The NEW Van der Graaf Generator Poll
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Topic: The NEW Van der Graaf Generator Poll
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Subject: The NEW Van der Graaf Generator Poll
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 04:59
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One awesome band - one vote - very best album of VDGG So much awesomeness to choose from
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 05:23
| Definitely Pawn Hearts for me. I like the crazy-ness. |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 05:38
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Godbluff.
------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 05:45
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H To He, Who Am The Only One.
So very close with Pawn Hearts, but just now im in the mood for the more mellow melodic H To He ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Ytse_Jam
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 06:23
| Godbluff |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 06:28
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Pawn Hearts ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 06:31
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H to He Who Am the Only One I have never liked Pawn Hearts. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: progtapper
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 06:52
| The least ... |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 07:04
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Still Life ------------- 
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Posted By: Undercover Man
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 07:10
| Pawn Hearts is one of my favourite albums ever! |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 07:28
 ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Epignosis wrote:Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 07:39
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. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: HarbouringTheSoul
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 07:43
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.
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. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 07:52
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I would have voted Godbluff second, by the way.
------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 07:55
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Posted By: dalecorky
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 08:31
Godbluff for me 
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Posted By: dedokras
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 08:40
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H to He, then Godbluff, then Pawn Hearts
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 10:48
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.  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.  In the long run though, Godbluff has probably kept the most fire power, and most plays! ------------- 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 10:54
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H to the He has all of VdGG's best characteristics. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 13:08
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My fave has always been The Least We Can Do... followed by Godbluff. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 13:28
| Pawn Hearts |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 13:50
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I'm going with Godbluff. Reminds me the most of Hammill's solo stuff, which I generally prefer to VdGG. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 13:59
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PawnHearts ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Josef_K
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 14:05
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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 ------------- Leave the past to burn, At least that's been his own - Peter Hammill |
Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 15:18
| Admittedly I have come to love Pawn Hearts recently but I still have to give it to Still Life. |
Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 15:32
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Just listening to Still Life. Maybe the best musical experience ever. ------------- |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 15:47
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H to He followed closely by Hearts.
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 16:01
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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. ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 16:30
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1. Pawn Hearts 2. The Least We Can Do... 3. H to He 4. Godbluff etc... Or something like that. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 18:45
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Still Life for me.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005  |
Posted By: geneyesontle
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 19:00
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Goldbluff. Perfect album. ------------- Poseidon wants to Acquire the Taste of the Fragile Lamb - Derek Adrian Gabriel Anderson, singer of the band Geneyesontle |
Posted By: The Jester
Date Posted: November 19 2012 at 08:11
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Still Life... Just Perfect!
------------- If anybody wants please visit: http://www.gfreedomathina.blogspot.com/ This is my Blog mostly about Rock music, but also a few other things as well. You are most welcome! Thank you. :) |
Posted By: otto pankrock
Date Posted: November 19 2012 at 10:20
| H to He. Although Godbluff is another favourite. |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: November 19 2012 at 10:39
 ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: HarbouringTheSoul
Date Posted: November 19 2012 at 12:17
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There are no "Eclectic characteristics". "Eclectic", by definition, can include anything and everything. |
Posted By: VanVanVan
Date Posted: November 19 2012 at 12:21
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Godbluff, forever ------------- "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: November 19 2012 at 18:46
| Godbluff, followed closely by H to He. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 19 2012 at 23:30
Well it ain't ALT, that's for sure..................................PAWN HEARTS !!! Mad people love mad music  ...........
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Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: November 21 2012 at 00:36
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Pawn Hearts, followd by Still Life. ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: criticdrummer94
Date Posted: March 17 2013 at 11:25
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Still Life, the perfect balance between the crazy Pawn Hearts VDGG and the more cohesiveness of the later albums and Hammill solo career -------------   MY IDOLS |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: March 17 2013 at 11:28
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Godbluff just over Still Life, which in turn is just above Pawn Hearts.
------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Josef_K
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 08:59
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Just voted Pawn Hearts, there's simply nothing out there that can beat the craziness of "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers". ------------- Leave the past to burn, At least that's been his own - Peter Hammill |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 09:04
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 00:56
| Pawn Hearts for ever !!! |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 15:35
| My favourite VdGG album has changed a lot over the years. Now it's Pawn Hearts. Could be Godbluff tomorrow for all I know, though. |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 16:43
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That's a tough one. I think anything from The Aerosol Grey Machine to Godbluff is a worthy candidate. I'm not too fond of "Childlike Faith In Childhood's End" from Still Life, but the other tracks from that are great.
------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 17:26
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Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 17:32
| Pawn Hearts. there are only few better prog albums than this masterpiece ... |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: April 04 2013 at 23:48
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"Pawn Hearts", as it has the best Hugh Banton organ parts, though "The Least We Can Do..." comes in a close 2nd. White Hammer is very moving, the subject matter is so sad and the distorted organ section at the end is so demonic. ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |