Gentle Giant vs Van der Graaf Generator |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: April 20 2018 at 13:41 |
Ok, so which band do you prefer?
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I prophesy disaster
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My username, avatar, and signature all say that I vote for Van der Graaf Generator.
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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Hercules
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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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The Dark Elf
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This.
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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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dwill123
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Gentle Giant
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maryes
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Gentle Giant by far !
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Gentle Giant.
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VdGG
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For Nobody's Bush
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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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HackettFan
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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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Larkstongue41
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Gentle Giant > Aerosol Grey Machine Acquiring the Taste < The Least We Can Do... Three Friends < H to He... Octopus < Pawn Hearts In a Glass House < Godbluff The Power and the Glory < Still Life Free Hand > World Record
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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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ALotOfBottle
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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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Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided.
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Frenetic Zetetic
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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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Squonk19
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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.
Edited by Squonk19 - April 21 2018 at 02:37 |
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Mortte
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VDGG all the way.
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VDGG.
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A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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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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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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