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ThyroidGlands 
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 Topic: Godbluff or Still LifePosted: 22 hours 49 minutes ago at 18:57 |
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Two masterpieces of Van Der Graaf Generator. Choose one of them.
For me, Still Life |
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You don't know nothin'
You don't know nothin' about You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' at all |
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Posted: 22 hours 45 minutes ago at 19:01 |
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Still Life for me too.
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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967).
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verslibre
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Posted: 22 hours 18 minutes ago at 19:28 |
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Still Life
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: 22 hours 12 minutes ago at 19:34 |
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Love both but Godbluff is my favorite VDGG album
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: 21 hours 60 minutes ago at 19:46 |
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I prefer Godbluff but it's close.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Godbluff by just a little bit. I feel it's a little stronger all the way through. I like Still Life a lot too though and these are probably my two favorite VDGG albums as they sound "tighter" than the earlier stuff.
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Posted: 16 hours 47 minutes ago at 00:59 |
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My two favourite VdGG albums. Godbluff is superb, Still Life is top 20 for me and gets my vote.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: 14 hours 49 minutes ago at 02:57 |
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My call as well, but I also really appreciate The Least Edited by Sean Trane - 14 hours 49 minutes ago at 02:57 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: 11 hours 30 minutes ago at 06:16 |
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Godbluff should be still obvious even Still Life has definitely increased in popularity. Anyway, Godbluff to me. |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: 10 hours 55 minutes ago at 06:51 |
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The four amazing songs on Godbluff by far for me. No matter how good the material on Still Life, I struggle with Hammill's rasp when it's used "all over" a song. I'm sorry I know Moshkito don't approve of such complaints, but it seems to be in my nature to react negatively and partly avoid it. It doesn't sound healthy for the voice to me either, and it just gets in the way of my enjoyment.
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Cristi
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Posted: 10 hours 33 minutes ago at 07:13 |
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both
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I prophesy disaster
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Posted: 10 hours 24 minutes ago at 07:22 |
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Godbluff.
I never really got into Still Life. |
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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.
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Posted: 8 hours 54 minutes ago at 08:52 |
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Godbluff by a gnat's hair for me.
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"My own response to King Crimson is one of quiet terror." - Robert Fripp
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Posted: 8 hours 38 minutes ago at 09:08 |
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Godbluff gets the nod.
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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: 8 hours 36 minutes ago at 09:10 |
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Really? Aren't you a super huge VDGG fan? |
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Octopus II
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Both
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I prophesy disaster
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I am, but my huge love of their music lies elsewhere in their discography. I actually do like the title track and La Rossa. I don't actually dislike the album, just that it never grabbed me like their other albums. It's not even my least favourite VdGG album, that would be ALT. But it is my least favourite from their first eight studio albums. |
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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.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: 2 hours 53 minutes ago at 14:53 |
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Oh ok. I was just curious. There are people who are big Genesis fans who don't like The Lamb so anything is possible. Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - 2 hours 52 minutes ago at 14:54 |
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I prophesy disaster
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One thing about VdGG is their eclecticism. I see this as a good thing, but it doesn't always work. That's ok because most of it does work. |
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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.
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Posted: 1 hour 51 minutes ago at 15:55 |
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In the second half of the '70s, and like most other surviving Prog bands, VdGG changed the direction towards the less complex and more mainstream like. Still Life is still decent though if seeing it from the perspective of classic Prog. |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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