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Poll Question: Which is the best Van Der Graaf Generator studio album?
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Still Life for me... although this might change
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Pawn hearts is not my piece of cake, Godbluss stands far ahead of anything else for me. Not a weak composition, not a dull moment here!
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Pawn Hearts, of course! But H to He is quite close behind.
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H To He's my favourite album, although my favurite tune Refugees is on Least We Can Do ... I've only got 5 albums ... this is my order ...

1. H To He Who Am The Only One
2. Godbluff
3. Pawn Hearts
4. The Least We Can Do Is Wave Goodbye To Each Other
5. Still Life

For me, Still Life is a long way behind the others  ...
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Really difficult for me to choose between Godbluff and Pawn Hearts... I love both, and voted for the former only because it had less votes...
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Voted Pawn Hearts, but it may change as I still haven't heard  everything yet

Anyone care to list a top ten of songs from the different albums.
I only come to five (only the first albums)

1. Killer
2. Lemmings
3. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
4. Darkness
5. After The Flood
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Tough!!!!! VDGG is one of my faves, and each album has it's merits.
I just picked up THE BOX. Though the quality of the live tracks on disk 2
is sh!t, the 4-disk set is still worth getting your hands on. (though I was
not happy with the shortened version of "arrow."

I cast my vote for best VDGG album for PH7!!   

"Portion Down" is one of my favorite PH solo tracks,( along with "A louse
is not a home" and "Time Heals") plus, PH7 was my introduction to Peter
Hammill.

Blarg! My cheese has bones!
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Still Life is my favourite, the most mature one IMHO. The last great album from Van der Graaf too.There's a lot of wonderful music on most earlier albums, too. Wonderful band. I hope to see them in july, in Holland. Great that they are back on the road again.
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Here is my list: (check out my reviews also :-)

1. H to He Who, Am The Only One
2. The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
3. Aerosol Grey Machine
4. Still Life
5. Pawn Hearts
6. Godbluff
7. The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome
8. World Record

The "second generation" albums have not listened since many years now, so take this list with "grain of salt".

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Van Der Graaf Generator were easily one of the greatest bands of the era and one of the most consistent also; for me it's between 'Pawn Hearts' and 'H To He' for their best, yet 'Pawn Hearts' has the edge for being probably the most extreme album of the genre, and also one of the greatest.
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PAWN HEARTS!!!  Loved it from listen no. 1, in a cozy hall with my father sitting beside me and reading a newspaper: you should have seen how uncomfortable he felt most of the time (the explosive sax stuff, the weird melodies and harmonies, the disturbing psychedelic passages, and of course, Hammill's out-of-this-wrold singing), but I was in Heaven... My mom came to the hall for a while and politely said (she's an absolute lady): "That music is a bit strange, isn't it?" Poor her, she was in pain, too... but I was still in Heaven, and only when the final chords of 'Plague' faded out, we could all three be in Heaven: me, with the memory of a prog masterpiece, them, with the relief of knowing ut was all over.  PAWN HEARTS!!!
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=1.Pawn Hearts / H to He...
3.Godbluff
4.Still Life
5.The Least We Can Do...
=6.World Record / Present
8.Quiet Zone...
9.Aerosol Grey Machine
10.Vital



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  1. H to the He
  2. Still Life
  3. The Least We Can Do
  4. Godbluff
  5. Pawn Hearts
  6. Quiet Zone
  7. World Record
  8. Aerosol Grey Machine
  9. Vital
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  1. Godbluff
  2. Pawn Hearts
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I just recently got Pawn Hearts, and it's really fantastic.

Now I have to get H to He, Who Am the Only One... Still Life... and Godbluff.

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Pawn Hearts sums up VDGGs classic, and arguably, best sound.
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Pawn Hearts at the absolute TOP, inches down lies Godbluff and then comes H to He, Who am the only One... i haven't heard the debut album and the three last ones.
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"Pawn Hearts" for me.
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Pawn Hearts!

Godbluff, Still Life, World Record, H to He are all jostling for 2nd place though...
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  1. Still life (always be my favorite )
  2. Pawn Heart
  3. H to he
  4. Godbluff
  5. World Record
  6. The Least
  7. Quiet zone
  8. not hear the aerosol grey machine

Not hear present ....can't wait !!!
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