The Gong Family Albums

Gazeuse! Unravelling Gong's complicated discography of 57 varieties of album turned out to be almost as tricky as walking the high-wire at a Continental Circus. Gong have been in existence for over half a century now, so I thought it About Time we paid Tribute to a great band and Rejoiced together in their wonderful music. Gong breezed in like a Shamal with their debut album Magick Brother in 1970, but their real Breakthrough came three years later with the acclaimed Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy. Gong began as a band led by Aussie Daevid Allen, but they then had a Second Wind in the mid-1970's when Pierre Moerlen branched off to form his own jazzy version of Gong. A later third version of the band - known as Mother Gong - emerged in the late-70's, led by Wild Child Gilli Smyth. I don't want to create A Storm in a Teapot, but personally speaking, I wouldn't give a Flying Teapot for any of Mother Gong's albums, although I realise they have a strong following here at PA. Anyway, to cut a long story short, my favourite Gong album by far is Downwind  - a precious album to treasure like an Angel's Egg - and I'll now Leave It Open for You to choose your favourite Gong album. 

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - July 28 2024 at 00:54

Shamal, baby. And thank you, Nick Mason!

YOU should figure what my favourite is just by this message.

Edited by Sean Trane - October 02 2021 at 15:47

Edited by Lewian - October 02 2021 at 17:10

Lewian wrote: There's also Gongzilla by the way. Shamal and Gazeuse are best for me, but I love much of both the Daevid Allen and Pierre Moerlen version of the band. Downwind is an excellent album indeed; for me Pierre pretty much turns everything to gold on which he plays. I prefer live versions of most material on the trilogy and You.

A Golden Gong for Daevid Allen's third solo album, which I heard for the first time today. 

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Gazeuse! Unravelling Gong's complicated discography of 57 varieties of album turned out to be almost as tricky as walking the high-wire at a Continental Circus. Gong have been in existence for over half a century now, so I thought it About Time we paid Tribute to a great band and Rejoiced together in their wonderful music. Gong breezed in like a Shamal with their debut album Magick Brother in 1970, but their real Breakthrough came three years later with the acclaimed Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy. Gong began as a band led by Aussie Daevid Allen, but they then had a Second Wind in the mid-1970's when Pierre Moerlen branched off to form his own jazzy version of Gong. A later third version of the band - known as Mother Gong - emerged in the late-70's, led by Wild Child Gilli Smyth. I don't want to create A Storm in a Teapot, but personally speaking, I wouldn't give a Flying Teapot for any of Mother Gong's albums, although I realise they have a strong following here at PA. Anyway, to cut a long story short, my favourite Gong album by far is Downwind  - a precious album to treasure like an Angel's Egg - and I'll now Leave It Open for You to choose your favourite Gong album.  The Gong Family Albums    1970: Daevid Allen's Gong - Magick Brother - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA_xQv6oHwIUpm6O0YaJUrT  1971: Daevid Allen's Gong - Camembert Electrique - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCPwOsH5kkDBkJzDVxf5lHa  1972: Daevid Allen's Gong - Continental Circus (soundtrack) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDmGde7hOFRW315yc6rLOMM  1973: Daevid Allen's Gong - Flying Teapot - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCkdxUoZ65KgEAxUk0AuSmC  1973: Daevid Allen's Gong - Angel's Egg - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCPZ-35b9RZgaAcPp5SW2ga  1973: Daevid Allen's Gong - Live at the Bataclan - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAQ_ArLxqTzKrsFluPVIl4z  1974: Daevid Allen's Gong - You - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAgcgJztrOoWj1ujCdfTVZv  1974: Daevid Allen's Gong - Live at Sheffield - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA-OaGx0F5F_t46dq71oRMh  1975: Daevid Allen's Gong - Live in Sherwood Forest - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA1W1xYb31oFAcc1tIjrdmF  1975: Shamal Gong - Shamal - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCkall70oCJKXfPG4mjdJ3K  1976: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Gazeuse! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCZijlNll9ZUqIi4A2w7bzG  1977: Daevid Allen's Gong - Gong Live, Etc - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDurkqIqqbu0GC6M_EkjW8i  1977: Planet Gong - Live Floating Anarchy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCbMAuNSLQTxaQoMabLqDir  1978: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Expresso II - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBlHQDu87X3XUHFOiVhxkq5  1979: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Downwind - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzB4Aa4nRT4SkEZTCAK28ce_  1979: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Time is the Key - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDKyY8Tj8kbtO3YxsJsPhjR  1979: Mother Gong - Fairy Tales - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCbP5vtHK6iE1Bnt3-EjNtB  1980: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDeWx1Q13uEBf0kXNea2f7a  1980: New York Gong - About Time - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBybxE1JUqOSWAf3rzHq-0f  1981: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Leave It Open - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBNk-N3NgZmKDlgg--pOnJt  1981: Mother Gong - Robot Woman - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCikBuMHjMepmwI0WquoGNw  1982: Mother Gong - Robot Woman 2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBELblhQ-tezORVJyRIsMMg  1986: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Breakthrough - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAfRRLH8XIq-qV1gHzOVLVi  1988: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Second Wind - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAdEC3MhYiLM8hVUUkymOB5  1988: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Full Circle Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBzvSkHD6G6e9sB1ZPrzqZi  1988: Mother Gong - Fish in the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAnQrgj4Z2629QY8Ts7ZAtA  1989: Mother Gong & Daevid Allen - The Owl and the Tree - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAL1lk9yo7Ors_FzStGDBru  1989: Gong Maison - Gongmaison - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDU1ezrNv4wkj2GIFA3_BuW  1990: Daevid Allen's Gong - Access All Areas - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCSNtBDb_QyH7FXPsQhCH3W  1991: Mother Gong - Wild Child - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBlzpSqG9THdQ_MB5ucJRT0  1992: Mother Gong - Live 1991 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAPEj6G1QKjdNtyGVE6nWNI  1992: Daevid Allen's Gong - Shapeshifter - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzC7ZPzHe0mKlQVGKKqb3J3V  1993: Mother Gong - She Made the World Magenta - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBveJKRmYMEiwHebztPECm_  1994: Mother Gong - Eye - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzB-QxbA_Ula3upQ1ouSR4UQ  1994: Mother Gong - Tree in Fish - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBGoK_Ztpx6wW-IF7TbQLiX  1995: Daevid Allen's Gong - The Peel Sessions 1971/74 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDve5EqZopWjRN6xkNk5mQw  1995: Daevid Allen's Gong - 25th Birthday Party, The Forum, London - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzD3NyonOAlKX7mw-aSLqiS8  1998: Mother Gong - The Best of Mother Gong - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAlvopTk5gUKKpwZ3yDjZ9E  2000: Daevid Allen's Gong - Zero to Infinity - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA1FjocEST5bajlpDqr717m  2000: Daevid Allen's Gong - Live to Infinitea - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDB9QH-WEgZ6XzM5uueCG18  2000: Daevid Allen's Gong - High Above the Subterranea Club - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzC_CC5nlAh5Ii9dD9o01a3v  2003: Gong - The World of Daevid Allen & Gong, Vol. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCbDB0MDnW3iSCxJZGlJIq6  2003: Gong - The World of Daevid Allen & Gong, Vol. 2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBP3ewL2klIa5mwSmM2rSmJ  2003: Gong - The World of Daevid Allen & Gong, Vol. 3 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzABxi58AIvRr2pjiSxXqqYw  2004: Daevid Allen's Gong - Magick Invocations. Vol. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCmPThqF_L6167WLAwk1FAd  2004: Daevid Allen's Gong - Magick Invocations, Vol. 2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBV5EbBogrMzYGjfVqVPzw2  2004: Acid Mothers Gong - Acid Motherhood - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAEfa3R3V4d_wUfLIqGgGrp  2004: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Pentanine - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzC0VyMDJWvFVelgJ4u6ScBd  2005: Mother Gong - Glastonbury Festival 1979-1981 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA14vnBGVYHLb7-Cm5zxQ0u  2006: Mother Gong - Mother Gong 2006 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzB4ndJrO6fbUuJdP7JH-A5w  2007: Mother Gong - Live in Amsterdam - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCYNQTuH8NSlv-lvq61eTDs  2009: Daevid Allen's Gong - 2032 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDsLCfWlR44zX3d7JbFvruE  2010: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Tribute - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA9kvMvM1rgmSeJ_JnKumnF -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBMED_qzmjcEGeX53toqqa1  2014: Daevid Allen's Gong - I See You - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBoipvAMRbNO2zHhbMSTL9u  2016: Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA6DSORKqZlLW8J14y5_WGQ  2019: Gong - The Universe Also Collapses - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDVoprYkTbtxPHPvPvwdRI5