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Poll Question: Which band do you prefer? GG or VDGG?
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    Posted: April 20 2018 at 13:41
Ok, so which band do you prefer?
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My username, avatar, and signature all say that I vote for Van der Graaf Generator.
 
 
 
 
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I used to dislike both intensely.

Then GG just clicked. Now, they are one of my favourite bands. VDGG haven't and now I know they never will. The keyboards are excellent, but Hamill's voice ruins them for me, and I don't really like a lot of their music.
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

Then GG just clicked. Now, they are one of my favourite bands. VDGG haven't and now I know they never will. The keyboards are excellent, but Hamill's voice ruins them for me, and I don't really like a lot of their music.

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Went for 'Both'. Almost selected VdGG, but I really do like both at about the same level of intensity. Very different from each other, but both are certainly in the strongly acquired taste category.
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Gentle Giant
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Gentle Giant by far !
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Gentle Giant.

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VdGG
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Gentle Giant is really easy to love for me, VDGG is a little more work, but it also is very rewarding stuff.
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VdGG. I don’t like Gentle Giant. There are things I don’t like about both, but VdGG is way better. I can’t stand GG’s vocals, their skimpy song length, the pace of notes and lack of sustain on notes and so on.
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VdGG for me. Even though I like the frist 2 GG albums better than any album of VdGG, but in general VdGG has songs I love much more than any GG one.
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Gentle Giant > Aerosol Grey Machine
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Originally posted by maryes maryes wrote:

Gentle Giant by far !

This---love the vocals in GG---beautiful voices on those guys---hate the vocals of VDGG---plus GG guys are brilliant musicians and trained at that----
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VDGG for me. I like Gentle Giant, but there was always something off in their music for me. It might very well be exactly what HackettFan pointed out - lack of sustain, pace of notes, and skimpy song lengths - that I'm not fond of. VDGG, on the other hand, is very dreamy and abstract, which I like a lot.
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Two fantastic bands, but GG will always edge out VDGG for me. I can't get enough of both, honestly.

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Two bands who didn't click with me until this last year or so. I prefer Gentle Giant by far, but VdGG are growing on me too with certain tracks.

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VDGG all the way.
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VDGG.
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Originally posted by HackettFan HackettFan wrote:

I can’t stand GG’s vocals, their skimpy song length, the pace of notes and lack of sustain on notes and so on.
 
Many people say that Gentle Giant music is complex. But in spite of the intricacy in their music, I think their music sounds rather small.
 
By contrast, even when a Van der Graaf Generator soundscape is sparse, it is quite portentous. And then there are the passages where the music spins out of control and they cram a huge number of notes in a short amount of time.
 
 
 
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