H to HE vs Lamb
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Topic: H to HE vs Lamb
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Subject: H to HE vs Lamb
Date Posted: September 18 2021 at 23:59
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H to HE vs Lamb?
------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 00:31
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This is a really hard choice. Today I go with The Lamb, tomorrow I might pick H to He. ------------- 
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Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 00:51
| H to HE. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 01:44
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VDGG for sure. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 01:52
| impossible choice |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 02:03
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H to HE for me. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 05:08
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 05:42
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Indeed, this is a dilemma...
------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 05:44
very different (double lp, year etc) Anyway, I consider H to He an absolute masterpiece in the history of prog, so... ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Frenetic Zetetic wrote:Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 06:15
This. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 07:05
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”And the lamb …” ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Neu!mann
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 07:07
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Who Am the Only One... ------------- "we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 07:52
| The Lamb, no question. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 08:12
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VDGG ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 08:57
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What is with you kids and your abbreviating everything? I guess it is because you text each other, eat fast food instead of preparing your own food in a slow cooker or maybe it is because you lack the time. In my day it was not just an "ROTFL bro!" message, we would actually knock our brothers down then roll them around on the floor while we laughed at them for ten minutes, then our brothers would return the "favour" -- good times, bad times, we had our share. In regards to the periodic table of elements, we did not write "He" (or HE in this poll's case), we took the time to go and buy party balloons so that we could inhale the helium, then we would talk to each other in squeaky voices while avoiding all abbreviations. Inhaling a bunch of helium and then saying "VdGG - H to He"" would have made it too easy, no we said it in full so we had time for our voices to have fully dropped before we finished saying Van der Graaf Generator's Hydrogen to Helium Who Am the Only One versus Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. But seriously.... I love both. I can "blame" The Lamb... for getting me deeply to delve into Prog (it's a long story and actually I am impatient and no one would find it interesting), but VdGG generally has just interested me more over the past 15 years. I voted VdGG despite preferring the two albums that bookend it.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 08:59
It's not something new, abbreviations have always been present, I've started to know what they mean
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 09:04
While I was kidding around, I feel so old that I feel like we had not invented them when I was young. I was born in the early '70s, but I won't say which millennium. By the way, when I first found forums I basically needed a crash course in abbreviations. When someone first said LOL to me I thought she meant Lots Of Love (I wrote back, "Thank you, hugs and kisses to you" or some such thing). While I now know plenty of the band and album abbreviations (initialism and the like) for famous albums, when I check out the "What are you listening to now?" thread it quite often stumps me. I'm still one of those who tends to spell things out that don't need spelling out when texting (I now am more comfortable with writing things like "C U l8r k?"
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 09:47
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Hi, Both are great, but I'll vote for H to HE. Side note: TLLDOB was one album that Guy Guden premiere on his show ... COMPLETE in its entirety right after he went on the air at Midnight on one of his weekend shows, and it is one of the very special moments in my listening. Later, I believe that he played the whole thing again based on the responses. It was one of the things that made Guy's shows so valuable ... you would hear the WHOLE THING and this also applied to Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and many others. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 12:55
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H to He ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 12:59
Who remembers library cards? Lots of abbreviations on them: s.l., s.n., ill., facsim., in., et al., engr., etc. They had to do that just to fit all the information on one card. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 14:15
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This is hard, but H to He over The Lamb by a gnat's whisker. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 14:16
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FmVDGG, bLLDOBinbe. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 16:10
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VDGG - H to HE. ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 18:37
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Love 'em both but can't vote against my #1 all-time favorite album! (The Lamb) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 19 2021 at 20:35
| I pass, two of my least favourite albums from both bands... at least from their classic eras. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 02:10
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I'll vote for Genesis. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 04:44
| Sorry, that VDGG album has no meaning for me whatsoever - Genesis all the way!! |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 05:35
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Posted By: Chaser
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 09:11
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The Lamb on this one - although its not my favourite Genesis album (which is SEBTP) ------------- Songs cast a light on you |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 11:57
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The Vans. Now if TLLDOB had been condensed down to just one disc... ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 11:59
H to HE gets better with time, IMHO. The production is essentially perfect. The atmosphere most certainly ARE. Or, should I say - "H"  .------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 12:46
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The Lamb is the only one I would ever vote for between these 2 ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: September 22 2021 at 14:13
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Two masterpieces, but, like Frenetic Zetetic said, over the years H to He is getting better and better. ------------- 
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Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: September 22 2021 at 18:13
Exactly this
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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: September 26 2022 at 23:36
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Love both but today the vote goes to Genesis - TLLDoB (1974) ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 15:46
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H to He, one of my favorite albums! Lamb is excellent as well and I still listen to both these quite regularly. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 15:53
| Kind of a weird matchup and both are very good but Lamb for me. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 16:03
| No vote both favs' |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 16:54
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H to He for sure ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 17:05
serious Prog vs the beginning poppy  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 17:45
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Both bands started off poppy and both albums contain pop qualities. That said, VdGG would get more experimental and Genesis was on the pop-slide to, I find, a lot of mediocre pop-rock. I already responded to this topic, but that is my favourite Genesis album and one of my favourite VdGG albums. While I commonly do tend to favour both Pawn Hearts and The Least We Can Do..., VdGG takes it for me. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 02:34
Another vote for Genesis. 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 03:52
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This is maybe the only poll where I'll vote for Van der Graaf Generator in preference to Genesis.
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