In Search Of Space
by Hawkwind

Album
In Search Of Space by Hawkwind
Year: 1971
Release date: 1971-10-08
Overall rank: 4,604th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 118 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1971 (77th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (746th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,604th)

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Hawkwind bestography

In Search Of Space is ranked 2nd best out of 81 albums by Hawkwind on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Hawkwind is Space Ritual which is ranked number 2483 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 643.

Hawkwind album bestography « Higher ranked (2,483rd)
Space Ritual This album (4,604th)
In Search Of Space Lower ranked (4,967th) »
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In Search Of Space rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,604th | 1970s rank: 746th | 1971 rank: 77th  Overall chart history
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In Search Of Space ratings

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74/100 (from 118 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 21% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 72.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.4.


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In Search Of Space forum mentions

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From Johnnyo 02/05/2026 22:33 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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From UofTBlues 01/01/2021 21:10 in Looking for space metal/rock songs
“Hawkwind is Space Rock. Silver Machine w/ Lemmy on vocals is spacey track. Pink Floyd has some of the genre in their earlier albums.”
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From 03/19/2009 10:33 | #3187 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A spacerock masterpiece. Very strange and psychedelic but still focsed and catchy.
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From 03/28/2016 22:07 | #162894 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A great record from a group that put the psychedelic in space. Loose and trippy it's a fun ride.
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