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Poll Question: your fav studio VDGG album?
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12 [13.79%]
36 [41.38%]
17 [19.54%]
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    Posted: February 02 2005 at 20:49

 

Lets pick the prog men from the pussies.LOL.
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WOW, a very very difficult one, since I am a BIGGGGGGGGGG fan !

As an admin , may I vote for all of them ?

But PAWN HEARTS is a total prog masterpiece .... really !



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Tough call, but I must go with Pawn Hearts.  In my mind this is their most complete album and has great diversity.  VDGG is such a complex band I am still trying to complety digest their material. After listening to them I feel totally exhausted in a good way.
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Pawn Hearts without a doubt. I listen to that one at least once/week.
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world record.
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Might as well count me among the pussies ... I hate VDGG.
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H to He
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H to He

i really like VDGG, i wish i had some on vinyl, i would listen to them a lot more

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I hate that band

*looks at user name*

Wait, no, they're awesome, I voted Pawn Hearts
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Originally posted by greenback greenback wrote:

world record.

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I like the second period slightly better than the first period.

Still Life is an all-time favourite but Godbluff and World Record are almost just as good.
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Very tough choice.So tough in fact that I can't vote. I love 'em all.

Oh! alright then.

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Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Very tough choice.So tough in fact that I can't vote. I love 'em all.

Oh! alright then.

Pawn Hearts


Hmmmm - user called Man-Erg votes for Pawn Hearts, there's a surprise!

Pawn Hearts for me too - 'Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers', one of prog rock's defining moments!

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I'd really like to be different and vote for one of the other high-class albums...

...but Pawn Hearts it is!!!

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Has to be Pawn Hearts

Man-ERG is one of the greatest prog rock songs ever written IMO, and the young Hammills performance on it is flawless.

Although A Plague of Lighthouse keepers took me quite a while to get into, I now regard it as a masterpiece as well.

I have also found that VDGG, along with Frank Zappa are very useful for clearing your house of unwanted guests late on a Saturday night when you want to go to bed..
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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PH for me too unsurprisingly but with Godbluff a VERY CLOSE second!! Its the best comeback Lp in prog history - although Peter Hammill never REALLY went away did he?

Hope they do loads of stuff off the Lp at the gig!
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Originally posted by gdub411 gdub411 wrote:

Pawn Hearts without a doubt. I listen to that one at least once/week.


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Oh I still can not appreciate VDGG, Hammills over theatrical voice annoys me too much.

I have listened to a lot of their albums as a close friend is a massive fan and I voted for H to He because despite what i said i love the track 'Killer'

I prefer Hammills solo album 'Nadir's Big Chance' over any VDGG though.
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Godbluff. It contains a way of implementing complex change of timesignatures into the song so that nobody notices it at first listen. Very smart indeed. Read my review.

Epic.
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This is real difficult.But it has to be Still Life;Hammill's vocals are sublime on this record.The vocal alone on the title track is worth the money on it's own.Awesome music to boot and lyrics that a wordsmith would be proud of.

Lacking sleep and food and vision,

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encouragement and sanctity and more.
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