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PAWN HEARTS

Van Der Graaf Generator

 

Eclectic Prog

4.43 | 2491 ratings

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Progressive!
4 stars GOOD ALBUM, but hard to digest

I must admit this album is especial for me, because it is the first one I cquired with my own money because all the others were gifts or my relatives' albums.

well, if you want to buy this album i suggest you to get the remastered version of 2005, as the bonus tracks are gems. All of them!

Lemmings is a good songs with Hamills great voice, but it ends so dark... i would have prefered an end in the style of man-erg (buy the album and youll know why!)

Man-Erg is a really dark-sad song withe a change at aprox. 3 minutes that i really like (jacson is a sax-hero and he started my interest in brass instruments (along with Ian Anderson). now the epic "a plague of lighthouse keepers" the hardest to digest by far! after listen number 3 i realized it is a grat song, maybe a masterpiece (but the words "masterpiece" and"tghe worst" are so relative...), yet i have to admit that a somoe parts (the synthesizers going crazy or that brass part that sounds like a ship are a little to unaccesible for tyhe ones tat hear VDGG for the first time or for most (if not all) of girls i have known. but those partes do have their charm anyway!).

*PD*listem to the bonus tracks especially theme 1 and the dark lyrics of W. do not forget the other themes anyway!

Progressive! | 4/5 |

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