"I wasn't too keen on Pink Floyd. Van der Graaf Generator were, in fact, the better Genesis. They were the best anyway, much darker than all the other bands of that era." - Phil Collins
>>74706667
patrician
>>74706667
What's VDGG's heaviest/darkest album? Is it Pawn Hearts? That's the only one I've heard, a long time ago.
Godbluff [Mercury, 1975]
Inspirational Verse (from Peter--note spelling--Hammill, yet): "Fickle promises of treaty, fatal harbingers of war, futile orisons/swirl as on in the flight, this mad chase,/this surge across the marshy mud landscape/until the meaning is forgotten." D+
Distinctions Not Cost Effective [1970s]: Peter Hammill thinks that instead of honoring high school punks, we should honor high school poets. I say we honor high school punk poets instead.
>>74706876
that and H to He Who Am The Only One, probably.
Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDtTJCGGpMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nybOQPzDbeU
>>74706876
Still Life. It's the darkest, at least
>>74706913
2deep4 simple minds like Christgau.
>>74706913
>>74706933
thank you lads
>>74706955
gonna have to disagree, Pilgrims, My Room and Childlike Faith are all too pretty to call "dark"
La Rossa, though, definitely dark and heavy as hell
>>74706913
>rock "intellectuals"
>>74707080
This is the guy who after all gave a Janet Jackson album an A.
>>74706913
how can one man's opinion be so punchable?
>>74707022
And Gog, don't forget about Gog
>>74706876
Godbluff, probably