Epocheclipse

Summary

Epocheclipse is a 1999 compilation set by Hawkwind covering their entire career. It was released in two formats, a triple CD box set 30 Year Anthology and a single disc The Ultimate Best of.

Epocheclipse
Box set by
ReleasedAugust 1999
Recorded1969-1999
GenreSpace rock
LabelEMI
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1] 30 Year Anthology
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2] The Ultimate Best of

The band's biggest hit single from 1972, "Silver Machine", was re-mixed by The KLF's Jimmy Cauty, with additional bass and guitars by Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd), under the name Infected By The Scourge of the Earth. The mixes were released as promos by EMI as a white-label 12" and CD (catalogue DECLIPSE1999), the 12" containing "12" Mix" and "New Mix", the CD containing "Radio Mix", "12" Mix" and the "Original version". The "12" Mix" and "Radio Mix" were included on 30 Year Anthology and The Ultimate Best of respectively.

Track listing edit

30 Year Anthology: CD1 edit

  1. "Hurry on Sundown" (Dave Brock) [Hawkwind Zoo Demo] – 1970 – from Hawkwind (re-mastered)
  2. "Paranoia (Part 2)" (Brock) – 1970 – from Hawkwind
  3. "Master of the Universe" (Nik Turner, Brock) – 1971 – from In Search of Space
  4. "Children of the Sun" (Turner, Dave Anderson) – 1971 – from In Search of Space
  5. "Silver Machine" (Robert Calvert, Brock) [Original single version] – 1972 – single included on In Search of Space (re-mastered)
  6. "Seven by Seven" (Brock) [Original single version] – 1972 – single B-side included on In Search of Space (re-mastered)
  7. "Brainstorm" (Turner) – 1972 – from Doremi Fasol Latido
  8. "Space is Deep" (Brock) – 1972 – from Doremi Fasol Latido
  9. "Urban Guerilla" (Calvert, Brock) – 1973 – single included on Doremi Fasol Latido (re-mastered)
  10. "Brainbox Pollution" (Brock) – 1973 – single B-side included on Doremi Fasol Latido (re-mastered)
  11. "Sonic Attack" (Michael Moorcock)– 1972 – from Space Ritual
  12. "Orgone Accumulator" (Calvert, Brock) – 1972 – from Space Ritual
  13. "Lost Johnny" (Ian Kilmister) – 1974 – from Hall of the Mountain Grill
  14. "The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)" (Brock) [Single edit] – 1974 – single included on Hall of the Mountain Grill (re-mastered)

30 Year Anthology: CD2 edit

  1. "Motorhead" (Kilmister) – 1975 – single B-side included on Warrior on the Edge of Time (re-mastered)
  2. "Assault and Battery" (Brock) – 1975 – from Warrior on the Edge of Time
  3. "Golden Void" (Brock) – 1975 – from Warrior on the Edge of Time
  4. "Magnu" (Brock) – 1975 – from Warrior on the Edge of Time
  5. "Kerb Crawler" (Calvert, Brock) – 1976 – from Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
  6. "Steppenwolf" (Calvert, Brock) – 1976 – from Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
  7. "Back on the Streets" (Calvert, Paul Rudolph) – 1976 – single included on Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music (re-mastered)
  8. "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" (Calvert, Brock) – 1977 – from Quark, Strangeness and Charm
  9. "Hassan i Sabbah" (Calvert, Rudolph) – 1977 – from Quark, Strangeness and Charm
  10. "Spirit of the Age" (Calvert, Brock) – 1977 – from Quark, Strangeness and Charm
  11. "Psi Power" (Calvert, Brock) – 1978 – from 25 Years On
  12. "25 Years" (Brock) – 1978 – from 25 Years On
  13. "High Rise" (Calvert, Simon House) – 1978 – from PXR5
  14. "Death Trap" (Calvert, Brock) – 1978 – from PXR5
  15. "Uncle Sam's on Mars" (Calvert, Brock, House, Simon King) – 1978 – from PXR5

30 Year Anthology: CD3 edit

  1. "Shot Down in the Night" (Steve Swindells) [single version] – 1979 – from Live Seventy Nine
  2. "Motorway City" (Brock) – 1980 – from Levitation
  3. "Levitation" (Brock) – 1980 – from Levitation
  4. "Angels of Death" (Brock) – 1981 – from Sonic Attack
  5. "Coded Languages" (Moorcock, Harvey Bainbridge) – 1981 – from Sonic Attack
  6. "Some People Never Die" (Brock) – 1982 – from Church of Hawkwind
  7. "Choose Your Masks" (Moorcock, Brock) – 1982 – from Choose Your Masques
  8. "Night of the Hawks" (Brock) – 1983 – from The Earth Ritual Preview EP
  9. "Needle Gun" (Roger Neville-Neil, Brock) – 1985 – from The Chronicle of the Black Sword
  10. "The War I Survived" (Neville-Neil, Brock, Alan Davey) – 1988 – from The Xenon Codex
  11. "Black Elk Speaks" (Black Elk, John G. Neihardt, Brock)– 1990 – from Space Bandits
  12. "Right To Decide" (Brock, Davey) – 1992 – from Electric Tepee
  13. "Sputnik Stan" (Davey) – 1995 – from Alien 4
  14. "Love in Space" (Brock) – 1996
  15. "Silver Machine" (Calvert, Brock) [Infected by The Scourge of the Earth] – 1999

The Ultimate Best Of: single CD edit

  1. "Silver Machine" (Calvert, Brock)
  2. "Master of the Universe" (Turner, Brock)
  3. "Urban Guerrilla" (Calvert, Brock)
  4. "Sonic Attack" (Moorcock)
  5. "The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)" (Brock)
  6. "Assault and Battery" (Brock)
  7. "Motorhead" (Kilmister)
  8. "Back on the Streets" (Calvert, Rudolph)
  9. "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" (Calvert, Brock)
  10. "25 Years" (Brock)
  11. "Motorway City" (Brock)
  12. "Angels of Death" (Brock)
  13. "Night of the Hawks" (Brock)
  14. "Needle Gun" (Neville-Neil, Brock)
  15. "Right To Decide" (Brock, Davey)
  16. "Alien I Am" (Brock) [Roswell edit] - 1995 - from Alien 4
  17. "Love in Space" (Brock)
  18. "Silver Machine" (Calvert, Brock) [Infected by The Scourge of the Earth - Radio edit] - 1999

Charts edit

Chart (1999) Peak
position
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[3] 29

Release history edit

  • August 1999: EMI, 521751–2, 3-CD box set
  • August 1999: EMI, 521747–2, single CD

References edit

  1. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 30, 2023.