Hall of the Mountain Grill [Original recording remastered, Import]

Hawkwind | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 24, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B00000K458
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #545,157 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)

2. Wind Of Change

3. D-Rider

4. Web Weaver

5. You'd Better Believe It

6. Hall Of The Mountain Grill

7. Lost Johnny

8. Goat Willow

9. Paradox

10. You'd Better Believe It (Single Version Edit)

11. The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke) (Single Version)

12. Paradox (Remix Single Edit)

13. It's So Easy

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered 1996 reissue on EMI of their 1974 albumon a full color picture CD in a gatefold digipak with fold-out flaps & with four unmarked bonus tracks: 'You'd BetterBelieve It', 'The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)'(Single Version),

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hawkwind's progressive rock album., April 13, 2002

By 

R. Recchia "reck" (blodgett mills, ny) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hall of the Mountain Grill (Audio CD)

When I try to get my friends into Hawkwind, I usually
start them out with this album, for it really is a good intro-
duction to them. Hawkwind got a tad more musical on HALL, due in
part to the arrival of violinist/keyboardist SIMON HOUSE, and
HALL also was their first progressive rock album. I don't like
every song on this, but I still think it's a very powerful album.
YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT has a very memorable vocal line to it; the chorus,
which has LEMMY singing the song title, is one of their best
choruses ever. Tis a very heavy song, with an extended instru-
mental break during which the soloists go nuts! The title track
is a very spacy, but melodic instrumental and is quite lovely,
actually. WIND OF CHANGE saw the first appearance of a mellotron
in a HAWKWIND song.LOST JOHNNY is one of LEMMY's best songs.
It's very spooky sounding, with it's dark lyrics and sythesizers
and is really a very enjoyable hard rock song. DEL DETTMAR con-
tributes a very nice, soothing instrumental. YOU BETTER, PSYCHE-
LEDIC WARLORDS and PARADOX showed that HAWKWIND hadn't complete-
ly abandoned their hard rock side. HALL is a terrific HAWKWIND
album!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hawkwind's best?, July 25, 2001

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Scott Richardson (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hall of the Mountain Grill (Audio CD)

With so many great albums, it's hard to say which one is Hawkwind's best. If it all came down to it, my vote would probably go to Mountain Grill. Well, for best studio album, anyway. With Psychedelic Warlords, D-Rider, Lost Johnny, Paradox...how can you go wrong? Hard to come by, but incredibly rewarding.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked Excellence-HAWKWIND's-Hall of the Mountain Grill, December 30, 2000

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"crumbhunger" (Fresno, CA United States) - See all my reviews

I'm convinced that the reason this CD is not considered one of HAWKWIND's best is that it has been so hard to come by. Before purchasing my CD, the last time I had heard this album was in 1979. It was one of a number of HAWKWIND disks on the premises at the time and had been purchased from a British collection at a used record store. It was considered rare back then! This disk contains the type of music that made HAWKWIND famous! Many of the songs on this disk have seen wide release on badly-mastered "Best-of's" and live albums; this does not do them justice. Trust me - the original studio master sounds great! Assuming that the digital-remastering didn't harm the sound - this recording compares favorably with 'Doremi Faso Latido' and 'In Search of Space'. "Everybody" but Dik-Mik is on the line-up, and Simon King is playing drums! Nik Turner turns in classic HAWKWIND "winds"; Simon House adds keyboards and "strings"; Del Dettmar has control of "electronica"; Lemmy provides the bass; and Dave Brock leads the show. You can hear the beginnings of 'Warrior on the Edge of Time' in these songs.