Best VDGG
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Topic: Best VDGG
Posted By: Yanns
Subject: Best VDGG
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 16:54
Let me know. 
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Posted By: alchemist
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 16:56
Pawn hearts, great album!
------------- no great genius has existed without a touch of madness... |
Posted By: Yanns
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 18:30
| Hmmmm, this went nowhere fast.... but thanks alchemist. |
Posted By: OldFatherThames
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 18:32
Not hear present |
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....can't wait !!!Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 18:43
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Pawn Hearts! Godbluff, Still Life, World Record, H to He are all jostling for 2nd place though... |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 18:45
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"Pawn Hearts" for me. ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: eriksalkeld
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 18:58
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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. ------------- Autenticidad, actitud, pluralidad, espiritu e inteligencia, si es prog bien, si no, tambien. |
Posted By: Yams
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 19:23
| Pawn Hearts sums up VDGGs classic, and arguably, best sound. |
Posted By: illustrated
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 19:25
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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. |
Posted By: Vegetableman
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 19:58
------------- "Mister Fripp, your music is quite different than everything else out there. In one word, how would you describe it?" "Progressive.... yeah, that's it..." |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 00:24
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 06:40
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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 ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 09:03
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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!!! |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 10:57
| 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. |
Posted By: Seyo
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 12:17
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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". Sead |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: April 30 2005 at 17:07
| 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. |
Posted By: lpd42
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 15:15
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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! |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 18:34
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 ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 18:39
| 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... |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 22:30
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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 For me, Still Life is a long way behind the others ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 02:19
| Pawn Hearts, of course! But H to He is quite close behind. |
Posted By: Yurkspb
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 05:03
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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! |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: May 12 2005 at 05:33
| Still Life for me... although this might change |