The Gong Family Albums 1980-1989 |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: October 24 2021 at 01:32 |
Part 2 of 5 including live and archival albums.
1980: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yihpTclrKxc 1980: New York Gong - About Time - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mvBrhnZs2R2ylZ3FWT_FZiQKpqGAP1vkM 1981: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Leave It Open - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lRiVdRgcokGs1BoVRTuxhkOOggEqsXnFc 1981: Mother Gong - Robot Woman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo6dWUukiqY 1982: Mother Gong - Robot Woman 2 1986: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Breakthrough - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlF2k95ERpI 1988: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Second Wind - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE3FjwdHQWA 1988: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Full Circle Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nl5gVHKwms5I4_olPaoh3SfFM2gE4UCXM 1988: Mother Gong - Fish in the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qblYTnpn5Y 1989: Mother Gong & Daevid Allen - The Owl and the Tree - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kTAnpfHdZ9KZRD0WQ931i3w8pwf2lQymQ 1989: Gong Maison - Gongmaison - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nvz0ZFReAu1cgomIQTsOg0vk-xkqhCkwg Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 19 2022 at 05:41 |
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Man With Hat
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Leave It Open
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Psychedelic Paul
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I was going to Leave It Open too, but then I decided to vote for Pierre Moerlen's Gong Live.
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Mirakaze
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Leave It Open for me as well. I haven't heard the live albums, and I've forgotten everything that happened in the other studio albums.
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Cristi
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I will admit, I've never listened to any Gong beyond the 70s.
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Psychedelic Paul
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And I'll double down on your admittance, because I'd never listened to any Gong from ANY era up until three months ago.
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Lewian
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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.
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Fish in the Sky.
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Rick1
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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!
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Leave it Open, with Breakthrough not far behind.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Amazingly, I still haven't got around to buying a single Gong album, mainly because you never see them going for a song at charity shops and car boot sales.
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Cosmiclawnmower
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Robot Woman as i caught Mother Gong supporting Hawkwind quite a few times over the summer of 81, starting with Glastonbury 81, and they played the whole lp. I think they had Guy Evans from VDGG on drums then..
Also really liked the NY Gong (mini) album too I'd be tempted to put Here & Now in this poll and they are part of the wider Gong family and their 1983 lp Fantasy shift and the follow up, Theatre, are great lps!!
Edited by Cosmiclawnmower - November 21 2022 at 13:45 |
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