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TheLionOfPrague 
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 Posted: March 29 2011 at 20:23 |
GODBLUFF.
I prefer Genesis over VDGG, but Godbluff is their best album (and Pawn Hearts), while Nursery is not between my favorite Genesis albums (although I like it, I prefer SEBTP, Foxtrot, ATTOTT, etc,)
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I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place
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twosteves
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Posted: March 29 2011 at 22:16 |
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I still can't get into Van der Graaf, sorry. |
Me either--I wish someone could explain their appeal--to me they very often sound like what a comedy movie would put in a soundtrack if a scene called for prog to be played in the background---perhaps performed by Jack Black.
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Horizons
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Posted: March 29 2011 at 22:19 |
twosteves wrote:
Horizons wrote:
I still can't get into Van der Graaf, sorry.
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Me either--I wish someone could explain their appeal--to me they very often sound like what a comedy movie would put in a soundtrack if a scene called for prog to be played in the background---perhaps performed by Jack Black. |
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SayYes
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Posted: March 29 2011 at 22:30 |
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Nursery Cryme!
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Gandalff
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Posted: March 29 2011 at 22:42 |
Nursery Cryme, because Godbluff shamelessly paraphrases my nickname. 
Seriously, because I like Gabriel´s Genesis really more than often over-combined Generators.
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-díriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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The Monodrone
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Posted: March 29 2011 at 22:42 |
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Godbluff, no doubt.
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Gandalff
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Posted: March 29 2011 at 23:00 |
Incidentally - I noticed that Genesis is currently included in 7 topics from 15 on first page, i.e. 46%. Isn´t it normal?
Edited by Gandalff - March 30 2011 at 07:07
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-díriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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someone_else
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 02:34 |
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Both 5 star albums. Godbluff is - together with Still Life - my favourite VdGG album. But I prefer Nursery Cryme a little.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 02:41 |
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Nursery Cryme, but Godbluff has no weak spots either in terms of composition .
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palinurus
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 04:20 |
Uff! Magical songs on Nursery Crime with Genesis line up. But Godbluff is the return of a band without doubts!
Godbluff 10,5! Nursey 10.  |
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Vompatti
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 04:44 |
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Godbluff, mainly because I don't like The Giant Hogweed or The Fountain of Salmacis very much.
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yanch
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 06:34 |
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Nursery Cryme for me too. Have tried hard to get into VdGG, but they are not a favorite. So vote Genesis. A good album, but not their best.
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akaBona
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 07:53 |
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Nursery Cryme!
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Ruby900
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 08:02 |
The Quiet One wrote:
Nursery Cryme, an album that I at first listens thought was weak and overrated, plus the muddy production ruined the good moments.
Now I think it's incredible and as a whole it works greatly, the flow with that production is simply unique. Each song is really good, although obviously different. |
That is what I think too!
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"I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman
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Negoba
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 08:35 |
Godbluff is the only VdGG album I have and it's got some great moments.
But Genesis is prog for me, and Nursery Cryme is that little gem that took me awhile and now is perhaps my favorite. Ant's writing with Steve's playing. Hungry kids, really superb.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 08:46 |
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Nursery Cryme for me. Brim full of classics.
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ThinLizzy
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 08:58 |
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I prefer VDGG to Genesis.
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And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
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bucka001
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 11:01 |
twosteves wrote:
Horizons wrote:
I still can't get into Van der Graaf, sorry.
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Me either--I wish someone could explain their appeal--to me they very often sound like what a comedy movie would put in a soundtrack if a scene called for prog to be played in the background---perhaps performed by Jack Black. |
Every opinion is worthwhile, but it's interesting that you can make that comment while using Tales From Topographic Oceans as your avatar... the very album that is held up as an example of everything that's wrong with prog by its detractors. The band that wore capes, had twenty banks of keyboards, and a giant opening/closing clam on stage (not that I don't love the live video of Ritual) I think would be a far better fit for a comedy film taking a pot shot at prog! (And by the way, I like a lot of Yes!!!)
Nursery Cryme is a band finding its feet after a major lineup change (not even Stratton Smith liked the album); the group was far more confident on Foxtrot and what came after.
Godbluff is brimming with power and confidence. It's the pinnacle of what VdGG was about at that stage and, for what they were, it's perfection.
If you hate VdGG, then you couldn't vote for them. But respective of what each album was for the bands and their followers, it's no contest. Godbluff all the way.
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digdug
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 11:02 |
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Nursery Cryme easily for me
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Prog On!
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Horizons
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 11:08 |
bucka001 wrote:
twosteves wrote:
Horizons wrote:
I still can't get into Van der Graaf, sorry.
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Me either--I wish someone could explain their appeal--to me they very often sound like what a comedy movie would put in a soundtrack if a scene called for prog to be played in the background---perhaps performed by Jack Black. |
Every opinion is worthwhile, but it's interesting that you can make that comment while using Tales From Topographic Oceans as your avatar... the very album that is held up as an example of everything that's wrong with prog by its detractors. The band that wore capes, had twenty banks of keyboards, and a giant opening/closing clam on stage (not that I don't love the live video of Ritual) I think would be a far better fit for a comedy film taking a pot shot at prog! (And by the way, I like a lot of Yes!!!)
Nursery Cryme is a band finding its feet after a major lineup change (not even Stratton Smith liked the album); the group was far more confident on Foxtrot and what came after.
Godbluff is brimming with power and confidence. It's the pinnacle of what VdGG was about at that stage and, for what they were, it's perfection.
If you hate VdGG, then you couldn't vote for them. But respective of what each album was for the bands and their followers, it's no contest. Godbluff all the way. |
He said that their songs could fit a sountrack, for a comedy that needed prog being played in background. I dont know how the appearance of either band matters. Sounds like hes calling them generic/predictable.
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