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Poll Question: From which album is Van der Graaf Generator work unacceptable for you?
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Points: 14124 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2016 at 08:30
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

decline? what decline?

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World Record????? Really? That's their best album!
Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement.
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Points: 46828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2016 at 08:03
after H to He which was their last, well...only 5 star classic album

so it would be....Pawn Hearts... specifically...2nd side.. 2nd half

they never recovered from that...  when they discovered 'prog for prog's sake'. Unlistenable sh*t!!! 

One of the greatest sins of prog. tsk tsk.... and thus they became the fathers (beating Dull by a few years) of 'Mediocre prog' where the imagery and complexity and all that prog jive cease to augment creative music.. but serve as a replacement for it.
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Points: 4807 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2016 at 11:20
That's deep. Get outa' here!
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Points: 171 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2016 at 12:53
I don't believe in VDGG decline. All they albums are fine - everyone of them has it's own taste.
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Points: 281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2016 at 18:26
What is this "decline" you speak of? The very feeling of that word coming out of my mouth in the same sentence as VDGG makes me want to defecate.
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Points: 10837 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2016 at 08:21
It's hard to talk about "decline" when discussing a band which released far less albums than their contemporaries: they released 13 albums in a time span of 47 years, with an interruption of 28 years between The Quiet Zone... and Present.
It's not exactly like they overdid themselves and repeated the same album for 15 years or started making radio-friendly stuff in the 80's...
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