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Poll Question: What VdGG album has the best lyrics?
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    Posted: January 18 2013 at 17:30
What do you think is the best VdGG album strictly lyrically? So, music in there shouldn't affect your vote, only lyrics.

Edited by mister nobody - January 18 2013 at 17:31
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Still Life is what immediately came to mind.
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Godbluff. 
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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I don't pay that much attention when it comes to lyrics, but the two albums that strike me as the best lyrically are Godbluff and Still Life. I'll vote Godbluff.
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2013 at 19:02
Originally posted by The Truth The Truth wrote:

Still Life is what immediately came to mind.

Same here.
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The Least We Can Do...
A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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Pawn Hearts, Still Life, and Godbluff are allreally strong choices here.

I'll go with PH.
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What could be more brilliant than this...

"Living, if you claim that all
That entails is breathing, eating, defecating,
Screwing, drinking,
Spewing, sleeping, sinking ever down and down
And ultimately passing away time
Which no longer has any meaning."
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Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

The Least We Can Do...


This.


"The water rushes over all
cities crash in the mighty wave;
the final man is very small,
plunging in for his final bathe."
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Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

The Least We Can Do...


ya, beats out Godbluff for me

great stuff
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hé?... H to He of course! It's a concept album about what extreme lonileness does to the thinks we take for granted.
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Still Life, oh god wow, one of the only album's where it's affected me more lyrically and vocally, opposed to the musicianship. Those last few minutes of Childlike Faith are absolutely incredible - so blunt and impressionable - and the voice to go with it too. Only Peter Hammill could get away with something like that! Big smile Actually in fact, I read somewhere that the reviews at the time gave him flak for his supposed "smart-a**" one liners. LOL
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Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

The Least We Can Do...
I consider drone metal to be progressive...
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Originally posted by Fox On The Rocks Fox On The Rocks wrote:

Still Life, oh god wow, one of the only album's where it's affected me more lyrically and vocally, opposed to the musicianship. Those last few minutes of Childlike Faith are absolutely incredible - so blunt and impressionable - and the voice to go with it too. Only Peter Hammill could get away with something like that! Big smile Actually in fact, I read somewhere that the reviews at the time gave him flak for his supposed "smart-a**" one liners. LOL


I don't think a rock critic would know a "smart-*** one liner" if it bit them in the ***. LOL

Back on topic, I think Still Life has the best lyrics, with Godbluff being a close second.
He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!
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Still Life
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Shame I couldn't vote for Godbluf and Still Life at the same time. Voted for Godbluff because it have less votes now.


Edited by ole-the-first - January 24 2013 at 07:44
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Points: 1199 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2013 at 08:30
Definitely not the one with the song about Euler's formula. LOL
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Probably Still Life, then Godbluff
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Pawn Hearts. 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers' lyrics are purely cathartic.
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