HW: Monster Magnet - Hawkwind Tie-ins

[christmu at EUNET.NO]

>>  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...
>

Then there's the Bummer / Time We Left similarity at first--

>The first time I heard this one, I was so certain it *was* Children of the
>Sun, that I went over and picked up the jewel box to check the liner notes
>for Anderson/Turner's credit, thinking it was weird I didn't notice the HW
>cover on this one when I bought it

I never thought of any similarity.....


(as I bought Superjudge without having
>ever heard of MM simply because of the Brainstorm cover).  I was a little
>shocked that it was actually a different song...but by then, a minute or two
>had passed and the song was somewhat different by then.

I picked up Superjudge already having (most) of their early EPs and CDs,
and to me it was sort of a mindblowing 'confirmation' of them being huge
Hawkwind fans , as when pointing this out previously to my more 'grungy
friends' whom I'd turned onto MM, would give me and my Hawkwind-babble
mostly blank stares. :)

Chr-



>Keith H. (FAA)
>