Choose Your Masques

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Choose Your Masques
Choose Your Masques cover
Studio album by Hawkwind
Released 1982
Recorded 1982
Genre Space Rock
Label RCA/Active
Producer(s) Hawkwind
Professional reviews
Hawkwind chronology
Church of Hawkwind
(1982)
Choose Your Masques
(1982)
The Chronicle of the Black Sword
(1985)



Choose Your Masques, is a 1982 studio album by Hawkwind. Reached #29 in the UK album charts.

Contents

[edit] Track Listing

  1. Choose Your Masks (Moorcock/Brock) 5:28
  2. Dream Worker (Bainbridge) 4:58
  3. Arrival In Utopia (Moorcock/Brock) 5:47
  4. Utopia (Brock) 3:00
  5. Silver Machine (Calvert/Brock) 4:22
  6. Void City (Bainbridge/Brock) 6:48
  7. Solitary Mind Games (Lloyd-Langton) 3:58
  8. Fahrenheit 451 (Calvert/Brock) 4:48
  9. The Scan (Bainbridge/Brock) 1:02
  10. Waiting For Tomorrow (Lloyd-Langton) 3:46
  11. Silver Machine (Calvert/Brock) 7:25 - bonus on CD releases
  12. Psychedelic Warlords (Brock) 4:52 - bonus on CD releases

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Credits

  • Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth – June & July 1982. Produced with Pat Moran.
  • Sleeve designed by Andrew Christian and Terry Oakes.

[edit] Notes

  • The lyrics for Fahrenheit 451, contributed by Calvert, are based on Ray Bradbury's book.
  • The Michael Moorcock tracks were originally credited to his wife Lynda Steele in order to by-pass Doug Smith in collecting royalties.
  • Dream Worker features a sample of Ian Holm reading from The Lord of the Rings.
  • Void City features a sample of The Outer Limits.
  • Silver Machine and Psychedelic Warlords are re-recordings of the early 1970s singles which weren't originally intended for inclusion on the album.

[edit] Release History

  • Oct 1982: RCA/Active, RCALP 6055, UK vinyl
  • Oct 1996: Emergency Broadcast System Records, EBSCD124, UK CD
  • Oct 1996: Griffin, GCD613-2, USA CD