Liquid Swords 20th Anniversary Thread Nov 7 1995-2015

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

I have the instrumental version, used to play it for my baby son, he used to chill and fall asleep..

 

[clanarchy]

For those who don't have the instrumentals. I just ripped these from this.........

Liquid Swords [Chess Box] Disc 2 -Clanarchy.rar

 

[MenacingMonk]

Crazy how I was bumping this the entire October. Never knew it was that long ago.

I prefer it more than OB4CL.

4th Chamber is my top 5 songs of ALL TIME. That beat.

Introduced me to Shogun Assassin/Lone Wolf. Now I got all versions of the films, the first season of the TV show and collecting the manga omnibuses. In fact if it wasn't for Wu I would probably of never been into Kung Fu flick.

 

[hex]

"Gold" is probabaly my favorite Wu song all time.

Fred.

 

[Nature's Fury]

1. subbin to read the articles later...

2. y'all nikkas argue about everything...

3. Swordsman and Living In The World Today are two RZA's best beats (after Biscuits IMO)...this album is a classic and I don't consider anybody who disagrees a "Hip Hop Head" if that matters...there will never be no shyt like Wu Tang to ever happen in hip hop again...

 

[Methodical]

Bookmark!

I love that album

 

[mson]

GZA Recalls The Origins Of The Cover Art Of "Liquid Swords"

Perhaps one of the most iconic pieces of Hip Hop art comes from the comic book cover art ofGZA's seminal Liquid Swords. Now, in a recent interview with the Bishop Chronicles podcast, the Genius explains the origins of the artwork.
GZA explained that the image first came to his mind while playing a heated chess series against fellow Wu-Tang Clan alum Masta Killa. He said that the two had played upwards of 30 games while smoking weed when the vision of the chess pieces coming to life and battling one another first came to him. He added that he was thinking about propositioning it for the single art for "Da Mystery of Chessboxing," but decided to save it for Liquid Swords.
"That [cover art] was something that I came up with, that was in 1992 - that was three years before the album," recalled GZA. "I was actually playing Masta Killa in a game of chess, and around that time, he used to beat up on me a lot 'cus I had just started playing again. I learned how to play when I was younger, then I didn't start playing again until around that time [in] the early days of Wu. I would play with Killa, Jeru the Damaja, Afu-Ra, and all the brothers from East New York from Killa's neighborhood. We were playing a game, and we may have played like 30 games that night, and the game was still in a checkmate position…and I was smoking weed, and you know how you smoke weed, you start really get[ting] all these thoughts and you start analyzing shyt, and I started drawing the pieces how they were on the board like in that position…then I just started imagining how, 'What if this knight had a guillotine in his hand? What if this person had this sword swinging?' And I just thought of this whole war scene on the chessboard." He added, "I actually thought about presenting it for the 'Chessboxing' [single] cover…and then I thought like it was bigger than a single, so we used it for [Liquid Swords]

 

[mobbinfms]

I done sonned you too many times. I'm not even your father at this point. I'm your great granddaddy.

Me showing the Coli that you're a lying b!tch in this thread again is indicative of my sonning f@ggot n!ggas acumen.

It's time you give it up. One more month before the Coli blesses you with that WOAT banner.

Do we have a @SirBiatch smiley?
@3Rivers

 

[mson]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/20-years-on-angus-batey-on-liquid-swords-by-gza.341136/

 

[FloorGeneral]

My Wu-Tang album hierarchy:

1. 36 Chambers
2. Liquid Swordz

Enough said.


Oh, and as far as the B.I.B.L.E. argument, let's just put it like this: the song is good, maybe great, but didn't fit the feel of the album. It IS a bit out of place on this album, but that's fine, because they put it on the end, so it didn't affect your mood while listening, and it's easy to skip if you don't wanna listen to it.

 

[SirBiatch]

Do we have a @SirBiatch smiley?
@3Rivers

That would be fantastic.

It's gotta be :sirbiatch: Anything less would just be unfair

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

My Wu-Tang album hierarchy:

1. 36 Chambers
2. Liquid Swordz

Enough said.


Oh, and as far as the B.I.B.L.E. argument, let's just put it like this: the song is good, maybe great, but didn't fit the feel of the album. It IS a bit out of place on this album, but that's fine, because they put it on the end, so it didn't affect your mood while listening, and it's easy to skip if you don't wanna listen to it.

for me, it felt good on the LP..the song has a melodic yet mysterious feel to it..KP just spazzed out on that.

 

[Danie84]

When I was little my father was famous Wide entrance small exit like a funnel So deep it's pick up on radio tunnels You can see the weakness of a man right thru his Iris Watch out for Haiti bytches I heard they throw Hex Snake got smoked on the set like Brandon Lee You know bout them fukking Staten Kids they smashing Liquid Swords's is a sweeping Operatic Tale, on Epic Proportions GZA's Pulitzers BARZ I'm no Black Activist on a so-called scholar's dikk RZA's Orchestral/Shaw Bros production Duel of an Iron Mic wind soundscape Shawdoboxin' BASS on a hundred, thousand, trillion Label's Summer Jams Screen Blast Tommy ain't my motherfukkin boy Cold World' reflection eternal Night before New Years all thru the project Not a handgun was silent not even a Tec And, KP giving a 90s Kid the Holy Ghost For years, Religion did nuthin but Divide This Magnum Opus BLACKEXCELLENCE, is a testament to Hip-Hop's GOATNESS

 

[mobbinfms]

Playing the vinyl right now
This is my one and a half year old daughters first time listening to this classic.
Happy Liquid Swords Day brehs

 

[mobbinfms]

She only made it through Gold brehs
She chose the ball