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3 Hür-El – 3 Hür-El

1972

Diskotür – DTLP 10003

Track List:

Aşk Davası, ...Ve Ölüm, Haram, Gurbet Türküsü, Anadolu Dansı, Lazoğlu, Madalyonun Ters Yüzü, Diday Dom, Kara Yazı, Gül'e Ninni, Ölüm Al Beni, Pembelikler.

3 Hür-El – Hürel Arşivi

1974

Diskotür – DTLP 10013

Track List:

Kol Bastı, Hoptirinom, Mutluluk Bizim Olsun, Canım Kurban, Gönül Sabreyle Sabreyle, Küçük Yaramaz, Ağlarsa Anam Ağlar, Ömür Biter Yol Bitmez, Sevenler Ağlarmış, Yara, Döner Dünya, Ağıt.

HP Lovecraft - S/T

1967

Philips 252

Track List:

Wayfaring Stranger, Let's Get Together, I've Been Wrong Before, Drifter , That's the bag I'm In , White Ship , Country Boy and Bleeker Street, Time Machine, That's How Much I Love You, Baby...Gloria patria (Trad.).

HP Lovecraft - II

1968

Philips 6336213

Track List :

Spin, Spin, Spin, It's About Time, Blue Jack of Diamonds, Electrallentando, At the Mountains of Madness, Mobius Trip, High Flying Bird, Nothing's Boy, Keeper of the Keys.

HP Lovecraft - Live, May 11, 1968

1968

Sundazed 5004 1991

Track List :

Wayfaring Stranger, The Drifter, It's About Time, The White Ship, At the Mountains of Madness, The Bag I'm In, I've Been Wrong Before, Country Boy & Bleeker Street.

Review:

George Edwards was the founding father of this group. He had spent some time as a folk singer in Chicago and had backed the Shadows Of Knight on a few recordings as a session vocalist before being allowed some time in the studio on his own. One of the session musicians he attracted was David Miichaels, a classically trained singer and excellent keyboard player who brought the harpsichord and organ with him that dominated their eventual sound. Their debut album, was a combination of Edwards's folk roots and the Gothic fantasy tales of nineteenth century novelist H.P Lovecraft woven into their own compositions.

They soon moved down to San Francisco where they quickly made their mark on the ballroom circuit, playing with the usual roster of home-grown bands and agruably blowing many of them off the stage. Imagine a Country Joe and the Fish-style organ style, guitar with lashings of feedback, the aforementioned harpsichord thrown in to give a baroque feel to the whole thing, and then the soaring vocals of Edwards and Michaels. It was a solid combination.

One of their nights at the Fillmore West was fortunately captured for posterity on this disk. This performance is by necessity radically different from the studio versions of their songs, but for me a whole lot better. The opener is "Wayfaring Stranger" a folk song whose origins are lost in antiquity but here credited to Edwards, which lasts for ten minutes, during which one never tires once as they string one inventive passage after another.

This is one of the great strengths of the band. They could play and play, constantly inventing. No tedious guitar solos here, that go on for half an hour too long. It's all tight, inventive stuff. The drummer, Michael Tegza is also great,: always experimenting, adding flourishes without ever taking over. He even gets in a short drum solo which is over before you get the chance to say "Uh oh, here we go." and then he's back to being a driving force in the rhythm section. 'The Drifter' continues the mood. It has a basic urgent riff and as guitarist Tony Cavallari throws in some brief but satisfying solos I'm reminded most of the stinging, acidic sound of Barry Melton at his best.

'It's About Time' follows, and I must confess I find the spirit of this one a little naive. It's one of those 'a better day is coming' type songs - in fact that line comes from the lyrics - which were quite credible in the heady '60s. Also 'that's the thing I know' always struck me as a bit of a clumsy lyric. But if you like Dino Valente's 'Let's Get Together' you might well forgive this one.

"The White Ship" is the dramatic and evocative peak of their performance. This would fit just as easily on the first It's A Beautiful Day album. It has that same languid, stoned, lethargic feel, with similarly soaring vocals, and a lovely baroque harpsichord solo from Michaels to end it. The next song, 'At The Mountains Of Madness' is another Lovecraft-inspired opus on which Michaels's voice is at its most effective and for me this is one of the great psychedelic songs of the whole era. More feedback from Cavallari, and Tegza hitting eveything in sight as the song rolls to a chaotic climax.

There are three more shorter songs to follow, a Fred Neil composition, one by Randy Newman, then another by Neil to wrap up the album. This is where another criticism rears its head, namely that the running order of the whole thing seems wrong. These three songs are fine, but seem tagged on the end and rather an anticlimax after 'Mountains Of Madness.' I expect this was sticking to the original order in which the songs were played, but on CD they fall a little flat. The album also seems a little short for a live concert to me. Still I'm more than thankful for what is available here.

Stirring stuff.

Submitted by Doctor Dark - April 2004

Há-Zá-Má - Há-Zá-Má

1995

Captain Trip Records ‎– CTCD-007

Track List:

A Red Sky In The Morning, Far War, Like The Flowing Tears, Lock The Wind Pain, Now, You've Got Money It's Nothin' But Money, Dry Tears Of The Blind, Pray (Live At Yukotopia, May 29, 1993).

Hairy Chapter - Eyes

1970

OPP World Wide ‎– OPP 5-21

Track List:

Bad Dreams, Pretty Talking Girl, Pauline, Illusions, Looking For A Decent Freedom, Cry For Relief, Thought After, Life 69, Big Fat Woman Blues.

Halfway To Gone - Second Season

2002

Small Stone Records SS-030

Track List:

Great American Scumbag, Already Gone, Black Coffy, Escape From Earth, Thee Song, Whiskey Train, Brocktoon's Wake, Outta Smokes, LOne Star Breakout, Never Comin' Home, Tryptophan.

Review:

Halfway To Gone are a three piece from New Jersey led by songwriter, vocalist and bass player Lou Gorra and play good 'ol hard American rock in a style similar to their label mates The Glasspack that on occasion strays dangerously close to what many would call Metal. They do however regularly get into a good solid heavy groove (Thee Song) and even venturing into more spacier realms such as the cosmic blues shuffle 'Tryptophan.

Following this is an unlisted acoustic guitar and keyboard ballad' completely unlike anything else on the album.

I would guess we will be hearing more from these guys as they what they have to offer is not your standard run of the mill Stoner/Hard Rock and does show considerable skill that should set them apart from the myriad 'Head down and thrash' bands currently plying their wares on the so called Stoner Rock circuit.

Reviewed by pOoTer - November 2002

Hallelujah - Hallelujah Babe

1971

Metronome ‎– LMLP 15 805

Track List:

Hallelujah, Signs Of Strange, Z.i.p., The Winter Song, English Rain, Mini Funk, Waterloo, Friend, Ode To A Little Knight.

Hangman's Beautiful Daughters, The- The Hangman's Beautiful Daughters

1989

Voxx VXS 200.049 (LP) (US)

Track List:

Love is blue, They fell for words..., Don't ask my name (just call me Jack), Somethin' about today, Jonathan, Out of my head, Popular trend, Dark side, Pushing me too far, Cat's got 9.

Review:

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughters began playing in 1985 at the subway of the Ambulance Station in London. They released a 4track EP titled "Love is blue" and the mini-LP "Trash mantra" through Dreamworld Records; this dazzling anthology consists of both issues. While Sandy and Gordeen
embroider jingle-jangle atmospheres, Emily sings folk-melodies with punk ardour: the outcome is marvellous!

Submitted by Roberto from THE WRONG WAY November 2000

Hamana (Bruce) - Hamana

1974

Canyon Records - No. 7111

Track List:

The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth, Why Can't I Understand, Be Free With Me, I Remember, On The Road, One Night, Future Goodbyes, Show Me, Message To The Crystal.

Hapsash and the Coloured Coat - Featuring the Human Host & The Heavy Metal Kids

1968

Drop Out DO SP 2001 (re-release)

Track List:

H-O-P-P-W-H-Y, A mind blown is a mind shown, The new messiah coming 1985, Aoum, empires of the sun.

Hard Meat - Hard Meat

1970

Warner Bros. Records – WS 1852

Track List:

Through A Window, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Space Between, Time Shows No Face, Run Shaker Life, Universal Joint, Most Likely You Go Your Way I'll Go Mine.

Hard Meat - The Space Between – The Recordings 1969-1970, 3CD Box Set

2022

Esoteric

Track List:

DISC ONE - Hard Meat

Through A Window, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Space Between, Time Shows No Face, Run Shaker Life, Universal Joint, Most Likely You Go Your Way, I’ll Go Mine.

DISC TWO - Through A Window

On the Road, New Day, Freewheel, Smile As You Go Under, I Want You, From the Prison, A Song of Summer, Love, The Ballad Of Marmalade Emma and Teddy Grimes.

DISC THREE - The Unreleased album

Rain, Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way, I’ll Go Mine, Liquid Boats, Walking Down Up Street, Erection, Strange Fruit, Run Shaker Life, Burning Up Years, Don’t Chase Your Tail.

Harlequyn - The Order of the Golden Dawn

1989

Voltage VLP 14

Track List:

Glass island, Love leaves, Catch, Oversoul, Enchantment child, Ghost.

Review:

Harlequyn... a fleeting comet appeared on the firmament of UK psychedelia: metallic cascades and such glam voice lead to a different space-temporal dimension, in the court of a crimson king...

Submitted by Roberto from THE WRONG WAY

Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia

1974

Brain ‎– 1044

Track List:

Watussi, Sehr Kosmisch, Sonnenschein, Dino, Ohrwurm, Ahoi!, Veterano, Hausmusik.

Harmonia - Deluxe

1975

Brain ‎– 1073

Track List:

Deluxe (Immer Wieder), Walky-Talky, Monza (Rauf Und Runter), Notre Dame, Gollum, Kekse.

Harsh Reality - Heaven And Hell

1969

Philips – SBL 7891

Track List:

When I Move, Tobacco Ash Sunday, Mary Roberta (Part I), Praying For Reprieve, How Do You Feel, Heaven And Hell, Quickenut, Devil's Daughter, Mary Roberta (Part II), Melancholy Lady, Don't Shoot Me Down, Girl Of My Dreams, Mary Roberta (Part III).

Harvest Flight - One Way

1971

Destiny - D-3303-S

Track List:

Prologue, Kingdom, Change, One In The Spirit, Share, Country Tune, Joy Of Salvation, Truth, Free, Epilogue.

Harvey Mandel - Cristo Redentor

1968

Philips – PHS 600-281

Track List:

Cristo Redentor, Before Six, The Lark, Snake, Long Wait, Wade In The Water, Lights Out, Bradley's Barn, You Can't Tell Me, Nashville 1 A.M..

Harvey Mandel - Righteous

1969

Philips – PHS 600-306

Track List:

Righteous, Jive Samba, Love Of Life, Poontang, Just A Hair More, Summer Sequence, Short's Stuff, Boo-Bee-Doo, Campus Blues.

Hash Jar Tempo - Well Oiled & Under Glass

1995 & 1999

Drunken Fish Records DFR-24 & DFR-44

Track List:

Well Oiled: All seven songs listed as “Untitled”

Under Glass:

Praludium Und Fuge. D-Moll, Labiomancy, Sources In Cleveland, Hymenoptera in Ameber Crybaby, Atropine, In The Cell’s Of Walken’s Corti, Gravitational Lens Opera.

Review:

This review is actually of two different albums by Hash Jar Tempo. I have chosen to review them as one as they are quite similar in nature. Hash Jar Tempo is just one of the Bardo Pond's many side projects (and in my eyes, their best).

Musically these records are melodically heavy, but not as chunky or visceral as the Bardo Pond tend to be. Both albums were organised by NZ psychster and Pond fan, Roy Montgomery who suggested a bit of an impromptu jam session with The Pond and "hey, lets hit the record button and see what happens".

Thank your lucky stars they did just that. What you get on both of these albums is pure unadulterated psych guitar from the Gibbons brothers who play, and play and play. No lyrics, just long brooding tracks and guitar work as thick as the bong smoke it was conceived out of. Both albums consist of well over an hours worth of seriously heavy, droney psych. "Well Oiled" perhaps receives my nod for being the better of the two and for fans of heavy drone music/long guitar jams you need to look no further than these suckers.

Reviewed by BlueMagoo - 20th September 2002

Well Oiled: 4 Sugar cubes
Under Glass: 3 Sugar cubes

Hawkwind Zoo - Hurry On Sundown

1969

Flicknife FLEP 100

Track List:

Hurry On Sundown, Sweet Mistress of Pain, Kings of Speed.

Hawkwind - Hawkwind

1970

Liberty LBS 83348

Track List:

Hurry on sundown, The reason is, Be yourself, Paranoia, Seeing it as you really are, Mirror of illusion.

Review:

The album is a brilliant combination of Psychedelic Space Rock with touches of eerie paranoia mind altering joy!!!

5/5 peace pipes!

Reviewed by Michael W Blackman

Hawkwind - In Search Of Space

1971

United Artists UAG 29202

Track List:

You shouldnt do that, You know youre only dreaming, Master of the universe, We took the wrong step years ago, Adjust me, Children of the sun.

Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido

1972

United Artists UAG 29364

Track List:

Brainstorm, Space Is Deep, Down Through The Night, One Change, Lord Of Light, Time We Left This World Today, The Watcher.

Review:

The first Hawkwind album to feature Lemmy, this is the Space Ritual era line-up in the studio, at their juddering space rock best.

Nik Turner's 'Brainstorm' starts proceedings, a tale of disorientation and the 'paranoia police', then Brock's 'Space Is Deep' merges acoustic and electric. 'Lord of Light' starts part two, followed by the hypnotic 'Down Through The Night'. 'Time We Left' is simply mind-blowing, while Lemmy's 'The Watcher' ends the album on a note of detached dementia.

Powerful stuff....

Reviewed by Dr. Sandoz

Hawkwind - Space Ritual 1

1973

United Artists UAG 60037-8

Track List:

Earth Calling, Born To Go, Down Through the Night, The Awakening, Lord of Light, The Black Corridor, Space is Deep, Electronic No 1, Orgone Accumulator, Upside Down, 10 Seconds of Forever, Brainstorm, 7 By 7, Sonic Attack, Time We Left This World Today, Master of the Universe, Welcome to the Future.

Reviews:

Recorded live in Brixton and Liverpool in 1972, the double album represents the classic line up at their very best. Calvert provides the poetry (& swazzle); Lemmy and Simon King the ultimate space-rock rhythm section, Dik Mik and Del Dettmar the electronic wizardry, Turner Sax, Flute and possibly the mightiest ever version of Brainstorm and Brock holds it together with awesome rhythm AND truly cosmic lead guitar.

Riding high after the success of the Silver Machine single, the band are free to fully realise a futuristic concept album, without ever falling into self-indulgence. Highlights include Born To Go, Down Through The Night, Orgone Accumulator, Sonic Attack, Time We Left and Master Of The Universe, but for best results listen to the whole thing end to end.

The greatest space-rock album of all time?

Reviewed by Dr. Sandoz - November 2001

One of the all-time classics of psychedelia, this double live album was recorded by the classic early 70s line-up that included Brock, Turner, Lemmy, Calvert plus a couple of electronic freakout merchants (Del Dettmar and Dik Mik) and the thunderous rhythm hyperdrive of drummer Simon King.

The music is simultaneously tribal and hypnotic, and as spacey as the cosmos itself- thanks to layers of swirling electronics and massively groovy sci-fi themes. It's packed with classics, although my personal favourite is "Orgone Accumulator", where Bob Calvert's supercool delivery of his inspired lyrics is coupled with some of Lemmy's most powerful bass work, the net effect being True Greatness.

An essential album.

Reviewed by Quicksilver Tongue May 2001

Hawkwind - Space Ritual 2

1972

APK

Track List:

Orgone accumulator, Sonic attack, 10 seconds of forever, Master of the universe, Brainstorm.

Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mountain Grill

1975

United Artists UAG 29672

Track List:

Psychedelic Warlords (disappear in smoke), wind Of Change, D-Rider, Webweaver, You’d Better Believe It, Hall Of The Mountain Grill, Lost Johnnie, Wind Of Change, Goat Willow, Paradox.

Review:

Named in honour of the bands favourite Ladbroke Grove cafe, this album marked the departure of Dik Mik and the arrival of ex High Tide & Third Ear Band violinist/Keyboard player Simon House.

After the mind blowing power of Space Ritual this the beautiful, melancholic comedown The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in smoke) begins the album and a funky Lemmy bass improvisation (!) builds to a peak and is followed by the classic chord changes of Wind Of Change - 5 minutes of bliss. Other key tracks include Lost Johnny (co written by Lemmy and Mick Farren), Nik Turner's eastern tinged D-Rider and Brock's Paradox.

There are three mellow instrumentals as well, including Del Dettmar's final work for Hawkwind, Goat Willow. A subtle multi-faceted album, displaying a different side to the Hawkwind sound, with the atmospheric keyboards of Del Dettmar and Simon House to the fore.

Reviewed by Dr. Sandoz - November 2001

Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time

1975

United Artists UAG 29766

Track List:

Assault and battery, The golden void, The wizard blew his horn, Opa loka, The demented man, Magnu, Standing at the edge, Spiral galaxy 28948, Warriors, Dying seas, Kings of speed.

Review:

Hawkwind at their best ? (excluding Space Ritual perhaps....). Classic material from their best period?...perhaps...some of the tracks on here take some beating, personal faves being Opa Loka, Magnu and Warriors.

Reviewed by pOoTer

Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds And Amazing Music

1976

Charisma CDS 4004

Track List:

Reefer Madness, Steppenwolf, City Of Lagoons, The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon, Kerb Crawler, Kadu Flyer, Chronoglide Skyway.

Review:

Lemmy has left with a bad case of White Line Fever, Bob Calvert is back, there's a new record label and a new direction with Pink Fairy Paul Rudolph's funk influenced bass lines. 'Reefer Madness' is tongue in cheek drug horror, 'Steppenwolf' is Calvert's homage to Hermann Hesse and Nik Turner hits the trail to Katmandu in 'Kadu Flyer’.

More line up changes would follow, so this unique sound experiment would never be repeated.

Reviewed by Dr. Sandoz

Hawkwind - Quark Strangeness and Charm

1977

Charisma CDS 4008

Track List :

Spirit Of The Age, Damnation Alley, Fable Of A Failed Race, Quark Strangeness and Charm, Hassan I Sah Ba, The Forge Of Vulcan, Days Of The Underground, Iron Dream.

Review:

The first post-Turner LP, but Calvert is on his most wired, top form. 'Spirit Of The Age' is a wry letter home from the other side of the universe, 'Damnation Alley' evokes Zelazny's post-apocalyse nuclear wasteland and the title track is a snappy poke at Einstein and boffins in general. 'Fable of a Failed Race' and 'Days of the Underground' look back to the high times of the counter-culture.

A great album, with the band adapting with ease into the post-punk world.

Reviewed by Dr. Sandoz

Hawklords - 25 Years On

1978

Charisma CDS 4014

Track List:

Psi Power, Free Fall, Automotion, 25 Years, Flying Doctor, The Only Ones, The Dead Dreams Of The Cold War Kid, The Age Of The Micro Man.

Review:

What you tend to find with all Hawkwind albums between 'Doremi' & 'Levitation' is that every one, whilst being undeniably Hawkwind, is completely different in style & the Hawklords album (name changed briefly due to legal wranglings at the time) is no exception. Calvert is on top form lyrically & whilst the whole album retains something of a mellow feel the opening tracks of both sides (Psi Power & Flying Doctor) utilise the classic Hawks power chord formula to great effect (check out the live version of Psi Power on the 'This is Hawkwind ...Do Not Panic LP!).

Perhaps lacking the musical intricacies of 'Astounding Sounds', '25 Years On' has a much fuller feel to it, simple song structures backed up with complicated (& dare I say funky?!) bass riffs & great keyboard parts. Whilst individually many of these tracks probably wouldn't make it into your average Hawkwind top 20, as an album it really works & is certainly superior to 'PXR5' & 'Quark' in that respect.

Calvert's lyrics at times really do capture the time in which they were written, most notably perhaps on '(Only) the Dead Dreams of the Cold War Kid'.

Due to the departure in style it's hard to rate it next to other Hawkwind albums, let's just say it's not out of place with earlier offerings & it probably surpasses much of the later recordings!

Reviewed by Andy Goblin - November 2002

Hawkwind - PXR 5

1979

Charisma CDS 4016

Track List:

Death Trap, Jack of Shadows, Uncle Sams on Mars, Infinity, Life Form, Robot, High Rise, P.X.R.5.

Hawkwind - Live '79

1979

Bronze BRON 527

Track List:

Shot down in the night, Motorway City, Spirit of the Age, Brainstorm, Lighthouse, Master of the Universe, Silver Machine.

Hawkwind - Levitation

1980

Bronze BRON 530

Track List:

Levitation, Motorway City, Psychosis, World Of Tiers, Prelude, Who’s Gonna Win The War, Space Chase, The 5th Second Of Forever, Dust Of Time.

Hawkwind - Sonic Attack

1981

RCA LP 6004

Track List:

Sonic Attack, Rocky Paths, Psychosonia, Virgin of the World, Angels of Death, Living on a Knife Edge, Coded Languages, Disintegration, Streets of Fear, Lost Chances.

Review:

Sadly after a decade of tremendous output, this album was Hawkwind's first below par LP and was the beginning of their musical decline into mediocrity. Living On A Knife Edge was the only track to stand out, the remaining tracks displayed little of Hawkwinds ingenious noise creation of previous albums. Safe to say any album prior to this one was a great buy, any after was risky to say the least.

I still made a pilgrimage each year to see them live but by the end of the 80's they really were a spent force.

Reviewed by Colin - April 2003

Hawkwind - Church Of Hawkwind

1982

RCA LP 9004

Track List:

Angel Voices, Nuclear Drive, Star Cannibal, The Phenomenon of Luminosity, Fall of Earth City, The Church, The Joker at the Gate, Some people Never Die, Light Specific Data, Experiment With Destiny, The Last Messiah, Looking in the Future.

Hawkwind - Choose Your Masques

1982

RCA LP 6055

Track List:

Choose Your Masques, Dream Worker, Arrival In Utopia, Silver Machine, Void City, Solitary Mind Games, Fahrenheit 451, The Scan, Waiting For Tomorrow.

Hawkwind - Zones

1983

Flicknife Sharp 014

Track List:

Zones, Dangerous Vision, Running Through the Back Brain, The Island, Motorway City, Utopia, Social Alliance, Sonic Attack, Dream Worker, Brainstorm.

Hawkwind - This Is Hawkwind Do Not Panic

1984

Flicknife Sharp 022

Track List:

PSY Power, Levitation, Circles, Space Chase, Death Trap, Angels of Death, Shot Down in the Night, Stonehenge Decoded, Watching the Grass Grow.

Hawkwind - Chronicles Of The Black Sword

1985

Flicknife Sharp 033

Track List:

Song of the swords, Shade gate, Sea king, Pulsing cavern, Elric the enchanter, Needle gun, Zarozinia, Demise, Sleep of a thousand years, Chaos army, Horn of destiny.

Review:

Hawkwind seemed to have lost their sense of direction a bit before this release, but Black Sword saw them with renewed vigour and this is a blistering testimony to that. Based on the Michael Moorcock eternal champion character Elric of Melnibone and pulsing with dark evil forces this was late 80’s Hawkwind at their best, demonic voices and pounding guitars and bass.

Sure I will probably take some flak for this, but hey what the hell......submit your review in defense!!

Reviewed by pOoTer.

Hawkwind - Valium Ten (EP)

1981

Flicknife EP 205

Track List :

Motorhead, Valium Ten

Haymarket Square - Magic Lantern

1968

Gear Fab

Track List:

Elevator, Train Kept A-Rollin', Ahisma, Amapola, Phantasmagoria, Funeral.

Head Machine - Orgasm

1970

Major Minor – SMLP79

Track List:

Climax You - Tried To Take It All, Make The Feeling Last, You Must Come With Me, The Girl Who Loved, The Girl Who Loved, Orgasm, The First Time, Scattering Seeds.

Head Over Heels - Head Over Heels

1971

Capitol Records ‎– CP-80345

Track List:

Road Runner, Right Away, Red Rooster, Children Of The Mist, Question, Tired And Blue / Land, Land, (That's What I Like ) In My Woman, Circles.

The Head Shop - Same

1969

Epic

Track List:

Head Shop, Heaven Here We Come, Sunny, Elliptical Machines, Opera In The Year 4000 (Where Have All The People Gone?, Yesterday), Revolution, I Feel Love Comin’ On, Prophecy, Infinity.

The Heads - Relaxing with...

1995

Headhunter 001

Track List:

Quad, Don’t Know Yet, Chipped, Slow Down, U 33, Television, Woke Up, Widowmaker, Taken Too Much, Coogan’s Bluff

Review:

Quad opens up like a youthful Hawkwind powered by an unhealthily large dose of DMT then falls back into a Stooges-esque punker. Into the garagey Dont Know It Yet with swirling guitars and a mean screaming harp, up into overdrive now for the Iggy sounding Chipped (but with a much heavier and raw edge). The Heads obviously have many influences, the aforementioned Stooges being one, Blue Cheer and the MC5.

They were probably weaned on Terry Brooks & Strange, The Scientists and Thee Hypnotics in equal measures...

I was expecting a more ‘stoner’ feel in the vein of Kyuss/Datura, but this is different and more varied. U 33 dives in and out of guitar mayhem with its unforgettable monster riff. Television, another heavyweight punker finishing with strange samples. Taken Too Much starts out in a more laid back style before changing gear into an excellent hypnotic grunge fest. Closing with Coogan’s Bluff (from the movie?).

Relaxing With The Heads?.......i’d love to hear them active!!!

For those who like it Loud and Heavy.

Reviewed by pOoTer

The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere

2000

Sweet Nothing Records SNCD007

Track List:

Legavaan Satellite, Thumbs, Fuego, Kraut Byrds, Could Be..., # ‘75, Wobble, Barcoded, Song No.1, My my, Stab Railroad, Chrome Plated, Motorjam, Dirty Water, Pill Jam, Long Gone.

Hearts And Flowers - Now Is The Time For Hearts And Flowers

1967

Capitol Records ‎– ST-2762

Track List:

Now Is The Time, Save Some Time, Try For The Sun, Rain, Rain, The View From Ward 3, Rock And Roll Gypsies, Reason To Believe, Please, 1-2-3 Rhyme In Carnivour Thyme, I'm A Lonesome Fugitive, Road To Nowhere, 10,000 Sunsets.

Heavy Balloon - 32,000 Pound

1969

Elephant V Ltd. ‎– EVS 104

Track List:

Barnyard Blues, On My Way Down, My Very Own Sweetheart, T. C. Topcat Blues, Sixteen Tons, Lead Zeppalin, I Don't Need No Doctor, Owed To Sgt. Pepper, Action.

Heavy Metal Kids - Heavy Metal Kids

1974

Atlantic – K 50047

Track List:

Hangin' On, Ain't It Hard, It's The Same, Run Around Eyes, We Gotta Go, Always Plenty Of Women, Nature Of My Game, Kind Woman, Rock 'N' Roll Man, We Gotta Go (Reprise).

Hell Preachers Inc. - Supreme Psychedelic Underground

1968

Europa – E 356

Track List:

Time Race 1, Shalom, Let Me Shoot You, Nirwana, Courante, Preacher Man, We Like The White Man, Turn Turn, Spy In Space, Time Race 2.

Hello People - The Hello People

1968

Philips ‎– PHS 600-265

Track List:

It's A Monday Kind Of Tuesday, Sunrise Meadow, A Stranger At Her Door, Movin' And Growin', Paisley Teddy Bear, (As I Went Down To) Jerusalem, Lamplight, Nightlight, Mr. Truth Evading, Masquerading Man, Paris In The Rain.

Help - Help

1971

Decca - DL 75257

Track List:

For Sale, Open Up The Door, I Tried Too Hard, Easy To Be Free, Run Away, Keep In Touch, Take A Look At Yourself, Commit Yourself, Help Me, Help You, Help Me, Tennessee Waltz.

Help - Second Coming

1971

Decca ‎– DL 75304

Track List:

Do You Understand The Words, All Day, Good Time Music - Hold On Child, T.C.A., Dear Lord, Oh My, Power.

Herd, The - Paradise Lost

1968

Fontana

Track List :

From the underworld, On my way home, I can fly, Goodbye groovy, Mixed up minds, Impressions of Oliver, Paradise lost, Sad, Something strange, On your own, She loves me, She loves me not, Fare thee well, Sweet William, Come on - believe me, I don't want - our loving to die, Our fairy tale.

Herd, The - Looking Thru You

1968

Fontana

Track List :

I don't want our loving to die, Come on - believe me, Our fairy tale, On my way home, Goodbye, Groovy, From the underworld, Paradise lost, Sweet William, I can Fly, Understand me.

Here & Now – Give And Take

1978

Charly Records – NOW 1

Track List :

What You See Is What You Are, Nearer Now, Grate Fire Of London, This Time, Seventies Youth, Improvisation.

Here & Now – All Over The Show

1979

Charly Records – NOW 2

Track List :

Think For Yourself, Open Door, 70's Youth, Surgeon's Knife, Little Things, Only Way, Jam, End Of The Beginning.

Here & Now – Off The Cuff

1979

CASS 1

Track List :

Crest, France 23 May, St David's College, Lampeter 1 May, Newcastle "Black Bull" 31 August, Nottingham "Sandpiper" 2 September, Leamington Spa "The Crown" 11 May, Leeds "Fforde Greene" 1 September, Woolwich Thames Poly 12 May, Fishbach Festival Lake Constance Germany 27 May.

Here & Now – Stolen Moments

1981

CASS 2

Track List :

A Little Bit Of Knowledge, City Man Cry, Underground, The Mega Number, The Telly Song, Intro, And Jacques Cousteau Loves Anchovies, Nudge Up Double De Luxe, Acid Arcade/Russian Roulette, Ways To Be Free.

Here & Now – Fantasy Shift

1983

Chick Records – CHRL003

Track List :

Telly Song, Ludwig, Jacques Cousteau Loves Anchovies, Fantasy Shift, The Mega Number, Glad You're Here, Secrets, The Man Who Sold The World, Ways To Be Free.

Here & Now – Coaxed Out From Oxford

1983

CASS 3

Track List :

23 Skidoo, Heart Of The City, The Mega Number, Salvador, Ways To Be Free, Theatre, Heartbeat, Fantasy Shift, Secrets, Opium For The People, Glad You’re Here.

Here & Now – Theatre

1984

Landslide Records – Land LP 103

Track List :

Theatre, Room Within A Room, Hearbeat, Spaces, Salvador, Last Chance.

Here & Now – Been & Gone

1986

Cold Harbour Records – COLDLP 002

Track List :

Intro (23 Skidoo), Fake It, Theatre, Another Tense, Drifting Away, Ways To Be Free, Spaces In Between, Satellite Kid, Jacques Cousteau, Last Chance.

Here & Now – Ufoasis

1995

Now Here Productions – CD 001

Track List :

Love Of This World, Nude Temple Dream, Love Thing, Tellysong, Ufoasis, Living Room War, Fire In The Sky, Rattle The Cage, Crazy World, Secrets II.

Here & Now – Gospel Of Free

1999

Gas Records – AGASCD015

Track List :

Hairy Barber, Fredest Air Travels, Bom Shiva Shanka, Soviet Kommercial Radio, Strawberry, Summer's Coming.

Heronimus Fin - Riding the Great Fantastic

1998

Garden Records GCD 003

Track List :

Purple Pictures, Steelball Wind, (I Just Want To) Sculpture You, Riding The Great Fantastic, Alice in Sunderland, I l Lost the Way, Fridge, Miles and Miles, The Tree Song, Secret Places, A Song fo the Sad, a Blow for the Mad and the Riverman Sings On, Lounge Roads.

Review:

The Birmingham band are continuing their magic flight through dream like places more so than in the past without diverting from their distinctive 60`s creative mix. On to the staggered dimensions of `Riding The Great Fantastic`, where we detect a guitar blended with keyboards that sweeps away any reference to rigid influences, showing a touch of "progressive Acid" not far removed from Hawkwinds heyday yet with their own clear identity.

From the crunching Psych of `Purple Pictures` to the Pepperesque `Lounge Roads` the album is a gem.

In effect it appears that H.F have transformed some of their energy to producing a sound which alternates between quieter moods and more energetic and stimulating sounds. Faced with this turn of style gone are some of the embellishments of the past, leaving room for the naked coherence of sounds...Meanwhile here and there emerge a freak orientated attitude with high communicative profile, after all the main characteristic of the CD is to give us a multicolour landscape and dreamy lyrics like "The Tree Song" with its amusing purity and almost flattering parody. Sinuous ballads emerge from nowhere like the verses and structure of "A Blow for the Mad, A Song for the Sad and the Riverman sings on" blossoms from a visionary Canterburian story.

The new Itinerary marked out by H.F finds a natural release in the anthem of "Lounge Roads" with its relaxed mood and is slightly evenescent in its chorality and intense poetry. These four English minstrels succeed once more to put together a treasure box full of intense and vibrant sounds.

What more can we ask for?

I`d give it a bowl full of sugar cubes me`self

Reviewed by The Rock Man - May 2002

Hickory Wind - Hickory Wind

1969

Gigantic - 830G1104

Track List:

I Don't Believe, Time And Change, Maybe Tomorrow, Transit Blues, Country Boy, The Loner, Mister Man, New Albany Police Carnival, Father Come With Me, Judy.

High Tide - Sea Shanties

1969

Psycho 26 (reissue)

Track List :

Futilists Lament, Death Warmed Up, Pushed But Not Forgotten, Walking Down Their Outlook, Missing Out, Nowhere

Reviews:

Awesome late 60’s UK heavy psych delivered with force!. Ex Misunderstood member Tony Hill and future Hawkwind member Simon House feature here, House’s brilliant violin work doing battle with Hills guitar, making this LP something very different indeed. Futilists Lament and Walking Down Their Outlook are my personal faves.

Reviewed by pOoTer.

Review 2:

Imagine yourself as an octopus swimming in a kaleidoscopic ocean when out of nowhere a fisherman who shall be known as "High Tide" grabs you violently and throws you onto the deck. He walks calmly over to you, bends down, places his fingers under your gills and thumbs on top of your head, then with a sharp flick of the wrists, flips you inside out leaving you writhing in agony until you fade out. If that is not enough he then picks you up and thrashes your lifeless body against the deck to dispel your bodily fluids, is "High Tide really that merciless?
I'm afraid it is. I would list this under "psycho-delia".

It has some of the most manic guitar work I have ever had the pleasure of listening to, Peter Paulis relentlessly pounding bass riffs and pure balls out finger bleeding lead by Tony Hills which makes you feel like he's ripping out your sinews and using them as guitar strings, drums by Roger (must have 4 arms) Hadden and beautifully violent violinist Simon House (later of Hawkwind fame).

This is a 5 cube album not only for its orchestration but its unending power. Heavy psych in its purest form. Each time I play it I sit in awe at its ferocity then when its finished cherish the silence and tuck it up in bed alongside the MC5.

Since listening to this I went to see a shrink and he said the best way to calm down after this aural invasion is to become an axe wielding homicidal maniac.
Here comes a candle to light you to bed and here comes a chopper to chop off your head, chip, chop.
Oh yeah!! and the cover is cool too!!.

Reviewed by Sir Eel. September 2001

High Tide - High Tide

1970

Psycho 27 (reissue)

Track List :

Blankman Cries Again, The Joke, Saneonymous.

Review:

Once espoused by a person who cares as the culmination of true British Psychedelia, High Tide's eponymous 1970 album should be an essential purchase for anyone who really wants to understand just what happened to that lost generation of musicians.

Short answer: they fried.

At least that's the impression you get once you have listened to this album enough to discern the lyrics, an achievement in itself considering the intensity of the performance from messrs. Hill, House, Pavli and Hadden.

The first track, and there are only three so bear with me, relates how a group of young innocents enter a lost valley of delights, discovering for the first time the peculiarities of their "tasteless game". To emphasise the savagery of their discoveries the band enter into more than five minutes of constructive mayhem to finish the track off, Hill's talking guitar catching alight from the smouldering embers of House's violin.

The explosive (literally) finish of Blankman Cries Again evolves into the second refrain, entitled The Joke, a dark exposition of an apparently enlightened mind for whom the act of laughing "before the given time" is sufficient to condemn him. The fact that it "was his only crime" does not serve as retribution and the track concludes with an absolutely haunting violin coda, backed by Hill's constrained accompaniment; the final repeating stretch wholly suggestive of the traps to be sprung.

There is, of course, no evolution into the third track (it was, after all, on the other side of the LP), but it is a track that could only stand on its own. In four parts, it begins with what appears to be a live jam session, such is the apparent wildness, but a session that displays a solid undercurrent that provides its own progression.

As the first part fades, the second begins with what must be one of the classic guitar sounds from the era, before reaching Hill's voice, relating, or so it seems, some of their Puddletown experiences. (For Puddletown See Rustic Rod's Aching Cellar). The conclusion to the second part is in relative terms a constrained affair, akin to the closing codas of The Joke, and, when it fades out, the band reintroduce the same wild jam seen in the first part.

The same but different and more wild, reaching a crescendo very much akin to a classical concerto, but played, it should be remembered, at great risk to their equipment. The final haunting part starts exactly like the the second, Hill's ringing guitar work echoing around Hadden's drum syncopation.

In some respects, it's a comforting sound, but once Hill relates the second verse, and the full implications of the game is placed before you, it is truly heart-rending. The final refrain to "smile when you say you've reached me again." is, on the surface, confusing, until you work out the type of affliction that might bring it forth. With that jolt, Hill's climactic guitar work to finish the album hits home like a bullet.

There are, in my humble opinion, very few guitar solos that could top what Hill achieves in that last stretch. Maybe Hendrix's Bold As Love track, maybe Gilmour's searing work on The Narrow Way Part 3. Very few, and those that do compare certainly don't carry the same weight of emotion.

As a postscript it should be noted that High Tide's drummer Roger Hadden is still classed as "Missing in Action". One more lost talent.

Get hold of this album. As an original LP (if you wish to part with a few hundred quid), as a Pyscho Reissue (no doubt costing tens of quid by now) or more easily as a CD.

Whichever you wish, but buy it. If only to look at the cover art.

Reviewed by Seddyward - April 2002

High Tide - Sea Shanties/High Tide (2 albums on one CD)

EMI Mid Price CZ530

Track List :

1) Futilists Lament, Death Warmed Up, Pushed But Not Forgotten, Walking Down Their Outlook, Missing Out, Nowhere 2) Blankman Cries Again, The Joke, Saneonymous.

Review:

Sea Shanties (1969) and its eponymous follow up (1970) were the first two releases by British group High Tide, these long deleted albums have now been repackaged onto a single CD. They sound like a hybrid of Black Sabbath and Hawkwind with violin instead of sax, indeed the front line of guitar and violin in this sort of heavy rock context is almost unique.

Guitarist Tony Hill, with a talent for oblique melodies and lyrics, is the main songwriter, but without doubt the outstanding musician is violinist Simon House, his playing on these sessions shows none of the folk or jazz clichés that rock violinists so readily use. For energy and inventiveness I would compare him to Ray Schulman of the late lamented Gentle Giant.

Simon House's post High Tide career took him to the Third Ear Band, Hawkwind, David Bowie circa Lodger, and various solo projects. The powerhouse rhythm section of Peter Pavli (bass) and Roger Hadden (drums) ensured that the mighty High Tide took no prisoners!

The original Sea Shanties comprised six tracks, five featuring Tony Hill's Jim Morrison influenced vocals plus Death Warmed Up, an extended instrumental work out, apparently an on-stage favourite. The second album, imaginatively titled High Tide, has three longish tracks and includes The
Joke, their most sophisticated composition.

Crank up the volume and enjoy.

Reviewed by Zygny - November 2001

High Treason - High Treason

1970

Abbott Records ‎– ABS 1209

Track List:

Leo, Maybe, Maybe, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Circadian Rhythm, The Witch, Fallin' Back.

Highway - Highway

1975

Private Pressing

Track List:

Too Many Changes, Look Away, Pegasus, Seems To Me, Just To Be With You, Bright Side, Meadow, Slip Away, Tomorrow.

The Hollies - Evolution

1967

Parlophone – PMC 7022

Track List:

Then The Heartaches Begin, Stop Right There, Water On The Brain, Lullaby To Tim, Have You Ever Loved Somebody, You Need Love, Rain On The Window, Heading For A Fall, Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe, When Your Light's Turned On, Leave Me, The Games We Play.

Homer - Homer

1972

Universal Recording Artists ‎– HS101

Track List:

Circles In The North, Taking Me Home, Dawson Creek, Survivor, In The Beginning, Love's Coming,Four Days And Nights 'Without You', Cyrano In The Park, Lonely Woman.

Honeybus - Story

1970

Deram – SML 1056

Track List:

Story, Black Mourning Band, Scarlet Lady, Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water, He Was Columbus, Ceilings No. 1, Under The Silent Tree, She's Out There, She Said Yes, I Remember Caroline, How Long, Ceilings No. 2.

Hoods, The - Gangsters & Morticians

1991

Midnight MIRLP 149 (ltd. ed. of 2000) (US)

Track List:

Standback (payback), She put a hex on me, Gangster Jack, You keep on lyin’, Laughing at you, She’s alright, Two’s a crowd, Mystery, I’m your mortician, Nothing at all, She’s my car, Rain starts fallin’, I wander around, Stupidity.

Review:

It’s well known that Mike Stax has a craze for the Pretty Things and Q65, however he never disappointed us, though he didn’t succeed in reaching the sublime levels of his idols, and this release isn’t inferior to his previous ones. Intensely and purposely his, in fact he wrote twelve tracks out of fourteen. The matrix is certainly the same that marked the records by Crawdaddys and Tell-Tale Hearts; here unlike those works, we can find a greater professionalism from all the musicians, but paradoxically this is a noxious virtue, because it seems to prejudice the spontaneity of the execution. Everybody is faultless: from the vocalist Jay Wiseman (co-author of a lot of the songs) who equals the various Ron Silva and Ray Brandes, to the “obviously” Dutch organist Ron Swart… and I can actually arouse them only one criticism: they don’t make any mistake.

File under “punk-R&B handbooks”.

Reviewed by Roberto from THE WRONG WAY August 2003

The Hook - Will Grab You

1968

UNI Records ‎– 73023

Track List:

Homes, Lookin' For You, You Know I Do, Turn Your Head, Son Of Fantasy, Dr. B & His Friends,Plug Your Head In, Everything's Groovy, Garbage Man, Dimples.

Horse - Horse

1970

RCA Victor ‎– SF 8109

Track List:

The Sacrifice, See The People Creeping Round, And I Have Loved You, Freedom Rider, Lost Control, To Greet The Sun, The Journey, Heat Of The Summer, Gypsy Queen, Step Out Of Line.

Hour Glass - Hour Glass

1967

Liberty ‎– LST-7536

Track List:

Out Of The Night, Nothing But Tears, Love Makes The World Go 'Round, Cast Off All My Fears, I've Been Trying, No Easy Way Down, Heartbeat, So Much Love, Got To Get Away, Silently, Bells.

Hour Glass - Power Of Love

1968

Liberty ‎– LST-7555

Track List:

Power Of Love, Changing Of The Guard, To Things Before, I'm Not Afraid, I Can Stand Alone, Down In Texas, I Still Want Your Love, Home For The Summer, I'm Hanging Up My Heart For You, Going Nowhere, Norwegian Wood, Now Is The Time.

Human Beinz - Nobody But Me

1968

Capitol

Track List:

Nobody but me, Black is the color of my true loves hair, Flower grave, Sueno, Turn on your lovelight, Serenade to Sarah, The Shaman, Dance on through, Foxy lady, It's fun to be clean, This lonely town.

Hunger - Strictly From Hunger

1969

Public 1006

Track List:

Colors, No Shame, Workshop, Portland 69, Trying To Make The Best, Open Your Eyes, The Truth, Mind Machine, She Let Him Continue, Trying To Make The Best No.2.

Hypnotics, The - Live'r Than God

1989

Situation-Two SITUM 26

Track List:

All Night long, Lets Get Naked, Revolution Stone, Rock Me Baby, Justice In Freedom.

Review:

Recorded live at the Powerhaus on the 27th July 1989 this album is a baptism by fire if you have never experienced the sonic beast that is Thee Hypnotics. Sure they trawl the back catalogues of The Stooges, Blue Cheer and the MC5 in search of inspiration, but with that out of the way prepare yourself for some of the most stunning rock ever to come out of England. James Jones has to be one of the coolest people ever to walk the planet with a stage presence so huge that no venue can withstand his persona.

Thrashing and flailing around the stage like a cross between Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger and Rob Tyner in low slung hipsters and pointed boots James Jones screams his way though a selection of Hypnotics originals and a blistering Rock Me Baby, kept aloft by the throbbing bass of Will Pepper, the relentless drumming of Mark Thompson and the white hot slabs of guitar that spit out from Ray Hansons Marshall stack and slash and burn the front row like a ‘Nam Napalm Attack.

“25 million and that’s just the start of it..........shake it shake shake it shake it till some good comes.”

Reviewed by pOoTer