Take Me to Your Leader (Hawkwind album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Take Me to Your Leader

| type = Album

| artist = Hawkwind

| cover = Takemetoyourleaderhawkwind.jpg

| alt =

| released = 12 September 2005

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Space rock

| length = 50:00

| label = Voiceprint

| producer = Dave Brock

| prev_title = Spaced Out in London

| prev_year = 2004

| next_title = Take Me to Your Future

| next_year = 2006

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}} {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r930563|first=Greg|last=Prato}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

| noprose=yes

}}

Take Me to Your Leader is the twenty fourth studio album by UK rock group Hawkwind. Released in 2005, it was their first studio album in five years. It featured guest appearances by Arthur Brown, Lene Lovich, the television presenter Matthew Wright and past member Lemmy. The first 2000 copies came with a DVD containing interviews with band members and some live and "behind the scenes" footage [http://www.hawkwind.com/alb/tmtyl.htm].

Track listing

=CD=

  1. "Spirit of the Age" (Brock, Calvert) – 6:43
  2. "Out Here We Are" (Davey) – 5:56
  3. "Greenback Massacre" (Davey) – 4:14
  4. "To Love a Machine" (Brock) – 6:00
  5. "Take Me to Your Leader" (Brock, Chadwick, Davey) – 5:50
  6. "Digital Nation" (Chadwick) – 5:25
  7. "Sunray" (Brown) – 3:55
  8. "Sighs" (Brock, Davey) – 1:22
  9. "Angela Android" (Brock, Chadwick) – 5:08
  10. "A Letter to Robert" (Brock, Brown, Chadwick) – 6:08

=Bonus DVD=

  1. Interview With Dave Brock
  2. Interview With Alan Davey
  3. Interview With Richard Chadwick
  4. "Spirit of the Age" – Promo
  5. "Silver Machine" – Ruisrock Festival, Finland, 10 July 2004
  6. "The Right to Decide" – Live 1992
  7. "Spirit of the Age" – Live 2004
  8. "Psychedelic Warriors" – Live 2004

Personnel

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Charts

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Chart (2005)

! Peak
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{{album chart|UKIndependent|32|date=20050918|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 30, 2023}}
{{album chart|UKRock|22|date=20050918|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 30, 2023}}

References