Epoch - Eclipse 30 Year Anthology

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724354322822 Format: Box set Label: EMI Manufacturer: EMI Number Of Discs: 3 Publisher: EMI Release Date: 2003-04-07 Studio: EMI
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The Package. Comment: Bargain. Hawkwind through the Ages. Get it! A melting pot of ideas given life during 30 years. Customer Rating: Summary: Covers all bases Comment: There are certain bands, that without ever achieving huge commercial success, still make an indelible mark on the musical landscape. Hawkwind certainly accomplished this in it's various 70's incarnations. And this is the 3CD set that should help a complete beginner find out why Hawkwind made it's mark. Ridiculously cheap considering... Customer Rating: Summary: Great stuff!! Comment: OK we can quibble about song selection, (no 'Lord Of Light!), but this is pretty near to a best of. Great that it is in chronological order covering their three main periods. Whilst some of their latter songs are a bit weak, most of the stuff here is tremendous. Buy this CD!!!! Customer Rating: Summary: Great album but,,, Comment: Yes this is a great album,after finding my old hawkwind albums in the loft, had a great urge to listen again,but no record player! So got this triple cd. To hear quark', orgone accumilator (full version thankfully) hassan i sabha, masters of the universe etc etc again was a real buzz.But why was mirror of illusion and kings of speed left out?. There could have been a better selection of tracks on disc three, though still worth the purchase without a doubt. Customer Rating: Summary: Set the Controls for Planet (B)rock! Comment: This three CD compilation spanning the career and development of Hawkwind is far from a comprehensive collection of their output. That said it does give a reasonable flavour of the changing phases and lineups that these stoners have experienced over the last four decades and at the price represents cracking value for money plus a great introduction to the band if you're neither a completist nor hard-core fan. I myself fall into the last category, which is to say I only posess around ten of their albums (which probably makes me something of a lightweight in fans terms!). Hawkwind, like most bands, started interestingly and enthusiastically yet took time to develop their musical identity. Their proficiency as musicians could best be described as 'rudimentary' yet, by the time they had refined their particular brand of space rock they were experts in delivering the required sonic trip to accompany a 'quiet evening in'. It is a crying shame though that some of the best material on this retrospective is no longer available from the albums they were lifted (at least for sensible money): the albums 'Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music', 'Live 79' and, particuarly 'Quark, Strangeness and Charm' are probably the best they ever did in my view. At least 'Live 79' was rereleased in a remastered CD but even that seems to have been deleted! And why 'Q,S&C' shouldn't get the remaster/release treatment when other far less deserving albums have I just don't know...I could go on and on about it but I won't. I'll stop. Now. More Reviews