Van Der Graaf Generator

Discussion in 'Random Thoughts' started by Carlfloydfan, Jun 24, 2008.

  1. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    Points to anyone who actually knows what the hell I am talking about
     
  2. LuckyStripe

    LuckyStripe Mundane.

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    What can the points be used for?


    But yeah English band.
     
  3. ereshkigal

    ereshkigal Member

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    Well, the band or the actual generator?
     
  4. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    the band, didn't think anyone would know. peter hammill is cool.

    Some claim that he started the whole emo thing way back in the late 60s but I think his music kicks the ass of any emo stuff. plus it is more intense and complex (though appleseed cast has a few good/complex albums).
     
  5. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    heh, circa 1969

    'Alone, alone' the ghosts all call,
    pinpoint me in the light.
    The only life I feel at all
    is the presence of the night.

    Would you cry if I died?
    Would you catch the final words of mine?
    Would you catch my words?
    I know that there's no time
    I know that there's no rhyme...
    false signs find me
    I don't want to hate,
    I just want to grow;
    why can't I let me
    live and be free?
    but I die very slowly alone.
    I know more ways,
    I am so afraid,
    myself won't let me
    just be myself
    and so I am completely alone...

    The maelstrom of my memory
    is a vampire and it feeds on me
    now, staggering madly, over the brink I fall.

    'Unreal, unreal' ghost helmsmen scream
    and fall in through the sky,
    not breaking through my seagull shrieks...
    no breaks until I die:
    the spectres scratch on window-slits -
    hollowed faces and mindless grins
    only intent on destroying what they've lost.

    I crawl the wall till steepness ends
    in the vertical fall;
    my pain has sailed into the sea:
    no joking hopes at dawn.
    White bone shine in the iron-jaw mask
    lost mastheads pierce the freezing dark
    and parallel my isolated tower...
    no paraffin for the flame
    no harbour left to gain.
     
  6. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    Excellent group!

    'Man Erg' is my favorite (song, that is).
     
  7. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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  8. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    yah I was just listening to man-erg than A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers and now Pilgrims from 'Still life'
     
  9. Kizen

    Kizen Member

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    Yea,

    i heard somewhere these guys are quite innovative, I'l take a listen when im at home
     
  10. ghost of rat

    ghost of rat Senior Member

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    Loved "pawn hearts",
    Dissliked "H to the he to the am only one"
     
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