Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life (76)

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01 - Pilgrims
02 - Still Life
03 - La Rossa
04 - My Room (Waiting For Wonderland)
05 - Childlike Faith In Childhood's End

Van Der Graaf Generator - Fellow Travelers (90)

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01.Man-Erg (Live 1971)
02.W (Live 1971)
03.Killer (Live 1971)
04.Rubycon (BBC-Session 1974, Peter Hammill Solo)
05.A House Is Not A Home (BBC-Session 1974, Peter Hammill Solo)
06.Red Shift (BBC-Session 1974, Peter Hammill Solo)
07.People You Were Going To (1st VDGG Single, 1968)
08.Firebrand (1st VDGG Single, 1968)

Van Der Graaf Generator - Aerosol Grey Machine (69)

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01 - Afterwards
02 - Orthenthian St
03 - Running Back
04 - Into A Game
05 - Ferret And Featherbird
06 - Aerosol Grey Machine
07 - Black Smoke Yen
08 - Aquarium
09 - Giant Squid
10 - Octopus
11 - Necromancer

David Cross – Exiles (97)

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1 Exiles
2 Tonk
3 Slippy Slide
4 Duo
5 This Is Your Life
6 Fast
7 Troppo
8 Here

David Cross's Exiles is an album of progressive compositions spotlighting Cross's violin virtuosity.

It features guest appearances by King Crimson's John Wetton and Robert Fripp, as well as Peter Hammill of Van Der Graaf Generator.

Van Der Graaf Generator - Vital - Live (78)

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1 Ship of Fools
S 2 Still Life
3 Last Frame
4 Mirror Images
5 Medley: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers/The Sleepwakers
6 Pioneers Over C
7 Door
8 Urban/Killer/Urban

Originally released as a double LP, this eight-song live album makes a perfect 75-minute CD.

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The lineup (uncredited) was Peter Hammill on vocals, guitars, and keyboards; Nic Potter on bass; Dave Jackson on saxes and keyboards; Guy Evans on drums; and Graham Smith on violin, keyboards, and vocals.

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The recording quality is surprisingly good, with a close, intimate sound, which is the only way one could properly capture this band live and not have the results come out like a bunch of noise.

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As a title, "Vital" also accurately describes the disc, for the group presents the raw, up-close, in-your-face approach that made Van Der Graaf Generator favorites of the punk bands despite the group's prog rock origins — between Hammill's loud, raspy vocals and his crunchy overamplified guitar, "Still Life," "Door," and "Pioneers Over C" all sound almost like punk band performances, and the medley of "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers/The Sleepwalkers" isn't much different despite the presence of a violin in there.

Gnidrolog - Lady Lake (72)

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1 I Could Never Be a Soldier
2 Ship
3 A Dog With No Collar
4 Lady Lake
5 Same Dreams
6 Social Embarrassment

Twin brothers Stewart and Colin Goldring formed the group Gnidrolog in the late '60s after having worked together in various musical projects throughout the years.

They released three albums.

The first, In Spite of Harry's Toenail, showed their progressive rock leanings quite well.

This was the second album that Gnidrolog cut in 1972, just before going their various ways. Folky in part, jazzy in part, with lots of woodwind from recorder to saxophone, but NO Hammond organ or mellotron, the overall sound is of a quirky, intelligent, blackly humorous denizen of the abyss that lies between Steeleye Span or Jethro Tull and King Crimson or Van Der Graaf Generator.

The opener, "Soldier", oscillates between prettily lyrical and rampagingly angry, and is a great anti-war anthem.

The rest of the album ranges from almost poppy ("Same Dreams") to spooky ("Lady Lake") to elegiac ("Dog") to the boisterous "Social Embarrassment".

Due to the Goldring twins' discovering continued interest in the band on the WWW, they reformed in 1999 and recorded a new album "Gnosis", as well as re-releasing the back catalogue including 'Lady Lake".

A real gem that deserves a wider audience. NB: gorgeous cover by Bruce Pennington.