The Gong Family Albums 1980-1989

Part 2 of 5 including live and archival albums.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 19 2022 at 05:41

Man With Hat wrote: Leave It Open

I will admit, I've never listened to any Gong beyond the 70s. 

The live albums are fine, although they of course take profit from older material. Also Pierre is one of my absolute favourite drummers and his version of Gong plays very original and enjoyable music, but unfortunately his drum solos are not the most exciting, he is much better together with a pile of mallets and a band. He shows what he can do and he can do a lot, but they are not composed in an attractive way; an OK feature of a live gig but not so convincing on an album, and be it a live album. I will vote for Second Wind, which is probably not that well known but has a very nice first proper PM Gong LP that I like quite a bit more than Leave It Open and Breakthrough... even though I probably wouldn't miss the drum only second LP much. 


Edited by Lewian - October 24 2021 at 05:42

Tougher than you think - and the 80s were particularly unkind to the Gong family - but as ever, I default to first love in these situations when I can't decide.  I bought NY Gong when it came out - I saw it as a successor to Floating Anarchy and totally different to the Daevid solo albums of the late 70s.  Gongmaison was a belter too!

Rick1 wrote: Tougher than you think - and the 80s were particularly unkind to the Gong family - but as ever, I default to first love in these situations when I can't decide.  I bought NY Gong when it came out - I saw it as a successor to Floating Anarchy and totally different to the Daevid solo albums of the late 70s.  Gongmaison was a belter too!