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Poll Question: Which is your favourite album?
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    Posted: July 25 2024 at 10:48
Inspired by the recent resurgence of interest in all things Gong and for all of those Magick Brothers amongst us, it seemed About Time we had another series of Gong polls (including solo albums by past members of Gong), just so long as I don't have to Suffer listening to Mother Gong, New York Gong or Acid Mothers Gong ever again. Tongue

3 stars 1970: Daevid Allen's Gong - Magick Brother - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA_xQv6oHwIUpm6O0YaJUrT
3 stars 1976: Allan Holdsworth - Velvet Darkness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6D7XZtHDfk
3 stars 1979: Didier Malherbe - Bloom 
4 stars 1995: Gongzilla - Suffer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEeqz9tYuBw


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 26 2024 at 01:19
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Hillage!
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Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
Shamal Gong - Shamal
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Gazeuse!
Daevid Allen - Banana Moon
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1. Steve Hillage - Fish Rising 
2. Planet Gong - Live Floating Anarchy
3. Gongzilla - Suffer
4. Shamal Gong - Shamal
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Steve Hillage : Fish Rising
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Velvet Darkness was released without Allan's permission so I shouldn't vote for it. But it has no votes sooo.
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Hillage easily but there are three others that need to be mentioned that have no votes right now. There's a lot of great albums here Paul, thankyou for this.
Gongzilla is such an amazing album with Holdsworth on several tracks.
Shamal might be better than that one with Hillage on a few songs.
Fairy Tales is a different animal but my appreciation for it is very high, the runnerup here.
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Fish!
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Fish Rising is my go-to album when I've listened my way through the Camenbert-You quartet and want to stay in that mode. But Shamal is up there among my favorite spiritual jazz (fusion) albums. A transitional album that's perfect for what it is. Never before or after was the sound of Gong so drop dead gorgeous (Nick Mason did a great job with this).
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Steve Hillage and Allen Holdsworth.
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total bananas? Big smile
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Shamal
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

But Shamal is up there among my favorite spiritual jazz (fusion) albums. A transitional album that's perfect for what it is. Never before or after was the sound of Gong so drop dead gorgeous (Nick Mason did a great job with this).

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Did you like my song, Paul? Tongue
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


Did you like my song, Paul? Tongue
That Yello Bananas song is too bananas even for me. I think they're probably overripe bananas that are past their sell-by date. Tongue
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Did you like my song, Paul? Tongue
That Yello Bananas song is too bananas even for me. I think they're probably overripe bananas that are past their sell-by date. Tongue

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Edited by David_D - July 27 2024 at 13:27
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Magick Brother is easily the best from that list.
I think it might be my overall favourite album by Gong.
Honourable mentions to Bananamoon, New York Gong and the Acid Mothers collaboration.
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This list is chock-full of fantastic albums. I'll vote for the criminally underrated Bloom, but Shamal, Fish Rising, and Gazeuse! would all have deserved a vote. 
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