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Hawkwind
"The Church Of Hawkwind"
© Griffin Music Records
Year of Release: 1994
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track listing
Angel Voices
Nuclear Drive
Star Cannibal
The Phenonemon OfLuminosity
Fall Of Earth City
The Church
Identimate
Some People Never Die
Damage Of Life
Experiment With Destiny
Mists Of Meridin
Looking In The Future
Joker At The Gate
Light Specification
The Last Messiah
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Hawkwind "The Church Of Hawkwind"
Hawkwind is one of many bands that has a huge following, yet a lot of
people may never have heard of them. When I was at a record store with a
friend of mine, we were mentioning Hawkwind, and what kind of musical style
they had. Another customer overheard us, and explained that Hawkwind is a
great band. They started out in 1969, as their albums have a sound compared to
the early Pink Floyd (with Syd Barrett), and the psychedelic years of the late
1960s. As the years went on with the many musical changes going on, Hawkwind
adapted with these times, as they experimented with their music. But overall,
they are considered psychedelic, hard-rock, and some say heavy-metal. And they
are a cult act to many of their fans. A former member of Hawkwind was Ian
"Lemmy" Kilmister, who would later leave Hawkwind (he was fired) and form his
own band, called Motörhead.
Guitarist, Vocalist, and Keyboardist Dave Brock, an original member of
the group, leads the direction on The Church Of Hawkwind, as this
album is definitely worth listening to.
The album starts out with Angel Voice, a composition dealing with
psychedelia and sound effects. Nuclear Drive is a psychedelic rock song,
with vocals in the style of Ozzy Osbourne. Star Cannibal has a
somewhat new-wave approach, and the synthesizer keyboards are pretty cool.
The Phenomenon of Luminosity is another synthesizer-psychedelic
composition. It's an instrumental, and could be a good lead-in song for
a mystery movie soundtrack. Likewise, The Church is another instrumental
good for a movie soundtrack. Indentimate starts out as a hard-rock song,
and mellows down a bit; it then returns back to hard-rock. And this song is
another instrumental that could be used as a movie. And it is psychedelic.
Fall Of Earth City, like some songs on this album, has spoken words.
And the music track is a mixture of hard-rock and psychedelic. Some People
Never Die has a 1970s Pink Floyd effect: It has "messages" heard in the
background, as in the Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. There are no main
vocals. As the "messages" become more clear towards the end, a reporter of some
kind is explaining that there is a holdup in progress, where someone has a gun,
and is threatening to shoot.
Damage Of Life is a good vocal-hard-rock-psychedelic song.
Experiment With Destiny has incredible synthesizers starting out the
song, as it kicks up the tempo to end out the song. (But I kind of wish it
kept on rocking. The rocking part of this song was short.) In that same
category, Mists Of Meridin starts out as a moody instrumental, as it
grows louder in sound towards the end. Looking In The Future has the
progressive rock sound, as it compares to the early years of Genesis, when
Peter Gabriel was their lead singer.
Joker At The Gate is another incredible instrumental using
synthesizers. The synthesizer works on certain songs from this album has a
sound that is almost compared to Nick Rhodes' work with Duran Duran; yet It's
not pop-sounding as Duran Duran. The sound is just awesome, as the same results
occur with Duran Duran and some of their songs that focuses on synthesizers.
Light Specific Data is another psychedelic rock instrumental.
The album's closing song, The Last Messiah is definitely compared to
the beginning of Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Imagine
hearing the opening sounds of the Pink Floyd tune with "space invaders" sound
effects in the background. This song is so cool, but it's short. I wish
it lasted longer.
The Church Of Hawkwind is a very well-recorded album. My first
Hawkwind review (shown in the
DailyVault website)
was Out And Intake, an album that I just ripped to threads.
Of course, there were the die-hard Hawkwind fans who ripped me to threads for
giving the album a bad review. The Church of Hawkwind is an experience
in psychedelic rock that will keep you listening to this album, and wanting to
listen to it again. It is definitely a psychedelic rock album. The
instrumentals from this album could be used for various movie soundtracks.
And it may make you curious in wanting to listen to other Hawkwind albums.
Hawkwind is not your common psychedelic rock group. If you are expecting
them to sound like a Jimi Hendrix, or a Jim Morrison, it is definitely not in
that same sounding style. Their music is best compared to Pink Floyd.
So if you are a die-hard fan of Pink Floyd, you will definitely enjoy the
albums of another band from England, Hawkwind.
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