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Poll Question: Which is your favourite track on VDGG's "Pawn Hearts"?
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    Posted: January 22 2014 at 00:39
Every progressive rock fan should be familiar with Van Der Graaf Generator's 1971 masterpiece "Pawn Hearts". Which of the three tracks is your personal favourite?





My personal favourite is Lemmings, which contains some of progressive rock's most haunting lyrical imagery and my favourite vocal performance of all time. 




Edited by The Mystical - January 22 2014 at 00:41
I am currently digging:

Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz!

Please drop me a message with album suggestions.
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A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
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"A Plague ...". I wouldn't say "Lemmings" could compete with it since "A Plague ..." has more time with more interesting ideas.
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All the three.

Edited by ole-the-first - January 22 2014 at 01:32
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Lemmings



Plague
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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okay the really long one instead
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The last one
“War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.”

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Just has to be Lighthouse Keepers. A little light house keeping anyone ??
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Man Erg
Lemmings



Plague


This. Man-erg is one of the three best VdGG songs - in my book, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers whas the first sign that 20+ minute epics are not their strongest side.

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Keepers all the way
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Man Erg
Lemmings



Plague


This. Man-erg is one of the three best VdGG songs - in my book, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers whas the first sign that 20+ minute epics are not their strongest side.


Indeed. I think I've only got all the way through Plague twice. It reaches a point where it just becomes unlistenable and annoying to me.
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Man-Erg for me.
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Plague is amazing, although I can only really listen to the album as a unit.
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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

"A Plague ...". I wouldn't say "Lemmings" could compete with it since "A Plague ..." has more time with more interesting ideas.

"I know that there's no time. I know that there's no rhyme." LOL

Still, I am one of the few that will pick Lemmings. I like that one a lot.
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Man Erg
Lemmings



Plague


This. Man-erg is one of the three best VdGG songs - in my book, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers whas the first sign that 20+ minute epics are not their strongest side.

Ouch

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers may be my all time favorite epic, and 100% is my favorite VDGG song.
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Man Erg
Lemmings



Plague
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Man Erg
Lemmings



Plague

My sentiments exactly.
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