Alien 4 (album)
Alien 4 | ||||
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Studio album by Hawkwind | ||||
Released | 30 October 1995 | |||
Recorded | 1995 | |||
Studio | Rockfield Studios | |||
Genre | Space rock | |||
Length | 63:00 | |||
Label | Emergency Broadcast System | |||
Producer | Hawkwind, Paul Cobbold | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Alien 4 is the twentieth studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1995.
At the end of 1994, with the group established as a three piece of guitarist Dave Brock, bassist Alan Davey and drummer Richard Chadwick, they felt they were lacking visually in terms of showmanship. Ron Tree, who had been involved with groups in the English free-festival scene, had offered his services and the group accepted them. In addition, guitarist Jerry Richards, another musician involved in the English free-festival scene as a member of the group Tubilah Dog, started contributing to some live dates and recording sessions.
This new line-up undertook a 13 date North America tour in April 1995, then recorded a BBC Radio 1 session on 27 July, at Maida Vale Studios.
The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in the summer, and the Area S4 EP featuring a "Roswell Mix" of "Alien (I Am)" was issued. "Death Trap" is a re-recording of the song from their 1978 album PXR5. "Wastelands" is a re-recording of "Wastelands Of Sleep" from their 1988 album The Xenon Codex. "Are You Losing Your Mind?" is a re-recording of "The Iron Dream" from their 1977 album Quark, Strangeness and Charm with new spoken words.
The cover is by Alan Arthurs, who was part of the band's crew and also worked on Brock's Devon farm, and was responsible for covers from Electric Tepee to Love in Space. He commented that it questions who the aliens are, whether the human race has now become alien to and destructive of nature.[2]
The group undertook a 13 date UK tour in October, followed by 7 European dates, to promote the album.[3] The Colston Hall, Bristol show on 19 October was filmed and recorded, and issued as the album Love in Space and video Love in Space. The group appeared on the VH1 programme Under the Bridge on 14 April 1996.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Abducted" | Ron Tree, Brock | 2:45 |
2. | "Alien (I Am)" | Brock | 7:46 |
3. | "Reject Your Human Touch" | Tree, Brock, Richard Chadwick, Alan Davey | 2:20 |
4. | "Blue Skin" | Tree, Brock, Chadwick, Davey | 7:07 |
5. | "Beam Me Up" | Hawkwind | 4:11 |
6. | "Vega" | Davey | 3:51 |
7. | "Xenomorph" | Tree, Davey | 4:52 |
8. | "Journey" | Brock, Davey | 3:12 |
9. | "Sputnik Stan" | Davey | 7:03 |
10. | "Kapal" | Brock, Chadwick, Davey | 5:11 |
11. | "Festivals" | Kris Tait, Brock | 6:50 |
12. | "Death Trap" | Robert Calvert, Brock | 3:57 |
13. | "Wastelands" (aka "Wastelands of Sleep") | Brock | 1:22 |
14. | "Are You Losing Your Mind?" | Tree, Brock, Chadwick, Davey | 2:33 |
15. | "Space Sex" (Vinyl and Atomhenge CD-only bonus track) | Brock | 2:56 |
Personnel
- Hawkwind
- Ron Tree – vocals
- Dave Brock – electric guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Alan Davey – bass guitar, vocals
- Richard Chadwick – drums
- Jerry Richards – electric guitar (tracks 12–14)
Credits
- Cover by Alan Arthurs
Release history
- October 1995: Emergency Broadcast System Records, UK; 2x12" vinyl (EBSLP118), CD digipak (EBSSCD118), CD (EBSCD118)
- February 2010: Atomhenge (Cherry Red) Records, ATOMCD1018, UK 2CD
External links
- Alien 4 catalogue entry – Atomhenge Records
References
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- Dave Brock
- Richard Chadwick
- Magnus Martin
- Thighpaulsandra
- Doug MacKinnon
- Nik Turner
- Dik Mik
- Huw Lloyd-Langton
- Thomas Crimble
- Del Dettmar
- Simon King
- Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister
- Robert Calvert
- Simon House
- Alan Powell
- Paul Rudolph
- Adrian Shaw
- Harvey Bainbridge
- Steve Swindells
- Keith Hale
- Ginger Baker
- Andy Anderson
- Robert Heaton
- Alan Davey
- Clive Deamer
- Bridget Wishart
- Ron Tree
- Mr Dibs
- Tim Blake
- Niall Hone
- Hawkwind
- In Search of Space
- Doremi Fasol Latido
- Hall of the Mountain Grill
- Warrior on the Edge of Time
- Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
- Quark, Strangeness and Charm
- 25 Years On (as Hawklords)
- PXR5
- Levitation
- Sonic Attack
- Church of Hawkwind
- Choose Your Masques
- The Chronicle of the Black Sword
- The Xenon Codex
- Space Bandits
- Electric Tepee
- It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous
- White Zone (as Psychedelic Warriors)
- Alien 4
- Distant Horizons
- In Your Area
- Spacebrock
- Take Me to Your Leader
- Take Me to Your Future
- Blood of the Earth
- Onward
- The Machine Stops
- Into the Woods
- Road to Utopia
- All Aboard the Skylark
- Carnivorous (as Hawkwind Light Orchestra)
- Somnia
- The Future Never Waits
- Stories from Time and Space
- The Weird Tapes
- Hawkwind, Friends and Relations
- The Text of Festival
- Zones
- Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin
- Space Ritual Volume 2
- Hawkwind Anthology
- Out & Intake
- BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
- The Friday Rock Show Sessions
- Hawklords Live
- California Brainstorm
- Undisclosed Files Addendum
- The 1999 Party
- Glastonbury 90
- Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2
- Complete '79: Collector Series Volume 1
- Atomhenge 76
- Live 1990
- Roadhawks
- Masters of the Universe
- Repeat Performance
- Angels of Death
- Spirit of the Age
- Stasis (The UA Years 1971–1975)
- Tales from Atom Henge
- Epocheclipse
- Future Reconstructions – Ritual of the Solstice
- Masters of Rock
- Spirit of the Age Anthology
- The Dream Goes On
- Hawkwind Zoo EP
- Sonic Assassins EP
- The Earth Ritual Preview
- Quark, Strangeness and Charm
- "Hurry On Sundown"
- "Silver Machine"
- "Urban Guerrilla"
- "Kings of Speed"
- "Kerb Crawler"
- "Back on the Streets"
- "Quark, Strangeness and Charm"
- "Psi Power"
- "25 Years"
- "Shot Down in the Night"
- "Who's Gonna Win the War?"
- "Spirit of the Age"
- Sonic Assassins
- Hawklords
- Space Ritual
- Hawklords (2008)