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This new live disc from Hawkwind was recorded on their 50th Anniversary tour. Having seen Hawkwind live several times, I can tell you that I don't think there is ever a disappointing Hawkwind show.

Given the subtitle on this, you’d expect it to be a chronological compilation with detailed liner notes. Well, if you want that you need to get Epoch Eclipse.

This a masterpiece of science fiction based space rock. It's hard-edged at times, and mellow at others, like an ebb and flow kind of composition.

Little by little, I've been making my way through these Hawkind compilation albums getting reviews up.

This is a unique album. In many ways it doesn’t really feel like a Hawkwind album.

This is a new release of an older single from Hawkwind.

The old rule at Music Street Journal was that we didn’t review out of print items.

First time around I wasn’t overly crazy about this album. It really grows on you, though.

The music contained on this new double disc vinyl set has only previously been released on one fairly rare CD set. I don't own that release, so I'm glad to have this.

I reviewed the original release of this before. However, this reissue includes three bonus tracks.

Without question, Hawkwind is one of my all-time favorite bands. So, I can't possibly review any Hawkwind release without that bias coming into it.

This is a strong Hawkwind disc, but it has a few problems with consistency.

Hawkwind’s debut album is really much different from the rest of their catalog. For one thing it’s more psychedelic and much of it shares a lot of ground with Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd.

This newly released special edition vinyl of the first Hawkwind album is gorgeous.

This is arguably the strangest album the Hawkwind catalogue.

This album was originally released as the third disc of the 1999 Party set.

I'm not sure when this double CD live set was recorded, but the bulk of the material comes from 1995's Alien 4, and it was released in 1996, so that narrows it down.

This compilation is really only so important. On the one hand, were it not for “It’s So Easy,” every track on the set would have been released on album previously.

The latest Hawkwind release is a double disc set.

When I got this single in line for review, I didn’t realize that I’ve already reviewed both songs from it on the original album, Blood of the Earth.

This Hawkwind disc has a bit of a different sound than some of their other albums had.

I previously reviewed the two United Artists compilations from Hawkwind. I figured since those were the first two comps from the band, I should do the third, this one on Charisma.

This is arguably one of the most divisive releases in Hawkwind's catalog. Let me lead off by saying that I land in the group of people really won over by it.

I have to confess to being a Hawkwind fanatic. They are one of my three favorite acts, and I have so many albums from them.

Those looking for an introduction to the Huw Lloyd Langton period of Hawkwind in the first part of the 1980s might find this a perfect first purchase.

This is kind of a cool set. While Hawkwind fans might well have these songs on various albums they already own, they will probably find a few things here they don’t have – at least not these exact versions.

Hawkwind had done a live album not that many years earlier with Palace Springs, so this seemed a little soon to put out one.

The new box set is a five disc collection of previously released Hawkwind albums. Each gets its own cardboard sleeve with the original cover art-work.

When it comes to a band that has been around since the 1960s and released somewhere in the neighborhood of three dozen studio albums, it seems natural that a trademark sound would emerge.

It's hard for me to pick favorite Hawkwind albums. I mean, I'm a big fan of the band, and I like pretty much all of their albums.

I have to admit that I’m a huge Hawkwind fan.

For a long time we didn’t do reviews of out of print items at Music Street Journal.

I know a lot of people aren’t crazy about this disc. For my money it’s well worth having.

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Spirits Burning really puts out some interesting music. It's generally in the space rock zone, but there is quite a bit of range to it.

This new soundtrack album has some cool stuff on it. Personally, I think that it would be stronger if it was just the first disc.

Animals is, without question, my favorite Pink Floyd album. it's actually pretty high up on my list of best albums of all-time, too.

I remember back in the old days when a lot of the best metal coming out was on these small underground labels, often unknown except for the hardcore real metal fans.

I've reviewed two other discs from Tim Blake for this issue. Each of them has a distinct flavor.

Mot?ö?rhead was, in so many ways, a unique band. A large part of that came from the man, the legend, himself Lemmy Kilmister.

This is a new reissue of an album from Tim Blake. Blake is best known for his work in Gong and Hawkwind, but he also built a name for himself with a series of keyboard albums.

I reviewed a previous set from Hawkwind Light Orchestra. I wondered at the time why that one wasn't released under the Hawkwind banner.

While Tim Blake is best known for his work with Gong and Hawkwind, don't expect that type of music here.

This three CD set is pretty amazing stuff. It was compiled by Dave Brock, and as such you have to figure that it's packed full of space rock.

While not everything here lands under progressive rock, there is a lot of prog in this set. There is also a lot of artsy soundtrack music that fits under the prog banner.

I have to admit to not being all that familiar with Arthur Brown's work. Sure, I know about the stuff he did with Hawkwind and Robert Calvert and things like that.

I have reviewed quite a bit of music from Spirits Burning, in various configurations.

This is an intriguing disc. It’s three bands all covering Hawkwind songs.

This compilation disc is quite strong. There is really a lot of great music here.

Apparently I'm in the minority as someone who loved this album from the day I bought it, and that was the day it was released.

According to the liner notes, this album was recorded live.

Tribute albums like this are always interesting, but also often disappointing.

I really wish I'd gotten this CD a month or so earlier. It would have been a perfect fit in our October issue because it definitely has a spooky angle to it.

Alan Davey is the man who is most responsible for Hawkestrel. It's basically his baby.

This is a remix version of an album that was released in 2013. I really love that original album.

This EP features two Hawkwind alums (Bridget Griffen and Simon House) and Don Falcone of Spirits Burning fame.

I have heard arguments that say that the 1970s were the decade with the best music. Like any decade, they had a lot of garbage music

This was released last year, but I got it too late to review it in our December issue. So, I've been holding it until this one.

This is an unusual release. It's also an unusual entry in the Omenopus catalog. I would not consider it one of my favorites of their stuff, but it does have its charms.

Mooch’s latest CD is a concept album that delivers the pagan year as 8 tracks each corresponding to one of the 8 major festivals of the pagan calendar.

This new soundtrack album features some killer music. It leans on the space rock, trippy side of the equation.

This retrospective box set from Girlschool really captures the various flavors of the band. I know I said, "box set," but it is called a book set because it comes in a cool book, rather than a gravitational box.

This four-CD set has some great music contained within. We get some of the bigger prog acts in terms of songs from Renaissance, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Electric Light Orchestra, Procol Harum and Yes.

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