Godbluff or Still Life
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Topic: Godbluff or Still Life
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Subject: Godbluff or Still Life
Date Posted: April 23 2025 at 18:57
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Two masterpieces of Van Der Graaf Generator. Choose one of them. For me, Still Life ------------- You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' about You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' at all |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 23 2025 at 19:01
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Still Life for me too. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 23 2025 at 19:28
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Still Life ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 23 2025 at 19:34
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Love both but Godbluff is my favorite VDGG album ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: April 23 2025 at 19:46
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I prefer Godbluff but it's close. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 23 2025 at 23:10
| Godbluff by just a little bit. I feel it's a little stronger all the way through. I like Still Life a lot too though and these are probably my two favorite VDGG albums as they sound "tighter" than the earlier stuff. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 00:59
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My two favourite VdGG albums. Godbluff is superb, Still Life is top 20 for me and gets my vote. ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 02:57
My call as well, but I also really appreciate The Least ------------- 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 |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 06:16
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Godbluff should be still obvious even Still Life has definitely increased in popularity. Anyway, Godbluff to me. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 06:51
| The four amazing songs on Godbluff by far for me. No matter how good the material on Still Life, I struggle with Hammill's rasp when it's used "all over" a song. I'm sorry I know Moshkito don't approve of such complaints, but it seems to be in my nature to react negatively and partly avoid it. It doesn't sound healthy for the voice to me either, and it just gets in the way of my enjoyment. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 07:13
| both |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 07:22
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Godbluff. I never really got into Still Life. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Disconnect
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 08:52
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Godbluff by a gnat's hair for me. ------------- "My own response to King Crimson is one of quiet terror." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 09:08
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Godbluff gets the nod. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 09:10
Really? Aren't you a super huge VDGG fan? |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 11:30
Both 
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 13:01
I am, but my huge love of their music lies elsewhere in their discography. I actually do like the title track and La Rossa. I don't actually dislike the album, just that it never grabbed me like their other albums. It's not even my least favourite VdGG album, that would be ALT. But it is my least favourite from their first eight studio albums. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 14:53
Oh ok. I was just curious. There are people who are big Genesis fans who don't like The Lamb so anything is possible. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 15:17
One thing about VdGG is their eclecticism. I see this as a good thing, but it doesn't always work. That's ok because most of it does work. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 15:55
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In the second half of the '70s, and like most other surviving Prog bands, VdGG changed their direction towards the less complex and more mainstream-like. Still Life is still decent though if seeing it from the perspective of classic Prog, and I'm quite fond of it. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 26 2025 at 05:53
For the sake of precision and correctness, I better say that the general part of this statement mainly concerns British artists. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |