Vinyl Album - Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music - Charisma

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Hawkwind
Title:	Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
Label:	Charisma
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	CDS 4004
Date:	27 Aug 1976
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	16 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Hawkwind	Reefer Madness	Brock, Calvert	9.3 Rate
A2	Hawkwind	Steppenwolf	Brock, Calvert	8.0 Rate
A3	Hawkwind	City Of Lagoons	House	8.5 Rate
B1	Hawkwind	The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon	Rudolph	9.0 Rate
B2	Hawkwind	Kerb Crawler	Brock, Calvert	8.0 Rate
B3	Hawkwind	Kadu Flyer	Mandelkau, House, Calvert	8.5 Rate
B4	Hawkwind	Chronoglide Skyway	Powell	9.0 Rate

Notes

Inner sleeve.
Some early copies came with the outer sleeve reversed (the front became the back and vice versa).

Composition credits for tracks A3 & B4 are swapped on the label: A3 was written by Allan Powell & B4 by Simon House. The re-issue has the same error, and also adds Calvert to the credits for B3.

The album title, the front cover typography and the front cover art are all an act of homage to the first two science fiction magazines, Hugo Gernsback's "Amazing Stories", and the William Clayton-published "Astounding Stories of Super-Science", edited by Harry Bates: the titles and themes of Hawkwind's (and later spin-off "Hawkincarnations"') music evinces the band members' abiding interest in SF, including in futures and pasts both possible and impossible.

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Quad5point1 7th Feb 2023		Added Sounds Advert 24/07/1976 placing this release date to 27/08/1976



Hawkmarty SUBS 14th Jul 2017		Added brown label variation where the publishing details "All titles: Rock Music Co Ltd", the production credit and the album title are each on one line. Also, Calvert is added as composer to B3 and there is a mixing credit for Dave Gilmour for track B2. And finally the text "Produced by" is all in capitals.