Favourites.

If you want to fly,
if you want to become a star
a superhero
You could try the ascension of the great pyramid of life
Counting again and again from one to nine
Approaching and pushing away infinity - O sweet absurdity!
But if you prefer that old silly number zero
You'll become a master of doing nothing - being nothing.

Favorite Band: Genesis

Favorite Album:  Foxtrot

Favorite Song from Favorite Album: Supper's Ready

Favorite Member: Tony Banks

Favorite Album Cover: Foxtrot

Favorite Live Song: Medley - In the Cage/Cinema Show/Slippermen/Afterglow

Favorite Solo: Firth of Fifth

Favorite Lyric:  Ripples

Ripples...
Bluegirls come in every size
Some are wise and some otherwise,
They got pretty blue eyes.
For an hour a man may change
For an hour her face looks strange -
Looks strange, looks strange.

Marching to the promised land
Where the honey flows and takes you by the hand,
Pulls you down on your knees,
While you're down a pool appears.
The face in the water looks up,
And she shakes her head as if to say
That it's the last time you'll look like today.

Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
Gone to the other side.
Sail away, away.

The face that launched a thousand ships
Is sinking fast, that happens you know,
The water gets below.
Seems not very long ago
Lovelier she was than any that I know.

Angels never know it's time
To close the book and gracefully decline,
The song has found a tale.
My, what a jealous pool is she.
The face in the water looks up
She shakes her head as if to say
That the bluegirls have all gone away.

Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
They've gone to the other side.
Look into the pool,
Ripples never come back,
Dive to the bottom and go to the top
To see where they have gone
Oh, they've gone to the other side...

Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
Gone to the other side.
Look into the pool,
The ripples never come back, come back,
Dive to the bottom and go to the top
To see where they have gone
They've gone to the other side

Favourite Band:
Rush

Favourite Album From Favourite Band:
Moving Pictures

Favourite Band: Van der Graaf Generator
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Tough, but I'll go with "Godbluff", since it was my first.
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Tough again. Arrow.
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Peter Hammill
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: 

Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Oh my. Still Life.
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Van der Graaf Generator is not really about solos, but for weirdness sake the guitar-"solo" of Peter Hammill at the end of "Meurglys III - the Songwriters Guild".
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Difficult again. Currently "Nutter Alert". Here the lyrics:
It might come in a letter,
darkness falls in a telephone call;
I await the unexpected
with one ear to the party wall.
Is it the pricking of the conscience,
is it the itching of hair shirt,
is it the dictionary definition
of a precipice to skirt?
It's the nutter alert.
        
Though this face is familiar
something in it has bred contempt;
I never asked for your opinion
or your back-handed compliments.
Oh, but here comes that special nonsense
all the words out in a spurt,
the unhinging of the trolley
as the mouth begins to blurt...
it's the nutter alert
        
I can see we're in trouble
from that glint in the eye you've got;
there's no sense to the story,
comprehensively lost, the plot.
And how contorted is that logic
you so forcefully exert:
you're a car crash in the making,
head-on, that's a racing cert.
It's the nutter alert,
this is the nutter alert.

Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: The unique voice of Peter Hammill. Also this is a band which is more than just a sum of its parts. There are certainly bands with greater virtuosos on their instruments (except Peter Hammill as a singer), but once again: This is not what Van der Graaf Generator is all about. Van der Graaf Generator are a band full of energy.

Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: 
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: 

Something faintly emanating
Perfume and decay
Whispered lightly in the wind
That she had got away

Longing for the touch of something
Soft upon my face
I thought about her fingertips
And not her lack of grace

Sorry about those lyrics if they seem too serious for you, they're of sentimental value.

Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
 
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band:

See me, what I am, what I was, what I'll be,
Hear me, understand that I'm not what you see
Take this, take the man, middle term, common me
Don't you see that I'm just doing what I want to do
  Nothing more and nothing less than you
  Read no thoughts I didn't think myself
  Just the same as anybody else

Make me someone else, put me up on a stand.
Something that I don't really want on my hands
Use me, idolise all you can understand
Don't you see that I'm just doing what I want to do
  Nothing more and nothing less than you
  Read no thoughts I didn't think myself
  Just the same as anybody else

Change it, what you think, what you thought, what you say
Look for something more than you sought yesterday.
I don't want to be part of your life to-day.
Don't you see that I'm just doing what I want to do
  Nothing more and nothing less than you
  Read no thoughts I didn't think myself
  Just the same as anybody else