Vital VDGG: 4th Album
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Topic: Vital VDGG: 4th Album
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Vital VDGG: 4th Album
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 02:15
The last poll in the series.   1972: Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOWdkl7AREpLB5vkYkhbv94GHycru9xHY" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOWdkl7AREpLB5vkYkhbv94GHycru9xHY  1974: Peter Hammill - In Camera - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m8rrtQDAMtZpNv4AfHfWltxtgFbfozjdQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m8rrtQDAMtZpNv4AfHfWltxtgFbfozjdQ 1983: Guy Evans with Life of Riley & David Jackson - The Long Hello, Volume 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8YN292KRP8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8YN292KRP8 1989: Nic Potter - Themes and Underscores 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcy5CtgIFVc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcy5CtgIFVc 2005: Chris Judge Smith - The Full English
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 02:19
| Pawn Hearts obviously, but In Camera is great too. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 02:56
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Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts Peter Hammill - In Camera Nic Potter - Themes and Underscores 2 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 03:42
Probably the only time I'll ever vote for Peter Hammill. 
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 04:52
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VDGG over Peter Hammill ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 05:27
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Pawn Hearts. Hammill's In Camera is my favorite of his albums. I haven't talked about Kaiser rolls in three hours. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 06:18
| VDGG, Nic Potter. |
Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 07:58
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going with Hammill on this one. The first side of PH brings it down a bit. Allowing In Camera to slightly overtake. ------------- The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 08:12
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Frets N Worries wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 09:49
Love In Camera, but still Pawn Hearts gets the vote from me.
While "Man-Erg" was one of two tracks that I first heard of VdGG that I immediately loved and led to me exploring more, "Lemmings" took much longer to really appreciate. I started with tracks back in the bad old Napster days of the first half of the 2000s. As whole albums, due to "Lemmings", I found the previous two albums easier to get into on the whole, and have had The Least We Can Do... as my favourite (now it's more one of my favoured). "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" is what particularly makes that album so special for me. Some, like Micky (hope he is okay), have expressed that that suite brought the album down, or that the second half of it is weak. Obviously opinions vary. It was the second half of it in particular that blew my mind, and I love crescendos. It has been considerable time since I last listened to that album in full. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 10:10
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PH obviously... it's as damn near as perfect as an album can be. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 10:11
I think that might be called a 'Hot Take' in PA common parlance...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 17 2024 at 21:47
| It may be picky but Pawn Hearts is a 1971 release. PA has it as number 3 for that year but it is much more 'ordered' (focused) than other great releases of that year (Fragile, Tarkus and Nursery Cryme especially). It seems criminal that VDGG then went on hiatius at a time when prog was becoming big business (72-74). Perhaps they missed their chance?! |