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    Posted: September 25 2008 at 23:43
Top 3 Van der Graaf Generator CDs ever and best songs from that album!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's start with my choices
 
 
1 Pawn Hearts (a no brainer cos its the best I think) - song "Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"
2. The Least we can do is Wave to Each Other - "Darkness 11/11"
3. Godbluff - "Arrow" 
 
 I love "Killer" too but not the whole album
 
Now your choices - Best CDs and best song from each album please...
 
 


Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - September 25 2008 at 23:47
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1 Pilgrims from Stil life, one of my fav pieces ever, not only from VDGG catalog but also from entire prog music
2. Refugees from The Least we can do is Wave to Each Other
3. Arrow - God bluff
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1. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
2. Sleepwalkers
3. Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever

4. Lost
5. Meurgly's III, The Songwriters Guild
6. My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)
7. Darkness 11/11
8. Into a Game
Over land and under ashes
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The Emperor In His War-Room- H to He...
After the Flood - Least We Can do...
Masks- World Record

Very hard to choose just three btw.

Runner Up was the entire Pawn Hearts album but that would have been lame.
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1. Pawn Hearts (Lemmings)
2. H to He (Lost/Pioneers Over c.)
3. Godbluff (Scorched Earth)
 
 
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1. Godbluff (Arrow)
2. Still Life (Childlike Faith in Childhood's End)
3. Pawn Hearts (Man-Erg)


Edited by The Doctor - September 26 2008 at 13:13
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H to He - Pioneers Over c
Godbluff - Arrow
Still Life - Pilgrims

*This is subject to change within the blink of an eye.

Edited by Man Erg - September 26 2008 at 14:20

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Hmm A favorite band of mine... Hard one.

1- Still Life (Still Life)
2- Godbluff (The undercover man/Arrow)
3- Pawn Hearts (Plague of Lighthouse Keepers)
4- H to He (Lost)

Ok I chose 4, I know.

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1. Man-erg (Pawn Hearts)
2. Still Life (Still Life)
3. Darkness 11/11 (The Least We Can do Is Blame Bern for Everything)

I love Lost from H to He too... damn.  Plus Lemmings is epic, as is Pilgrims, Arrow, The Sleepwalkers, Childlike Faith In Childhood's End, Scorched Earth, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers...

You get the idea. LOL


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Originally posted by James James wrote:

1. Man-erg (Pawn Hearts)
2. Still Life (Still Life)
3. Darkness 11/11 (H to He)

I love Lost from H to He too... damn.  Plus Lemmings is epic, as is Pilgrims, Arrow, The Sleepwalkers, Childlike Faith In Childhood's End, Scorched Earth, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers...

You get the idea. LOL


And you call yourself a VdGG expert. Wink

n00b

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1. H To He, Who Am The Only One. Pioneers Over c or Lost... cannot choose. My second favourite album of all time.
2. Godbluff. Sleepwalkers or Arrow... again, cannot decide... an extremely level album.
3. Harder choice... Pawn Hearts or Still Life or World Record... A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers or My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) or Meurglys III... incredibly close.
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Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

1. Man-erg (Pawn Hearts)
2. Still Life (Still Life)
3. Darkness 11/11 (H to He)

I love Lost from H to He too... damn.  Plus Lemmings is epic, as is Pilgrims, Arrow, The Sleepwalkers, Childlike Faith In Childhood's End, Scorched Earth, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers...

You get the idea. LOL


And you call yourself a VdGG expert. Wink

n00b


Deliberate mistake.  I was testing you. Wink
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OK, I'll try.

1.  Godbluff (Scorched Earth)
2.  Still Life (La Rossa)
3.  Pawn Hearts (Man-Erg)

but I also really love H to He
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1. Godbluff (Arrow)
2. H to He Who Am the Only One (Killer)
3. Pawn Hearts (can't really say... maybe today it's Lighthouse Keepers)

Godbluff is the best one by a slight margin, the other two are very very even.
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   Not easy at all to choose , all their releases are excellent , but the Sleepwalkers ( Godbluff ) , A Plague
( Pawn Hearts ) and  Meurgly's ( World Record ) are simply amazing /////////////// Killer and the Emperor too .
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Plague is their best I think, but most of their stuff is so brilliant that makes it hard to continue with the list. Is it me or nobody mentioned afterwards?
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Heard Lost again today, and it basically broke me down, so that's moving to the song choice for H To He.
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I heard all of H to He who am the only One yesterday again and have to admit its better than my original third choice, Godbluff
 
I love Pioneers oVer c, Lost, Killer and the bonus track - Squid/Octopus is sensational!
 
So now my list has changed to
 
1 Pawn Hearts (a no brainer cos its the best I think) - song "Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"
2. The Least we can do is Wave to Each Other - "Darkness 11/11"
3. H to He who am the only One - "Killer"
 
sneaking in at number 4
Godbluff - "Arrow" 
 
 
does anyone like "Trisector"?


Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - September 29 2008 at 19:33
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Pawn Hearts - A plague of lighthouse keepers
H to He - Lost
Still Life - Childlike Faith In Childhood's End
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Lesse... lesse...

1. Godbluff - The Sleepwalkers (top song and album, conveniently)
2. Still Life - Pilgrims
3. Pawn Hearts - Man-Erg

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4. Quiet Zone/Pleasure Dome - Yellow Fever/Cat's Eye
5. H to He Who Am The Only One - House With No Door
6. The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other - White Hammer
7. World Record - Masks

Haven't heard the others yet.
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