HW Knights of Space

[mike coleman]

wait a minute- I only have the promo and I'll swap it for a mint stock one
any takers??
it's flawless, of course and I would expect same.,.,,in fact just vinyl
could be swapped, I think???


On 8/23/08, mike coleman <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jon, I absolutely love Dangerous Vision!!! I Fucking love it!!!    of
> course, arguments about my sanity could easily be made against me and I'd
> just be complimented.........I won't go any further because this is your
> territory and I respect everyone's station but I will butt right out by
> saying....Zones comes as close to the brown note (I think) as Mary's gonna
> get with the whistle (which I have always loved from day one), or at least
> the psycoacoocoostiks, just ask her how she's affected....
> (agreed the rest of the album has always been a bit lacklustre but I still
> haven't peeled off either of my Japanese copy's...)
> On 8/23/08, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:54:33AM -0500, Carl Edlund Anderson typed out:
>> > Purely out of curiosity, I now find myself wondering what you would
>> > pick as their worst album and how many stand between it and TMTYL? :)
>>
>>        Well, there's a question. I think their worst, for me, is
>> unquestionably _Zones_, a hodge-podge of sub-par live material redeemed
>> from scratched plastic monotony only by a few moments of tension, and
>> studio offerings that should never have been committed to tape
>> (`Dangerous Visions', I'm looking at you). I also don't reckon
>> IitBotFtbD very much, I mean it's not bad but it's not exciting at all,
>> to me at least. IYA has some excellent stuff on it but is marred by
>> badly-edited Rizz and is perhaps the most schizophrenically-split of all
>> HW albums, Dave on one side and a band on the other and when the twain
>> meet it's got Rizz all over it (I was much happier with him on _Hawkwind
>> 1997_). _Out and Intake_ is like _Zones_ only without the extremes
>> and with more anonymous production. And I like _Spacebrock_ for what it
>> is, viz a Dave solo album, but TMYTL is clearly better. Then we get down
>> into the fine print. I'd have trouble deciding between TMYTL and any of
>> _Sonic Attack_, flawed though it be, _Church of Hawkwind_ or _Space
>> Bandits_. For some reason _Church_ is a very nice unit, even though
>> perhaps it's not electrically exciting; on the other hand it's
>> questionable what one loses off _Space Bandits_ if one can still own
>> _California Brainstorm_. So I guess in a pinch I'd keep _Space
>> Bandits_ and _Church_ in the ranks above and drop _Sonic Attack_,
>> some of which I like but some of which is really tedious, below. All the
>> other core albums I'd probably take over TMYTL, except that if I was
>> allowed to keep _Love in Space_ I'd keep TMYTL rather than _Alien4_ (but
>> if we were only ranking studio albums _Alien4_ would beat it), and
>> actually _Yule Ritual_, good though it is, doesn't really do anything
>> that some other live album somewhere doesn't do better.
>>
>>        So, at that rate, I guess that currently TMYTL is 9th from the
>> bottom, out of what, 34 core albums? Not so great perhaps, maybe you
>> were right to question my commitment to it, but I'm still quite pleased
>> by it as an album. I mean, most of the ones I've ranked below it I like
>> in some way, it's really only _Zones_ and IYA I find genuinely
>> unsatisfactory and even they have things on that still make me play
>> them. O&I is pretty pointless too, basically I don't like the bag-of-
>> bits approach to an album, TiHDnP excepted because it's all great stuff.
>> Even these days, annoyed and disappointed, I remain a fan, you know.
>> Yours,
>>        Jon
>>
>> ObMP3: Amon Tobin - `Chomp Samba'
>> --
>> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
>>            (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
>> Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>>
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