The two hundred and seventy-sixth album: #276 Hawkwind - Space Ritual

Pulling off a double album is a tricky thing. You need to be able to fill ninety minutes with music that is consistent enough for your sound but has enough variation to keep your listeners interested. Having lengthy prog rock tracks helps fill the sound, but as this album proves, their repetitiveness can jar and not all tracks can sustain the interest for as long as is needed. Even a short track like Upside Down feels like the repetition wears out its charm. Part of this is the live aspect of this album, which was meant to be an audiovisual spectacle that obviously doesn't translate as I listen to it now.

What it means is that I find myself tuning out large parts of the labrum until a track has a reason to grab me again, with most of it just getting lost as a repetitive drone stops appealing to me.