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The Hemulen View Drop Down

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Topic: Favourites.
Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:20

A fun quick one for you all! Fill out this wee form with your own responses!

Favourite Band:
Favourite Album From Favourite Band:
Favourite Song From Favourite Album:
Favourite Member of Favourite Band:
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band:
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band:
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band:

Phew! Well, once you've done that if you have ideas for other categories to add then do so! I hope this thread runs for a while and it might introduce new bands to people.

All right then, here's my own responses:

Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: In a Glass House
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Experience
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Kerry Minnear (Keys, vibes, cello and others)
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:

Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Excerpts From Octopus
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Vibes solo from any live version of Funny Ways
Favourite Lyrics 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

Favourite Reasons For Loving Favourite Band: Sheer mind-blowing originality, inventiveness and skill.

Your turn!

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:26

Favourite Band: Marillion
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Misplaced Childhood
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Heart of Lothian
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Steve Rothery
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:

Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Incubus
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Sugar Mice
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
"It's six o clock in the tower blocks
the stalagmites of culture shock
and the trippers of the light fantastic
bow down, hoe down
Spray the pheremones on
this perfume uniform"
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Kick ass vocals.

goose

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:38

Good call on the lyrics, there are so many there could be on that album though. I might do it later, but it couldn't be my favourite band, I'd have to choose one that's up there...

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:43

Favourite Band: Well, person, Frank Vincent Zappa.
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Oh geez, uh... um... Roxy & Elsewhere.
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Echidna's Arf (Of You)
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Vinnie Colaiuta
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:

Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Village of the Sun/Echidna's Arf (Of You)/Don't You Ever Wash That Thing suite.
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Inca Roads guitar solo by Frank.
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Absolutely Free

Suzy: I don't do publicity balling for you anymore

FZ: The first word in this song is discorporate. It means to leave your body

Discorporate & come with me
Shifting; drifting
Cloudless; starless
VELVET VALLEYS & A SAPPHIRE
SEA: Wah Wah

Unbind your mind
There is no time
To lick your stamps
And paste them in
DISCORPORATE
And we will begin . . .WAH WAH!
(Flower Power Sucks)

Diamonds on velvets on goldens on vixen
On comet & cupid on donner & blitzen
On up & away & afar & a go-go
Escape from the weight of your corporate logo!

UNBIND YOUR MIND
THERE IS NO TIME
Boin-n-n-n-n-n-g
TO LICK YOUR STAMPS
AND PASTE THEM IN
DISCORPORATE
AND WE'LL BEGIN
FREEDOM! FREEDOM!
KINDLY LOVING!
YOU'LL BE ABSOLUTELY FREE
ONLY IF YOU WANT TO BE

Dreaming on cushions of velvet & satin
To music by magic by people that happen
To enter the world of a strange purple Jello
The dreams as they live them are all mellow yellow

UNBIND YOUR MIND
THERE IS NO TIME
Boin-n-n-n-n-n-g
TO LICK YOUR STAMPS
AND PASTE THEM IN
DISCORPORATE
AND WE'LL BEGIN
FREEDOM! FREEDOM!
KINDLY LOVING!
YOU'LL BE ABSOLUTELY FREE
ONLY IF YOU WANT TO BE

YOU'LL BE ABSOLUTELY FREE
ONLY IF YOU WANT TO BE

Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: The originality, the Ripley's Believe It Or Not playing, the innovation, the sheer genius.

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:54

I'm going again, deal with it.

Favourite Band: The Residents
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Not Available
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Part One: Edweena
Favourite Member of Favourite Band:

Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:

Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: God's Magic Finger
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Snakefinger's guitar solo in Moisture.
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:

Fingertips

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 Reason For Loving Favourite Band: The most original band I've ever heard, and very intelligent people.

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:06

Band: King Crimson
Album: Discipline
Song From Album: Indiscipline (but that is tied with everything eles)
Member: Fripp
Cover: ITCOTCK, The Power To Believe
Live Song: Too many to name
Solo: Fripp's On The Worlds My Oyster....(at least at this moment)
Lyrics: Elephant Talk, The World's My Oyster..., Happy Family
Reason: Kick-assness and IMO the begining of prog.

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

BaldJean

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:07

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.

Edited by BaldJean

A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:11

Favourite Band: Dream Theater duh. (Sorry, My Love Gildenlow, not here)
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Dream Theater- Images and Words
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Learning to Live of course
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: John Petrucci, who else?

Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:

You know all the front cover of it, so I just want to add some flavor
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Instrumedley on Live at Budokan
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Trial of Teras of course, I just love it
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: The Spirit Carries On

Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
Where do we go when we die?
What lies beyond
And what lay before?
Is anything certain in life?

They say " Life is too short"
"The here and the now"
And " You`re only given one shot"
But could there be more
Have I lived before
Or could this be all that we`ve got?

If I die tomorrow
I`d be allright
Because I believe
That after we`re gone
The spirit carries on

I used to be frightened of dying
I used to think death was the end
But that was before
I`m not scared anymore
I know that my soul will transcend

I may never find all the answers
I may never understand why
I may never prove
What I know to be true
But I know that I still have to try

If I die tomorrow
I`d be allright
Because I believe
That after we`re gone
The spirit carries on

[Victoria:]
"Move on, be brave
Don`t weep at my grave
Because I`m no longer here
But please never let
Your memories of me disappear"

[Nicholas:]
Safe in the light that surrounds me
Free of the fear and the pain
My questioning mind
Has help me to find
The meaning in my life again
Victoria`s real
I finally feel
At peace with the girl in my dreams
And now that I`m here
It`s perfectly clear
I found out what all of this means

If I die tomorrow
I`d be allright
Because I believe
That after we`re gone
The spirit carries on

Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Because they are so 1337 and I'm just 10 years old . Jus' Kiddin'!

Dream Theater are technical, emotional, brilliant and exhilirating. They are also the best band live other than Pain Of Salvation (of course) No one can bring them off my list right now

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:12

Favourite Band:
Rush

Favourite Album From Favourite Band:
Moving Pictures

Favourite Song From Favourite Album:
Tom Sawyer

Favourite Member of Favourite Band:
Alex Lifeson,far better than many people realise.

Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:

Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band:

ByTor & The Snow Dog (From ATWAS)

Favourite Solo From Favourite Band:
Guitar Solo in La Villa Strangiato.

Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
The Camera Eye:

I

Grim-faced and forbidding,
Their faces closed tight,
An angular mass of New Yorkers
Pacing in rhythm,
Race the oncoming night,
They chase through the streets of Manhattan.
Head-first humanity,
Pause at a light,
Then flow through the streets of the city.

They seem oblivious
To a soft spring rain,
Like an English rain
So light, yet endless
From a leaden sky.

The buildings are lost
In their limitless rise.
My feet catch the pulse
And the purposeful stride.

I feel the sense of possibilities,
I feel the wrench of hard realities.
The focus is sharp in the city.

II

Wide-angle watcher
On life's ancient tales,
Steeped in the history of London.

Green and grey washes
In a wispy white veil
Mist in the streets of Westminster.
Wistful and weathered,
The pride still prevails,
Alive in the streets of the city.

Are they oblivious
To this quality?
A quality
Of light unique to
Every city's streets.

Pavements may teem
With intense energy,
But the city is calm
In this violent sea.

Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band:

You wanna try and stop me?

NetsNJFan

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:13

cool game!

trouser you won't like this but....

Favourite Band: Genesis
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Foxtrot / Selling England by the Pound (Virtual Tie)
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Can Utility / Cinema Show
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Tony Banks (Keyboards)
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
A Trick of the Tail (1976)
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Supper's Ready ( on Genesis Archive Vol. 1)
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Steve Hackett at the end of "Los Endos"
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:

Carpet Crawlers (1974)

There is lambswool under my naked feet.
The wool is soft and warm,
Gives off some kind of heat.
A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed.
Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid.
The fleas cling to the golden fleece,
Hoping theyll find peace.
Each thought and gesture are caught in celluloid.
Theres no hiding in my memory.
Theres no room to void.

The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor.
For my second sight of people, theyve more lifeblood than before.
Theyre moving. Theyre moving in time to a heavy wooden door,
Where the needles eye is winking, closing in on the poor.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
Weve got to get in to get out
Weve got to get in to get out.

Theres only one direction in the faces that I see;
Its upward to the ceiling, where the chambers said to be.
Like the forest fight for sunlight, that takes root in every tree.
They are pulled up by the magnet, believing that theyre free.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
Weve got to get in to get out
Weve got to get in to get out.

Mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite,
And the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright.
Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlight;
Its the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
Weve got to get in to get out
Weve got to get in to get out.

The porcelain mannikin with shattered skin fears attack.
The eager pack lift up their pitchers- the carry all they lack.
The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through the crack,
And the tickler takes his stickleback.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
Weve got to get in to get out
Weve got to get in to get out.

Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Elegant, symphonic prog, with wonderful melodies, intense lyrics, a prog giant without constant soloing

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:14

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

Edited by The Doctor

I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?

Semprini

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:17

Favourite Band: Van der Graaf Generator

Favourite Album From Favourite Band: probably Godbluff, if I
had to choose.

Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Undercover Man

Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Peter Hammill

Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: Vital

Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Still Life

Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: VdGG wasn't about solos,
I'd have to go with Meruglyss III like BaldJean

Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Humn, I'd say Lost I
guess

So here we are, or rather, here am I, quite alone;
I'm seeing things that were shared before, long ago;
my memory stretches and I am dazed.
You know I know
how good the time was and how I laughed.
Times have changed, now you're far away, I can't complain -
I had all my chances but they slipped right through my hands
like so much sand;
I know I'll never dance like I used to.

I'll just wait till day breaks upon the land and the sea,
hoping that I can catch all of the memories;
then I must crawl off upon my way,
all of me listening hard for the final words.
But there are none, the sunrise calls, I've lingered on
too close for comfort and I don't know quite why
I feel like crying -
I know we'll never dance like we used to.

I look up, I'm almost blinded
by the warmth of what's inside me
and the taste that's in my soul,
but I'm dead inside as I stand alone.

(The Dance in Frost)

I wore my moods like different sets of clothes
but the right one was never around
and as you left I heard my body ring
and my mind began to howl.
It was far to late to contemplate the meaning of it all;
You know that I need you, but somehow
I don't think you see my love at all.

At some point I lost you, I don't know quite how that was.
The wonderland lay in a coat of white, chilling frost;
I looked around and I found I was truly lost...
without your hand in mine I am dead.
Reality is unreal and games I've tried just aren't the same:
without your smile there's nowhere to hide
and deep inside
I know I've never cried as I'm about to ...

If I could just frame the words
that would make your fire burn
all this water now around me could be the love
that should surround me.

Looking out through the tears that blind me
my heart bleeds that you may find me
or at least that I can
forget and be numb,
but I can't stop, the words still come:
I love you.

Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: This is an odd
question. The greatest vocalist the worrld has ever known "The
Jim iHendrix of the voice", the unique combination of
instruments and instantly recognizable sound. The fact that
with all their albums and all of Hammill's solo album sthere
hasn't been a bad track yet, I could go on...

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:27

Since Jean took VdGG from me I'll go for Gong.

Favourite Band: Gong
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: You
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Master Builder
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Pierre Moerlen
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:

Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: "Radio Gnome" in the version on "Gong Live etc."
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: The sax solo of Didier Malherbe in the studio version of "Master Builder".
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
Thoughts For Naught

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.

Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Has the best instrumentalists in prog on two positions: Pierre Moerlen on drums and Didier Malherbe on woodwinds. And Steve Hillage and Mike Howlett on guitar and bass are by no means slouches!

BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:39

WHY WAS THIS MOVED TO JUST FOR FUN?

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:43

Retrovertigo wrote:

WHY WAS THIS MOVED TO JUST FOR FUN?

Because, apparently, talking about your favourite bands isn't a serious issue in a music forum.

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Posted: July 05 2005 at 20:30

Favourite Band: Genesis
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Selling England By The Pound
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Peter Gabriel
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: A Trick Of The Tail
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Supper’s Ready
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Steve Hackett in Firth Of Fifth
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Get ‘Em Out By Friday
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Song structures like Firth of Fifth where complex instrumental parts wind their way back to the original theme.

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Posted: July 06 2005 at 15:06

Favourite Band: TOOL
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Lateralus
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Lateralus
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Danny Carey
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Part of Me
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Push*t
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:

If when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stay

You minimize my movement anyway

I must persuade you another waaaaaaayy.

Staring down the hole again

Hands are on my back again

survival is my only friend

Terrified of what may come.

Remember I'll always love you

as a tear your f**king throat away

There will be no other way.

...There's no love in fear.

--Push*t
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: I am not a Tool fan. Tool fans are pretentious.

http://www.myspace.com/altaic
ALTAIC

"Oceans Down You'll Lie"
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Posted: July 06 2005 at 16:02

Favourite Band: YES
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: GOING FOR THE ONE
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: AWAKEN
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: JON ANDERSON
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:

Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: SIBERIAN KHATRU
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: RICK WAKEMAN'S EXCERPTS FROM THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY 8TH (maybe over the top for some, but oh so wonderful)
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: (from Awaken:)

High vibration go on
to the sun, oh let my heart dreaming
past a mortal as me.
Where can I be?

Wish the sun to stand still.
Reaching out to touch our own being
Past a mortal as we
Here we can be
We can be here.

Like the time I ran away
and turned around
and you were standing close to me.

Like the time I ran away
and turned around
and you were standing close to me.

Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY MIND-BOGGLING AND NEVER GET BORING. GREAT COMPOSITIONS, SIMPLE AS WELL AS COMPLEX, SOULFUL, GREAT PRODUCTION, ADVENTUROUS, GREAT HARMONIES, INNOVATIVE!

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Posted: July 06 2005 at 17:53

FAVOURITE BAND: VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR

FAVOURITE ALBUM: PFF WELL ALL OF THEM MEAN THE SAME TO ME BUT I CHOOSE PAWN HEARTS

FAVOURITE SONG FROM FAVORITE ALBUM: A PLAGUE OF LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS

FAVOURITE MEMBER FROM FAVORITE BAND: PETER HAMMILL

FAVOURITE COVER ART FROM FAVORITE BAND:

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FAVOURITE LIVE SONG FROM FAVORITE BAND: STILL LIFE AND PIONEERS OVER C

FAVOURITE SOLO FROM FAVORITE BAND: AS BALDJEAN MENTIONED VDDG IS NOT THE BAND OF VIRTUOSOS MUSICIANS AND I LOVE EVERY SECOND OF THEIR MUSIC SO I CAN'T REALLY DECIDE.

FAVOURITE LYRICS FROM FAVORITE BAND: ANOTHER DIFFICULT DECISION, PFFF I CHOOSE MAN-ERG ONLY BECAUSE I HAVE TO (I LOVE ALL THEIR LYRICS)

FAVOURITE REASON FOR LOVING FAVOURITE BAND: PETER HAMMILL'S VOICE AND HIS SPECIAL TALENT IN WRITING LYRICS AND MUSIC. VDGG WAS(AND STILL IS) THE GROUP THAT GAVE (AND STILL DOES) ME COURAGE THROUGH ITS MUSIC IN DIFFICULT TIMES OF MY LIFE......ETERNALLY GRATEFUL.

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Posted: August 13 2005 at 14:09

Favorite Band: Yes

Favorite Album: Tales from Topographic Oceans

Favorite Song: The Revealing Science of God (Well, actually I prefer both CTTE and Gates, but Revealing is my favorite from Topo.)

Favorite Member: Jon Anderson or Rick Wakeman (Jon because he's the biggest creative force in the band, and Rick because he amuses me. )

Favorite Cover Art:

Favorite Live Song: Oh, don't do this to me. I'm going to have to say the Yessongs version of Perpetual Change because it is so different from (and so much better than) the original.

Favorite Solo: The pipe organ/Minimoog/Hammond solo in CTTE.

Favorite Lyrics: Oh man. Once you figure out at least something of what the lyrics to CTTE mean they are quite clever, but for now I'll have to go with Gates of Delerium.

Stand and fight we do consider
Reminded of an inner pact between us
That’s seen as we go
And ride there
In motion
To fields in debts of honour defending

Stand the marchers soaring talons
Peaceful lives will not deliver freedom
Fighting we know,
Destroy oppression
The point to reaction
As leaders look to you attacking

Choose and renounce throwing chains to the floor
Kill or be killing faster sins correct the flow
Casting giant shadows off vast
Penetrating force
To alter via the war that seen
As frictions spans the spirits’ wrath ascending to redeem

Wars that shout in screams of anguish
Power spent passion bespoils our soul receiver
Surely we know.
In glory we rise to offer,
Create our freedom, a word, we utter a word.

Words cause our banner, victorious our day
Will silence be promised as violence display
The curse increased we fight the pow’r and live by it by day
Our gods awake in thunderous roars and guide
The leader’s hands in paths of glory to the cause

Listen should we fight forever
Knowing as we do know
Fear destroys?
Listen should we leave our children?
Listen our lives stare in silence
Help us now

Listen your friends have been broken
They tell us of your poison
Now we know
Kill them give them as they give us
Slay them burn their children’s laughter
On to hell

The fist will run
Grasp metal to gun
The spirit sings in crashing tones we gain the battle drum
Our cries will shrill the air will moan and crash into the dawn
The pen won’t stay the demon’s wings, the hour approaches
Pounding out the devil’s sermon

Soon oh soon the light
Pass within and soothe this endless night
And wait here for you
Our reason to be here

Soon oh soon the time
All we move to gain will reach and calm
Our heart is open
Our reason to be here

Long ago, set into rhyme

Soon oh soon the light
Ours to shape for all time, ours the right
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here

Soon oh soon the light
Ours to shape for all time, ours the right
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here

These step away from Jon's usual Andersonian mumbo jumbo, and make thier point very well.

Farovite Reason: They sound like Genesis but with more tasteless, self-indulgent soloing!

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