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Poll Question: From the list what is your favorite?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
4 [7.84%]
7 [13.73%]
12 [23.53%]
16 [31.37%]
5 [9.80%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.96%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [5.88%]
1 [1.96%]
2 [3.92%]
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    Posted: April 14 2020 at 00:38
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I'm an old softie for Time Is They Key which I heard for the first time at a head/record shop that didn't last long because it was driven out of business.  But I heard it there first and it was my first or second Gong album.  Expresso (USA title) was likely my first.  I really liked it but this one clicked me when I heard it on the store's sound system.  I didn't get into Daevid Allen era Gong until a while after that.  But Daevid considered all incarnations to be Gong. or so I've heard or read.
 
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"You" for sure!  Amazing work....

I was lucky to see Gong in Chicago at a small club (Cubby Bear) on two consecutive nights!  Guitarist was Steffi Sharpstrings.  Bloomdido, Daevid, etc. were there as well.  It was, well, amazing!  
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All of Trilogy Gong and all their live stuff
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Woah I listened to Gazeuse! this morning and I really liked it! Hadn't listened to that one yet. I love instrumentals and I don't think I heard any singing on that. Nice jazzy sound, good stuff.
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Voted for Flying Teapot
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Originally posted by questionsneverknown questionsneverknown wrote:

I Never Did Glid Before on its own sent Angel's Egg to the top for me


That's a really cool tune, I agree. And I also voted for Angel's Egg. For me(and I just recently discovered this band through this site) the favorites so far are the debut and the albums in the Trilogy. I don't like the second album as much as a lot of people seem to for some reason.

Really fun band. Best discovery for me in a while.
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Originally posted by LAM-SGC LAM-SGC wrote:

The one right at the end of Bohemian Rhapsody.

As for the band, their music to me always seemed to be the ultimate in tripped out acid, psych, hippy mood music for a mood I was never in.



I disagree. And seeing this being redone, almost note for note, 20 to 30 years later, means that there was a lot more in it, that we did not see ... "You" might have been their last dope album, but to be able to play it live, they would not have been able to be that stoned, and seeing the band live (1st time in 1995) and talking to Mike Howlett, he said something to the effect that folks write what they wanted to ... and that he would not have been able to play as well stoned ... he said he was too important a cog in the wheel to help it stay up straight and do it ... and it showed ... I've never heard him hit a wrong note, even in any video out there!

Compared to the old Fillmore days, half of which most bands disappeared because they could not "redo" what they just did on stage ... and even the folks at The Grateful Dead had you pinched ... Bob Weir says that in his special ... we would not have been able to play as much as we did if we were that ripped!

Give the music itself some credit please ... there are some SERIOUS MUSICIANS out there, and they are not idiots or take their work frivolously!


You disagree, great.

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Originally posted by LAM-SGC LAM-SGC wrote:

The one right at the end of Bohemian Rhapsody.

As for the band, their music to me always seemed to be the ultimate in tripped out acid, psych, hippy mood music for a mood I was never in.


I disagree. And seeing this being redone, almost note for note, 20 to 30 years later, means that there was a lot more in it, that we did not see ... "You" might have been their last dope album, but to be able to play it live, they would not have been able to be that stoned, and seeing the band live (1st time in 1995) and talking to Mike Howlett, he said something to the effect that folks write what they wanted to ... and that he would not have been able to play as well stoned ... he said he was too important a cog in the wheel to help it stay up straight and do it ... and it showed ... I've never heard him hit a wrong note, even in any video out there!

Compared to the old Fillmore days, half of which most bands disappeared because they could not "redo" what they just did on stage ... and even the folks at The Grateful Dead had you pinched ... Bob Weir says that in his special ... we would not have been able to play as much as we did if we were that ripped!

Give the music itself some credit please ... there are some SERIOUS MUSICIANS out there, and they are not idiots or take their work frivolously!
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The one right at the end of Bohemian Rhapsody.

As for the band, their music to me always seemed to be the ultimate in tripped out acid, psych, hippy mood music for a mood I was never in.

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Originally posted by wiz_d_kidd wiz_d_kidd wrote:

Also missing... Downwind (Moerlen's band). So I voted for Live Etc.

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Still the album I love to rock out on!
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Also missing... Downwind (Moerlen's band). So I voted for Live Etc.
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"Shamal" is missing on the list. and their best live album is "Live au Bataclan". two tracks from that album, "You Can't Kill Me" and "Zero the Hero", can also be found on "Gong Live Etc.", but only in shortened versions. only "Live au Bataclan" has the full versions with full-length solos. for some reason "Zero the Hero" is named "Tic Toc" on "Live au Bataclan". the band is in absolute top form on that album, especially drummer Pierre Moerlen.

here a link to "Live au Bataclan" on youtube:


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Hi,

There is no chance that I can select a favorite ... although the one album I probably mention the most is YOU, but the whole band, solos and other musics (specially Daevid, Gilli and Steve) have so much outstanding stuff that choosing is a lost cause for me ... I love them all and was glad to have spent time with them!
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Originally posted by Machinemessiah Machinemessiah wrote:


Perhaps would have gone with Gazeuse! ... really like that album;
but I consider it a bit special Gong album..
Let's go with something more representative... Let's say...
You, easily;
but wait!
Live etc. has only 1 vote??
no way!
voted Live etc. ..the first one I met (though I think not voting for it for that reason).
Shamal would have made for a nice 4th place...



Gong Live etc... was my choice as well. Gutted it's not being reissued but at least I've got The Isle of Everywhere from Hyde Park on the second disc of You (even though the Get It Inner part was clearly edited from somewhere else on Live etc.)
Was very, very tempted to vote for I See You as "Thank You" is really a great Daevid Allen song.
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Gong has so many great albums. Angel's Egg gets my vote.

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Perhaps would have gone with Gazeuse! ... really like that album;
but I consider it a bit special Gong album..
Let's go with something more representative... Let's say...
You, easily;
but wait!
Live etc. has only 1 vote??
no way!
voted Live etc. ..the first one I met (though I think not voting for it for that reason).
Shamal would have made for a nice 4th place...



Edited by Machinemessiah - February 14 2020 at 16:50
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I Never Did Glid Before on its own sent Angel's Egg to the top for me
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I like Moerlenīs Gong too, but prefer Allenīs. I would have taken Magick Brother, but because it isnīt here, itīs Teapot.
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