Hall of the Mountain Grill [Import]

Hall of the Mountain Grill [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
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 Better Believe It', 'The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)'(Single Version), 'Paradox' (Remix Single Edit) and 'It's SoEasy'. 13 tracks total. The full title is 'Hall Of The Mountain Grill'.

Tracks:

The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)
Wind Of Change
D-Rider
Web Weaver
You'd Better Believe It
Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Lost Johnny
Goat Willow
Paradox
You'd Better Believe It (Single Version Edit)
The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke) (Single Version)
Paradox (Remix Single Edit)
It's So Easy

Album Description

UK remastered & repackaged reissue of the British progressive rock act's 1974 album with 5 added bonus tracks 'Paradox', 'You'd Better Believe It' (single version edit), 'The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)'(single version), 'Paradox' (remix single edit) & 'It's So Easy'. 2001.

Album Details

Digitally remastered with 5 bonus tracks!

Customer Reviews:

A good start.......2007-03-15

This is definitely the most "musical" of the earlier Hawkwind catalog.Lost Johnny is the standout track for me,with vocals lent from Lemmy(later of Motorhead fame).it's more of a song structured album as opposed to the earlier spacey 13 minute dabblings of previous recordings.A great introduction to any interested party.Definitely a must have for any rock collection.

HAWKWIND LIVES!!.......2006-08-04

A REAL WINNER ..A MUST FOR TEMPORAL AGENTS OR ANY METAPHYSICAL TRAVELERS....

ADJUST ME, Adjust Me, adjust me ..........2006-06-27

What is the problem with these guys? The make awsome music but seems to have a problem trying to have a descent sound on an album. I bought an album a couple of years back and let me tell you, there was almost no music on it? Talking, talking, soft music in the background, big arena echo all the way through the album.

Hawkwind was only wind to me until I bought this album. WOW you better believe it, they're genius. My favorites are D-rider, Paradox, Web weaver and can't explain why.

One of their finest!!!.......2006-05-01

Even though Hawkwind are one of my very favorite bands, their recording output has been patchy at times (an opinion shared by virtually everyone) and it's sometimes disheartening having to dig your way through all the rip-off compilations to get to the real great stuff. But wow, when you finally get right down to it, Hawkwind may have released some really REALLY bad live stuff (although when they were at their peak, they were pretty unstoppable; see the legendary SPACE RITUAL), their early studio output during the 1970s is some of the greatest psychedelic space rock out there.

Which brings us to HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN GRILL, which easily makes the Top 5 for this band, and is only definitively beaten by its immediate successor, the peerless WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME. The album starts off with a real winner of a track, "Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)," which in just under 7 minutes perfectly condenses the two characterists that most people define them by... their hard-rocking Black Sabbath side and their proggy Pink Floyd side.

The band decides to mellow out on the next song "Wind of Change," and if you're not completely engaged by the time "D-Rider" kicks in, you're listening to the wrong band. Another highlight is "Lost Johnny," with a prominent vocal performance from future Motorheader Lemmy (this song would appear on that band's debut album) and the haunting album closer "Paradox." When you get down to it, there isn't a poor song on this album.

Hawkwind's early studio LPs have been re-released in recent years, and this is the last of those reissues. You get four bonus tracks and a nice lengthy booklet for band fanatics like myself... What the hell are you waiting for? This is one of the greatest bands of all time at the top of their creative powers.

Need a little help with this one.......2006-01-13

I am an old fan of spacey music. My roots are in heavy classic material but I have very much ventured out to ambient, jazz, space rock and many other types. I love Ozric Tentacles and Porcupine Tree when in the Psych/Spacey mode. Hawkwind seem to be a staple of spacey hard driving music based on reviews and their popularity. I need to know why this album is one of their top sellers. I bought it but don't see the magic in this. This is average garage burnout music (I should know, I'm one of the burnouts). I find it generally pleasing and do play it from time to time but nothing here that strikes me. Someone please recommend where to go in the Hawkwind collection to experience the greatness that is cast upon this band. I'm ready. I'm willing .. but not getting it thus far.

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Hall of The Mountain Grill

Manufacturer: Msi Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A29BBW
Release Date: 2001-08-20

Average customer rating:

An incredible blend of heavy beats, spacey synthesizers, and mellotron
Hawkwind's progressive rock album.
Hawkwind's best?
Good Tunes plus awsome album cover
Psychedelic Warlords became psychedelic songcrafts

Hall of the Mountain Grill
Hawkwind
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000K458
Release Date: 2001-04-24

Tracks:

The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)
Wind Of Change
D-Rider
Web Weaver
You'd Better Believe It
Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Lost Johnny
Goat Willow
Paradox
You'd Better Believe It (Single Version Edit)
The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke) (Single Version)
Paradox (Remix Single Edit)
It's So Easy

Album Description

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 Better Believe It', 'The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)'(Single Version), 'Paradox' (Remix Single Edit) and 'It's SoEasy'. 13 tracks total. The full title is 'Hall Of The Mountain Grill'.

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

An incredible blend of heavy beats, spacey synthesizers, and mellotron.......2006-07-30

This incredible 1974 album opens with Lemmy's chugging Rickenbacker bass and the thunderous drumming of Simon House on The Psychedelic Warlords. Adding a very nice textural element to this track is the spacey mellotron work of Simon King. As a huge fan of the mellotron, I can't get enough of this instrument and it is all over this album. In fact, this album is a little different than previous efforts such as Doremi Fasolatido (1972) in that there is a bit of a proggier feel. Hawkwind would continue this approach on the absolutely incredible follow up album Warriors on the Edge of Time (1975).

The lineup on this album includes Dave Brock (electric, acoustic 12 string guitar, synthesizers, Hammond organ, and vocals); Lemmy (bass, vocals and guitar on Lost Johnny); Simon House (piano, mellotron, mini moog synthesizer, violin); Nik Turner (saxophone, oboe, flute, and vocals); Del Dettmar (piano, Hammond organ, synthesizers, and kalimba); and Simon King (drums). This is my favorite Hawkwind lineup.

The music on this album is very spacey, loaded chock full of synthesizers, and drenched in mellotron. Good examples of the synth-heavy tracks include Wind of Change, Hall of the Mountain Grill, and Goat Willow. All three feature very haunting melodies. At the other end of the spectrum is Lemmy's crushing and bass-heavy tune Lost Johnny and the tracks You'd Better Believe It and Paradox, which feature a pulverizing and insistent beat. These three tracks are the heaviest on the album. The remaining tracks more or less straddle both extremes. All in all, it is a very nice blending of styles and is precisely the reason why I like Hawkwind so much. According to the liner notes, of the tracks included on the original album You'd better Believe It and Paradox were recorded live although you would never know it - there is no audience noise whatsoever, although there is an energy to the tunes that suggests a live performance. The live tracks on this album were recorded at Edmonton Sundown in January of 1974.

This remastered album is quite nice and features fold-out cardboard flaps that feature glossy photos of the band. Unfortunately, there are not any liner notes. The bonus tracks include versions of You'd Better Believe It (single version) and The Psychedelic Warlords (single edit) along with a remixed version of Paradox and finally, the decent track Its So Easy (live).

This album is very highly recommended along with the eponymous debut and Warriors on the Edge of Time. I should note that if you are able to find a copy of Warriors on the Edge of Time issued by the German Rock Fever label grab it - it contains bonus live tracks not available on other versions of the album.

Hawkwind's progressive rock album........2002-04-13

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!

Hawkwind's best?.......2001-07-25

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.

Good Tunes plus awsome album cover.......2001-01-26

When I first saw this album back in the 70's I bought it for the album cover because I never heard of them and because they cut a corner from the album it was like two bucks a bargin in my book even if the album sucked, but it was great I played that on my turntable over and over. I haven't heard it in ten years but now that its out on cd I will repurchase it and still keep my album cover.

Psychedelic Warlords became psychedelic songcrafts.......2001-01-24

The quality of this album is still as thrilling as their former classics (in search of space, Space Rituals, etc.) The song cycles are inspiring and impressive. However, we could saw a crisis that Hawkwind was beginning to repeat themselves (which later came true) and began to craft their songs instead of filling it with accidential muse. The songs are less intact, and we could see more "individual works" (like excellent solo Hall of the Mountain Grill, Goat Willow by the two Keyboard wizzard Simon House and Del Dettmar) but less fascinating collaboration, which is a trademark found in "Space Ritual". It seems that Hawkwind were beginning to degenerate. Anyway, it's still a great work in 70's work.