VdGG - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other |
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geekfreak
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
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Tom Ozric
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Frenetic Zetetic
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White Hammer is definitely my favorite this week.
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Lewian
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Out of My Book is very nice and deserves a vote... despite the fact that actually Darkness is the best. I never got Refugees though, could very happily live without that.
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HAL 9000
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"White Hammer" with the insane final section - outstanding!
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zwordser
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After the Flood all the way. This is VDGG almost at their finest!
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jamesbaldwin
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White Hammer.
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"Happiness is real only when shared"
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Barbu
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Think he refers to Godbluff, Still Life and World record.
That claim makes absolutely no sense to me but to each his own metaphor. |
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Logan
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While I cannot find/ hear fault in H to He... or Pawn Hearts (the other two of what I consider to be a classic trilogy) and truly love those albums, The Least We Can Do... is my favourite VdGG album. It is rather more restrained than subsequent albums, and I like the variety of songs on it (it has eclectic qualities that appeal to me). Some might well consider it to be a more mediocre album than subsequent ones as it might be seen to be more subdued, and less out-there (it was an adventurous album for VdGG, especially historically-speaking). Is that a moniker you made up? I would be wont to think that Genesis, and Yes, would be much more likely to hold the "fathers of mediocre" prog title really, in the way I would approach it, due to the influence on other bands. I guess if I were to choose one as the father of non-mediocre Prog, then I might go with Magma even if it has influenced some mediocre acts. Edited by Logan - January 29 2019 at 10:19 |
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Barbu
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(their later albums) just as interesting musically but much more intense emotionally, definitely not for the faint-hearted.
Even now you need to be reminded that La Belle Dame is without mercy. The lady with her skin so white you never did quite catch her name now she holds you in the night and she'll never let go again, she'll never let go again! |
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micky
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slight edge to White Hammer over Darkness (11/11)
good album.. and to these ears far more enjoyable and listenable than most all of their later albums where they well earned their moniker as the fathers of mediocre prog.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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The.Crimson.King
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I always refer to PH as the Master of Disaster
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someone_else
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Malleus M. just over 11/11.
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Saperlipopette!
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Darkness (11/11) is incredible in its eerie, slowly building, kind of floating progression. I think it share similarities with Plague... + while I don't think Peter Hammill wrote really memorable lyrics before 1973/1974 this is among his best from his "teen angst" years (I find his youthful Emo-doom & gloom of 1969-1971 enjoyable for what it is though).
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LAM-SGC
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I've never heard this album. I've only ever heard H to He, Pawn Hearts and Godbluff.
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Tom Ozric
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Hugh’s organ work is second to none on this outing - a mighty Farfisa.
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The.Crimson.King
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I'm torn on this...I love Nic's style on the 1st 3 albums, but I can't argue with perfection as Pawn Hearts (my fave VDGG album, not to mention fave prog album of all time) credits Hugh on bass guitar. Too bad there isn't an alternate universe where Nic stayed with the band and played on Pawn Hearts, I'd love to hear how different it would have turned out According to his wiki page Nic left during the recording of H to He after playing on Killer, Emperor & Lost. Hugh took over bass guitar on the rest of the album and played the bass parts on bass pedals for the tour.
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Barbu
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Hmmm Darkness, Hammer and Flood...all brilliant.
but it has to be Refugees. |
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Progmind
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Very
Tough choice. Voted After The Flood
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Dellinger
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Indeed I wish Nic Potter would have stayed with the band longer. His bass playing really sounds beautiful on this album, and is missed in the later albums. |
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