Looking good Lithium

Here's to next Friday people and to listening to a cracking album.

This is an album that I am not that familiar with. The last Hawkwind album I bought, apart from upgarding my vinyl Space Ritual to cd a couple of years ago, was Levitation (on blue vinyl!). Although I did see them on the Choose Your Masques tour at the hexagon in Reading (I think).

So I will definitely tune in to hear what I've been missing.

By the way, congratulations on choosing not exactly an obscure album, but certainly a less obvious one.

Cheers
David

Heracleum Mantegazziani wrote on 14^th Aug, 2006 at 10:11pm:



Good question HM!

I would say in this sub category we are in now, as it's part of Listener's Requests...maybe title the thread Album Request or something?  What do you think ProgMaster?   

Not long to go now people.

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Shall sadly miss the DJ Lithium session featuring none other than the infamous Hawkwind,

However, I hope to catch the next session and once a new thread is started for nominations by Dee,  I already have one to nominate and why it should be nominated, assuming I am allowed to do so.

Care to guess what it might be?

Heracleum Mantegazziani wrote on 17^th Aug, 2006 at 10:17pm:


Glad you were hungry.  

The album and I say album because that is the format I first experienced it in, is by the group Love and the title is Forever Changes.

Now pray tell, why would I choose this album, since it is likely not considered prog.  Well prog is a hard genre to define and I think that this album holds much of the majesty of prog, that some would associate with this genre and certainly some nearly 40 years later is still held in high regard by many.

Why is it a fav of mine.  Well like music for many, certain songs, albums, artists, take you back in time.  For me this album takes me back to a time when I was still a teenager and the joy of discoverying music, seemed almost to be neverending.  

I still remember the first time I listened to this album, it was a summer night and I was over an older friend's house and we were enjoying ourselves   .  The place was what you would describe as garden apartments and there were friends who would come and go from the adjacent buildings.  Well I wandered over to one of the friend's apartment and he was rather buzzed and decided to play me this album, knowing my hunger for music and we sat on the floor and listened.  He was quite proud he had found an album in his collection that I was not familiar with.

At that point, it became and still is one of my favorite albums.  It had everything that I loved in music, as we sat there, harmonies, orchestral accompaniement, thought provoking lyrics, dark and light contrasts throughout.  It was complex and then it was simple, it was soothing and then it was harsh.  It was like taking a trip and experiencing all the different terrains that the trip offered, without leaving your house.

Well eventually the album had to be turned over and well, I wandered back to the other friend's house and stayed a while longer, but I did not forget the album and shortly thereafter, the album was in my ever growing collection.

Although many years have passed since that night, whenever I hear a track from that album it takes my back to that rather warm summer evening when my mind, eyes and ears were opened once again , and I discovered something new and fresh that I could sink into and explore.  

Frank thanks for all the good times, and Mark thanks for deciding to play something you thought would expand my musical horizons.

For it surely did, as I write this nearly 30 years later.

Not very long before Lithiums session.

This song *Void City* is superb.

Fantastic choice for a album Lithium...........thank you!!!

Lithium wrote on 18^th Aug, 2006 at 7:37am:


Lithium;

Thanks for the comment.

Hawkwind is killer.

bostonba63 wrote on 17^th Aug, 2006 at 11:27pm:


Excellent post Steven. It sounds like a fantastic album and also a definite contender for a future 'Album in focus' session ...

I'll arrange a thread for this shortly but a point to consider is it will mean adding even more CDs to the (already) extensive 'to buy' list ...

Missed this on Friday........

Gonna catch the rerun on Weds though!!!Looking forward to it.Great choice!!!!

Re-run has just started people ...

GFTO77 wrote on 24^th Aug, 2006 at 11:50pm:


I also want to convey my thanks to DJ Lithium for compiling this session. I know he had to go to some trouble in obtaining this album on CD ...

Thanks again, another great success !!



Dee