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Petra 
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 Topic: New VAN DER GRAAF album
Posted: April 28 2005 at 07:01 |
Ive been really enjoying this album all week, my favourites are Every
Bloody Emperor and Nutter Alert, its great to see that Hammill hasnt
lost his sneering tone. Jaxons sax is just brilliant throughout.
The second Cd is tad hard to stomach though, a couple of tracks sound like all the musicians are all playing a different tune  but i guess i still have a long way to go, to appreciate that kind of chaotic jazz-fusion.
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 13:06 |
a good album 
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 13:05 |
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Man Erg
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 12:59 |
 JrKASperov wrote:
Is anyone else thinking that the first two songs are a little too repetitive?
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Maybe.
I keep on thinking that on the first track (Every Bloody Emporor)Hammill's going to start singing A Windmill in Old Amsterdam by Ronnie Hilton.Yikes!
The only weak point that I can find is that the last(live-in-the-studio) track(On the Beach)seems to go nowhere.
Hammill's choir-boy style of vocals are not much in evidence either.
I sound like an ungrateful s*d 
Only small gripes.Fantastic to have them back.
Edited by Man Erg
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 Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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nacho
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 12:29 |
Sean Trane wrote:
Small records dealers have the right to live too and they can have it quicker!! I got mine before the release date. |
That's completely right: however, I paid 21 euros for mine (but I couldn't wait)...
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 11:50 |
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Small records dealers have the right to live too and they can have it quicker!! I got mine before the release date.
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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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Metropolis
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 11:38 |
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We Lost the Skyline............ 
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Joren
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 11:34 |
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I just got it!
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sigod
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 11:21 |
I'm still waiting for my copy. Thanks Amazon... 
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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JrKASperov
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 11:18 |
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Is anyone else thinking that the first two songs are a little too repetitive?
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Epic.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 08:15 |
I'll see if I cannot melt it down into a liquid , put it in a syringe and inject it intravenously.
One of those impro is sounding a little Techno , but I think that was the goal: make techno with real instyments.
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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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JrKASperov
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 06:49 |
Read my review for Godbluff to know why vdGG isn't crap. 
I'm heading in town to get one for myself today.
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Epic.
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AngelRat
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 03:35 |
garrett wrote:
The amount of prog fans here that are drooling in anticipation of the new disc from a third rate prog group like VDGG makes me sick. If you morons here with your juvenile posts get huge woodies over crap like VDGG, than I'm headed elsewhere.
You guys are lame.
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And you guy, you are a...SNOB!
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nacho
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 03:18 |
garrett wrote:
The amount of.... bla bla bla bla.... than I'm headed elsewhere.
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That's the best idea you ever had: go with it!
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Man Erg
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 03:10 |
Play PH's Over and The Wipe from Black Box to him on repeat.That should do it.
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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gdub411
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 23:32 |
garrett wrote:
The amount of prog fans here that are drooling in anticipation of the new disc from a third rate prog group like VDGG makes me sick. If you morons here with your juvenile posts get huge woodies over crap like VDGG, than I'm headed elsewhere.
You guys are lame.
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A 3rd rate comment from a 3rd rate forum member. good riddance!
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Rob The Plant
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 23:19 |
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Get Pawn Hearts, or Godbluff. Get both actually. Also H to He. The supreme album is Pawn Hearts though. You should also look into Hammill solo stuff.
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Collaborators will take your soul.
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Yanns
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 22:44 |
Wow, definitely gotta look into it.
What 70s VDGG album would you guys suggest as a starting point. I really don't know them, and everyone says they're great...
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Rob The Plant
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 22:13 |
Cygnus X-2 wrote:
Rob The Plant wrote:
garrett wrote:
The amount of prog fans here that are drooling in anticipation of the new disc from a third rate prog group like VDGG makes me sick. If you morons here with your juvenile posts get huge woodies over crap like VDGG, than I'm headed elsewhere.
You guys are lame.
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Is there a way to find out were this guy lives, so that we can brutally muder him?
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By murder, do you mean strapping him to a chair and making him listen to VDGG till he commits suicide? I would enjoy every minute...
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I like it. we coudl tape it, and make it into a really cool movie.
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Collaborators will take your soul.
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 21:26 |
Rob The Plant wrote:
garrett wrote:
The amount of prog fans here that are drooling in anticipation of the new disc from a third rate prog group like VDGG makes me sick. If you morons here with your juvenile posts get huge woodies over crap like VDGG, than I'm headed elsewhere.
You guys are lame.
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Is there a way to find out were this guy lives, so that we can brutally muder him?
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By murder, do you mean strapping him to a chair and making him listen to VDGG till he commits suicide? I would enjoy every minute...
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