Absolutely the Best of Gong
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Artist:
Gong
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
UPC: 030206117127
EAN: 0030206117127
ASIN: B00005TPF0
Release Date: 2001-12-11 |
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Listmania:
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New Call of the Freaks
Tracks:
- Mystic Sister
- Magik Brother
- Mister Long Shank: O Mother I Am Your Fantasy
- Dynamite: I Am Your Animal
- Wet Cheese Delerium
- Tropical Fish: Selene
- Radio Gnome Invisible
- Flying Teapot
- The Pot Head Pixies
- Zero The Hero And The Witch's Spell
Tracks:
- Flute Salad
- Oily Way
- Outer Temple
- Inner Temple
- Eat The Phone Book Coda
- Magick Mother Invocation
- Master Builder
- The Isle Of Everywhere
- You Never Blow Your Trip Forever
Customer Reviews:
another fruity-sounding Canterbury group.......2006-06-18
Combining Dadaesque jazz with very whimsical lyrics, Gong was far too unfocused a band to ever make it in the United States. For a "hippie band", though, they could play pretty well... Steve Hillage featured some tasty fusion-style guitar in this band, and drummers Pip Pyle and Pierre Motien both were very talented. Sax/flute player Didier Malherbe at times sounds uncannily like Mel Collins of King Crimson--similar influences, I guess-- and at other times (when Gong was playing 'yoga atmospherics' ) he apes Yusef Lateef.
There are times when the band plays like the Mothers of Invention, and other instances when "Islands" period King Crimson comes to mind, with Gilli Smyth's eerie wails being a bit like Pauline Lucas' siren-style vocals on Crimson's "Formentara Lady".
Gilli Smyth's distinctly feminist presence is another factor that makes Gong noteworthy.
On the whole though, this is a band I find merely interesting, not essential.
hard to connect with usa listener.......2004-10-01
they can really play. original and strange. but the lyrical content and the vocals dont connect to an american listener. what they were after is lost on americans. the mothers of invention? monty python? both and soft machine? u.k. band americans dont get.
absolllluuuutely the best.......2002-06-22
They weren't kidding when they named this CD absolutely the best. First of all, it is a 2 cd set, you gotta love that. I got to see this band in England in the mid '70s and I have listened to them on and off ever since. I noticed this new CD and really enjoyed listening to them again. With long-living hits like "the isle of everwhere", I just cant get enough. No one plays like they do, all trippy and light-styled.
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