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Hiram 
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1. Pawn Hearts
2. Godbluff 3. Still Life 4. The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other 5. World Record 6. H to He Who Am the Only One 7. Present 4-6 would be more or less interchangeable depending on the day. |
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Posted: December 26 2021 at 18:38 |
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1. Pawn Hearts
2. H to He, Who Am the Only One 3. The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other 4. Still Life 5. Godbluff 6. World Record 7. The Aerosol Grey Machine |
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David_D
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Posted: December 26 2021 at 16:06 |
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Just three: 1. H to He, Who Am the Only One 2. Godbluff 3. Still Life |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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ProgLin
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Posted: December 26 2021 at 15:45 |
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1. H to He, Who Am the Only One 2. Pawn Hearts 3. Still Life 4. Godbluff 5. The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other 6. World Record 7. The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: March 30 2021 at 07:23 |
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Top 7 update after three more rounds of voting:-
1. Pawn Hearts (139 points) 2. Godbluff (119 points) 3. The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other (101 points) 4. H to He, Who Am the Only One (94 points) 5. Still Life (64 points) 6. The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome (29 points) 7. World Record (18 points) 8. A Grounding in Numbers (12 points) 8. Vital (12 points)
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A Crimson Mellotron
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Posted: March 30 2021 at 06:10 |
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Seeing that I gave my number 1 some time ago, I can also do the same for my top 7  1. Pawn Hearts 2. The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other 3. H to He 4. Present 5. Godbluff 6. Trisector 7. Do Not Disturb |
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Blacksword
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Posted: March 30 2021 at 04:00 |
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Godbluff
Still Life Pawn Hearts The least we can do... H to He who am the only one World Record Present |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Sean Trane
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oh, yeah, I hasd missed that  Oh well, it shows I'm pretty consistent a few months apart
    . That notavle enough to be worthyu of being accounted twice for  . |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Heart of the Matter
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Posted: March 27 2021 at 15:56 |
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1. Vital
2. The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome 3. H to He, Who Am the Only One 4. Still Life 5. The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other 6. World Record 7. Godbluff |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: March 27 2021 at 15:12 |
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You're right. You have voted - on Page 1 - and I've already added your points onto the total.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: March 27 2021 at 15:03 |
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I was sure I had voted on this Oh well, here goes The Least We Can Do Godbuff Trisector Pawn Hearts Still Life H To He Who Am The Ony One World Record |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: March 27 2021 at 14:22 |
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Top 7 update with Olape's votes added:-
1. Pawn Hearts (121 points) 2. Godbluff (103 points) 3. The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other (86 points) 4. H to He, Who Am the Only One (79 points) 5. Still Life (52 points) 6. The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome (21 points) 7. World Record (14 points) 8. A Grounding in Numbers (12 points) Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 27 2021 at 14:23 |
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Posted: March 27 2021 at 14:07 |
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1. Godbluff 2. H to He, Who Am the Only One (remastered version) 3. Pawn Hearts 4. The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other 5. World Record 6. Still Life 7. Do not disturb
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: January 08 2021 at 06:29 |
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Top 7 update with IPhophesyDisaster's votes added:-
1. Pawn Hearts (115 points) 2. Godbluff (91 points) 3. The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other (82 points) 4. H to He, Who Am the Only One (71 points) 5. Still Life (50 points) 6. The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome (21 points) 7. A Grounding in Numbers (12 points) 8. World Record (11 points) Edited by Psychedelic Paul - January 08 2021 at 06:30 |
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I prophesy disaster
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Posted: January 08 2021 at 06:14 |
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1. Pawn Hearts
2. H to He, Who Am the Only One 3. The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome 4. World Record 5. The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other 6. A Grounding in Numbers 7. The Aerosol Grey Machine |
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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.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: January 08 2021 at 06:07 |
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Van der Graaf Generator's Discography & Videography  1969: The Aerosol Grey Machine - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCpCWgcjr6WImrJ1KR4-xeQ 1970: The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBP7gSa4G4wrUWTTlj2W_75 1970: H to He, Who Am the Only One - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDXW5vepShO5dF2126hcOUV 1972: Pawn Hearts - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzD_44Y4-KWyVY9UUPE1eyR5 1976: Still Life - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA7mBv_pBwS6qqutttXdZE2 1976: World Record - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCzfrki6u7F5DccGmU6G5Gt 1977: The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBvlXxx72XqK7UXnVGu49Mh 2005: Live at Rockpalast - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA7wSRcttb-XD63jGgl-Jue 2007: Live at the Paradiso - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA_Pq3e-DFm2afW1yIXqd44 2008: Trisector - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAHuQS-mM5bh-7Wd7DXoAhR 2011: A Grounding in Numbers - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBGJNDad3BRCxvKiBxAGI-y 2016: Do Not Disturb - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBftm-VB4JPteX-n2yDLD0Z |
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Grubert
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Posted: December 30 2020 at 02:47 |
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Yes, but as I said the album still gets better for me every year, and I enjoy the whole album, actually always enjoyed it completely alredy then when I did not like the aforementioned In Babelsberg, and especially did not like the last song On the Beach. And having 2 of VdGG's best is at least something. I can't say this of any of the later VdGG albums.
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nick_h_nz
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Posted: December 30 2020 at 02:40 |
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I think the problem with Present (regardless of whether or not you include both discs when you are evaluating it), is the lack of consistency of quality. Even if you consider two of the tracks to be “the best VDGG tracks, by far the best tracks Hammill did since the mid 80s”, there are tracks that are not at all as inspiring. When considering ranking albums, the overall quality always trumps individual gems within, for me. There are likely many bands and artists in my collection for whom my favourite songs likely do not appear on my favourite albums. 🤷🏻♂️
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Grubert
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Posted: December 30 2020 at 02:31 |
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Ok, but I see no problem in viewing Present as a single disc, the one with the songs, the one with the "compositions". Just do it as I do. And Present is an album which still grows on me. It is my most heard VdGG album after Pawn Hearts in the past 10 or 15 years. And it was only recently (really) that I began really to enjoy the though In Babelsberg, a song which I viewed as boring for mayn years. I even begin to like On the Beach, which I considered for along time as the band's weakest up to that point (if I only could mix out the background singing). But with Every Bloody Emperor and Nutter Alert it contains 2 of the best VdGG tracks, by far the best tracks Hammill did since the mid 80s. The album still needs one more strong song at the end. I wish they had recorded Roncevaux for this album as closing track.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Yes, I think you're right. The Present album would have been much better without the 2nd improvisational bonus disc, which really put me off the album as a whole, and the less I say about the ALT album, the better.
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