TAKING SIDES: LIQUID SWORDS vs. SPACE RITUAL

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WHICH ALBUM IS THE MOST BADICAL OF ALL?!?!?!

I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

oh shit

sleep (sleep), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

liquid swords. space ritual gets too samey after track 5 of disc 2.

huell howser (chaki), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Give me a break. Like your shaolin sword style is going to do any good IN SPACE! It's endless!

walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I would rather the fire-storms of atmospheres than this cruel descent from a thousand years of dreams, into the starkness of the capsule. Where two of our crew still lay suspended cool in their tombs of sleep. Those nagging choirs of memory, the tubes and wires worming from their flesh to machinery I would have to cut....

Such midwifery is but one function of the leader. Here, floating in a sac of fluid, dark, a clear century of space away from Earth. While one man stares from the trauma of his birth attending to the hypno-tapes assuring him that this was reality, however grim our journey's end.

Landing itself was nothing, we touched upon a shelf of rock selected by the automind and left a galaxy of dreams behind.....

I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

liquid swords isn't even the best wu album!!

strng hlkngtn, Friday, 19 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Haha wtf. I can't even imagine comparing these records.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

tell me more about this "space ritual" album...i've never heard (of) it...

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

It's a double live Hawkwind album from the mid-70s.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

are you poking fun at my ignorance?

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Haha what? No seriously that's what it is.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

sorry alex! an allmusic search indicates that the album you speak of exists. there's another space ritual album too, though, from 1995.

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh man. This is the battle of all battles. I say Space Ritual over Liquid Swords, but I can't accept any album over 36 Chambers. I just can't.

Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

The 1995 one is just redone live version of the original, I'd guess. Nik Turner was the flautist (is this right? anyway he played the flute) for Hawkwind.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

ha ha, I'm going to use the phrase "It's a double live Hawkwind album from the mid-70s" now to make fun of someone when they haven't heard of something.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Its a fucking great great album. I would reccomend it for Stooges fans.

I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

hawkwind > gza

the best wu album = onyl built 4 cuban linx

Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Space Ritual wins this because Liquid Swords only has one truly great song ("4th Chamber"), even if that song is the greatest song on any Wu solo album.

pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 19 August 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Space Ritual by a micron. But I listened to both obsessively when I first got 'em.

p.j. (Henry), Friday, 19 August 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

these two albums should sit beside each other in every collection.

cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 20 August 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

haha here is an excerpt from my cd collection

morgan geist - metro area
genius - liquid swords
ghana - voices of africa : "highlife and other popular musics"
ghost - lamalama rabi
ghost - snuff box immanence
ghost - hypnotic underworld
ghostface killah - ironman
ghostface killah - supreme clientele
ghostface killah - pretty toney
etc

vahid (vahid), Saturday, 20 August 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

TS: hydroponic chronic VS purple microdot*

got a CD of LS and SR on vinyl: love em both =ly

I remember seeing an ad for Hawkwind on tour back in 1974 and thinking "hahaha don't they know that hippies are passe?" if you told me then that this would become an canonical album...

*weak LSD tablets cut w/speed

m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 20 August 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

I'm going to use the phrase "It's a double live Hawkwind album from the mid-70s" now to make fun of someone when they haven't heard of something.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005

Excuse me sir, there's been a little problem in the cockpit.

The cockpit? What is it?

It's a double live Hawkwind album from the mid-70s, but that's not important right now.

the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Sunday, 16 September 2018 17:58 (seven years ago)

liquid swords isn't even the best wu album!!
― strng hlkngtn, Friday, August 19, 2005 1:49 PM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's ok because Space Ritual isn't the best double live Hawkwind album from the mid-70s.

everything, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:32 (seven years ago)

I've got the 1972 BBC radio broadcast but IIRC that was a bootleg until not so long ago and not really a double. To what do you refer? Unless you mean the mythical "The Cockpit," in which case, right on.

the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Sunday, 16 September 2018 19:53 (seven years ago)

walter kranz, what do you have to say for yourself, you coward?!

Karl Malone, Sunday, 16 September 2018 19:55 (seven years ago)

Walter Kranz, a 53-year-old steamfitter and self-proclaimed psychic, phoned a switchboard operator at Chicago's central police complaint room on January 15 to inform the operator of his conviction that both sisters were deceased and that their bodies could be found in an unincorporated area of Lyons Township. Kranz refused to disclose his name to the operator in this phone call, simply stating that he had experienced this revelation in a dream, before terminating the call. Nonetheless, the operator was able to trace the call to a location close to his home.

The park described by Kranz in his telephone call would prove to be approximately one mile from the true location where the girls' bodies would be just found one week later. When questioned, Kranz informed police that several members of his family and ancestors possessed psychic powers, and that he had experienced this particular vision after a night of heavy drinking.

Although initially considered by police to be their "number one suspect" in the murders, and with handwriting experts also determining he may have written a ransom note received by the girls' mother prior to the discovery of her daughters' bodies, Kranz denied any involvement in the sisters' abduction and murder. After being subjected to multiple interrogations, he was released.

Blimey.

the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Sunday, 16 September 2018 20:05 (seven years ago)

Greasy Truckers Party or 1999 Party I guess although I prefer Space Ritual esp original LP VERSION to both.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Sunday, 16 September 2018 20:22 (seven years ago)


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