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Available both as a box set and across three separate volumes, Anthology, 1967-1982 is a supremely budget-priced collection that rounds up a host of waifs and strays from within the voluminous corpus of Hawkwind compilations that began appearing in the early '80s — and haven't gone away since then: Text of Festival, Space Ritual, Vol. 2, Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin, Live at Watchfield & Stonehenge, and so on. Although most of the material is at least of historical value, little about the package actually communicates this fact, with the absence of any hard annotation rendered especially galling by the chronological span presented across the three discs — all the more so since the performances are arranged in reverse chronological order: thus, volume one opens with material dating from the very late-'70s/early-'80s; disc three concludes with the rough live cuts previously found amid the jungle of Text of Festival/In the Beginning recordings.Elsewhere, the collection ranges through a mass of generally low-fi live and sub-standard studio material, all of which can be found in more bountiful form on a wealth of other compilations — naturally, with the same lack of detail. The proffered booklet is certainly of little use and Acid Daze is best left to either completist collectors or the terminally non-curious. This same package was subsequently released as The Approved History of Hawkwind picture disc set and, several years later, Acid Daze.