Take Me to Your Future

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Take Me to Your Future
Take Me to the Future - Hawkwind.jpg
Studio album by
Released4 September 2006
Recorded2005
Genre Space rock
Label Voiceprint
Producer Hawkwind
Hawkwind chronology
Take Me to Your Leader
(2005)
Take Me to Your Future
(2006)
Knights of Space
(2008)
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Take Me to Your Future is the twenty fifth studio/live album produced under the Hawkwind name, a 2006 dual disc of new studio audio and archive live videos by Hawkwind.

Contents

The cover is based on Georgia O'Keeffe's 1927 painting Radiator Building - Night, New York of the American Radiator Building.

Audio side

  1. "Uncle Sam’s on Mars" (Calvert, Brock, House, King) - 8:18 - new version
  2. "Small Boy" (Calvert, Brock) - 3:16 - from The Brock/Calvert Project album.
  3. "The Reality of Poverty" (Morley, Brock) - 9:08
  4. "Ode to a Timeflower" (Calvert, Brock) - 4:05 - from The Brock/Calvert Project album.
  5. "Silver Machine" (Calvert, Brock) - 6:58 - remix

Video side

  1. "Images" - from the forthcoming DVD Space Bandits
  2. "Utopia" - from the forthcoming DVD Australia 2000 Video on YouTube
  3. "Assassins of Allah" - from the forthcoming DVD Winter Solstice 2005
  4. "The Golden Void" - from the forthcoming DVD Treworgey Tree Fayre 1989
  5. "Steppenwolf" - 1996 rehearsal footage
  6. "Don’t be Donkish" - Hawkfest 2002 and 2003 footage
  7. "Paradox" - Take Me to Your Leader launch party footage myspace

Personnel

Hawkwind

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References

  1. Thompson, Dave. Take Me to Your Future at AllMusic
  2. Ian Abrahams, "Hawkwind Take Me To Your Future", Record Collector , December 2006, p. 113.