HW: Monster Magnet - Hawkwind Tie-ins

Carl E. Anderson cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK
Tue Sep 29 08:05:25 EDT 1998


>  5) This came to me in a letter:  Don't you think Look To Your Orb
> sounds like Hawkwind's Children of The Sun.... I never did until you
> mentioned it...hmmm...maaaayyybee...I dunno but you can sing the words
> to either song to the tune of either song...

    That similarity jumped out at me right away!

    To that list should be added the massive rip-off of the riff
from Hawkwind's "Time We Left" in MM's "Bummer" :)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/



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