Hawkwind has so many great albums. My favourite is Live Chronicles. The song Moonglum is fantastic.

I could not disagree more!… with your ranking but share your love for the mighty Hawkwind! Enjoyed the video thanks.

"Quark Strangeness and Charm" was my Hawkwind "discovery" album, so, PXR-5 was a walk-up-start when it was released. From there, I went on to lap up anything Hawkwind. Love it all. I was always into prog, but turned punk in the late 70s, hey, just as Hawkwind were paying homage to it. As prog goes, there's a kind of middle-class agreement and nod to the working class politics of punk, so I've always given more of a fraternity to both than most music writers and fans would. Yes' Chris Squier and his gritty bass sound, finds its way into punk. Hawkwind having lots of UK pub folk and that hippy restaurant, Hall of The Mountain Grill, that Hawkwind had a residency at for a long time and named an album for, has parallels in punk's links to political folk, too. Yeah, maybe I'm stretching it, but I find patterns in prog and punk that are compatible and mutual. Maybe it's my autism, lol. Anyhoo, great work, agree with most of this list and its order, and Space Ritual would be my number 1 with Spirit ofThe Age as my all time fave individual track. I even did an EDM cover of it in the noughties.

Killer job man! I own like forty Hawkwind records, and you made me realize how many more I actually need. Nice job! 🍻. Hawkwind Forever!!!! ✨💫💥🔥.

3rd time i watch this. again thanks Scot, you made me buy all the new Hawkwind CDs (2012-2024) Oh boy what a band !!!!!!

Awesome band, saw them live in Glasgow just over a week ago, still phenomenal. Definitely one of the most prolific album releasing bands of all time, been with them since ‘71 and attended over 30 of their live shows. ✌️❤️

I didn’t discover Hawkwind until the 2000s, when my husband introduced me to them - lol. Not sure how I missed that boat, but I did. I enjoy a lot of their stuff. Then I find out Lemmy was in the band for a short time! And by the way, my husband agrees with your #1 & #3. 👍 I don’t know enough yet, but I’m getting there. 😎

Great, Great band and excellent video. Just want to say though, it's Lang-ton, not Lang-don. Sorry, OCD got the better of me. Love your channel.

A great ranking Scot. can't disagree for the most part, and will listen with interest to some of the later albums you ranked so highly. Have been with Hawkwind for the duration and went to the Space Ritual tour back in the day. That's a monumental live album as was their Live '79 album which is really elevated by the presence of Tim Blake on synths and the great guitar work of Huw Lloyd Langton. Also contains the best version of Spirit of the Age ever.

I enjoyed this talk immensely and it inspired me to play four Hawkwind albums over the Easter weekend. They were “Levitation”, “Into The Woods” “Carnivorous” and “All Aboard The Skylark”. What a band. They were the second band I ever saw live back in 1975 at the Theatre Royal in Norwich. I love how enthused you are about them. That’s wonderfully infectious. I played “Magic Mushroom” on my Progzilla Radio show last night. I truly believe that track is “Space Ritual” standard. Looking forward to their new album on Friday.

Hat's off to Scot, this was a great effort ranking all those albums. I'm a big Hawkwind fan but I couldn't do it. The top 2 are interchangeable for me, I couldn't live without either.

Great list! I love Quark and think it’s a bit underrated!

I’m a newbie but I’m on a Hawkwind kick at the moment! A friend bought me a copy of Space Ritual for my birthday two years ago and when they announced the super deluxe box set and Royal Albert Hall concert I pre-ordered it quite quickly because I love this recent trend of super deluxe live albums with all of the concerts and we went to go see them play live with the Crazy World of Arthur Brown just for a laugh but it is one of my favourite gigs I’ve been to, just an insane spectacle where I genuinely felt like my brain was being assaulted! Great ranking video which is helping me decide which albums to seek out first, thanks! 🤘🏻 👽 🛸 🤖

Awesome!! Such a coincidence that you are doing this as I only very recently began checking out their late 70’s/80s records that I wasn’t familiar with at all and have become a little obsessed with PXR5 especially. I even requested Cody to play “High Rise” on his Deep Nuggets radio show last week! Such a cool mix of proggy space rock with a bit of punk and the new wave sound that was emerging at the time.

I got into Hawkwind 11 or 12 years ago. Since that time, I have explored everything from the self titled album to Alien 4 and a couple of the post 2000 releases. My favorites are mostly from the 70s. I also enjoy solo material from Nick Turner and Robert Calvert, as well as the Space Ritual band. This discussion is helping me to see where I might want to explore next, since the post 2000 era is wide open. Here is my top ten list. I struggled with placing many of these albums, as they are all masterpieces to me. 1. Space Ritual 2. Quark, Strangeness, and Charm 3. Warrior at the Edge of Time 4. Hall of the Mountain Grill 5. PXR5 6. In Search of Space 7. Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music 8. Doremi Fasol Latido 9. Levitation 10. Electric Teepee Bonus: 1999 Party

Great episode Scott, Hawkwind have been my favourite band since hearing Severn by Severn. 42 years ago, I was surprised Church of Hawkwind was so low. It is my favourite album to cook with.

First band I ever saw live, a free concert in 1975 where some big kids gave me and my mates a very big roll up to share! It's taken me a while to get one of their albums on vinyl, but just picked up 'hall of the mountain grill' in my local charity shop for £4 and love it. Also great to hear Battersea come out of your mouth, I live in Battersea! Keep up the brilliant work!

Its hard to describe how much i love Hawkwind. For me their legacy consists of five eras. 1/Early period 2/Calvert era 3/80s 4/90s 5/Modern age. You can easily hear how their sound changed from one to another. Personally, my fav release from Hawkwind is 1986 Live Chronicles.

Great ranking Scott, must check out Into the Woods and Electric Teepee on your recommendation!! How about Ozric Tentacles for a ranking show ?

Great show, Love Hawkwind!

I got into Hawkwind in 1970 when they were still playing the first album live. They were on stage with just a strobe and it was mindblowing. I later did an interview in late 72 during the Space Ritual tour, met the whole band, including Stacia, and interviewed the new guy, Lemmy. Drank a bottle of wine together. He was a great guy, much missed. Difficult to rate all the albums but my top 5 are: 1) Hawkwind. The first album. I love listening to it in total darkness. 2) Warrior on the Edge of Time. 3) X In Search of Space 4) Doremi Faso Latido 5) Live Chronicles. Another amazing album is the pseudo-Hawkwind, Bob Calvert solo album Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters

Nice top 3 of course they are prog. Spacerock ! See you on Sunday on your ELP show.

Hey Scot! Wow! 28 minutes. I think that's a record. Awesome!👍☮️👑😎

Awesome. my fave album changes week to week. Live chronicles is my fave.

What a task! Great job Scot! You’re a better than me to take this on. My intro and always my favorite is “Hall of the Mountain Grill”. Other favorites are “Chronicle of the Black Sword”, “The Future Never Waits” and of course “Space Ritual”

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Thanks for that Scot. Brilliant episode. Also found there were a few albums I hadn't got.

hawklords was calvert at his best, genius

great show man ! Love Hawkwind, glad they are stil making universal music we need to keep up in this world.. by the way Pete s.o.t in the progseat doing the yes album 'Tales' next time, hope you are also joining the episode , it is our favorite Yes album of al time ... thanks for doing the hawkwind spaceship

I know I'm late on this one, but I've been catching up on your videos, and I'm stoked to finally get a Hawkwind one! They've been on my radar from some time, but they've seemed difficult to approach with a clear head. This video will no doubt help!

Great job Scot, we share the same favorite Yes, Tull, and Genesis albums - well make that 4 😄 Warrior is my fave Hawkwind too, and I think your top 5 are spot on. Electric Tepee is awesome too. Many thanks!

I shared a stage with Cold War Kids once and yes indeed they are named after that classic Hawklords track. They also told me that I was the first person to ever ask them if that was the case.

Fantastic episode. I must be honest I've not listened to the entire discography, but I agree with your top 5, brilliant music. Cheers.

As a Hawkwind fan from the outset & Ive seen all original lineups with dancer Stacey & likes of Bob Calvert etc .Best albums are : No 1: IN SEARCH OF SPACE: 2: DOREMI FASOL LA TIDO 3: SPACE RITUAL LIVE 4: HAWKWIND: 1st Album. 5: WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME.

Great show Scot, you ripped through that in record time. I love Warrior, in search and Levitation. Saw them once on tour with Levitation, one of the best gigs ever. I had a mate who was on rugby tour in Manchester UK, around the same time and Hawkwind were staying in the same hotel. Said they were a bunch of nutters, who’d have thought?

Such a long journey through time! I'm still studying the logbook that came with the album In Search Of Space. btw Their best album with their best line up!

My old school friend Simon House was in Hawkwind for a bit. My sole claim to vicarious fame.

FINALLY !!!! I will end up watching this 5 times, no joke !!! HAWKWIND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow , what an epic discography this band have put out over the years. There's gaps in what I've heard from them , need to catch-up. Impressive run-down Scot , I have to say when it comes to it Ozric Tentacles are certainly my go to for this kind of vibe. But what a history Hawkwind have !!! Awesome. 😍

Been looking forward to this one. And yeah, I agree that Hawkwind is prog, even though they’re probably the king of space rock. But like others, I’m only into their Lemmy material. I suppose I ought to give some of the latter pieces a chance. Their most recent does sound intriguing. And I love that cover art for Into the Woods. Can’t possibly argue with your top 2. But I think I’d better look into “ Levitation. “

Interesante ranking. Escuché uno que sugeriste en otro vídeo y me gustó mucho

As much as I love quite a few Hawkwind tracks and albums, you really have to be a special forces prog soldier to go through all 35 albums! Hail Lade!

I love Choose Your Masques.

Overall I'm in step with these rankings but Hawklords that low?? It's easily in their top ten for me - brilliant tight songs, no waste, clear, crisp production. If you don't know it you NEED to listen,

Great ranking..Nice to see some seldom seen titles.Love titles like Levitation Roadhawks and PXR5, but my favourites are Chronicle of the Black Sword ( saw them live on this tour)..Hall of The Mountain Grill, Warrior on the Edge of Time ( bought a terrific remaster of that one)..Space Ritual and my Al time favourite Quark, Strangeness and Charm.

What a daunting task! Respect 🎊😀🤘 I really liked Road to Utopia. It seemed like they were trying to do something different, and that “Baja” version of Quark Strangeness and Charm 😀.

Cool...thanks....I'm going to check out Hawkwind. I just bought Scheherazade from Renaissance after which is absolutely amazing!

Hey Scot - great reviews, and I agree about the top ones (though I'd have Grill at #1 - Lost Johnny!). Got to see Hawkwind in Berkeley in 1973 perform Space Ritual, with Man supporting and Tim Leary being piped in over the P.A. from prison! Have you heard Steve Swindells' 1980 album 'Fresh Blood'? It's got some great songs, and along with Steve, features Huy Lloyd-Langton, Nic Potter, and Simon King. Highly recommended, and the last 2 songs, 'Figures of Authority' and 'Shot Down in the Night' are particularly excellent...

Hi Scott, great show about one of my favourite bands, their current album, Stories from time & space is brilliant if not quite as good as The future never waits, which I think is worthy to be ranked with the great 70s albums. One question, have you heard Live chronicles, which is The chronicles of the black sword with a few extra songs which fit into the themes & story of Chronicles. It is in my view a lot better than Chronicles and well worth listening to if you don't know it. Keep up the good work

I Love All the albums. they all have something good. The only band I love as much is Gong. Hurry on sundown is definitely one of my top 3.

A bit late to the party with Hawkwind and Into the Woods was my first album. From that moment i became a fan and started collecting their albums. Pretty hard task to do, especially with some vinyl. Anyway, great band and unpopular opinion, but my favourite album is the debut...

Awesome Scot,great video, thanks!

The kings of space rock! What a career…all over the place. I view Hawkwind more as a collective than as a band with a solid lineup. I sometimes wonder about older bands that no longer have any or minimal original members. Is it a band or a company? Just a thought. Having said that I’ve got quite a few of their albums. The ones that I enjoy the most are those earlier albums (or at least those are the ones I know the best). Hawkwind like Gong have released some really good music lately. Say what you will about lineups but as I’ve said before: Good is good. In the end I suppose that’s all that really matters. Excellent longish review Scot. Long is what you expect from such a huge discography. Gonna tackle Gong next Scot? 🤔👍

I don't know this band but am going to check out your number 1 and 2 picks. Looking forward to ELP Sunday!🤩

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day ❤😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

Also fun fact: Robert Calvert's Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters has Brian Eno and Lemmy performing together. Weird crossover haha

Chronicles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shocker.

Love hawkwind especially the Huw Lloyd Langton era the 70s albums are stone cold classics so these are my top 5 quark, strangeness and charm, sonic attack, warrior on the edge of time, levitation and church of hawkwind honorable mentions are the xenon codex, chronicle of the black sword and p.x.r.5 so many awesome albums from this amazing bands

Warrior on the Edge of Time is a great prog rock album with killer tracks. Even the poetry by Moorcock fits in nicely. I'd put Choose Your Masks and Sonic Attack a little higher. Saw Hawkwind tour these albums and the live show with photo images was outstanding - with Mike Moorcock himself ranting vocals on a couple of tracks on one gig. Managed to meet some of the band after the gig one time in the 80's, them generously sharing an impressive spliff with us fans. Nice chat and they weren't spaced out after the space rock. Last saw them live - still with Dave Brock at Folkestone about ten years back. Still loud and rocking!

I think the church of Hawkwind should have been a bit higher dude. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Uk

I would love a King Gizzard ranking. And then in 3 or 4 years you could do an updated ranking after they put out ankther 5 albums

Warriors on the Edge of Time was fantastic.

Well done Scot. Not for the faint of heart. I hope you can have your brain rearranged to "normal" after that trip into the outer reaches of the galaxy. 😂

Check out Hawkwind Weird Tapes vol. 3 Free Festivals CD. Back in the day only available as vinyl bootleg Live at Watch Field and Stone Henge! After the mighty Space Ritual the next best live recording.

it's all about Levitation for me. A dude named Larry who 1st told me about Yes, The Grateful Dead's Terrapin Station, the Syd Barret Floyd/+Solo and The Residents gave me a copy of Levitation in 1995 in exchange for some Rush bootlegs. And he was spot-on about Levitation. Fantastic epic record. Also Amorphis does a killer cover of the title track in fact.

The band was named after Nick Turner, well not after, because of

Levitation and pxr5 are ex too.

I love everything 1970 to 1975.

WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME...then everything else...so there! Plus: Levitation often overlooked. Ginger Baker in Hawkwind...slightly bizarre!

Fantastic ranking! The new remix of Space Ritual is ace. What's the story about Castle Communications? Not just in reference to Hawkwind, but in general.

Nice, love Hawkwind. I'm a fan of their mid-period stuff, I would have put Chronicle of the Black Sword and Xenon Codex higher. Alien 4 is top tier.

Thank you so much Scot!!!!!

Perfect Top 3 even though Astounding Sounds is probably my favourite.. saw them a lot.. once with Ginger Baker.. amazing drummer but he really didn’t fit that band! I guess it was the chemistry. Him & Dave Brock were loose cannons!

Great ! The James Last cover of Silver Machine had no gravelie voice and was droped quickly from the live set upsetting everybody !!

PXR5, Choose your Masques The Xenon Codex and Chronicles of the black sword are too low imo. CYM is a brilliant album with a dark atmosphere.

Great video! I think at 10:32 you meant to say Mike Batt instead of Mike Watt haha

I liked the late 70s albums with Calvert at the helm. When he jumped ship they fell apart

scot! you order the new talk repress?? ik you talked about it a few times, im so excited

Any one done a spotify play list of this?

check out nik turners space fusion odyssey,better than most of the hawkwind albums,feat billy cobham,john ethridge,steve hillage,rick wakeman etc bob calverts capt lockheed and starfighers album is basically a hawkwind album,also better than much of the stuff under the hawkwind moniker

Unfortunately, they did not include the Hawkwind Live Albums but Live Chronicles is still my number one album hands down. I'm fiercely loyal.

After I watched this video, I sat and thought about Hawkwind - not one of my favourite bands although Warrior On The Edge Of Time is a superb work - but it occurs to me they share a strange quality with the writer William Burroughs and it is this: they have never, to my knowledge, been out of fashion. In 1977 when punks (curse their silly spiky heads) berated progressive rock groups, among many of them it was still acceptable to admit you liked Hawkwind. They continued to be 'acceptable' throughout the 1980s and when all that robot noise ruled the 1990s (the acid rave merchants), Hawkwind still managed to ride the wave and be embraced by the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers crowd. How very odd! I wonder how they have managed to remain 'cool' and trendy despite the bizarre vicissitudes of fads and fashions over the decades.

They must be a pretty big influence on King Gizzard

I love Hawkwind / Hawklords but they needed the genius of either Nik Turner or Bob Calvert . 80’s onward despite some decent stuff is in the main a second rate Hawkwind or maybe The Dave Brock Band . Not dissing Dave Brock he was great with Calvert / Lemmy / Turner .

I always remember Lemmy saying that Hawkwind discovered lsd will work 2 days in a row if you doubled the dosage. Doremi Fasol Latido and In Search Of Space are equal best.

Nik Turner came to Detroit touring as Nik Turner's Hawkwind to a small club....bit of a shame they never really got their due in the states

Lemmy and stacia remember them both , if honest as young person at the time probably remember stacia more , definitely progressive rock , Scott have to remember in the late 60’s man allegedly landed on the moon 😮, from Bowie with space odyssey and life on mars to hawkwind and space rock , bands wrote songs about life at that particular moment in time .

Enjoyed this but Church Of Hawkwind is way better than the awful Road To utopia

Anything with Calvert is head and shoulders above the rest

I'd copied the Warrior on the Edge of Time artwork over my school exercise books. The band played a sports hall in my town in the early 70s and only 2 people attended (sadly I wasn't one of them)....this is more a reflection on the town than the band!!

Whhere is " Love in Space ?" first album i heard but was on mixtape

So Space Ritual is the actual Number 1.

What about rating the other Hawkwind live albums ? Obviously Space Ritual is #1 but there is a fair amount of live recordings ?

Bob Calvert was a genius.

Hawkwind influenced punks

I would put Amazing Sounds higher than 10. And Hawklords would be higher in my list.

They got 66 LPs release d

I’ve always been partial to the Calvert period and Quark, PXR5, Hawklords, etc., are all Top 10, for me… a couple probably Top 5. But, overall a fine list. Lemmy has always been a little overrated, to me… and got too much credit, while Dave Brock was always the backbone and spirit of Hawkwind.

Even at their so called suckiness, Hawkwind kicks the asses off of the majority.

I grew up with Hawkwind, it's in the blood, totally unique and my favourite album of all time is Hall of the Mountain Grill. There are some real stinkers out there though! First 5 albums pure Space Rock love this period all classics. Next 4 are the Charisma years 76-79 That's when Calvert took over and has far more environmental, industrial and political feel. Levitation with Ginger Baker is an absolute banger from 1980. Next period all the 80's is awful, but agree with Space Bandits although I hate most of the stuff. After that it's a complete minefield some truly rip-off crap out there. One album which nobody ever mentions is the Live 79 album, I play this more than A Space Ritual. I feel that Hugh Lloyd Langton's guitar is wasted in the 80's but live I believe he's the most underrated guitarist of all-time.