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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Just listened to Flying Teapot all the way through. I really liked it but not quite as much as the other two. Definitely a fun album. Tracks like 'The Pot Head Pixies' and 'Zero the Hero and the Witches Spell' I really enjoyed. You two were right, all three of those albums are very good indeed. I really like this band! 
I really love those three album equally, hard to say which of them is better! I think Flying Teapot is the most rhythmic album of those and You most serene. Somehow I have noticed most people seem to respect least Flying Teapot. It was my first Gong-album and I liked it immediately, so maybe thatīs the reason why I love it too! I really love also their two first albums and believe you will like them too, of course if youīre not in psychedelic stuff, then Magick Brother is not your album. I love it also really much, reminds me two first Floydīs albums. Also, I like quite much Pierre Moerlenīs albums, although theyīre really different as Allenīs albums. And after eighties albums are not bad too, so you will have lot to listen with Gong, if you want to.
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For me the best Gong are actually on Shamal and Gazeuse!, which came after You. So that's another thing worth checking out (I also like the later Pierre Moerlen's Gong work a lot but I do understand why people are not directed there first). These go more in a jazzy direction than the earlier stuff, if that's your cup of tea. Apart from that I have to say that You could never excite me that much, also compared to Angel's Egg and the earlier material, which I think is more fun.


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The best Gong album isn’t even a Gong album anyways

...even if it technically is. Take it away Dashiell:
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Always puzzled by the amount of Gong fans, Teapot heads alike, that have never heard ‘Obsolete’.
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Too many to list here, but there's much more that I have gotten into.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

The best Gong album isn’t even a Gong album anyways

...even if it technically is. Take it away Dashiell:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6YBfvPTdMU

Always puzzled by the amount of Gong fans, Teapot heads alike, that have never heard ‘Obsolete’.
Thanx David, this has gone past of me, not much mentioned in Gong-wiki sites, only in discography at "other appearances", well there has been some much going on with Gong (Planet Gong, Mother Gong, Gongmaison etc). Anyway going to listen this also.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

For me the best Gong are actually on Shamal and Gazeuse!, which came after You. So that's another thing worth checking out (I also like the later Pierre Moerlen's Gong work a lot but I do understand why people are not directed there first). These go more in a jazzy direction than the earlier stuff, if that's your cup of tea. Apart from that I have to say that You could never excite me that much, also compared to Angel's Egg and the earlier material, which I think is more fun.
Yes, I like also Shamal the most from without Daevid Allen albums. Practically itīs also Pierre Moerlenīs Gong-album (quite the same style) although named only to Gong.
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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Gong is one I've had trouble with in the past. Does any know a good place to start with them?

Holiday Greetings!  I first heard the LP by Gong, "Expresso," and was blown away by Allan Holdsworth (that was the first time I'd ever heard him play, long before UK etc.).  I also recommend Gong "You" as others have said...I was very fortunate to have seen Gong, featuring Daevid Allen and Blombdido, playing in a small club in Chicago on two consecutive nights!!  Their live "Master Builder" was drop-dead amazing!!  

You may also wish to seek out some Steve Hillage solo work, try his seminal LP "Fish Rising."  It has some amazing moments!  Happy Listening! 
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Steve Hillage + Egg = Arzachel.
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I just listened to Magick Brother all the way through. I really liked it, it's an album I can see myself returning to a lot. It was a bit inconsistent but when it's good it's GOOD. Wow, I just didn't expect this at all. Gong.. who knew? My newest obsession for sure. This hasn't happened for me with a new band in a long time. Anyway thank you all for your suggestions and Holiday Greetings to you too cstack! And to all of you as well.


Gong... who knew.


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I think I may have posted this already but I only have one Spock's Beard - Gluttons For Punishment and one Flower Kings album - Stardust We Are.  I've been told I should check out their newest one so you never know I could change my mind. My first Flower Kings song was their cover of Cinema Show on A Fox Lies Down: A Tribute To Genesis. They are OK but I didn't see the need to explore any further. I almost got two Swans albums but stopped with To Be Kind, which I consider good music to slit your wrists to. Tongue I only have a few Beefheart ablums but I can't get into Trout Mask Replica.  I cringe whenever it comes up in my rotation. Love Doc At The Radar Station and Safe As Milk though. 

On a side note Fox has an excellent version of In The Beginning by Mother Gong.
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None. I like all prog. Ok, I'm not a super huge fan of prog metal. I like some of it but I'm picky. Then again to me it's not really prog but more like metal so maybe it doesn't really count.
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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

I just listened to Magick Brother all the way through. I really liked it, it's an album I can see myself returning to a lot. It was a bit inconsistent but when it's good it's GOOD. Wow, I just didn't expect this at all. Gong.. who knew? My newest obsession for sure. This hasn't happened for me with a new band in a long time. Anyway thank you all for your suggestions and Holiday Greetings to you too cstack! And to all of you as well.


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Great to hear! I am big psych rock fan and Magick Brother is sure one of the greatest psych albums!! I believe you will have much of great time with Gong in the future (I havenīt heard any bad album from them, not even their side-projects). Definitely you will like at least Camembert Electrique, thatīs also essential album of theirs!
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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

I just listened to Magick Brother all the way through. I really liked it, it's an album I can see myself returning to a lot. It was a bit inconsistent but when it's good it's GOOD. Wow, I just didn't expect this at all. Gong.. who knew? My newest obsession for sure. This hasn't happened for me with a new band in a long time. Anyway thank you all for your suggestions and Holiday Greetings to you too cstack! And to all of you as well.


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Great to hear! I am big psych rock fan and Magick Brother is sure one of the greatest psych albums!! I believe you will have much of great time with Gong in the future (I havenīt heard any bad album from them, not even their side-projects). Definitely you will like at least Camembert Electrique, thatīs also essential album of theirs!


I listened to Camembert Electrique all the way through. I enjoyed it, definitely a good album but... I don't know maybe my expectations are too sky high now with this band. I didn't like it as much as the other 4 that I've listened to so far. I kept waiting for it to 'WOW' me and it didn't it was just 'good.' Maybe on repeated listens I'll like it better, who knows. Can you recommend an album from them for me to listen to next?
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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

I just listened to Magick Brother all the way through. I really liked it, it's an album I can see myself returning to a lot. It was a bit inconsistent but when it's good it's GOOD. Wow, I just didn't expect this at all. Gong.. who knew? My newest obsession for sure. This hasn't happened for me with a new band in a long time. Anyway thank you all for your suggestions and Holiday Greetings to you too cstack! And to all of you as well.


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Great to hear! I am big psych rock fan and Magick Brother is sure one of the greatest psych albums!! I believe you will have much of great time with Gong in the future (I havenīt heard any bad album from them, not even their side-projects). Definitely you will like at least Camembert Electrique, thatīs also essential album of theirs!


I listened to Camembert Electrique all the way through. I enjoyed it, definitely a good album but... I don't know maybe my expectations are too sky high now with this band. I didn't like it as much as the other 4 that I've listened to so far. I kept waiting for it to 'WOW' me and it didn't it was just 'good.' Maybe on repeated listens I'll like it better, who knows. Can you recommend an album from them for me to listen to next?
Well, there has been talking about Shamal. Maybe you should try that next, itīs quite different, so you will like it or not. But if you want to continue with Allen style, then you can go to the nineties and start for example "Shapeshister". Those later Gong albums are quite equally good, but donīt expect as great albums as those five first. If you want to listen some of their other project albums, Planet Gong`s Live Floating Anarchy 1977 is one of my favorites with itīs really energetic playing.
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Just listened to Shamal all the way through. I liked it. You were right, it sounds a lot different. I really liked Cat in Clark's Shoes. and the rest of the album's good too. Gong back on track for me here.
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For me it has to be Transatlantic.
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For me it has to be Transatlantic.


Hi, have you listen to 'The Whirlwind' yet? Dellinger on here strongly recommended it to me one time, and so I listened to it and I really liked it! I think you would like it too.
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The only one I've not heard by Transatlantic is "Kaleidoscope". I have the first two albums. Not overly fond of vocals and too much of the music seems like cookie-cutter prog to me. I know I'm in the minority but what the hell. I have 3,400+ other CDs to listen to so I'm not going to worry.
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^ Yeah I definitely wouldn't. There's tons of newer acts that I don't listen to at all and I'm not sweatin it lol. It sounds like you gave them an honest try and they're just not for you, for the reasons that you stated.. which are very valid ones I would say.


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Porcupine Tree. 

I only have two of their albums, but they are the two most highly rated PT albums on PA each with a rating of 4.25 and each with around 2500 ratings: In Absentia and Fear Of A Blank Planet. 
 
Just doesn't do it for me, but I'll give 'em another chance someday.  I've experienced not liking a certain CD/artist and then years later giving it a try and having a comepletely different experience, so my mind is open. 
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