Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Hawkwind
Space Ritual
(Liberty/ UA 1973)
Live! "88 Minutes of Brain Damage" from the Godfathers of Space Rock.
"You will feel the need to vomit,"goes stern oration Sonic Attack. "You may be subject to fits of hysterical shouting - or laughter!" Yes, reactions to Hawkwind's 1973 live double-beast have been extreme. But just listen to it: hard, speeding, tranced-out riffing, with the thunderous Lemmy/Simon King rhythm section driving on roaring electronics and into-infinity lyrics - they all require listeners to psychically strap themselves in and prepare for trauma. Recorded live in Liverpool and London at performances of the ambitious, multi-media "space opera" that orator, poet and "swazzle" Robert Calvert said depicted the dreams of cryogenically frozen cosmonauts as they travel in deep space, these songs are extended and mutated; Nik Turner's Master Of The Universe is particularly monstrous and city-razing, while Brainstorm is nine minutes of squonking sax and relentless drumming, like Neu! or Jonathan Richman's Roadrunner forced into a cramped podule for a no-return mission to Uranus. For all the sci-fi, there is nothing so novel or exciting as meeting aliens here, and as Calvert's poetic interludes (see 10 Seconds Of Forever or The Black Corridor) make the vastness of space and disconnection from Earth actually seem real, it's possible to feel a shiver of just how terrifying real interstellar travel could be. Frustratingly, there's no footage of the live Space Ritual show, with its Barney Bubbles-designed set and the naked majesty of Amazonian frug-Valkyrie Stacia. So until it turns up, here are the clips for 45s Silver Machine and Urban Guerilla.
Clive Prior
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 16/06/2010
Further Listening
Hawkwind - In Search Of Space (UA, 1971)
Motörhead - Motörhead (Chiswick, 1977)
Nebula - Atomic Ritual (Sweet Nothing, 2003)
Previous Disc of the day
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Earl Brutus - Larky
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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Probably the best live album ever, any genre....!
Posted by Pw. at 12:05 PM GMT 16/06/2010 Report Abuse
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mICE READ ESP THE lEMMY/HOUSE COMMECTION :)
Posted by Anonymous at 8:27 PM GMT 16/06/2010 Report Abuse
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NICE READ ESP THE LEMMY/HOUSE COMMECTION :)
Posted by sleazzy at 8:28 PM GMT 16/06/2010 Report Abuse
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Carry on MOJO, at this rate you'll have the entire Hawkwind catalogue covered in Disc Of The Day by Christmas.
Next, can you do all The Weird Tapes?
Posted by T. Mahler Esq. at 10:07 AM GMT 17/06/2010 Report Abuse
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RE: T. Mahler Esq.
Consider that a challenge!
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