#155/1320
April 1986
Robert Calvert
Test Tube Conceived
Genre: New Wave
4 out of 5
Highlights:
In Vitro Breed
I Hear Voices
My 8 year old son likes to draw. He’s come up with his own line of television programming for a series of networks he wants to create. There are characters with rich back stories and crossovers. He’s already built a website for his network “Rookie!” and “Rookie Jr.”.
Watching him literally jump in the air, marker in hand, and then come crashing down on a piece of paper is truly wondrous to watch.
He has, as friends have said, a “rage to create”.
Robert Calvert was the lyricist for Hawkwind. A poet. A playwright. A novelist. He died at 43. I have to believe he, too, had a rage to create.
I’m not a huge fan of Hawkwind and this is not the greatest record but I do appreciate, firstly, it’s devotion to that late 70s Kraftwerk/Gary Numan sound, which is emulates deliciously. Secondly, that he wrote a concept album from the perspective of someone who was conceived in a cutting edge form at the time is admirable. I couldn’t do it. And my son WAS created in a test tube.
Extra points for that.
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