This is the Hawkwind sixt and last UA album, after this album they left the UA for Charisma,
when EMI remastered the Hawkwind albums the remastered the fifth first albums, but not this one,
This is a fantastic Hawkwind album, so I hope that you gonna enjoy it a lot,
Michael Moorcock is guesting on this album both as poet and writer of some lyrics,
and even the concept story was from him, when he is a very great SF writer.
This CD has one bonus track with the B-Side of single Kings Of Speed,
itīs the track 12 Motorhead with Lemmy on lead vocals and with a heavy violin solo.
01 - Assult And Battery Part I (5:36) (Brock)
02 - The Golden Void Part II (4:33) (Brock)
03 - The Wizard Blew His Horn (1:46) (Moorcock-House-King-Powell)
04 - Opa-Loka (5:10) (Powwell-King)
05 - The Demented Man (3:58) (Brock)
06 - Magnu (8:15) (Brock)
07 - Standing At The Edge (2:42) (Moorcock-House-King-Powell)
08 - Spiral Galaxy 28948 (3:41) (House)
09 - Warriors (2:03) (Moorcock-House-King-Powell)
10 - Dying Seas (3:03) (Turner)
11 - Kings Of Speed (3:48) (Brock-Moorcock)
12 - Motorhead (3:03) (Kilmister)
Dave Brock - Guitar,Synthesizer, Bass on 4, Lead Vocals on 1,2,5,6,11
Nik Turner - Tenor & Soprano Saxes, Flute, Lead Vocals on 7,10
Simon House - Mellotron, Moog, Piano, Synthesizer, Violin
Lemmy - Bass, Lead Vocals on 12
Simon King - Drums, Percussion
Alan Powell - Drums, Percussion
Michael Moorcock - Vocals on 3,9
Produced by Hawkwind at Rockfield Studios March 1975
Track 12 Produced by Hawkwind at Olympic Studios January 1975
Special bonus track
13 - Motorhead (3:17) (Kilmister)
Dave Brock - Guitar,Synthesizer, Lead Vocals
Lemmy - Bass
Alan Powell - Drums
This album was released on UA 1975
This CD released by DOJO 1992
Review by Dave Thompson
Hawkwind's fifth studio album found the band enjoying a rare oasis of stability after the multitudinous personnel shifts of the past five years. Only the recruitment of a second drummer, Alan Powell, disturbed the equanimity of the lineup that created the previous year's Hall of the Mountain Grill, although it would soon be time to change again. By the end of the year, bassist Lemmy had departed, vocalist Robert Calvert had rejoined, and the group's career-long relationship with United Artists would be over. In the meantime, Warrior on the Edge of Time ensured that it was brainstorming business as usual. Decorated with a magnificent sleeve that unfolded into the shape of a shield, Warrior on the Edge of Time delivered some of Hawkwind's best-loved future showstoppers -- Simon House's far-reaching "Spiral Galaxy 28948," the frenetic "Assault and Battery," and the monstrous "Magnu" all made their bow here, while the accompanying "Kings of Speed" single was certainly a big hit in the youth clubs of the day, even if it did steadfastly avoid the chart. Remarkable, too, is "The Golden Void," a stately bolero set, indeed, on the edge of time and buffeted by one of the band's most impressive ever instrumental performances. A handful of tracks do betray their age. Michael Moorcock's echo- and effects-laden recitation of "The Wizard Blew His Horn" is impossibly overwrought, although it's worth sitting through simply for the segue into the throbbing "Opa-Loka"; in fact, the entire album is presented with minimal breaks between tracks, to deliver a seamless treat that -- in the light of Hawkwind's next musical moves -- has since seen Warrior on the Edge of Time described as the band's last true "classic." It isn't, but you can easily see why people think it might be. [The CD reissue includes one bonus track, Lemmy's valedictory "Motorhead," recorded during the album sessions but released only as the B-side to "Kings of Speed."]
Down the corridor of flame
Will I fly so high again
Is it something wrong with me
I cannot hear, I cannot see
Down the corridor of flame
Down the corridor of flame
Down the corridor of flame
Down the corridor of flame
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