Track Listing

1. Brainstorm
2. Space Is Deep
3. One Change
4. Lord Of The Light
5. Down Through The Night
6. Time We Left This World Today
7. Watcher
8. Urban Guerilla
9. Brainbox Pollution
10. Lord Of Light
11. Ejection

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14705 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Motors now running at Warp Factor Nine
Previously they had only been in search of Space - now they were deep in HawkSpace - a previously unexplored region where hippy whimsy met extreme heavy metal while being adorned with electronic bleeps and howls old Mr Stockhausen might have recognised. Like nothing before & not really much since....

Hawkwind had picked up two new members by 1972, Lemmy on bass & Simon King on drums - the pair tightened up the rhythm section considerably and this now became the driving force of the Hawkwind sound.

It all starts with true classic 'Brainstorm' - this is what Hawkwind would be about from now on, thunderously loud & driving rock with the aforementioned bleeps, bloops & whooshes with the spectral sax of Captain Nik in the background. Next up is the almost ballad like Space is Deep with some gorgeous 12 string before the rest of the band cruch into action on top of a VCS drone. Slight dip in form with One Change - 50 seconds long & 50 seconds of your life wasted. Lord of Light - OK but again not a personal favourite. Down Through the Night - another semi acoustic looking back (almost for the last time) at the first two albums which leads into the magnum opus Time We Left This World Today which boasts lyrics of staggering silliness allied to a monster riff and allows Lemmy to show that he was streets ahead of any previous or later Hawkwind bass players - the climax to the track defies description. As a reward Lemmy gets to have one his own songs recorded, a sinister and understated piece pretty well consisting of acoustic guitar & very mixed down fuzzed bass. Great Stuff & virtually all the tracks on Doremi found their way onto the even more classic live double album Space Ritual the following year.

Very nice to have the extra 4 tracks- especially the infamous 'pulled' single Urban Guerilla and its B side Brainbox Pollution. All in all well worth the modest price it cost me - a regular on my cars CD Changer!!

One of their greatest!
This album beautifully epitomises the Hawkwind sound of the 70's, and does indeed contain some of their best-loved work. The classics Brainstorm, Lord Of Light and Space Is Deep can all be found here and are familiar to every Hawkfan. All the tracks here are laden with great and memorable tunes, with Down Through The Night being a personal favourite of mine; very appealing and addictive. This remastered version is excellent for the clarity of the sound, plus the addition of four bonus tracks which includes the Hawkwind standard Urban Guerilla. Truly a great package and one which the newcomer to the Hawk's music really will enjoy. Buy!!

Five stars is a grossly underrated score
Five stars is a grossly underrated score for this, perhaps the supremely supremest Hawkwind album of all time. 50 stars would be perhaps nearer the mark. From the blindingly blistering opener 'Brainstorm' ( did Nik Turner ever surpass this?) to the creepy and sinister closer 'The Watcher' there is no let up. 'Space Is Deep', 'Lord of Light', 'Down Through the Night' and the mind-boggling 'Time We Left This World Today' (all Dave Brock classics from what I call his most creative period) leave you feeling as though you've been through a shredding machine. Listening to it again after some 15-20 years has left me wondering "How did they do it"? The production is inspirational and leaves nothing to the imagination. This album summed up the counter-culture and left nothing unsaid.

And now with the extra tracks - the difficult to locate 'Urban Guerilla', 'Brainbox Pollution' and 'Ejection' (strictly a Robert Calvert track) this CD is required listening material.

All my reviews are intensely personal and so may not be to everyone's liking but this album, as originally released, was building towards the Space Ritual tour of 1972. What better recommendation could there be?

Personally I believe that, after this album (apart from the Space Ritual live double which was really only a longer reworking) there was nowhere for Hawkwind to go. They said it all in this one statement.

For the newcomer to Hawkwind this obviously comes highly recommended - to those who are familiar with their material - enough said!!