Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977)
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Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm
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Side 1
"Spirit of the Age" (Robert Calvert, Dave Brock) – 7:20
"Damnation Alley" (Calvert, Brock, Simon House) – 9:06
"Fable of a Failed Race" (Calvert, Brock) – 3:15
Side 2
"Quark, Strangeness and Charm" (Calvert, Brock) – 3:41
"Hassan I Sahba" (Calvert, Paul Rudolph) – 5:21
"The Forge of Vulcan" (House) – 3:05
"Days of the Underground" (Calvert, Brock) – 3:13
"The Iron Dream" (Simon King) – 1:53
Atomhenge bonus tracks
"Damnation Alley" [live studio version] – 10:33
"A minor Jam Session" – 9:49
"Spirit of the Age" [demo – excerpt] – 2:59
"Hash Cake Cut" – 4:25
Atomhenge bonus CD
"Damnation Alley" [first studio version] – 10:34
"Spirit of the Age" [full extended version] – 11:20
"Days of the Underground" [first version] – 5:38
"Quark, Strangeness and Charm"/"Uncle Sam's on Mars" – 9:18
"Fable of a Failed Race" [extended version] – 6:49
"Damnation Alley" [alternate harmony vocal version] – 8:23
"Spirit of the Age" [live 1977] – 5:54
"Robot" [live 1977] – 5:57
"High Rise" [live 1977] – 5:39
Hawkwind Band Members
Dave Brock – guitar, synthesisers, sound FX, vocals, and quark
Robert Calvert – vocals, percussion, morse, and strangeness
Simon House – keyboards, violin, anvil, vocals, and charm
Adrian Shaw – bass guitar, vocals, and hand-claps
Simon King – drums, percussion, and no-vocal
Recorded at Rockfield Studios, February 1977. Produced by Hawkwind, engineered by Dave Charles.
Cover by Hipgnosis and Geoff Halpin. The photographs are of control room B at Battersea Power Station.
Release history
Jun-1977: Charisma, CDS4008, UK vinyl – original release contained an inner sleeve with typed lyrics on graphic paper.
Jun-1977: Sire, SRK6047, USA vinyl – original release contained an inner sleeve with typed lyrics on graphic paper.
Jun-1977: Charisma, 9124012, Germany/Italy – contained 6 slides of Calvert/Brock/Rudolph/House/King performing Atomhenge
Jun-1977: Charisma, 9211-4008, Canada
Oct-1986: Charisma, CHC50, UK vinyl
Apr-1989: Virgin, CDSCD4008, UK CD
Jun-1995: Griffin Music, GCD370-0, USA CD; GCDHA162-2, USA CD with the Michael Butterworth Queens of Deleria book.
March 2009: Atomhenge (Cherry Red) Records, ATOMCD2009, UK 2CD
Quark, Strangeness and Charm is the 7th studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1977. It spent six weeks on the UK albums chart peaking at number 30.
This is Hawkwind's seventh studio album, hence "The Hawkwind Part 7" title on the inner sleeve. It is the band's first album without co-founding member Nik Turner, and drummer Alan Powell had also departed. In addition, Adrian "Ade" Shaw from Magic Muscle replaced Paul Rudolph during the recording session.
The music on this album is more pop-oriented than with their previous offerings.
