A Kraut Rock band who could be described as" Space Rock " were Ash Ra Tempel similar in sound to early 70's Floyd , the debut Hawkwind album and Tangerine Dream electronics . Their early 70's albums are worth checking out .
@@billd2635 The early 70's albums are the best in my opinion each one containing a side long guitar based instrumental jam and the second side a long spacey electronics track similar to Tangerine Dream . When Tempel split the lead guitarist whose name l forget continued making albums under the name "Ash Ra ". All are available on CD l think if you can't afford the original vinyl which is rare and pricey . Luckily l got my copies at the time as "Kraut Rock" was popular and collectable in the early '70's . Happy listening .
Yes indeed, and there are also spaces between the tracks on almost all rock album’s. These spaces are just as silent and mysterious as the dark void of the universe…
Good video. Some other space rock groups I would include would definitely be some of the late '60s-early '70s German bands like Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Duul II, and Guru Guru, and some of the more interesting late '80s-'90s groups like The Orb, KLF (their first couple of albums), and Alien Planetscapes. And of course, I would also include the Grateful Dead's various live versions of "Dark Star" from 1968-74 and 1989-94.
Two groups I would add to this list, although their overall catalogue goes beyond space rock. First, pre Steve Perry Journey, especially the first album are pretty much space rock. Check out the track "Of a lifetime" from the first album. Second, Rush, especially 2112 and Cygnus X-1.
One of the pioneering albums that had already in 1968 all the elements of the space rock genre in its sound was "Cauldron" by the band Fifty foot Hose. Fantastic album. It's a pity that they didn't released anything else after that...
At Glastonbury festival in 2003 my future wife and I discovered we had incompatible musical tastes as I dragged her to see the Ozrics, Eat Static and System 7 in rapid succession. She hated them all.
There were also the punk influenced side in the late 70s, early 80s - Inner City Unit, New York Gong/Material. You could do a super deep dive into Gong and Daevid Allen's various side projects and offshoots (Invisible Opera Company, University of Errors etc) Then you can go beyond stoner metal to cosmic black metal or to the death metal of Blood Incantation, which at times sounds like early Porcupine Tree but then brings in the extreme metal. The crossover with jazz gets quite strong too, with Sun Ra bringing inspiration, and bands like Spaceways Inc. and some of the bands I associate with Acoustic Ladyland and the F-IRE collective, especially The Comet Is Coming and Heliocentrics
I have a vid on Canterbury bands that focuses a lot on Gong, but they should definitely have their own video at some point! I've heard a bit of Blood Incantation (a friend of mine is really into them), but haven't given them a really good listen yet, so I'll make sure to do that! Appreciate it!
Grest call...University of errors a fine Daevid Allen project ... Saw them at the uncon in Amsterdam and up there with best bands I've seen.. Got a beautiful angular punky vibe ..
Outside of the group's name I just can't see putting UFO into this category. I always considered UFO a hard rock group with some Progressive overtones. However I can't find any examples of Space Rock in this band.
Excellent video. I think you covered the genre pretty thoroughly, I just wanted to mention the fantastic album Journey by Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come which is notable as the first album to use a drum machine. The music is some excellent sounding classic space rock. My only nitpick (which you acknowledged) was not touching on some of the early German Krautrock and electronic influences which were instrumental in shaping the sound of space rock. Overall though, excellent job! Yeah✌🏻
Journey is amazing and it's also a Mellotron classic (I think it came before Simon House joined Hawkwind and added his Mellotron to their sound). Yes, Krautrock too - Amon Duul II definitely deserve a mention.
@@RickTransit I agree with both comments: Journey is a masterpiece , among the best things Arthur Brown had done . The other musicians in the album were also great ( including the Bentley drum machine!). I also agree that some bands of the Krautrock era ( Amon Duul II, Ashra Temple, Tangerine dream, Brainticket, Cosmic Jokers) not only deserve mentioning, but they were among the greatest in the early - mid'70s.
The first two Arthur Browns Kingdom Come albums are worth checking out . Bands that could be defined as Space Rock were the excellent German bands Mythos and Gila along with Ash Ra Tempel and the great Amon Duul .
I'm 19 and I love space rock and feel like it's coming back in a different form/theme Saw Ozric Tentacles (Big up Coleford) and Gong recently, still going strong!
@@curtc2194also offshoots and spinoffs. A few years ago, I went to a small space rock festival where many of the bands featured, or consisted of, ex-Hawkwind members. I remember having breakfast with Nik Turner one morning.
@@bobbyshroyer440 They were certainly the first group I ever heard the term used for, though some may argue that, looking back, they weren't all that "spacey".
I was expecting more Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Temple, and associated artists. Also, when you mentioning some peripheral groups you may have well mention Sun Ra. Space is indeed the place!
This video wove a lot musical threads together for me and gave me several new albums to check out. Very well done and I enjoyed the format a lot, especially sharing album cover art; personally I use cover art as a tool to guide my intuition with new music discoveries, so it’s super important for me to see the covers when hearing about an album in a video. Going to check out some more videos now.😎
Not a bad documentary, maybe a little too much about the modern stuff, which is debatable whether it is even space rock at all. but I feel they really missed the boat by missing what I believe is the true starts of space rock, The Beatle's 1966 track "Tomorrow Never Knows" and The Rolling Stone's 1967 "2000 light Years from Home". And yes, Tangerine Dream is conspicuously missing . Long live Hawkwind!
Great Video! imho, 5th dimension really are the founding fathers of Space Rock! "I can see your house from here" from Camel is Prog Rock but there is some influences, like on Ice, and Survival.
I enjoyed this. I must say my favorite space rock album is Gong You. I still listen to it about once Month. It's just a great album. Liked and subscribed!
In addition to some of the groups mentioned I think you could throw in Walter Carlos and Kraftwerk as well as some of the other electronic music that was out back then.
total gong nut here. daevid allen of gong also had a direct influence on pink floyd even before their first album by means of the soft machine (daevids previous group) having headlined for floyd or otherwise played for them many times at UFO when syd and them were young teens.
@@maddannafizz i don't think you can compare Hawkwind to Gong , Gong follows on from Soft Machine and the Canterbury scene , fusion bass and fusion guitar from mike howlet , daevid allen steve hillage that ran on through the hillage band , here and now ozric tentacles , shpongle etc . hawkwind were a pure acid band, a trance pulse with more in common with the german sound amon dull etc , both great bands though imho
Valium Aggelein's "Hier Kommt Der Schwartze Mond" is the ultimate space rock album for me. It combines the meditative atmosphere of (second-wave) post-rock with classic space-themed lyricism and concepts, accompanied by warm layers of fuzzy guitars and an almost mystic-sounding lo-fi production. Are you familiar with them? With their main band Duster they also released the EP 'Transmission, Flux' -- another great example of this branch of space rock. Thanks for the awesome video and accompanying playlist -- very cool stuff. Edit: I'd recommend checking out the track 'Die Wolken Werden Stufenleitern Absinken' (or 'The Clouds Will Drop Ladders' on the 2020 Numero Group re-release) in particular.
@@progrock cheers man, keep up the good work. if you're digging it, definitely check out the rest of Duster's discography, they have quite a unique sound going on
I call it maximal electro(jokingly). Sadly Spacerock is an underrated genre in music, i remember visiting concerts f.e. Farflung where only the typical 20 Musicnerds + a handfull of people who were random at a concert, meanwhile boring stuff fill whole stadiums in germany. Good video.
I firmly believe that "Eight Miles High" influenced Pink Floyd to go even higher with "Interstellar Overdrive"! If you listen to the two, there is an uncanny resemblance, but Pink Floyd goes even further into space than the Byrds
Swedish group Spotnicks released their 1st album in 1962 and is a perfect example of early space-rock. Also the author Michael Moorcock could have been mention with Hawkwind as he contributed with some lyrics and at least at one concert played the guitar with the group. Besides ha has made one or possible more solo albums,much based around his heroes. Finally Ars Nova (Jap) is also spacey, especially with their Biogenis. And what about Ukrainian band La Horsa Bianca?!
The recordings of Dharma Son Collective and AnomalyEnsemble have space rock elements incorporated with psychedelia, noise and experimental weirdness..Everything from spacy instrumentals to modal drones to acid rock to straight up frenzied apocalyptic noise explosions,,Some of their stuff is pretty chaotic but damn are they odd, and original! I dont think they are on youtube but they are Definitely worth seeking out if you can find them! Some standout albums are "Kryptic Triptych" and "We're Not The Only Spirits Awake" from 2006, "Verdigris" and "Zenogenesis" from 2007, AnomalyEnsemble's "Space Peace" and "Fantasmas" from 2008, "See Thru Tribulations" and "Citaedelia" from 2009, "Headcoasting" from 2010...They are strange!
Coheed and Cambria is also one I’d mention due to their albums being concepts on a over arching galactic story that is very clearly inspired by a bunch of early space rock albums, plus Halo of course
All the classic Amon Duul2 albums (about first 5) had innovative space rock to greater and lesser degrees. It's most consistent on their 2nd and 3rd albums... especially the improvisational sides of each of those double albums.... But album 3 (Dance of the Lemmings has some staggeringly original moments.... in 1975 they release a late gem, when they invent Funky Germanic Space Rock, on a stand out track called Da Gaudaloop, on their Hijack album. But Hijack is not of their best period Another overlooked Space Rock classic by AD2 is a track called 'Apocalyptic Bore', which adds a unique texture to the genre
I don't know if Pink Floyd was the first band to be played in space I know the Apollo Astronauts had music they took with them on missions. I think it was mostly country but I'll look it up later if I have a chance and edit this post with some of the bands.
I think that you're right, I could've specified that there was music played in space beforehand (I think "jingle bells" was the first tune). Pink Floyd is, as far as I could find, the first "rock band" whose music was played in space. I wouldn't doubt it if country bands or some other genre made it there beforehand. Thanks for the feedback on that, it's a good thing to know!
That is definitely something I should have touched on! I was really trying to focus in on the development of the sonic elements, but the thematic elements in space age pop are definitely noteworthy. Les Baxter's "Space Escapade", the music of Juan Garcia Esquivel, and others in that genre really are integral to the story. I appreciate the comment, that kind of stuff helps me make better videos on the future!
PF weren't the first band played in space, not by miles! the apollo astronauts from around 1968 onwards took sony TC50 tape machines (a palm-held mono recorder a little bigger than a walkman) to dictate notes & observations, this being quicker & easier than writing in zero-g; they quickly figured out that they could record on the tapes before taking off & have their favourite tunes with them in the command module. also, where are AD2?
Ultimamente me pega el Black metal pero mis influencias más arraigadas vienen de Midnight juggernauts y Air, lo que me lleva a querer experimentar algo así como el cósmic Black metal pero más avant garde, en fin... Blut aus nord en su álbum Allucinogen ya lograron ese post cosmic Black metal, pero siemore se descubre algo en el underground... bueno yo creo que Muse tambien tiene ese concepto.
What I heard: Blah blah blah HAWKWIND! Blah blah blah FLOYD! lol Thanx for this. Interesting! -- Space isnt out there, billions of miles away. It's in here, in your head. You can't get out there from here, so you have to imagine it. "Space... is cold. Stars occupy minute areas of space. Clustered a few billion here, a few billion there... As if seeking consolation in numbers...
Definitely David Bowie and the spiders from Mars..Also though not Space Rock but Germany Kraftwerk very futuristic and France. Jean Michelle Jarre.Great music. Evangelist Roger Mansour former Leslie West Vagrants Drummer
Muse is not a strictly space rock band by definition, but they have some space rock-sounding songs e.g. Space Dementia. You told the story of Joe Meek but failed to mention that there is a significant link between Joe Meek & Matt Bellamy of Muse. The link was George Bellamy, the guitarist for The Tornados (the backing band for Joe Meek), & also father to Matt. Muse paid tribute with their song, Knights of Cydonia. See ua-cam.com/video/S6-hYj7Pr1s/v-deo.html
Hey! Thanks for asking, I mostly do my research online; I have memberships to a couple repositories of music related publications that are really helpful, mostly for old magazine articles and interviews. I also had a professor in college that wrote a lot of books about classic rock, and a good amount of them touched on topics like this, and his work has helped me a couple of times. I always have a least a few things wrong, or gloss over important things that my viewers let me know about in the comments, and that's extremely helpful to making future videos better as well, so I feel really lucky to have such a cool audience. I saw that you commented on the Wilson's remixes video too, thanks for checking out a couple videos, man!
The album IN A WILD SANCTUARY by BEAVER AND KRAUSE was highly influential to Krautrock. GURU, GURU released several amazing Space Rock albums. HAWKWIND and GONG were innovative in Space Rock. ASH RA TEMPEL and CAN. The first Ashra album and Can's FUTURE DAYS. KRAFTWERK AUTOBAHN had elements found in Space Rock. NEU were influential. AMON DUUL II were definitely Space Rock. 1983 A MERMAN I SHALL TURN TO BE ...THE TIDES DRIFT SOFTLY AWAY is 9 hundred and 99 times out of a thousand....often categorized as Psychedelic Rock Music from the 60s. To me it is not. To me it is pure Space Rock created by JIMI HENDRIX in 1968.
I do think that some of their early albums make the cut, great band! By the time they did "Psychic Warfare" I feel like they moved out of what I could comfortably call space rock though. First few albums have enough of that stonery space theme to pass for me, in the hawkwind vein.
GOD HELP ME. Has he mention the most important space cadets ????? Daeve Allen, Gilli Smythe with Gong..??? Dare not carry on listening , I will not be pleased if he left out the Gongs.. most specifically Early Gong. Pre Floyd?
I don't think anyone made Space Rock really ROCK better than UFO did in the early-70s, before Michael Schenker. Their early stuff had an atmosphere about it like it was recorded on the Moon!
No mention of the Moody Blues 1969 “To Our Children’s Children’s Children “ ????? The whole album is about outer space and dedicated to the moon landing. So dam typical to leave out the Moody Blues.
That definitely would have been an important one to include! Looking back, I'm kind of surprised that I didn't. Good catch, I'm sure I missed a ton of things for the sake of getting it done.
Helios Creed! No mention of him at all?! His work in Chrome and his self titled group can be thought of as Psychedelic-Industrial-Punk Rock but it's essentially Space Rock from sounds to themes to whole album concepts. He came up with his sound when tripping and listening to Black Sabbath and tried to recreate it later on.
Yeah, both Helios Creed and D. Edge had a unique vision and their legendary band Chrome certainly deserves a place in this genre. Their best Chrome albums (Alien Soundtracks, Third from the Sun, Red Exposure , Half Machine Lip Moves) were awesome and had a sound all of their own ( and moreover they were very different from each other , they avoided repeating themselves, at least in the period '76 - '82). Space rock, proto industrial, cyberpunk, avant - experimental, they contributed to all these... Some H. Creed's personal albums ( X- rated fairy tales, Kiss to the brain etc ) were also fantastic.
As you say Hawkwind are probably the defining group to influence so many bands, not just space rock, but a lot of dance/trance acts (I’m sure the chemical bros and Johnny rotten cite them as influences) they are as important as Kraftwerk for spawning spin offs
Although he wasn't a rock musician, Sun Ra clearly inspired the genre too.
Sun Ra is Space Jazz
@@stereo999 i’d say it’s more avant guard
Helll yea 🔥🔥🔥
I saw the arkestra live a few weeks ago and they blew me away! Man they were out there!
space is indeed the place
A Kraut Rock band who could be described as" Space Rock " were Ash Ra Tempel similar in sound to early 70's Floyd , the debut Hawkwind album and Tangerine Dream electronics . Their early 70's albums are worth checking out .
Also Agitation Free, Dzyan, early Popol Vuh and Klaus Schulze.
@@mvjonsson Agitation Free .. Through the Moods is such a BANGER tune
Amon Duul also sounds remarkably similar to early Hawkwind.
Good catch. I still have my TD LPs. Ash Ra never made it to this little hole in the wall place. lol Been checkin them out on UA-cam tho.
@@billd2635 The early 70's albums are the best in my opinion each one containing a side long guitar based instrumental jam and the second side a long spacey electronics track similar to Tangerine Dream . When Tempel split the lead guitarist whose name l forget continued making albums under the name "Ash Ra ". All are available on CD l think if you can't afford the original vinyl which is rare and pricey . Luckily l got my copies at the time as "Kraut Rock" was popular and collectable in the early '70's . Happy listening .
Technically, Earth is in space, therefore all Rock is Space Rock!
Earth is a space rock
Yes indeed, and there are also spaces between the tracks on almost all rock album’s. These spaces are just as silent and mysterious as the dark void of the universe…
Honourable mentions...Ash Ra Tempel, Silver Apples, Spacemen 3 and Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
I'd love to see you do a separate video on Pyschedelic Funk and Progressive Soul at some point
Good video. Some other space rock groups I would include would definitely be some of the late '60s-early '70s German bands like Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Duul II, and Guru Guru, and some of the more interesting late '80s-'90s groups like The Orb, KLF (their first couple of albums), and Alien Planetscapes. And of course, I would also include the Grateful Dead's various live versions of "Dark Star" from 1968-74 and 1989-94.
we have acid mothers temple for now
Two groups I would add to this list, although their overall catalogue goes beyond space rock.
First, pre Steve Perry Journey, especially the first album are pretty much space rock. Check out the track "Of a lifetime" from the first album.
Second, Rush, especially 2112 and Cygnus X-1.
One of the pioneering albums that had already in 1968 all the elements of the space rock genre in its sound was "Cauldron" by the band Fifty foot Hose. Fantastic album.
It's a pity that they didn't released anything else after that...
You make me remenber Galactic Explorers, track Venus Rising
Ahhhh I’m so glad you picked up Ozric Tentacles. I’ve seen them play many times, often by accident. Enjoyed them as a kid.
At Glastonbury festival in 2003 my future wife and I discovered we had incompatible musical tastes as I dragged her to see the Ozrics, Eat Static and System 7 in rapid succession. She hated them all.
There were also the punk influenced side in the late 70s, early 80s - Inner City Unit, New York Gong/Material. You could do a super deep dive into Gong and Daevid Allen's various side projects and offshoots (Invisible Opera Company, University of Errors etc)
Then you can go beyond stoner metal to cosmic black metal or to the death metal of Blood Incantation, which at times sounds like early Porcupine Tree but then brings in the extreme metal.
The crossover with jazz gets quite strong too, with Sun Ra bringing inspiration, and bands like Spaceways Inc. and some of the bands I associate with Acoustic Ladyland and the F-IRE collective, especially The Comet Is Coming and Heliocentrics
I have a vid on Canterbury bands that focuses a lot on Gong, but they should definitely have their own video at some point!
I've heard a bit of Blood Incantation (a friend of mine is really into them), but haven't given them a really good listen yet, so I'll make sure to do that! Appreciate it!
Grest call...University of errors a fine Daevid Allen project ... Saw them at the uncon in Amsterdam and up there with best bands I've seen.. Got a beautiful angular punky vibe ..
No mention of The Rolling Stones' "2000 Light Years From Home"?
I’m pretty sure Jack Kirby was huge into this
Hawkwind, Gong, Ozrics, King Gizz... My favourite bands ever!!!
the Jimi Hendrix Experience; also UFO, Robert Calvert, captain Lockheed and the starfighters, and lots more
Outside of the group's name I just can't see putting UFO into this category. I always considered UFO a hard rock group with some Progressive overtones. However I can't find any examples of Space Rock in this band.
Yep. Jimi had several space tunes from Up From The Skies to South Saturn Delta.
I was surprised "Third Stone From The Sun" didn't have a little segment to itself.
Excellent video. I think you covered the genre pretty thoroughly, I just wanted to mention the fantastic album Journey by Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come which is notable as the first album to use a drum machine. The music is some excellent sounding classic space rock.
My only nitpick (which you acknowledged) was not touching on some of the early German Krautrock and electronic influences which were instrumental in shaping the sound of space rock. Overall though, excellent job! Yeah✌🏻
Journey is amazing and it's also a Mellotron classic (I think it came before Simon House joined Hawkwind and added his Mellotron to their sound). Yes, Krautrock too - Amon Duul II definitely deserve a mention.
@@RickTransit I agree with both comments: Journey is a masterpiece , among the best things Arthur Brown had done . The other musicians in the album were also great ( including the Bentley drum machine!).
I also agree that some bands of the Krautrock era ( Amon Duul II, Ashra Temple, Tangerine dream, Brainticket, Cosmic Jokers) not only deserve mentioning, but they were among the greatest in the early - mid'70s.
The first two Arthur Browns Kingdom Come albums are worth checking out . Bands that could be defined as Space Rock were the excellent German bands Mythos and Gila along with Ash Ra Tempel and the great Amon Duul .
Kingdom Come and Hawkwind lived in neighbouring squats down Ladbroke Grove I think
I'm 19 and I love space rock and feel like it's coming back in a different form/theme
Saw Ozric Tentacles (Big up Coleford) and Gong recently, still going strong!
if we are talking for spacerock then we are talking for HAWKWIND
Exactly! Hawkwind defined the genre...so many iterations of the band...all unique...all great and faithful to the amazing Space Rock genre!
@@curtc2194also offshoots and spinoffs. A few years ago, I went to a small space rock festival where many of the bands featured, or consisted of, ex-Hawkwind members. I remember having breakfast with Nik Turner one morning.
Your videos are awesome 😁 I would love to see you tackle italian prog which doesn't get talked about enough
Welcome back! I love the high quality video essays!
Yes! Another video finally! I was really worried that you ceased making these...
And what a topic this is!
Good work. Might have been nice to include Captain Beyond, and Todd Rundgren's Utopia.
For me, Captain Beyond IS the quintessential space rock group!
@@bobbyshroyer440 They were certainly the first group I ever heard the term used for, though some may argue that, looking back, they weren't all that "spacey".
Spiritualized needed more coverage
Spacemen 3, too, which were never mentioned nor acknowledged.
Space Guitar by Johnny Guitar Watson was the beginning of Space Rock in 1955.
I was expecting more Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Temple, and associated artists. Also, when you mentioning some peripheral groups you may have well mention Sun Ra. Space is indeed the place!
This video wove a lot musical threads together for me and gave me several new albums to check out. Very well done and I enjoyed the format a lot, especially sharing album cover art; personally I use cover art as a tool to guide my intuition with new music discoveries, so it’s super important for me to see the covers when hearing about an album in a video. Going to check out some more videos now.😎
Great episode, I just found this by searching stuff!
Not a bad documentary, maybe a little too much about the modern stuff, which is debatable whether it is even space rock at all. but I feel they really missed the boat by missing what I believe is the true starts of space rock, The Beatle's 1966 track "Tomorrow Never Knows" and The Rolling Stone's 1967 "2000 light Years from Home". And yes, Tangerine Dream is conspicuously missing . Long live Hawkwind!
Great Video! imho, 5th dimension really are the founding fathers of Space Rock! "I can see your house from here" from Camel is Prog Rock but there is some influences, like on Ice, and Survival.
I enjoyed this. I must say my favorite space rock album is Gong You. I still listen to it about once Month. It's just a great album. Liked and subscribed!
Great album! I appreciate you checking out the channel, thanks for being here.
Great summary of the history of the genre!
In addition to some of the groups mentioned I think you could throw in Walter Carlos and Kraftwerk as well as some of the other electronic music that was out back then.
total gong nut here. daevid allen of gong also had a direct influence on pink floyd even before their first album by means of the soft machine (daevids previous group) having headlined for floyd or otherwise played for them many times at UFO when syd and them were young teens.
I would love to see a video dedicated to Hawkwind, one of my favorite bands of all time, they need more attention
But Hawkwind no t the creativity of Early Gong... just teething musically by comparison ?
@@maddannafizz i don't think you can compare Hawkwind to Gong , Gong follows on from Soft Machine and the Canterbury scene , fusion bass and fusion guitar from mike howlet , daevid allen steve hillage that ran on through the hillage band , here and now ozric tentacles , shpongle etc . hawkwind were a pure acid band, a trance pulse with more in common with the german sound amon dull etc , both great bands though imho
Valium Aggelein's "Hier Kommt Der Schwartze Mond" is the ultimate space rock album for me. It combines the meditative atmosphere of (second-wave) post-rock with classic space-themed lyricism and concepts, accompanied by warm layers of fuzzy guitars and an almost mystic-sounding lo-fi production. Are you familiar with them? With their main band Duster they also released the EP 'Transmission, Flux' -- another great example of this branch of space rock.
Thanks for the awesome video and accompanying playlist -- very cool stuff.
Edit: I'd recommend checking out the track 'Die Wolken Werden Stufenleitern Absinken' (or 'The Clouds Will Drop Ladders' on the 2020 Numero Group re-release) in particular.
I'm not familiar, but I'll make sure to check those out! Thanks for the suggestions, always appreciated.
@@progrock cheers man, keep up the good work. if you're digging it, definitely check out the rest of Duster's discography, they have quite a unique sound going on
wow Valium is amazing, thanks!
Great video! Gives a picture of this very specific sub-genre
My gateway to space rock genre was Stone Rebel
While not really space rock, many songs by Klaatu have a sci-fi theme, especially their album _Hope._
My favourite bands/artists after 1990 is Farfung - White Hills - Aqua Nebula Occilator - Acid Mothers Temple ..
I needed this video in my life
Human Factor is a very underrated space-rock band with only 800 listeners, but sounds like they have 800.000
I'll give them a listen!
@@progrock Yeah I don't know whether it's actual space rock actually but they categorize themselves as such
Great to see another vid!
Not in the prog world, but 60s grateful dead live was very spacy. Never doubt a good dark star
Nice to see Mono get a mention.
Also surprised you didn't mention Hum.
Really enjoyable video though, very knowledgeable and interesting.
I call it maximal electro(jokingly).
Sadly Spacerock is an underrated genre in music, i remember visiting concerts f.e. Farflung where only the typical 20 Musicnerds + a handfull of people who were random at a concert, meanwhile boring stuff fill whole stadiums in germany.
Good video.
Silver apples!
I firmly believe that "Eight Miles High" influenced Pink Floyd to go even higher with "Interstellar Overdrive"! If you listen to the two, there is an uncanny resemblance, but Pink Floyd goes even further into space than the Byrds
the spacelords . yuri gagarin and the cosmic dead are keeping the space rock legacy alive and kicking , all 3 well worth a listen
16:10 don't forget the dirty style of star wars
The legend has returned
Well done and very interesting!
Great video. Shouldn’t Dark Star by Grateful Dead be in there somewhere? Nice work thanks
Definitely.
Hawk wind without Acid? Whatever gave you that idea. They were the number one 70’s drug band in the UK.
Swedish group Spotnicks released their 1st album in 1962 and is a perfect example of early space-rock.
Also the author Michael Moorcock could have been mention with Hawkwind as he contributed with some lyrics and at least at one concert played the guitar with the group. Besides ha has made one or possible more solo albums,much based around his heroes.
Finally Ars Nova (Jap) is also spacey, especially with their Biogenis. And what about Ukrainian band La Horsa Bianca?!
The recordings of Dharma Son Collective and AnomalyEnsemble have space rock elements incorporated with psychedelia, noise and experimental weirdness..Everything from spacy instrumentals to modal drones to acid rock to straight up frenzied apocalyptic noise explosions,,Some of their stuff is pretty chaotic but damn are they odd, and original! I dont think they are on youtube but they are Definitely worth seeking out if you can find them! Some standout albums are "Kryptic Triptych" and "We're Not The Only Spirits Awake" from 2006, "Verdigris" and "Zenogenesis" from 2007, AnomalyEnsemble's "Space Peace" and "Fantasmas" from 2008, "See Thru Tribulations" and "Citaedelia" from 2009, "Headcoasting" from 2010...They are strange!
Coheed and Cambria is also one I’d mention due to their albums being concepts on a over arching galactic story that is very clearly inspired by a bunch of early space rock albums, plus Halo of course
I didn't even think about them, buy you're right! Great band, their concept albums are very cool.
Nik Turners Space Ritual
All the classic Amon Duul2 albums (about first 5) had innovative space rock to greater and lesser degrees. It's most consistent on their 2nd and 3rd albums... especially the improvisational sides of each of those double albums.... But album 3 (Dance of the Lemmings has some staggeringly original moments....
in 1975 they release a late gem, when they invent Funky Germanic Space Rock, on a stand out track called Da Gaudaloop, on their Hijack album. But Hijack is not of their best period
Another overlooked Space Rock classic by AD2 is a track called 'Apocalyptic Bore', which adds a unique texture to the genre
I'd also include Steve Miller And.
You skipped Ash-Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers, Mythos, and other space rock German bands from the 70's
I don't know if Pink Floyd was the first band to be played in space I know the Apollo Astronauts had music they took with them on missions. I think it was mostly country but I'll look it up later if I have a chance and edit this post with some of the bands.
I think that you're right, I could've specified that there was music played in space beforehand (I think "jingle bells" was the first tune). Pink Floyd is, as far as I could find, the first "rock band" whose music was played in space. I wouldn't doubt it if country bands or some other genre made it there beforehand.
Thanks for the feedback on that, it's a good thing to know!
Space Ritual was taken from concerts between Liverpool and Brixton Sundown
I was at the Brixton gig! Unforgettable.
Missing the space age pop from the 50's that was a big influence on Joe meek and vice versa
That is definitely something I should have touched on! I was really trying to focus in on the development of the sonic elements, but the thematic elements in space age pop are definitely noteworthy. Les Baxter's "Space Escapade", the music of Juan Garcia Esquivel, and others in that genre really are integral to the story.
I appreciate the comment, that kind of stuff helps me make better videos on the future!
Dr Who theme is proto Space Rock
Van der Graaf Generator? Pioneers over C for example
Love space rock ? Listen to the band Ott , the song "Queen of all ecerything'' is beyond awesome, great unkonw group.
I'll check it out! Thanks
PF weren't the first band played in space, not by miles! the apollo astronauts from around 1968 onwards took sony TC50 tape machines (a palm-held mono recorder a little bigger than a walkman) to dictate notes & observations, this being quicker & easier than writing in zero-g; they quickly figured out that they could record on the tapes before taking off & have their favourite tunes with them in the command module.
also, where are AD2?
Ultimamente me pega el Black metal pero mis influencias más arraigadas vienen de Midnight juggernauts y Air, lo que me lleva a querer experimentar algo así como el cósmic Black metal pero más avant garde, en fin... Blut aus nord en su álbum Allucinogen ya lograron ese post cosmic Black metal, pero siemore se descubre algo en el underground... bueno yo creo que Muse tambien tiene ese concepto.
Fohat Digs Holes in Space
Motorhead was birthed from the womb of hawkwind 🚀
What I heard: Blah blah blah HAWKWIND! Blah blah blah FLOYD! lol Thanx for this. Interesting! -- Space isnt out there, billions of miles away. It's in here, in your head. You can't get out there from here, so you have to imagine it. "Space... is cold. Stars occupy minute areas of space. Clustered a few billion here, a few billion there... As if seeking consolation in numbers...
Ugh.
Definitely David Bowie and the spiders from Mars..Also though not Space Rock but Germany Kraftwerk very futuristic and France. Jean Michelle Jarre.Great music.
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I think you skipped the krautrock bands that were influential like Amon Duul 2, Early kraftwork, Tangerine Dream, Popul vuh, Nektar, etc
Great video but what about YURT?
Bizarre love craft influenced aliencorr such as rings of Saturn playing space rock in a metal format at about 5 times typical space rock tempo
Ring of Saturn is awesome, I saw them live a few years ago and they blew me away.
A great album was Intergalactic Touring Band. I think meatloaf did one of their songs.
Brainticket, Taj Mahal Travellers,...
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no mention of slift? direct order from the bridge: go check out their levitation sessions live recordings, expedite!
I'll have to do that! I've come across the name but haven't given them a good listen yet. Appreciate the recommendation!
Which song plays at the end of the video?
Muse is not a strictly space rock band by definition, but they have some space rock-sounding songs e.g. Space Dementia.
You told the story of Joe Meek but failed to mention that there is a significant link between Joe Meek & Matt Bellamy of Muse.
The link was George Bellamy, the guitarist for The Tornados (the backing band for Joe Meek), & also father to Matt.
Muse paid tribute with their song, Knights of Cydonia. See ua-cam.com/video/S6-hYj7Pr1s/v-deo.html
What's the song used in the outro?
It's "Mourning Glory" by the band Temple Garden
I’m just curious. How do you do your research when going into one of your topics?
Hey! Thanks for asking, I mostly do my research online; I have memberships to a couple repositories of music related publications that are really helpful, mostly for old magazine articles and interviews.
I also had a professor in college that wrote a lot of books about classic rock, and a good amount of them touched on topics like this, and his work has helped me a couple of times.
I always have a least a few things wrong, or gloss over important things that my viewers let me know about in the comments, and that's extremely helpful to making future videos better as well, so I feel really lucky to have such a cool audience.
I saw that you commented on the Wilson's remixes video too, thanks for checking out a couple videos, man!
@@progrock thanks! That really helps. I like learning about that kind of stuff. It’s all very interesting to me.
The album IN A WILD SANCTUARY by BEAVER AND KRAUSE was highly influential to Krautrock.
GURU, GURU released several amazing Space Rock albums. HAWKWIND and GONG were innovative in Space Rock.
ASH RA TEMPEL and CAN. The first Ashra album and Can's FUTURE DAYS.
KRAFTWERK AUTOBAHN had elements found in Space Rock. NEU were influential. AMON DUUL II were definitely Space Rock.
1983 A MERMAN I SHALL TURN TO BE ...THE TIDES DRIFT SOFTLY AWAY is 9 hundred and 99 times out of a thousand....often categorized as Psychedelic Rock Music from the 60s. To me it is not. To me it is pure Space Rock created by JIMI HENDRIX in 1968.
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Clutch doesn't warrant a mention, or am I misjudging what's space rock?
I do think that some of their early albums make the cut, great band! By the time they did "Psychic Warfare" I feel like they moved out of what I could comfortably call space rock though. First few albums have enough of that stonery space theme to pass for me, in the hawkwind vein.
Spacemen 3
What song is in the intro?
It's "brainstorm" by hawkwind. (I believe it's a live version)
You are failing to bring up the all time biggest space, psychedelic rock band... of all...GONG please this is a joke without them..
I have a video on the Canterbury scene that talks about them quite a lot! Very important and great band.
Huh? He mentions Gong multiple times in this vid, & accredits them w/their due. You gotta pay more attention.
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GOD HELP ME. Has he mention the most important space cadets ????? Daeve Allen, Gilli Smythe with Gong..??? Dare not carry on listening , I will not be pleased if he left out the Gongs.. most specifically Early Gong. Pre Floyd?
He mentions Gong, you're the second comment to suggest he didn't?
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Hawkwind was my amazing exposure to space rock...decades later In Search of Space sounds amazing!
I don't think anyone made Space Rock really ROCK better than UFO did in the early-70s, before Michael Schenker. Their early stuff had an atmosphere about it like it was recorded on the Moon!
Good to see Joe Meek get the props he deserves. Got Telstar on 45, still sounds weird.
No mention of the Moody Blues 1969 “To Our Children’s Children’s Children “ ????? The whole album is about outer space and dedicated to the moon landing. So dam typical to leave out the Moody Blues.
That definitely would have been an important one to include! Looking back, I'm kind of surprised that I didn't. Good catch, I'm sure I missed a ton of things for the sake of getting it done.
Helios Creed! No mention of him at all?! His work in Chrome and his self titled group can be thought of as Psychedelic-Industrial-Punk Rock but it's essentially Space Rock from sounds to themes to whole album concepts. He came up with his sound when tripping and listening to Black Sabbath and tried to recreate it later on.
Yeah, both Helios Creed and D. Edge had a unique vision and their legendary band Chrome certainly deserves a place in this genre.
Their best Chrome albums (Alien Soundtracks, Third from the Sun, Red Exposure , Half Machine Lip Moves) were awesome and had a sound all of their own ( and moreover they were very different from each other , they avoided repeating themselves, at least in the period '76 - '82).
Space rock, proto industrial, cyberpunk, avant - experimental, they contributed to all these...
Some H. Creed's personal albums ( X- rated fairy tales, Kiss to the brain etc ) were also fantastic.
Hawkwind are the masters of the universe
As you say Hawkwind are probably the defining group to influence so many bands, not just space rock, but a lot of dance/trance acts (I’m sure the chemical bros and Johnny rotten cite them as influences) they are as important as Kraftwerk for spawning spin offs
early kraut rock was also an influence, particularly Can.
Rockets..form France were certainly the main representative of Space Rock until 1981 . Listen to their song "Space Rock" from 1978.