Hawkwind - BBC Radio One Live in Concert (1991)

"Silver Machine," Hawkwind's so unexpected but most richly deserved first hit single, was still sliding down the U.K. chart when the band arrived at the BBC's Paris Theatre, the full panoply of the Space Ritual in tow, to condense into one hour a show that twice as long could barely contain. That they were able to squeeze just eight songs (two are uncredited on the sleeve) into the allotted space proves that the demands and restrictions of radio held no fear for the band -- even the In Concert program's production crew was roped into the fantasy, as the band's resident DJ Andy Dunkley introduces the band and readies the staff with his own approximation of some demented Mission Control. And that's before close to 15 minutes of "Born to Go" open the sonic heavens.