Poll: VDGG, Camel, Gentle Giant, Hawkwind?
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Topic: Poll: VDGG, Camel, Gentle Giant, Hawkwind?
Posted By: TexasKing
Subject: Poll: VDGG, Camel, Gentle Giant, Hawkwind?
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 08:47
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Pick one album out of these four. |
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Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 08:53
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Three Friends for me then probly Mirage ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 09:42
| It's a tie for me, between Camel and Gentle Giant. Hawkwind and VDGG follow very close. |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 10:01
| As a whole, Camel. Among these albums, Pawn Hearts. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 10:14
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VDGG. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 10:37
| Space Ritual |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 10:39
| All four are keepers!!! But Pawn Hearts is my pick. |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 11:08
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I really like all 4 (some have grown on me in the last few years - thanks to the views of PA members), but I have to go with Mirage by Camel. It's been in my DNA for so long. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 11:15
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Mirage vs. Pawn Hearts, tough one. I'll pick VDGG despite being very keen on Camel currently. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 13:49
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Hawkwind! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 16:27
| Camel |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 16:51
| I like all four, but I adore Pawn Hearts. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 18:15
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pfff... figures...last place. I'm sure most of you are really nice people.. but probably boring as HELL Space Ritual.. by lightyears... other than the 4 that had voted for it.... you all need to get some lives.. drink, smoke, dance on pool tables, run naked through women's domitories, blow some poor b*****ds brains over your boots with a .45 slug, and have sex ..lots of it. simply. experience life.. Space Ritual is the soundtrack to the oddity of reality and drinking deeply from it and of life living it to the fullest and not spent in mama's basement thinking that lame attempts at being intellectual are worth your time. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 21:09
| Camel |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: September 20 2018 at 09:20
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Three Friends > Pawn Hearts ------------- 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 20 2018 at 10:48
 Anyway I got: 1. VdGG 2. Camel 3. Gentle Giant 4. Hawkwind  -but don't worry bout me I'm blessed with looks, brains and self-confidence + I listen to Thin Lizzy n' stuff
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micky wrote:Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: September 20 2018 at 10:51
| I've listened to and enjoyed all of those for decades. The Camel and GG albums have stood the test of time better though (to me, at least). |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 20 2018 at 13:31
ROTFLMAO.....  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 21 2018 at 16:05
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Have you seen the mystic queen? ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: September 21 2018 at 16:12
Sitting next to Lady Fantasy and the White Rider on the terrace! ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 21 2018 at 17:21
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Definitely PH ------------- 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: Fischman
Date Posted: September 21 2018 at 20:25
| No, it's not a mirage; Camel is far and away the cream of this crop. |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: September 23 2018 at 15:29
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GG, nothing else |
Posted By: For Nobody's Bush
Date Posted: September 23 2018 at 18:12
| Space Ritual is mesmerizingly wonderful! Three Friends is pretty great, working all day is somewhat simple but funny. Pawn Hearts is great, but VDGG albums all run together into one big cake of great songs that I cannot differentiate between. I have to check out Camel. I think I had Moonmadness but I could not get into it. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 24 2018 at 00:31
I pick Camel - Mirage.
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Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: September 24 2018 at 04:54
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although Hawkwind is one of my very favourite bands, I'm not a big listener of live albums. I've never been into Gentle Giant. I did make a point of checking out a lot of their stuff a few months ago, including Three Friends and it wasn't to my taste. although that is probably largely down to me tending to prefer contemporary progressive rock to albums from the 70s when checking out new (to me) music. And although A plague of Lighthouse keepers is a great track, I was never keen on the rest of Prawn Hearts. So Mirage it is for me
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Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: September 24 2018 at 06:18
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the order of the poll items is also the order of my preference voted pawn hearts ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 24 2018 at 06:36
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Hawkwind is out, a very cool album but not one of my faves from the Hawks, but the other three are my favourite albums from each of these bands. So, the favourite of the favourites..........? Quite possibly Three Friends, but near impossible to honestly commit to ticking the box......... Think I’ll return to Cannibal Corpse for now. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: September 24 2018 at 07:13
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 24 2018 at 12:21
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If I had to listen to one of these over and over....it would be Camel or Hawkwind....but the guitar work and playing is better on Camel even though the artwork and Stacia's exotic dancing make up for the lack of that. (That's prolly why Micky likes it so much..that and the booze, etc...) ;) 3 Friends is one of my least favorite GG lp's and Pawn Hearts...while considered a 'masterpiece' by many..and does have some great playing....simply starts to annoy after repeated listens...mostly due to that weird singer they had. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 24 2018 at 12:41
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VDGG because it's epic. Also, none of the rest have Fripp. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: September 25 2018 at 20:20
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Camel - Mirage ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: October 20 2018 at 02:25
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Tough choice, but out of these, Came "Mirage" for me. Then VDGG, then that particular GG record (my fave prog band, but not my fave album of theirs). ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Mornar Popaj
Date Posted: October 20 2018 at 13:35
| Very hard choice, but still Pawn Hearts for me. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 20 2018 at 14:29
Pawn Hearts is my fave prog album of all time so this poll is an easy choice  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Quinino
Date Posted: October 20 2018 at 14:52
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I love camels but this specific one pales next to the mighty Pawn Hearts, hence my vote (and untied the poll - now leading by one) |
Posted By: Chaser
Date Posted: October 20 2018 at 15:03
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Love Pawn Hearts, Mirage, and Three Friends, but Pawn Hearts is the greatest masterpiece of the three. Hawkwind doesn't do it for me. ------------- Songs cast a light on you |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: October 20 2018 at 15:18
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Space Ritual for me. I love Mirage and Pawn hearts but 3 friends not my fave GG lp. But, no, I don't dance of pool tables or blow anyone's brains out with a 45 slug... F*** me how much more sh*t will we have to be exposed to.. ------------- |
Posted By: Varon
Date Posted: December 22 2018 at 15:27
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Pawn Hearts by a 1000 miles ------------- Would you catch the final words of mine? Would you catch my words??? |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 22 2018 at 16:39
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Gentle Giant. ------------- 
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: December 22 2018 at 17:05
Is Pawn Hearts my favourite prog album of all time...? It may be... If it were not the first, it would still very close to the first. Mirage is very good but it is far from Pawn Hearts. Three Friends (for me one of the worst of GG) and Space Ritual are very far.
------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 22 2018 at 17:52
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Love all of these so I'll throw Space Ritual some love, always makes my list of best live albums and is probably the best example of the bands work. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: CristauxFeur
Date Posted: December 24 2018 at 10:55
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I HATE VDGG, don't like very much GG so I'll vote for Camel followed by Hawkwind ------------- Dragged down by the stone |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: December 27 2018 at 09:19
| Space Ritual by a galaxy! |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: December 27 2018 at 10:08
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Horn Parts by miles, then Space Ritual GG but cannot stand that camel dung Mirage. Appalling crap. Lester Bangs (an arsehole) infamously referred to ELP as war criminals. If that term was ever to be applied to any prog band then surely it would belong to Camel. ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: December 28 2018 at 02:05
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Gentle Giant and Yes are my two main bands, so it's rare you'll see me vote against either... But in this case, VDGG takes the cake out of these selections. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: April 30 2019 at 00:01
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Pawn Hearts ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 06:56
Definitely Camel for me. No contest. 
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