with Hawkwind is Dave Brock. I think they should have disbanded in the 80's. His ego ruined the band. Hence sacking or pushing out one great bandmember after another. Rob Calvert adressed this when he left in 1979. "The history of Hawkwind is one of dominance, Dave Brock over the others. While the rest float in and out of the band". He also critizised him sacking Lemmy in 1975.
Awesome!! Such a coincidence that you are doing this as I only very recently began checking out their late 70’s/80s records that I wasn’t familiar with at all and have become a little obsessed with PXR5 especially. I even requested Cody to play “High Rise” on his Deep Nuggets radio show last week! Such a cool mix of proggy space rock with a bit of punk and the new wave sound that was emerging at the time.
Perfect Top 3 even though Astounding Sounds is probably my favourite.. saw them a lot.. once with Ginger Baker.. amazing drummer but he really didn’t fit that band! I guess it was the chemistry. Him & Dave Brock were loose cannons!
@@TheProgCorner Don't know how true it is, but Baker was booed doing an over-extended drum solo live in London back in 1980. The fans thought he was showing off and they'd rather have had another band track. Hawkwind had the eccentric line-up of Arthur Brown, Lena Lovich and UK TV presenter and Hawkwind obsessive Matthew Wright on Take Me to Your Leader. But the band's so offbeat that's just a standard line-up to them. As much a British institution as a rock band.
check out nik turners space fusion odyssey,better than most of the hawkwind albums,feat billy cobham,john ethridge,steve hillage,rick wakeman etc bob calverts capt lockheed and starfighers album is basically a hawkwind album,also better than much of the stuff under the hawkwind moniker
I enjoyed this talk immensely and it inspired me to play four Hawkwind albums over the Easter weekend. They were “Levitation”, “Into The Woods” “Carnivorous” and “All Aboard The Skylark”. What a band. They were the second band I ever saw live back in 1975 at the Theatre Royal in Norwich. I love how enthused you are about them. That’s wonderfully infectious. I played “Magic Mushroom” on my Progzilla Radio show last night. I truly believe that track is “Space Ritual” standard. Looking forward to their new album on Friday.
I got into Hawkwind 11 or 12 years ago. Since that time, I have explored everything from the self titled album to Alien 4 and a couple of the post 2000 releases. My favorites are mostly from the 70s. I also enjoy solo material from Nick Turner and Robert Calvert, as well as the Space Ritual band. This discussion is helping me to see where I might want to explore next, since the post 2000 era is wide open. Here is my top ten list. I struggled with placing many of these albums, as they are all masterpieces to me. 1. Space Ritual 2. Quark, Strangeness, and Charm 3. Warrior at the Edge of Time 4. Hall of the Mountain Grill 5. PXR5 6. In Search of Space 7. Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music 8. Doremi Fasol Latido 9. Levitation 10. Electric Teepee Bonus: 1999 Party
Its hard to describe how much i love Hawkwind. For me their legacy consists of five eras. 1/Early period 2/Calvert era 3/80s 4/90s 5/Modern age. You can easily hear how their sound changed from one to another. Personally, my fav release from Hawkwind is 1986 Live Chronicles.
As a Hawkwind fan from the outset & Ive seen all original lineups with dancer Stacey & likes of Bob Calvert etc .Best albums are : No 1: IN SEARCH OF SPACE: 2: DOREMI FASOL LA TIDO 3: SPACE RITUAL LIVE 4: HAWKWIND: 1st Album. 5: WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME.
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Levitation rocks! Get the 3-disc boxed set which is crammed with super extras: live, session and rare tracks. First HW album I saw toured and, boy, what a show!
@@PaIaeoCIive1648 I got all those deluxe editions and boxsets up until 1997 or so (ok, i miss "It is the future" and "pscyadelic warlords" but all in good time!)
Well done Scot. Not for the faint of heart. I hope you can have your brain rearranged to "normal" after that trip into the outer reaches of the galaxy. 😂
Such a long journey through time! I'm still studying the logbook that came with the album In Search Of Space. btw Their best album with their best line up!
I’m a newbie but I’m on a Hawkwind kick at the moment! A friend bought me a copy of Space Ritual for my birthday two years ago and when they announced the super deluxe box set and Royal Albert Hall concert I pre-ordered it quite quickly because I love this recent trend of super deluxe live albums with all of the concerts and we went to go see them play live with the Crazy World of Arthur Brown just for a laugh but it is one of my favourite gigs I’ve been to, just an insane spectacle where I genuinely felt like my brain was being assaulted! Great ranking video which is helping me decide which albums to seek out first, thanks! 🤘🏻 👽 🛸 🤖
I love Hawkwind / Hawklords but they needed the genius of either Nik Turner or Bob Calvert . 80’s onward despite some decent stuff is in the main a second rate Hawkwind or maybe The Dave Brock Band . Not dissing Dave Brock he was great with Calvert / Lemmy / Turner .
I’ve always been partial to the Calvert period and Quark, PXR5, Hawklords, etc., are all Top 10, for me… a couple probably Top 5. But, overall a fine list. Lemmy has always been a little overrated, to me… and got too much credit, while Dave Brock was always the backbone and spirit of Hawkwind.
A great job, in such a short time. Yes, I would agree Space Ritual as number 1. Weird, isn't it, that in Space Rock, the live albums are often the best. Grobschnitt and Solar Music, as another example.
Check out Hawkwind Weird Tapes vol. 3 Free Festivals CD. Back in the day only available as vinyl bootleg Live at Watch Field and Stone Henge! After the mighty Space Ritual the next best live recording.
A bit late to the party with Hawkwind and Into the Woods was my first album. From that moment i became a fan and started collecting their albums. Pretty hard task to do, especially with some vinyl. Anyway, great band and unpopular opinion, but my favourite album is the debut...
@@TheProgCorner Ive been on a Hawk Binge for about 5 months now, bought tons of boxsets and albums - And soon will buy their latest 6 or 8 albums (I guess the stinker for me is "It is the Business...." studio LP, but that Live "Business Trip" is awsome, real drums and shit !!! (Again im not too familiar with later Hawks, but im working on it !!!!) NOW you NEED to do a Live hawkwind Rank i guess !??
Great ranking Scot, now i need to buy those later albums, cool to see them so high up there (I dont know them to well compared to the 1969-1997 run) THANKS !!!!!!
Nearly turned this off when you said Choose Your Masque isn't a great album.. you're right it's not a great album, it's a fantastic Album.. But not many people cover HW so i carried on watching..
Yeah, Church of HW is certainly underrated. The 'electronica' sound puts some off it but it's got several decent tracks and cool themes. Deserves more love.
@@PaIaeoCIive1648 That album HAD to be done, no matter if people like it or not !!!Some consider it a Brock solo album, but you can say that for many of their albums !(spacebrock, spacehawks ect)
@@Z-eb True. The 'wind had many phases and sounds - and so many personnel. First saw them as a mid- teen in '79 and last in 2011. Both times Dave Brock was riffing! The guy might peg out on stage performing - what a way to go!
After I watched this video, I sat and thought about Hawkwind - not one of my favourite bands although Warrior On The Edge Of Time is a superb work - but it occurs to me they share a strange quality with the writer William Burroughs and it is this: they have never, to my knowledge, been out of fashion. In 1977 when punks (curse their silly spiky heads) berated progressive rock groups, among many of them it was still acceptable to admit you liked Hawkwind. They continued to be 'acceptable' throughout the 1980s and when all that robot noise ruled the 1990s (the acid rave merchants), Hawkwind still managed to ride the wave and be embraced by the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers crowd. How very odd! I wonder how they have managed to remain 'cool' and trendy despite the bizarre vicissitudes of fads and fashions over the decades.
I shared a stage with Cold War Kids once and yes indeed they are named after that classic Hawklords track. They also told me that I was the first person to ever ask them if that was the case.
Imperfect, but it should be higher based on the decent song-writing and Moorcock's lyrics. Would've been better without that 80s sound, but still pretty good.
@@perrylow1128 met Simon before a gig at Lenton lane/Central TV studios by accident in 1990....he was just a quiet, down to earth bloke.... good gig as well taped for VHS back then.... dave brock/alan davey/harvey bainbridge/ bridget wishart/simon house/richard chadwick....
First band I ever saw live, a free concert in 1975 where some big kids gave me and my mates a very big roll up to share! It's taken me a while to get one of their albums on vinyl, but just picked up 'hall of the mountain grill' in my local charity shop for £4 and love it. Also great to hear Battersea come out of your mouth, I live in Battersea! Keep up the brilliant work!
Great episode Scott, Hawkwind have been my favourite band since hearing Severn by Severn. 42 years ago, I was surprised Church of Hawkwind was so low. It is my favourite album to cook with.
With Levitation, Baker wanted to replace Lloyd-Langton with Jack Bruce. Brock thought about it and said, no. Leading Baker to make one of his typical curmudgeonly remarks: Brock kept the worst bass player in the world and let the best drummer go.
@@TheProgCorner Yeah, true! But I think Baker had the intention of basically taking over the band and, as we know, most things that Baker touches tend to implode. So, who knows if that had happened whether the Good Ship Hawkwind would still be flying. That would have been a shame.
I grew up with Hawkwind, it's in the blood, totally unique and my favourite album of all time is Hall of the Mountain Grill. There are some real stinkers out there though! First 5 albums pure Space Rock love this period all classics. Next 4 are the Charisma years 76-79 That's when Calvert took over and has far more environmental, industrial and political feel. Levitation with Ginger Baker is an absolute banger from 1980. Next period all the 80's is awful, but agree with Space Bandits although I hate most of the stuff. After that it's a complete minefield some truly rip-off crap out there. One album which nobody ever mentions is the Live 79 album, I play this more than A Space Ritual. I feel that Hugh Lloyd Langton's guitar is wasted in the 80's but live I believe he's the most underrated guitarist of all-time.
Hey Scot - great reviews, and I agree about the top ones (though I'd have Grill at #1 - Lost Johnny!). Got to see Hawkwind in Berkeley in 1973 perform Space Ritual, with Man supporting and Tim Leary being piped in over the P.A. from prison! Have you heard Steve Swindells' 1980 album 'Fresh Blood'? It's got some great songs, and along with Steve, features Huy Lloyd-Langton, Nic Potter, and Simon King. Highly recommended, and the last 2 songs, 'Figures of Authority' and 'Shot Down in the Night' are particularly excellent...
I know I'm late on this one, but I've been catching up on your videos, and I'm stoked to finally get a Hawkwind one! They've been on my radar from some time, but they've seemed difficult to approach with a clear head. This video will no doubt help!
Love hawkwind especially the Huw Lloyd Langton era the 70s albums are stone cold classics so these are my top 5 quark, strangeness and charm, sonic attack, warrior on the edge of time, levitation and church of hawkwind honorable mentions are the xenon codex, chronicle of the black sword and p.x.r.5 so many awesome albums from this amazing bands
What a daunting task! Respect 🎊😀🤘 I really liked Road to Utopia. It seemed like they were trying to do something different, and that “Baja” version of Quark Strangeness and Charm 😀.
I always remember Lemmy saying that Hawkwind discovered lsd will work 2 days in a row if you doubled the dosage. Doremi Fasol Latido and In Search Of Space are equal best.
Hi Scott, great show about one of my favourite bands, their current album, Stories from time & space is brilliant if not quite as good as The future never waits, which I think is worthy to be ranked with the great 70s albums. One question, have you heard Live chronicles, which is The chronicles of the black sword with a few extra songs which fit into the themes & story of Chronicles. It is in my view a lot better than Chronicles and well worth listening to if you don't know it. Keep up the good work
I had not heard it prior to shooting this but have had it mentioned so many times in the comments that I had to check it out. Yeah, it’s pretty special.
What a task! Great job Scot! You’re a better than me to take this on. My intro and always my favorite is “Hall of the Mountain Grill”. Other favorites are “Chronicle of the Black Sword”, “The Future Never Waits” and of course “Space Ritual”
Wow , what an epic discography this band have put out over the years. There's gaps in what I've heard from them , need to catch-up. Impressive run-down Scot , I have to say when it comes to it Ozric Tentacles are certainly my go to for this kind of vibe. But what a history Hawkwind have !!! Awesome. 😍
Great show Scot, you ripped through that in record time. I love Warrior, in search and Levitation. Saw them once on tour with Levitation, one of the best gigs ever. I had a mate who was on rugby tour in Manchester UK, around the same time and Hawkwind were staying in the same hotel. Said they were a bunch of nutters, who’d have thought?
Been looking forward to this one. And yeah, I agree that Hawkwind is prog, even though they’re probably the king of space rock. But like others, I’m only into their Lemmy material. I suppose I ought to give some of the latter pieces a chance. Their most recent does sound intriguing. And I love that cover art for Into the Woods. Can’t possibly argue with your top 2. But I think I’d better look into “ Levitation. “
Lemmy and stacia remember them both , if honest as young person at the time probably remember stacia more , definitely progressive rock , Scott have to remember in the late 60’s man allegedly landed on the moon 😮, from Bowie with space odyssey and life on mars to hawkwind and space rock , bands wrote songs about life at that particular moment in time .
Great job Scot, we share the same favorite Yes, Tull, and Genesis albums - well make that 4 😄 Warrior is my fave Hawkwind too, and I think your top 5 are spot on. Electric Tepee is awesome too. Many thanks!
great show man ! Love Hawkwind, glad they are stil making universal music we need to keep up in this world.. by the way Pete s.o.t in the progseat doing the yes album 'Tales' next time, hope you are also joining the episode , it is our favorite Yes album of al time ... thanks for doing the hawkwind spaceship
Great ranking..Nice to see some seldom seen titles.Love titles like Levitation Roadhawks and PXR5, but my favourites are Chronicle of the Black Sword ( saw them live on this tour)..Hall of The Mountain Grill, Warrior on the Edge of Time ( bought a terrific remaster of that one)..Space Ritual and my Al time favourite Quark, Strangeness and Charm.
Warrior on the Edge of Time is a great prog rock album with killer tracks. Even the poetry by Moorcock fits in nicely. I'd put Choose Your Masks and Sonic Attack a little higher. Saw Hawkwind tour these albums and the live show with photo images was outstanding - with Mike Moorcock himself ranting vocals on a couple of tracks on one gig. Managed to meet some of the band after the gig one time in the 80's, them generously sharing an impressive spliff with us fans. Nice chat and they weren't spaced out after the space rock. Last saw them live - still with Dave Brock at Folkestone about ten years back. Still loud and rocking!
@@TheProgCorner Yeah, your taste/opinion is valid but give it another listen? Stronger album than some of the recent albums IMO. Same with Sonic Attack, which has several decent tracks. Great band choice, Scot. It had to come. HW have so many live albums you could do a listing of those next - some are great, as HW were phenomenal live.
Hawkwind has so many great albums. My favourite is Live Chronicles. The song Moonglum is fantastic.
Great list! I love Quark and think it’s a bit underrated!
Killer job man! I own like forty Hawkwind records, and you made me realize how many more I actually need. Nice job! 🍻. Hawkwind Forever!!!! ✨💫💥🔥.
I love Hawkwind!!!!!!
Yeah, I've got nearly all the studio albums and a few live ones on CD. Would like to get Canterbury Fayre and a couple of other classic live sets but the prices are high and copies limited. Also collected some cool picture discs way back.
"Quark Strangeness and Charm" was my Hawkwind "discovery" album, so, PXR-5 was a walk-up-start when it was released. From there, I went on to lap up anything Hawkwind. Love it all. I was always into prog, but turned punk in the late 70s, hey, just as Hawkwind were paying homage to it. As prog goes, there's a kind of middle-class agreement and nod to the working class politics of punk, so I've always given more of a fraternity to both than most music writers and fans would. Yes' Chris Squier and his gritty bass sound, finds its way into punk. Hawkwind having lots of UK pub folk and that hippy restaurant, Hall of The Mountain Grill, that Hawkwind had a residency at for a long time and named an album for, has parallels in punk's links to political folk, too. Yeah, maybe I'm stretching it, but I find patterns in prog and punk that are compatible and mutual. Maybe it's my autism, lol.
Anyhoo, great work, agree with most of this list and its order, and Space Ritual would be my number 1 with Spirit ofThe Age as my all time fave individual track. I even did an EDM cover of it in the noughties.
Enjoyed this but Church Of Hawkwind is way better than the awful Road To utopia
I could not disagree more!… with your ranking but share your love for the mighty Hawkwind!
Enjoyed the video thanks.
Great, Great band and excellent video. Just want to say though, it's Lang-ton, not Lang-don. Sorry, OCD got the better of me. Love your channel.
I think the church of Hawkwind should have been a bit higher dude. ❤️🏴 Uk
And you are probably right!!!!
Overall I'm in step with these rankings but Hawklords that low?? It's easily in their top ten for me - brilliant tight songs, no waste, clear, crisp production. If you don't know it you NEED to listen,
I actually went through the entire discography but I admit that mistakes may have been made. Just my impressions. But you are not alone. A couple people have come to that album’s defense!!!
hawklords was calvert at his best, genius
I got into Hawkwind in 1970 when they were still playing the first album live. They were on stage with just a strobe and it was mindblowing. I later did an interview in late 72 during the Space Ritual tour, met the whole band, including Stacia, and interviewed the new guy, Lemmy. Drank a bottle of wine together. He was a great guy, much missed.
Difficult to rate all the albums but my top 5 are:
1) Hawkwind. The first album. I love listening to it in total darkness.
2) Warrior on the Edge of Time.
3) X In Search of Space
4) Doremi Faso Latido
5) Live Chronicles.
Another amazing album is the pseudo-Hawkwind, Bob Calvert solo album Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
Bob Calvert was the man!!!!!!
Awesome band, saw them live in Glasgow just over a week ago, still phenomenal. Definitely one of the most prolific album releasing bands of all time, been with them since ‘71 and attended over 30 of their live shows. ✌️❤️
Wow!!!!!!
I didn’t discover Hawkwind until the 2000s, when my husband introduced me to them - lol. Not sure how I missed that boat, but I did. I enjoy a lot of their stuff. Then I find out Lemmy was in the band for a short time! And by the way, my husband agrees with your #1 & #3. 👍 I don’t know enough yet, but I’m getting there. 😎
It’s a big discography!!!! But well worth the deepest of dives!!! 👍👍👍
PXR5, Choose your Masques The Xenon Codex and Chronicles of the black sword are too low imo. CYM is a brilliant album with a dark atmosphere.
You are not alone!!! I promise to listen to Choose Your Masques again soon!!!
I also like Church of Hawkwind. PXR5 is one of my favourites. I lost track during the 90s and early 2000s, so have some listening to do. Some of those records are very hard to find in the UK.
3rd time i watch this. again thanks Scot, you made me buy all the new Hawkwind CDs (2012-2024) Oh boy what a band !!!!!!
The new one is pretty sweet.
Hat's off to Scot, this was a great effort ranking all those albums. I'm a big Hawkwind fan but I couldn't do it. The top 2 are interchangeable for me, I couldn't live without either.
Me neither!!!!!
A great ranking Scot. can't disagree for the most part, and will listen with interest to some of the later albums you ranked so highly. Have been with Hawkwind for the duration and went to the Space Ritual tour back in the day. That's a monumental live album as was their Live '79 album which is really elevated by the presence of Tim Blake on synths and the great guitar work of Huw Lloyd Langton. Also contains the best version of Spirit of the Age ever.
Spirit Of The Age!!!! What a song!!!
The problem with Hawkwind is Dave Brock. I think they should have disbanded in the 80's. His ego ruined the band. Hence sacking or pushing out one great bandmember after another. Rob Calvert adressed this when he left in 1979. "The history of Hawkwind is one of dominance, Dave Brock over the others. While the rest float in and out of the band". He also critizised him sacking Lemmy in 1975.
Chronicles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shocker.
Great ranking Scott, must check out Into the Woods and Electric Teepee on your recommendation!! How about Ozric Tentacles for a ranking show ?
Good call!!!!!
I may add that all those live bootlegs and rehasing stuff he has released through the years also has diminished the bands legacy.
Awesome!! Such a coincidence that you are doing this as I only very recently began checking out their late 70’s/80s records that I wasn’t familiar with at all and have become a little obsessed with PXR5 especially. I even requested Cody to play “High Rise” on his Deep Nuggets radio show last week! Such a cool mix of proggy space rock with a bit of punk and the new wave sound that was emerging at the time.
Such a cool band!!! I wonder if Cody has listened to them before…
Perfect Top 3 even though Astounding Sounds is probably my favourite.. saw them a lot.. once with Ginger Baker.. amazing drummer but he really didn’t fit that band! I guess it was the chemistry. Him & Dave Brock were loose cannons!
Baker and Brock. What an odd couple.
@@TheProgCorner Don't know how true it is, but Baker was booed doing an over-extended drum solo live in London back in 1980. The fans thought he was showing off and they'd rather have had another band track.
Hawkwind had the eccentric line-up of Arthur Brown, Lena Lovich and UK TV presenter and Hawkwind obsessive Matthew Wright on Take Me to Your Leader. But the band's so offbeat that's just a standard line-up to them. As much a British institution as a rock band.
It’s a gang. Space Rock Mafia.
The band was named after Nick Turner, well not after, because of
check out nik turners space fusion odyssey,better than most of the hawkwind albums,feat billy cobham,john ethridge,steve hillage,rick wakeman etc bob calverts capt lockheed and starfighers album is basically a hawkwind album,also better than much of the stuff under the hawkwind moniker
I enjoyed this talk immensely and it inspired me to play four Hawkwind albums over the Easter weekend. They were “Levitation”, “Into The Woods” “Carnivorous” and “All Aboard The Skylark”. What a band. They were the second band I ever saw live back in 1975 at the Theatre Royal in Norwich. I love how enthused you are about them. That’s wonderfully infectious. I played “Magic Mushroom” on my Progzilla Radio show last night. I truly believe that track is “Space Ritual” standard. Looking forward to their new album on Friday.
I haven’t heard the new one yet but I’m psyched!!!
I got into Hawkwind 11 or 12 years ago. Since that time, I have explored everything from the self titled album to Alien 4 and a couple of the post 2000 releases. My favorites are mostly from the 70s. I also enjoy solo material from Nick Turner and Robert Calvert, as well as the Space Ritual band. This discussion is helping me to see where I might want to explore next, since the post 2000 era is wide open.
Here is my top ten list. I struggled with placing many of these albums, as they are all masterpieces to me.
1. Space Ritual
2. Quark, Strangeness, and Charm
3. Warrior at the Edge of Time
4. Hall of the Mountain Grill
5. PXR5
6. In Search of Space
7. Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
8. Doremi Fasol Latido
9. Levitation
10. Electric Teepee
Bonus: 1999 Party
Excellent list!!!!
Nice top 3 of course they are prog. Spacerock ! See you on Sunday on your ELP show.
Yay!!!!
Its hard to describe how much i love Hawkwind. For me their legacy consists of five eras. 1/Early period 2/Calvert era 3/80s 4/90s 5/Modern age. You can easily hear how their sound changed from one to another. Personally, my fav release from Hawkwind is 1986 Live Chronicles.
I haven’t heard that one. I was focusing so hard on all the studio albums!!!
@@TheProgCorner It has their best song Moonglum which they didnt do in the studio.
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Live Chronicles is both my favorite and first Hawkwind album to enjoy.
You should immediately do this, Scott!:) @@TheProgCorner
As a Hawkwind fan from the outset & Ive seen all original lineups with dancer Stacey & likes of Bob Calvert etc .Best albums are :
No 1: IN SEARCH OF SPACE:
2: DOREMI FASOL LA TIDO
3: SPACE RITUAL LIVE
4: HAWKWIND: 1st Album.
5: WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME.
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Also fun fact: Robert Calvert's Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters has Brian Eno and Lemmy performing together. Weird crossover haha
Nice!!!!!
WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME...then everything else...so there! Plus: Levitation often overlooked. Ginger Baker in Hawkwind...slightly bizarre!
Very weird. But it worked!!!
Any one done a spotify play list of this?
I would put Amazing Sounds higher than 10. And Hawklords would be higher in my list.
Hawklords probably should have been higher…
Great show, Love Hawkwind!
Oh yeah!!!!
Levitation and pxr5 are ex too.
Levitation slays!!!! Hard.
@@TheProgCorner Levitation DEF in my top 10, if not Top 5, so hard......Now i wonder where you place it, as ive yet to watch ;)))))
Levitation rocks! Get the 3-disc boxed set which is crammed with super extras: live, session and rare tracks. First HW album I saw toured and, boy, what a show!
@@PaIaeoCIive1648 I got all those deluxe editions and boxsets up until 1997 or so (ok, i miss "It is the future" and "pscyadelic warlords" but all in good time!)
Well done Scot. Not for the faint of heart. I hope you can have your brain rearranged to "normal" after that trip into the outer reaches of the galaxy. 😂
I’m still floating in space…
Such a long journey through time! I'm still studying the logbook that came with the album In Search Of Space. btw Their best album with their best line up!
So cool!!!!
As much as I love quite a few Hawkwind tracks and albums, you really have to be a special forces prog soldier to go through all 35 albums! Hail Lade!
It took me two months to review all of them in my mind…
I’m a newbie but I’m on a Hawkwind kick at the moment! A friend bought me a copy of Space Ritual for my birthday two years ago and when they announced the super deluxe box set and Royal Albert Hall concert I pre-ordered it quite quickly because I love this recent trend of super deluxe live albums with all of the concerts and we went to go see them play live with the Crazy World of Arthur Brown just for a laugh but it is one of my favourite gigs I’ve been to, just an insane spectacle where I genuinely felt like my brain was being assaulted!
Great ranking video which is helping me decide which albums to seek out first, thanks! 🤘🏻 👽 🛸 🤖
Arthur Brown and Hawkwind. Sounds like a party to me.
@@TheProgCorner Arthur was a guest vocalist Hawkwind Live 2001/2002 !!!
They must be a pretty big influence on King Gizzard
I think so!!!
I love Hawkwind / Hawklords but they needed the genius of either Nik Turner or Bob Calvert . 80’s onward despite some decent stuff is in the main a second rate Hawkwind or maybe The Dave Brock Band . Not dissing Dave Brock he was great with Calvert / Lemmy / Turner .
Yep. Those were the glory days. But Brock is still churning out some good records!!!!
I’ve always been partial to the Calvert period and Quark, PXR5, Hawklords, etc., are all Top 10, for me… a couple probably Top 5. But, overall a fine list. Lemmy has always been a little overrated, to me… and got too much credit, while Dave Brock was always the backbone and spirit of Hawkwind.
I think it all depends on when you first heard them. For me it was Hall Of The Mountain Grill…
Hey Scot! Wow! 28 minutes. I think that's a record. Awesome!👍☮️👑😎
I tried. I really tried…
@@TheProgCorner Great job!👍😎
A great job, in such a short time. Yes, I would agree Space Ritual as number 1. Weird, isn't it, that in Space Rock, the live albums are often the best. Grobschnitt and Solar Music, as another example.
I Love All the albums. they all have something good. The only band I love as much is Gong. Hurry on sundown is definitely one of my top 3.
Gong is awesome too!!!
Check out Hawkwind Weird Tapes vol. 3 Free Festivals CD. Back in the day only available as vinyl bootleg Live at Watch Field and Stone Henge! After the mighty Space Ritual the next best live recording.
Nice!!!!
Even at their so called suckiness, Hawkwind kicks the asses off of the majority.
Yes they do.
A bit late to the party with Hawkwind and Into the Woods was my first album. From that moment i became a fan and started collecting their albums. Pretty hard task to do, especially with some vinyl. Anyway, great band and unpopular opinion, but my favourite album is the debut...
I love the debut!!!!
FINALLY !!!! I will end up watching this 5 times, no joke !!! HAWKWIND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love them!!! Dave Brock is next level.
@@TheProgCorner Ive been on a Hawk Binge for about 5 months now, bought tons of boxsets and albums - And soon will buy their latest 6 or 8 albums (I guess the stinker for me is "It is the Business...." studio LP, but that Live "Business Trip" is awsome, real drums and shit !!! (Again im not too familiar with later Hawks, but im working on it !!!!) NOW you NEED to do a Live hawkwind Rank i guess !??
@@Z-eb Yay! Hawkwind were epic live and their live sets even improved on the studio versions. Faaaar out!
Great ranking Scot, now i need to buy those later albums, cool to see them so high up there (I dont know them to well compared to the 1969-1997 run) THANKS !!!!!!
Nearly turned this off when you said Choose Your Masque isn't a great album.. you're right it's not a great album, it's a fantastic Album..
But not many people cover HW so i carried on watching..
Can’t agree about all 36 albums!!!!
Awesome. my fave album changes week to week. Live chronicles is my fave.
So good.
Same here, ive been playing Church of Hawkwind alot lately, totally under-rated !!!!!
Yeah, Church of HW is certainly underrated. The 'electronica' sound puts some off it but it's got several decent tracks and cool themes. Deserves more love.
@@PaIaeoCIive1648 That album HAD to be done, no matter if people like it or not !!!Some consider it a Brock solo album, but you can say that for many of their albums !(spacebrock, spacehawks ect)
@@Z-eb True. The 'wind had many phases and sounds - and so many personnel. First saw them as a mid- teen in '79 and last in 2011. Both times Dave Brock was riffing! The guy might peg out on stage performing - what a way to go!
After I watched this video, I sat and thought about Hawkwind - not one of my favourite bands although Warrior On The Edge Of Time is a superb work - but it occurs to me they share a strange quality with the writer William Burroughs and it is this: they have never, to my knowledge, been out of fashion. In 1977 when punks (curse their silly spiky heads) berated progressive rock groups, among many of them it was still acceptable to admit you liked Hawkwind. They continued to be 'acceptable' throughout the 1980s and when all that robot noise ruled the 1990s (the acid rave merchants), Hawkwind still managed to ride the wave and be embraced by the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers crowd. How very odd! I wonder how they have managed to remain 'cool' and trendy despite the bizarre vicissitudes of fads and fashions over the decades.
Hawkwind transcends!!!!
Whhere is " Love in Space ?"
first album i heard but was on mixtape
No live albums included…
Anything with Calvert is head and shoulders above the rest
Not completely inaccurate…
So Space Ritual is the actual Number 1.
Pretty much…
@@TheProgCorner Can't argue with that. :-)
I liked the late 70s albums with Calvert at the helm. When he jumped ship they fell apart
Pretty much but the new stuff is still cool…
Thank you 👍 brings lots of memories
What a fun band!!!
I shared a stage with Cold War Kids once and yes indeed they are named after that classic Hawklords track. They also told me that I was the first person to ever ask them if that was the case.
Wow!!!! Great band too.
I love Choose Your Masques.
See how that works….
What a great band.
@@TheProgCorner Choose Your Masques is decent, infact great if you add that extra cd from Atomhenge`s excellent reissue campaign !!!!!!!
Imperfect, but it should be higher based on the decent song-writing and Moorcock's lyrics. Would've been better without that 80s sound, but still pretty good.
CYM is worth it for Solitary Mind Games and Waiting for Tomorrow alone. Both Lloyd-Langton tunes, shocker :)
@soopahsoopah waiting for tomorrow!!! excellent track.
Warriors on the Edge of Time was fantastic.
Sure was!!! 👍❤️👍❤️
My old school friend Simon House was in Hawkwind for a bit. My sole claim to vicarious fame.
Wow!!! That’s awesome.
Good musician.....
@@volpeverde6441 Yup! Even at school, Simon was pretty bloody awesome.
@@TheProgCorner Simon House was also in High Tide, a brilliant heavy psych band.
@@perrylow1128 met Simon before a gig at Lenton lane/Central TV studios by accident in 1990....he was just a quiet, down to earth bloke....
good gig as well taped for VHS back then....
dave brock/alan davey/harvey bainbridge/
bridget wishart/simon house/richard chadwick....
Bob Calvert was a genius.
Agreed.
First band I ever saw live, a free concert in 1975 where some big kids gave me and my mates a very big roll up to share! It's taken me a while to get one of their albums on vinyl, but just picked up 'hall of the mountain grill' in my local charity shop for £4 and love it. Also great to hear Battersea come out of your mouth, I live in Battersea! Keep up the brilliant work!
Wow!! Very very cool. My first concert was Sly and the Family Stone. We both had good early educations.
@@TheProgCorner Sly! Fantastic!
Hawkwind influenced punks
Absolutely!!!
I love everything 1970 to 1975.
Unfortunately, they did not include the Hawkwind Live Albums but Live Chronicles is still my number one album hands down. I'm fiercely loyal.
Great episode Scott, Hawkwind have been my favourite band since hearing Severn by Severn. 42 years ago, I was surprised Church of Hawkwind was so low. It is my favourite album to cook with.
Nice!!!!
"Church" is a totally over looked masterpiece !!!
All good groups are prog 😂
Exactly!!!! That’s right!!!!
Hmmm, whats prog ?
Tricky question.
scot! you order the new talk repress?? ik you talked about it a few times, im so excited
With Levitation, Baker wanted to replace Lloyd-Langton with Jack Bruce. Brock thought about it and said, no. Leading Baker to make one of his typical curmudgeonly remarks: Brock kept the worst bass player in the world and let the best drummer go.
He’s not 100% wrong there!
@@TheProgCorner Yeah, true! But I think Baker had the intention of basically taking over the band and, as we know, most things that Baker touches tend to implode. So, who knows if that had happened whether the Good Ship Hawkwind would still be flying. That would have been a shame.
I think it would have been Harvey Bainbridge with Jack Bruce…. But No thanksyouin my opinion.
Yep - you’re right. Bainbridge, not Lloyd-Langton. Keith Hale, who had replaced Tim Blake on keys for the tour, also left with Baker.
I grew up with Hawkwind, it's in the blood, totally unique and my favourite album of all time is Hall of the Mountain Grill. There are some real stinkers out there though! First 5 albums pure Space Rock love this period all classics. Next 4 are the Charisma years 76-79 That's when Calvert took over and has far more environmental, industrial and political feel. Levitation with Ginger Baker is an absolute banger from 1980. Next period all the 80's is awful, but agree with Space Bandits although I hate most of the stuff. After that it's a complete minefield some truly rip-off crap out there. One album which nobody ever mentions is the Live 79 album, I play this more than A Space Ritual. I feel that Hugh Lloyd Langton's guitar is wasted in the 80's but live I believe he's the most underrated guitarist of all-time.
He never gets mentioned as one of the greats…
Interesante ranking. Escuché uno que sugeriste en otro vídeo y me gustó mucho
Cool...thanks....I'm going to check out Hawkwind. I just bought Scheherazade from Renaissance after which is absolutely amazing!
So good!!!!
They got 66 LPs release d
It’s insane!!!!
really ? i've got about 80 !
@@acrookedbeat9013 but do you have the solo LPs as well? 🤣
@@peterbrickley6041 i've got a lot of Turners solo stuff , simon house and a few Dave Brock solo albums and a couple of Calvert's
@@acrookedbeat9013 Adrian Wagner's LPs you also need and melodic energy commission!
Hey Scot - great reviews, and I agree about the top ones (though I'd have Grill at #1 - Lost Johnny!). Got to see Hawkwind in Berkeley in 1973 perform Space Ritual, with Man supporting and Tim Leary being piped in over the P.A. from prison!
Have you heard Steve Swindells' 1980 album 'Fresh Blood'? It's got some great songs, and along with Steve, features Huy Lloyd-Langton, Nic Potter, and Simon King. Highly recommended, and the last 2 songs, 'Figures of Authority' and 'Shot Down in the Night' are particularly excellent...
I’ve heard about it…
Nice, love Hawkwind. I'm a fan of their mid-period stuff, I would have put Chronicle of the Black Sword and Xenon Codex higher. Alien 4 is top tier.
I have learned to really enjoy every era!!!
What about rating the other Hawkwind live albums ? Obviously Space Ritual is #1 but there is a fair amount of live recordings ?
There are QUITE a few!!!
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day ❤😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
I know I'm late on this one, but I've been catching up on your videos, and I'm stoked to finally get a Hawkwind one! They've been on my radar from some time, but they've seemed difficult to approach with a clear head. This video will no doubt help!
Theirs is an enormous discography so this episode should help!!! 👍👍👍
Love hawkwind especially the Huw Lloyd Langton era the 70s albums are stone cold classics so these are my top 5 quark, strangeness and charm, sonic attack, warrior on the edge of time, levitation and church of hawkwind honorable mentions are the xenon codex, chronicle of the black sword and p.x.r.5 so many awesome albums from this amazing bands
Great band!!!!!
What a daunting task! Respect 🎊😀🤘 I really liked Road to Utopia. It seemed like they were trying to do something different, and that “Baja” version of Quark Strangeness and Charm 😀.
It’s weird but I like it!!!
I always remember Lemmy saying that Hawkwind discovered lsd will work 2 days in a row if you doubled the dosage. Doremi Fasol Latido and In Search Of Space are equal best.
Fantastic records!!!
Great ! The James Last cover of Silver Machine had no gravelie voice and was droped quickly from the live set upsetting everybody !!
The people demand Silver Machine!!!
Hi Scott, great show about one of my favourite bands, their current album, Stories from time & space is brilliant if not quite as good as The future never waits, which I think is worthy to be ranked with the great 70s albums. One question, have you heard Live chronicles, which is The chronicles of the black sword with a few extra songs which fit into the themes & story of Chronicles. It is in my view a lot better than Chronicles and well worth listening to if you don't know it. Keep up the good work
I had not heard it prior to shooting this but have had it mentioned so many times in the comments that I had to check it out. Yeah, it’s pretty special.
What a task! Great job Scot! You’re a better than me to take this on. My intro and always my favorite is “Hall of the Mountain Grill”. Other favorites are “Chronicle of the Black Sword”, “The Future Never Waits” and of course “Space Ritual”
Of course!!!!!
Nik Turner came to Detroit touring as Nik Turner's Hawkwind to a small club....bit of a shame they never really got their due in the states
No label support!!!
Wow , what an epic discography this band have put out over the years. There's gaps in what I've heard from them , need to catch-up. Impressive run-down Scot , I have to say when it comes to it Ozric Tentacles are certainly my go to for this kind of vibe. But what a history Hawkwind have !!! Awesome. 😍
I love the Ozrics. They occupy a similar space…
Thanks for that Scot. Brilliant episode. Also found there were a few albums I hadn't got.
They have so many great albums!!!! Insane!!!
I would love a King Gizzard ranking. And then in 3 or 4 years you could do an updated ranking after they put out ankther 5 albums
They need to slow down!!!! It’s hard keeping up. But I will get around to doing a King Gizz ranking.
Great show Scot, you ripped through that in record time. I love Warrior, in search and Levitation. Saw them once on tour with Levitation, one of the best gigs ever. I had a mate who was on rugby tour in Manchester UK, around the same time and Hawkwind were staying in the same hotel. Said they were a bunch of nutters, who’d have thought?
Great story!!! Man, I wish I had seen that tour!!! Ginger Baker??!!!
Been looking forward to this one. And yeah, I agree that Hawkwind is prog, even though they’re probably the king of space rock. But like others, I’m only into their Lemmy material. I suppose I ought to give some of the latter pieces a chance. Their most recent does sound intriguing. And I love that cover art for Into the Woods. Can’t possibly argue with your top 2. But I think I’d better look into “ Levitation. “
That is the one people need to hear!!!
Lemmy and stacia remember them both , if honest as young person at the time probably remember stacia more , definitely progressive rock , Scott have to remember in the late 60’s man allegedly landed on the moon 😮, from Bowie with space odyssey and life on mars to hawkwind and space rock , bands wrote songs about life at that particular moment in time .
Absolutely!!! The Space Age!!!
Great job Scot, we share the same favorite Yes, Tull, and Genesis albums - well make that 4 😄 Warrior is my fave Hawkwind too, and I think your top 5 are spot on. Electric Tepee is awesome too. Many thanks!
Thank you!!!!
great show man ! Love Hawkwind, glad they are stil making universal music we need to keep up in this world.. by the way Pete s.o.t in the progseat doing the yes album 'Tales' next time, hope you are also joining the episode , it is our favorite Yes album of al time ... thanks for doing the hawkwind spaceship
I’ve never been asked to sit In The Prog Seat…
Great ranking..Nice to see some seldom seen titles.Love titles like Levitation Roadhawks and PXR5, but my favourites are Chronicle of the Black Sword ( saw them live on this tour)..Hall of The Mountain Grill, Warrior on the Edge of Time ( bought a terrific remaster of that one)..Space Ritual and my Al time favourite Quark, Strangeness and Charm.
Such a great band!!!
Fantastic episode. I must be honest I've not listened to the entire discography, but I agree with your top 5, brilliant music. Cheers.
I had a few I needed to listen to that slipped passed me. But I’ve heard them all now!!! Impressive catalog…
Awesome Scot,great video, thanks!
It was fun listening to all of them!!!
Warrior on the Edge of Time is a great prog rock album with killer tracks. Even the poetry by Moorcock fits in nicely. I'd put Choose Your Masks and Sonic Attack a little higher. Saw Hawkwind tour these albums and the live show with photo images was outstanding - with Mike Moorcock himself ranting vocals on a couple of tracks on one gig. Managed to meet some of the band after the gig one time in the 80's, them generously sharing an impressive spliff with us fans. Nice chat and they weren't spaced out after the space rock. Last saw them live - still with Dave Brock at Folkestone about ten years back. Still loud and rocking!
You’re already the second person to defend Choose Your Masques!!!!
@@TheProgCorner Yeah, your taste/opinion is valid but give it another listen? Stronger album than some of the recent albums IMO. Same with Sonic Attack, which has several decent tracks. Great band choice, Scot. It had to come. HW have so many live albums you could do a listing of those next - some are great, as HW were phenomenal live.