HW: Where to now

[Andrew A. Apold]

>My collection to date consists of
>Choose Your Masques
>Hall of the Mountain Grill
>Sonic Attack
>Independent Days v1 & 2
>Levitation
>Mighty Hawkwind Classics 80 - 85
>Space is Deep
>Hawkwind Classics
>
>I would like to stay away from any more compilations or live CDs.

Recommend the following first:

1.  Hall of the Mountain Grill - classic stuff, Paradox, You'd Better
        Believe it, Lost Johnny, D-Rider, Psychadelic Warlords, etc.
        As one album rater put it, "If you collect Hawkwind and don't
        have this, you don't collect hawkwind" (paraphrasing)...
        They don't get much better than this.

2.  Levitation - somewhat debated on here at times.  Smooth as silk,
        polished stuff with Ginger Baker's excellent drumming (oddly
        the source of some of the debate)...  Some argue that it
        lacks "soul"...  "The 5th Second of Forever" in particular
        always gets me in a certain way, as well as "prelude/who's
        gonna win the war"...  Regardless, a must have...

After these two, based on your desire to avoid comps, I'd probably
go with Choose your Masques and Sonic Attack, since they are legit
albums.  There are quite a few HW albums I'd place above them, though,
assuming you already have them).

The rest are comps, IIRC.  Check the Codex.  Or Sonique's page.

Oh, yeah, and after these, I'd advise "Caution", if you can find
it.  Try SFR.


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