I only have the original single disk version so a few narrations and a couple of songs are missing, but I doubt my opinion would be changed by the inclusion of these tracks. On the plus side –this disk does include most of the highlights from their 80s releases, including Song of the Swords, Dragons and Fables, The Shade Gate, Rocky Paths, Choose Your Masques, Zarozina and Angels of Death. There is also an excellent new song, Moonglum, by Huw that I like more than most of these tracks. So as a sampler of Hawkwind’s 80s output you could do much worse than this release. Unfortunately the narration, probably fun live, is a distraction to the flow and I don’t care for it. The older songs as played and arranged here come up short to their 70's counterparts. The recording quality is excellent, but it is from ’86 and sounds more dated than Space Ritual from 1973! Weird.
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