Hawkwind - Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin (1985)
Rock | 1cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
Decal, CD Charly 40 | rec: 1973, rel: 1987 | 250Mb
By summer 1973, less than a year after the conclusion of their Space Ritual extravaganza, Hawkwind had completely revamped their stage show and live set, dismissing several old favorites and standbys in favor of a whole new crop of numbers – including a few that would never make it onto a studio album, and several more that wouldn't even get into the studio. It is those tracks that, initially, seem the most interesting aspects of this defiantly lo-fi recording, taken from Hawkwind's appearance at London's Wembley Arena that July. But before an imaginatively titled album is completely written off as a sonic wasteground (as all too many critics seem prone to do), it is worth considering that the versions of "Master of the Universe," "Orgone Accumulator," and "Silver Machine" included here are at least the sonic equal of their more brightly heeled cousins.