You Are in Orbit! Space-Rock Appreciation Thread!

Thanks, Doug, I was not familiar with UFO that early!  Nice!! 

 2020: Aries - Because of My Fears - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ-_mRulzvY

ARIES     Ram-bam-ba-lamb! It's written in the stars that Aries are the most exciting thing to happen in Greece since the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, when the Persians defeated the Spartans, winning 2-1 after extra time. You don't need to climb Mount Olympus to meet the prog gods, because the tremendous trio of titans are all right here on this one amazing album. This is Space Rock, Jim, but not as we know it, going boldly where no Space Rock album has ever gone before (split infinitives permitting!). "Because of My Fears"  is light years ahead of any Space Rock album I know of, and where you'd have to travel to the distant galaxy of Andromeda to hear anything even remotely approaching this magnitude of brilliance. Aries shines as brightly as a distant Quasar - the brightest object in the known universe. The album is one long continuous five-part suite of music, so set the controls for the heart of the Sun, power up into interstellar overdrive at max factor five and prepare for a fantastic voyage of a lifetime in the best 43 minutes you've ever spent outside of the bedroom. It's a stellar stunner!  What REALLY sets this fabulous album apart though, is the beautiful siren-song call of the charming female vocalist. After all, when was the last time you ever heard a female lead singer on a Space Rock album? Probably never. The pounding percussive power of the Duracel drummer is worthy of a mention too, sounding like a battering ram with an artillery barrage of sound the like of which we haven't heard since the furious fusillade of cannon fire at the climax of Tchaikovsky's triumphal  1812 Overture. And let's not forget the incredible guitarist either, whose psychedelic, purple-haze freak-outs would make Jimi Hendrix jealous. This stunning Space Rock extravaganza is a sonic blast from beginning to end and one of the most electrifying albums you'll ever hear  this side of the Milky Way galaxy. Ad Astra!

🔥 Blast off with current space-rock band Naxatras from Athens, Greece! 🌌🇬🇷 Dive into the celestial vibes of Naxatras' 2022 live version of their instrumental track "The Great Attractor" and let your spirit soar among the stars! 🚀🇬🇷 It's like a Greek odyssey through the cosmos—perfect for stargazers and dreamers alike! 🎶 🛸

How you conduct your own threads is your business. But knowing that you've spent maybe an average of five minutes or something for each of these albums - the ratings of complete discographies in other peoples threads borders on spamming in my opinion. It's like postulating your opinion of a novel after having read the first, tenth, thirtieth, ninetieth and two hundredth page. You do as you please, but I think it's a little unfair to the creators and artists.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: The Gong Family Albums  http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=127423&PN=1

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Hawkwind - The Ultimate Space Rock Band - Individually & Collectively

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Space Rock: To boldly go where No-Man has gone before. Well, apart from Steven Wilson, obviously.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Gong but not forgotten: the magic and the madness of Daevid Allen (1938-2015) and Gilli Smyth (1933-2016)

From my current town of Kettering, the (now defunct) band 'Thee Telepaths' released 'The Velvet Night' in 2019. I found it at Rocket Records about a year after the stopped playing; Still sealed, creased and a little beaten on the sleeve but cheap enough to take a punt on. 

3 fuzzed-out, spacey suites with a 70's garage rock vibe, listed on their Bandcamp as the separate parts, but on the album sleeve just as 'Alpha Parts I-V (19:45), Epsilon Parts I-III (11:10), Delta Parts I-IV (11:09).'

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