Lyrically best VdGG album? |
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Earthmover
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Topic: Lyrically best VdGG album? Posted: January 18 2013 at 17:30 |
What do you think is the best VdGG album strictly lyrically? So, music in there shouldn't affect your vote, only lyrics.
Edited by mister nobody - January 18 2013 at 17:31 |
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The Truth
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 19 2009 Location: Kansas Status: Offline Points: 21795 |
Posted: January 18 2013 at 17:36 |
Still Life is what immediately came to mind.
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Horizons
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Posted: January 18 2013 at 17:38 |
Godbluff.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Eria Tarka
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 17 2011 Location: BC, Canada Status: Offline Points: 5856 |
Posted: January 18 2013 at 17:42 |
I don't pay that much attention when it comes to lyrics, but the two albums that strike me as the best lyrically are Godbluff and Still Life. I'll vote Godbluff.
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zravkapt
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Posted: January 18 2013 at 18:02 |
"These days I mainly just talk to plants and dogs; all human contact seems painful, risky, odd"
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Magma America Great Make Again
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sleeper
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: January 18 2013 at 19:02 |
Same here. |
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Wanorak
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 09 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4574 |
Posted: January 18 2013 at 19:52 |
The Least We Can Do...
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A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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Man With Hat
Collaborator Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166178 |
Posted: January 18 2013 at 23:58 |
Pawn Hearts, Still Life, and Godbluff are allreally strong choices here.
I'll go with PH. |
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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. |
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Neelus
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Posted: January 19 2013 at 02:15 |
What could be more brilliant than this...
"Living, if you claim that all That entails is breathing, eating, defecating, Screwing, drinking, Spewing, sleeping, sinking ever down and down And ultimately passing away time Which no longer has any meaning." |
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Sumdeus
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 23 2012 Location: SF Bay Area Status: Offline Points: 831 |
Posted: January 19 2013 at 02:29 |
This. "The water rushes over all cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe." |
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Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: January 19 2013 at 02:32 |
ya, beats out Godbluff for me great stuff |
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friso
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 24 2007 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 2505 |
Posted: January 19 2013 at 04:31 |
hé?... H to He of course! It's a concept album about what extreme lonileness does to the thinks we take for granted.
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: January 19 2013 at 18:27 |
Still Life, oh god wow, one of the only album's where it's affected me more lyrically and vocally, opposed to the musicianship. Those last few minutes of Childlike Faith are absolutely incredible - so blunt and impressionable - and the voice to go with it too. Only Peter Hammill could get away with something like that! Actually in fact, I read somewhere that the reviews at the time gave him flak for his supposed "smart-a**" one liners.
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RedNightmareKing
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Posted: January 19 2013 at 19:34 |
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I consider drone metal to be progressive...
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KingCrInuYasha
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 26 2010 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 1281 |
Posted: January 19 2013 at 21:18 |
I don't think a rock critic would know a "smart-*** one liner" if it bit them in the ***. Back on topic, I think Still Life has the best lyrics, with Godbluff being a close second. |
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He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!
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MFP
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 31 2009 Status: Offline Points: 9019 |
Posted: January 22 2013 at 08:06 |
Still Life
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ole-the-first
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Posted: January 24 2013 at 07:43 |
Shame I couldn't vote for Godbluf and Still Life at the same time. Voted for Godbluff because it have less votes now.
Edited by ole-the-first - January 24 2013 at 07:44 |
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This night wounds time.
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HarbouringTheSoul
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Posted: January 24 2013 at 08:30 |
Definitely not the one with the song about Euler's formula.
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Xonty
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Posted: November 10 2013 at 13:58 |
Probably Still Life, then Godbluff
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ole-the-first
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Posted: November 10 2013 at 14:00 |
Pawn Hearts. 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers' lyrics are purely cathartic.
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This night wounds time.
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