The Aerosol Grey Machine vs Renaissance |
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socrates17
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Posted: August 08 2020 at 20:41 |
I voted for Renaissance because it was Keith Relf's Renaissance, and an amazing album. I refuse to recognize the existence of the other Renaissance (upstarts!) despite their popularity and longevity. Otherwise, I would have voted for VdGG, one of my very favorite bands. But their debut didn't really show us what they could do. It took them a couple of albums to get up to speed. Unlike Keith Relf's Renaissance who hit the ground running at full tilt. I saw them once, at the Fillmore East. They were amazing live.
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Tom Ozric
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Banton is on fire during Octopus.
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I quite like The Aerosol Grey Machine, and lately have indeed been enjoying it more. For me, the only reason it is placed so low down my list of favourite VdGG albums is that the other albums are so good.
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Yeah, Necromancer is my favourite track from the album even though Octopus is perhaps the track most suggestive of their future. |
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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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Tom Ozric
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Possibly my least favorite song from each lp...but I prefer Renaissance in this case.
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Ultimately I go for VDGG. I love Wanderer and Kings and Queens but don't get that much out of the rest of the Renaissance album. The VDGG album is more consistent and has a proper highlight., too, with Necromancer.
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Tom Ozric
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I’ve had the Renaissance LP for decades and hardly spin it. I do love Kings and Queens, but the rest is a bit of a chore for me. I like the 2nd release, Illusion, more. VDGG are just classic through and through. |
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Easily Renaissance. Renaissance is an excellent debut. The Aerosol Grey Machine is a weak album for the standards of VDGD. Actually it's the only weak point of them in the 70's.
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I really like that VdGG album!
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Hercules
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Renaissance by light years.
Their initial line up's reincarnation (the band Illusion) is also well worth a listen.
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Cristi
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"Renaissance" - Renaissance
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Ooh yes
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Really like both, but I think Renaissance is already full blood prog album, when VdGG went into it fully in their next album. So it´s Renaissance. I also like it little more.
Edited by Mortte - July 11 2020 at 01:27 |
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Frenetic Zetetic
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VDGG!
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Both wonderful albums.
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I don't know the Renaissance album, but I have to vote for my team... VdGG it is.
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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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Manuel
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Renaissance for sure.
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Tom Ozric
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VDGG all the way.
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