HW Changing song titles

[David Blair]

In article <200111162036.PAA24572 at listserv.spc.edu>, Doug Pearson
<jasret at MINDSPRING.COM> writes
>On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:00:04 -0500, Alex S. Garcia <mvdbase at YAHOO.COM>
>wrote:
>>*ponders* As you all know (well, maybe :-) I'm more on the BOC-side of the
>>force -- uh, of the list :-)
>>
>>So anyway, I was wondering, has HW ever done it the other way around. That
>>is, use the same music but with different lyrics? And if so, was the title
>>also changed?
>
>Oh yeah!  (Notwithstanding the fact that some people would claim *all*
>Hawkwind songs sound the same, or that every other single they've released
>since "Silver Machine" has been a rewrite of that song.)
>
>There was the Nuclear Toy/Nuclear Drive combo live in the 80's (where they
>sang the lyrics of one to the music of the other).
>
>"Opa-Loka", an instrumental, gained lyrics and became "Uncle Sam's On Mars"
>(although that's probably not exactly what you're asking for).
>
>Same with "The Iron Dream" (becoming "Martian Disco Stomp" c.83 and "Are
>You Losing Your Mind" c.96, as I mentioned in an earlier message).
>
>And "I am the Eye That Looks Within" became "Blue Skin" in the same
>way.  "Spacebrock" into "Money Tree" also.
>
>At Strange Daze 98, the ones who were left played "Starfire Mountain
>Dreaming", which mutated into "Hippy" (different lyrics, similar, but not
>quite identical, music).
>
>I'm not sure if it's the *exact* same music, but "Where Are They Now?"
>sounds like it could have been the musical predecessor to "P.X.R.5".
>
>Can anyone think of other examples?

The basic chord progression from Silver Machine has reappeared in 25
Years and Fahrenheit 451.

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David Blair