New VAN DER GRAAF album
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Topic: New VAN DER GRAAF album
Posted By: M@X
Subject: New VAN DER GRAAF album
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 00:20
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 00:28
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A lot of clapping going on, have you already heard the album??? ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: starofsirius
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 00:49
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=-o Holy Crap! Thats awesome!
------------- "I'm in a freefall like a snowflake falling down down down down down." |
Posted By: illustrated
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 01:00
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Awesome. I ordered in Pawn Hearts at A & B almost 2 months ago... still don't have it. |
Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 02:37
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OMGOMGOMG!!!! 2005 is going to be the best year ever... |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 03:52
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Oo-er I've come-over all unnecessary.I got all chocked-up just looking a track list.Pull yer-self together Man Erg! God knows what I'll be like at the gig! -------------  Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Rob The Good
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 04:05
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I know I'm excited. I think the band's fantastic even though I only have Pawn Hearts and a few MP3s! ------------- And Jesus said unto John, "come forth and receive eternal life..." Unfortunately, John came fifth and was stuck with a toaster. |
Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 04:29
I can't wait. If it's half as good as any previous VDGG album,it will be better than anything else released in 2005. 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 05:50
| Roll on May 6th!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 06:34
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Most excellent! or better: Most excellent! -------------  |
Posted By: Jim Prog Wizard
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 09:10
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Sounds premium. I wonder what they'll sound like, ie. what period
of the band it'll bear most resemblence to, or if it'll be entirely
different. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.
------------- "Progressive Rock is the ultimate form of music" (Mikael Akerfeldt, 2003) |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 10:37
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I love VdGG but I have my reservations for celebration. Can these old geezers still release anything as intense as Pawn Hearts and Godbluff? I hope the music they make doesn't cause a pock mark to appear on an otherwise good catalogue of music. Please maintain the integrity guys!! |
Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 11:00
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!!! This is their first since 1978, right? If it is... wow ------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 13:22
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AWESOME! In the classic line-up! But I agree with you, gdub, I hope they can still do it... |
Posted By: Rob The Plant
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 13:34
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Friggen holy friggen AHHH! Next album I get is it. ------------- Collaborators will take your soul. |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 20:22
Arrrrgh! It comes out TOMORROW in Europe, and no word of a US release yet! 
------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: walrus
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 21:27
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BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------- you and whose army? |
Posted By: eriksalkeld
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 21:30
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good news indeed, but lets not be that excited, there have been many cases in which this situations have ended in deep disappointments, lets wait and hear ------------- Autenticidad, actitud, pluralidad, espiritu e inteligencia, si es prog bien, si no, tambien. |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 23:49
One of my fav Prog Groups - can't wait to hear it!!  -------------  "Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 00:19
| Just listened to track one, sounding pretty promising. Hammill's voice sounds a lot better than I was expecting. |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 01:04
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I listened it till abandon ship, but, sorry, I can't continue anymore... I don't get it! you can hear the samples here: click on 2: http://www.vandergraafgenerator.net/site.php - http://www.vandergraafgenerator.net/site.php they are pretty generous regarding the total duration of the sound clips. good to see there are many members here who like it! you are all my heroes! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 02:52
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I am terribly terribly excited about this. Alas, I can't make it to any
of the concerts but if this reunion lasts as much as it promises to
then I have very high hopes of being able to in the future... Fingers crossed, eh? |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 03:13
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Guys , I got this album last friday. It is awesome!!!!! I got goosebumps all over when I heard Hammill's voice starting behind Jackson's sax. Both CDs are short (less than 40 min each) but I paid 14.00 Euros ($18.00). The first album is of real songs , the second is more improvisations. The Electric guitar is fairly present but not overshadowing the rest. I also had Magma album K. A. . Also super worthy of their legend. Those two albums made me forget my disillusions on the old dog threads. JUMP for those two. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 05:38
Both my local record shops had the album in Saturday but refused to sell to to me - today is the official release day - because both stores are linked to the computer that compiles the British pop charts................. Try again today! |
Sean Trane wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 05:58
I will maybe sound Brutish towards the British , but this Britsih charts and the weekly tabloid press is a real pain. I hate NME!!!! I also hated Melody Maker and had a better feeling for Sounds but sometimes they were off the bat, too! Too bad out of those 3 , only the trashiest survived! BTW, it is the first time I bought a CD with the anti-copy thing and IT SUCKS!!!!!! ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 06:16
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I can't wait! i ordered it from Amazon and presume i will get it tomorrow Tsk.. and to think a year ago i couldn't stand VDGG  ------------- Don't hate me I'm not special like you |
Posted By: Metropolis
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 06:30
Amazon still haven't dispatched mine
------------- We Lost the Skyline............  |
Posted By: Jim Prog Wizard
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 06:37
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That's what you get for dealing with filthy internet retailers. HA HA! To be fair, I have no money, so it'll be a while before I get my copy, but I have every intention of doing so. Just been plugging VDGG in an article for my student newspaper. Oh yeah! ------------- "Progressive Rock is the ultimate form of music" (Mikael Akerfeldt, 2003) |
Posted By: Metropolis
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 06:47
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Thats the way to do it Jim, get the prog word out to the masses
------------- We Lost the Skyline............ |
Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 06:47
Heh! well Amazon have depatched mine 
. I had to use an internet site anyway because none of the cd stores in
my town would get VDGG unless they ordered it for me off the
internet..so defeats the object really...oh and it saves me some
money too  ------------- Don't hate me I'm not special like you |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 07:35
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GOT IT! Only 3 and a half hours before I can listen to it  If I'm this excited now what will I be like before the gig next week.A nervous wreck probably. ------------- Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 12:13
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PLAYING IT! WOW! The old power is still there.Like they've never been away. ------------- Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Fishy
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 12:49
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Hey guys ! I bought it last saturday. Man erg is absolutely right, the old power is still there. if you like the second period (still life, godbluff), you'll probably like this one. They still sound the way they used to and that's fantastic. one cd is full of improvisations, the other contents real songs, they're both awesome ! |
Posted By: JrKASperov
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 13:06
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I found the trial stuff to be good enough for me! Read the sig!
------------- Epic. |
Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 13:31
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Listening to it now for the first time. It's like welcoming back an old friend. Well done guys. |
Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 17:27
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NEED THIS! NOW!!! Can't...wait... ------------- |
Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 18:09
| Great to read so many positive points on a truly exceptional band.Looking forward to hearing it.Still hopeful of a Scottish date.If not I will go to Liverpool. |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 18:39
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I'm finishing the very first spin of CD one and... it seems GREAT!!! I don't know about CD2 yet. The copy control technology is giving me some pain (a lot of funny noises when I tried to play it in my portable CD). It's "funny" to read on the rear part of the CD that "on some equipment, for example car CD players playback problems can be encountered". So they are selling a defective product? But the protection is nothing that a boy can't break: I mean, I'm not a computer expert, and both CDs are already ripped in high quality mp3 into my computer, and I also ripped them as WAV to get a copy for my car... am I a criminal for this?
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Posted By: Rob The Plant
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 20:13
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You're all making me very sad. Lately especially I've been heavilly into Van der Graaf, and the idea of new material exites me incredibly, but I don't have it, and it sounds so good! ARGH! ------------- Collaborators will take your soul. |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 20:23
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I'm not well... God, my stomach is hurting me badly... I want this thing NOW!
------------- And above all, is punk  
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 20:48
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HOLY CRAP!! I TOTALLY FORGOT IT CAME OUT TODAY!!!!!!!! Go ahead guys, excommunicate me.... I must get NOW! |
Posted By: garrett
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 20:50
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The amount of prog fans here that are drooling in anticipation of the new disc from a third rate prog group like VDGG makes me sick. If you morons here with your juvenile posts get huge woodies over crap like VDGG, than I'm headed elsewhere. You guys are lame.
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 20:56
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Listening to Pawn Hearts right now, and I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want to buy the new one, they have such a great sound! ------------- 
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Posted By: Rob The Plant
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 21:24
Is there a way to find out were this guy lives, so that we can brutally muder him? ------------- Collaborators will take your soul. |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 21:26
By murder, do you mean strapping him to a chair and making him listen to VDGG till he commits suicide? I would enjoy every minute... -------------
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Posted By: Rob The Plant
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 22:13
I like it. we coudl tape it, and make it into a really cool movie. ------------- Collaborators will take your soul. |
Posted By: Yanns
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 22:44
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Wow, definitely gotta look into it. What 70s VDGG album would you guys suggest as a starting point. I really don't know them, and everyone says they're great... |
Posted By: Rob The Plant
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 23:19
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Get Pawn Hearts, or Godbluff. Get both actually. Also H to He. The supreme album is Pawn Hearts though. You should also look into Hammill solo stuff. ------------- Collaborators will take your soul. |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 23:32
A 3rd rate comment from a 3rd rate forum member. good riddance! |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 03:10
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Play PH's Over and The Wipe from Black Box to him on repeat.That should do it. ------------- Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 03:18
That's the best idea you ever had: go with it!
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Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 03:35
And you guy, you are a...SNOB! ------------- |
Posted By: JrKASperov
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 06:49
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Read my review for Godbluff to know why vdGG isn't crap. I'm heading in town to get one for myself today.  ------------- Epic. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 08:15
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I'll see if I cannot melt it down into a liquid , put it in a syringe and inject it intravenously.
One of those impro is sounding a little Techno , but I think that was the goal: make techno with real instyments. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: JrKASperov
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 11:18
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Is anyone else thinking that the first two songs are a little too repetitive?
------------- Epic. |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 11:21
I'm still waiting for my copy. Thanks Amazon...
------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 11:34
| I just got it! |
Posted By: Metropolis
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 11:38
Me too, "delivery estimate 28th April - 3rd May" ------------- We Lost the Skyline............ |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 11:50
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Small records dealers have the right to live too and they can have it quicker!! I got mine before the release date. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 12:29
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That's completely right: however, I paid 21 euros for mine (but I couldn't wait)... |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 12:59
Maybe. I keep on thinking that on the first track (Every Bloody Emporor)Hammill's going to start singing A Windmill in Old Amsterdam by Ronnie Hilton.Yikes! The only weak point that I can find is that the last(live-in-the-studio) track(On the Beach)seems to go nowhere. Hammill's choir-boy style of vocals are not much in evidence either. I sound like an ungrateful s*d Only small gripes.Fantastic to have them back. ------------- Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 13:05
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 26 2005 at 13:06
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a good album
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Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 07:01
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Ive been really enjoying this album all week, my favourites are Every
Bloody Emperor and Nutter Alert, its great to see that Hammill hasnt
lost his sneering tone. Jaxons sax is just brilliant throughout. The second Cd is tad hard to stomach though, a couple of tracks sound like all the musicians are all playing a different tune but i guess i still have a long way to go, to appreciate that kind of chaotic jazz-fusion. ------------- Don't hate me I'm not special like you |