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Poll Question: Choose their very best studio album
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1. Pawn Hearts
2.  The Least We Can Do...
3.  H to He
4. Godbluff

etc...  Or something like that.
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Godbluff.
I am going to purchase their last three 70s albums soon.
And I already have in mind to listen to Pawn Hearts tomorrow; haven't done so in a while.
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H to He followed closely by Hearts. 
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Just listening to Still Life.

Maybe the best musical experience ever.
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Admittedly I have come to love Pawn Hearts recently but I still have to give it to Still Life.
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I'm currently extremely into Pawn Hearts, I listen to the album at least once per day (listening to it right now actually... Lemmings just ended). Anyway, I'm going to save my vote for later as I really only have given H to He, Pawn Hearts and Godbluff decent chances, I have much yet to explore and it will take time. I guess this poll will be around for a while though :D
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I'm going with Godbluff.  Reminds me the most of Hammill's solo stuff, which I generally prefer to VdGG.
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Pawn Hearts
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My fave has always been The Least We Can Do... followed by Godbluff.
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H to the He has all of VdGG's best characteristics. 
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Yeah, it's been a while for a VDGG album poll, hasn't it? I remember making one a while back, but that must have been more than a year ago now. Great to see another one up and running. Thumbs Up
My preference usually switches between Godbluff and Still Life. Every time I listen to the respected other my opinion changes, but then I'll put on the other one and it'll change again. LOL In the long run though, Godbluff has probably kept the most fire power, and most plays!
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H to He, then Godbluff, then Pawn Hearts
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Godbluff for me
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Still Life
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I would have voted Godbluff second, by the way.
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The magnificent Godbluff, although Still Life and World Record (sadly maligned by many) aren't too far behind. I vastly prefer their 1975-1976 period to the other stuff.

Originally posted by Gandalff Gandalff wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

H to He Who Am the Only One

I have never liked Pawn Hearts.
Interesting. Two quite similar albums, and the first one you like and the second one you dislike.Confused

I don't think they're that similar. Nothing on H to He gets as blatantly noisy and discordant as "Lemmings", and even that album's exercise in patchwork songwriting ("Pioneers over C") doesn't hold a candle to the structural mess that is "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers". "Man-Erg" could have been on H to He though, I give you that.

My point is: Even though the albums share obvious similarities, they're different enough that I can easily see somebody liking one and not the other. I too prefer H to He to Pawn Hearts for reasons I partially outlined above. And even if they were extremely similar, that still doesn't mean much. I like A Trick of the Trail a lot more than Wind & Wuthering, for example, because I happen to like most of the songs on the former and dislike most of the songs on the latter.
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Points: 32482 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2012 at 07:39
Originally posted by Gandalff Gandalff wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

H to He Who Am the Only One

I have never liked Pawn Hearts.
Interesting. Two quite similar albums, and the first one you like and the second one you dislike.Confused


They may have a similar sound at times, but the compositions of Pawn Hearts are overall too dissonant and disorderly.  There's too much shrieking and howling.
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

H to He Who Am the Only One

I have never liked Pawn Hearts.
Interesting. Two quite similar albums, and the first one you like and the second one you dislike.Confused
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Pawn Hearts is one of my favourite albums ever!
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