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Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music (1976)
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Hawkwind Album: Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music Released:
1976 Source: Virgin cat# cdscd 4004 Genre: Space/Prog Rock
Format: EAC/APE
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Hawkwind
was at a difficult transitional point in 1976 when the band recorded
Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music. Bassist Lemmy Kilmister had been fired
after a drug bust the year before, and the band had been forced to
scramble for a replacement, eventually hiring ex-Pink Fairies member
Paul Rudolph. What's more, the band had just released a series of
successful, landmark proto-heavy metal albums with Kilmister, and the
pressure to follow them up was sizable. It was fairly predictable, then,
that Astounding Sounds was significantly lighter and less focused than
previous records. Unfortunately, that also meant it was less interesting
as well. Most of the album consists of moderately forceful hard rock,
dense by most standards but nowhere near as corrosive as earlier
Hawkwind albums. "Kerb Crawler," frontman Dave Brock's ode to his car,
is a rollicking party tune, and the closing instrumental, "Chronoglide
Skyway," is a lush, beautiful epic, but these are the only standouts.
The remaining tracks are pleasant enough, but tend to blend into one
another. Lyrically, the album is far quirkier, thanks to wordsmith Bob
Calvert's idiosyncrasies. Whether saluting a certain cash crop in
"Reefer Madness" or claiming to be a werewolf in "Steppenwolf," Calvert
tries hard to keep the album alive. Unfortunately, the music lacks the
necessary punch to make these songs more than mildly amusing. Astounding
Sounds is a nice complement to the early, groundbreaking Hawkwind
oeuvre, but it's not essential.
Track List: 1 Reefer Madness Brock, Calvert 2 Steppenwolf
Brock, Calvert 3 City of Lagoons House 4 The Aubergine That
Ate Rangoon Rudolph 5 Kerb Crawler Brock, Calvert 6 Kadu Flyer
House, Mandelkau 7 Chronoglide Skyway Powell
Log:
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Code: EAC extraction logfile from 26.
December 2006, 12:07 for CD Hawkwind / Astounding Sounds, Amazing
Music
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trailing silent blocks : No Installed external ASPI interface
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