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mlkpad14 
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 Topic: 2 Albums by VDGGPosted: February 21 2017 at 20:50 |
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My favorite album by VDGG is Godbluff, and has been for a while. Pick one of the two albums, and comment your favorite overall album as well.
Any recommendations for groups similar to VDGG?
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someone_else
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Posted: February 22 2017 at 01:54 |
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Godbluff is my second favourite VdGG album (first is Still Life), Pawn Hearts ranks 5th or 6th.
Groups similar to VdGG: You might like Discipline (Unfolded Like Staircase is one of my overall favourite albums, sounds a bit like VdGG with a cloud of milk and a lump of sugar and leans a bit towards Genesis) or Gnidrolog (I recommend Lady Lake, more or less in the center of the triangle with VdGG, Gentle Giant and Jethro Tull as angular points).
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progmatic
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Posted: February 22 2017 at 05:14 |
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Check out The Othello Syndrome's "The Shadow of Dreams." Very VDGG influenced.
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Manuel
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Posted: February 22 2017 at 07:00 |
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My vote goes to Pawn Hearts, among these two great albums.
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Posted: February 22 2017 at 07:51 |
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Pawn
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Man With Hat
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Posted: February 22 2017 at 08:15 |
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PH, but both 5 stars.
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Posted: February 22 2017 at 08:59 |
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U recommend the band The Red Masque. they are very similar to VdGG in feel (meaning dark).
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Rednight
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Posted: February 22 2017 at 09:14 |
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They shouldn't be compared. Two different eras of the band, really. And I never was sold on Godbluff in the first place.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Posted: February 22 2017 at 09:38 |
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Neither, by a long way.
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Posted: February 22 2017 at 10:03 |
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Close one...but I'll go with PH
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Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement.
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Posted: February 22 2017 at 15:16 |
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Godbluff.
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A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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Discipline
Audience Catapilla (with female vocalist though) There are several others too apparently. As for Red Masque they are a great band who have really matured over the years. I actually know the members personally. I've met them several times(especially the two long term members)and have even interviewed them. Good call on them. They are also influenced by Magma, goth rock(ie Bauhaus etc), PH solo, Comus, old horror movies, HP Lovecraft(the writer not the sixties band)and have have a myriad of other influences that I can't remember off the top of my head. I actually ran into them at a Magma show earlier last year.
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mlkpad14
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Posted: February 23 2017 at 07:30 |
Thanks!
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Posted: February 23 2017 at 07:35 |
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Two fantastic albums, Godbluff would probably be in my overall top five, Pawn Hearts top 20 or 25
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I don't know if they are very close musically, but thematically the first Alan Parsons Project album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination might interest you.
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mlkpad14
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Posted: February 23 2017 at 07:50 |
I'll check it out. Thanks! :)
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Posted: February 23 2017 at 08:21 |
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Another toss up, damn you.
(I picked Pawn Hearts just to even it up.)
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Posted: February 24 2017 at 08:50 |
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Posted: March 08 2017 at 08:56 |
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Like them almost equally. But because of Plague, Pawn Hearts get my vote
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I picked Pawn Hearts. My favourite VdGG album is The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other.
And as for recommendations of other groups: I suggest Gnidrolog and Island's Pictures. |
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