album slagging

[Cyberkrel]

Fair enough - thought as much but reckoned I'd chip in anyway.
Andy G.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Montfort <mike.montfort at GMAIL.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:20 AM
Subject: Re: album slagging


> I refer to studio albums here, I should have been specific.
>
> I have heard all of those groups as well, and while they are good, and
> some very good, I still don't think they can touch the Hawkwind magic.
>
> It's all personal opinion anyway.
>
> Thanks for allowing me to clarify, I was not talking about dodgy live
> albums like the one you speak of.
>
> Mike
>
> Cyberkrel wrote:
> > EVERY album? Surely not - even the most committed of Hawkwfans surely
can't
> > say that, for example, "Yuri Gagarin" is better than, say, to choose an
> > example close to home, Krel's "Out of Space". Or maybe you can?
> > If I had to compile a list of genuine space-rock albums that could hold
a
> > candle to Hawkwind, it would have Spacehead, Space Mirrors, Krel,
Litmus,
> > The Other Window, Dr Hasbeen and Farflung, to name but a few. Now I'm
not
> > saying that any of these are btter than Hawkwind - and not all these
> > people's albums are "as good" - but it follows that you'll get a lot
more
> > pleasure out of any one of these in terms of listening, rather than yet
> > another compilation or reissue from the labels that still try it on
where
> > the Hawks are concerned.
> > Andy G.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mike Montfort <mike.montfort at GMAIL.COM>
> > To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:23 AM
> > Subject: Re: album slagging
> >
> >
> >
> >> Amen to that Sister.
> >>
> >> EVERY Hawkind album is better than any other so called Space Rock band,
> >> and most other bands too.    I've tried to listen to them all, some of
> >> which I really like.  But they can't hold a candle to hawkwind.
> >>
> >> Mike