An instrumental from Gentle Giant, VdGG & Cardiacs
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Topic: An instrumental from Gentle Giant, VdGG & Cardiacs
Posted By: Logan
Subject: An instrumental from Gentle Giant, VdGG & Cardiacs
Date Posted: October 10 2021 at 10:42
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Three instrumentals from three mostly song-based bands in Prog Archives. Gentle Giant - "The Boys in the Band" Van der Graaf Generator - "Theme One" (a George Martin cover) Cardiacs - "All His Geese Are Swans!" ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 10 2021 at 10:48
but Alucard has vocals...  tough choice between GG and VDGG. I'll make a choice eventually.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 10 2021 at 10:51
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Oops, been too long, will change it to Boys in the Band. Fixed, been many years since I last listened to the full album and that track and I forgot the vocals in Alucard. GG I expect to get the most votes by far if many people vote, but I love that Cardiacs track (I'm perhaps too obviously something of a fanboy when it comes to the band, mind you, one could have said the same of me with VdGG and GG). ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 10 2021 at 11:10
| Gentle Giant - "The Boys in the Band" |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: October 10 2021 at 11:19
| Gentle Giant for me. |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: October 10 2021 at 12:05
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Gotta love Theme One ------------- I'm guitarist and songwriter for the prog-related band Mother Bass. Find us at http://www.motherbass.com. I also enter stages throughout the Netherlands performing my poetry. |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: October 10 2021 at 16:17
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VdGG ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: October 10 2021 at 19:24
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I'll take GG's original over the VDGG cover despite being a bigger fan of VDGG. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 00:00
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The Boys In The Band is one of my favorite GG tracks. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 00:52
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Gentle Giant here! One of my favorite GG cuts, let alone Octopus tracks. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 02:49
| Not a fair fight: Cardiacs never got signed to a major label like the other two bands so their wonderful track here will get overlooked by the fans of the other two. |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 03:19
| Easily Gentle Giant. Not sure why Theme One is here as it was written by George Martin, not VDGG, they just covered it. |
Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 05:38
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VDGG. If it was pretty much any other Cardiacs song, then it probably would have been them, but 'All his geese are swans' is not their best, in my opinion. ------------- Levitating downwards, atomic feedback scream. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 06:16
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Cardiacs and VDGG clearly over Gentle Giant. Tough between the two. VDGG on the mood of the day. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 08:04
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Going with VDGG for this one. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 08:39
Which at least I mentioned in the original post: "Van der Graaf Generator - "Theme One" (a George Martin cover)" I guess it's the word "from" that you have a problem with? Funnily enough, that's why I didn't go with "by". I maxed out the character limit for the title and it didn't occur to me that someone would question why or be confused (especially since I mentioned it's a cover by George Martin). I appreciate cover songs so I don't have a problem with listing them generally. I like VdGG's cover of Theme One is mostly why I included it. EDIT: I guess I should have put more thought into the phrasing and explaining my thought process in the OP. It could have done with some more elaboration in the OP than just mentioning that the VdGG one is a cover by George Martin, but sometimes even when I do it becomes clear that people didn't even bother to read the OP before questioning. As long as people took the time to listen to that they don't know in such polls, and at least one person finds something to enjoy, I'm happy. Sometimes I put plenty of time and effort into my original posts, and sometimes I don't. Apologies for any confusion, Ronstein. I was rushing a bit at the time, and made a mistake with my GG choice at first. By "from" I did not mean to imply originally from in the case of VdGG, but yes it could have been phrased better, and I wish I'd put more time and thought into the OP and topic title. I am too spontaneous. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Ronstein wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 08:58
But pretty much any other Cardiacs song would not be their best either. It's not their best for me either (The Everso Closely Guarded Line, Big Ship, Dirty Boy... hard to say which one is best) but it is my favourite pure instrumental from Cardiacs I don't know which Cardiacs is best, but from a subjective standpoint, it's one of my many favourites. I love the way it builds. Even mediocre Cardiacs is good Cardiacs for me. I guess for you not only is it not the best, or one of the best, it is one of the worst. Mind you, I love some objectively poor stuff. None of these instrumentals would I call the best of the bands. VdGG's is a cover, I actually don't like the GG for some reason. For me to what I find best would require not doing instrumentals. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: rik wilson
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 13:42
| Gentle Giant is the song for me. It's an all out prog romp. Deadly Delicious ! |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 14:50
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This is a tough choice between GG and VdGG. But on this occasion, I give my vote to VdGG to help bolster their tally. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 15:33
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Well, between these three (all very worthy) instrumentals, my vote goes... ...to... ...Cardiacs. No, really! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 17:19
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Gentle Giant. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: October 12 2021 at 03:19
Absolutely no apology necessary. As I'm familiar with all three pieces, I didn't look at the videos, so missed the fact you'd mentioned George Martin.
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Posted By: socrates17
Date Posted: October 21 2021 at 09:55
| Well, this was tough, because they're all killer tracks. But I had to go with the magnificent Theme One. I already knew that George Martin had composed it. |