Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music
Average customer rating:
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 724385039027
EAN: 0724385039027
ASIN: B0000509HH
Release Date: 2000-11-07
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Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator
Label: EMI Int'l Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 724385039027 EAN: 0724385039027 ASIN: B0000509HH Release Date: 2000-11-07 |
An Introduction
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Progressive Rock
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Pop Rock
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Experimental Music
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Album Description
Full title 'An Introduction From The Least To The Quiet Zone'. Nine track compilation for the UK progressive rock act. Material spans their entire career, 'Darkness (11/11)' from their second album 'The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other' up to 'Sphinx In The Face' off their 1977 release 'The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.Album Details
An Introductory Look at the Work of Peter Hammill and Company.Customer Reviews:
The best single-CD compilation of Van Der Graaf's output.......2001-08-23
For the VdGG beginner, this is an excellent introduction to the band's classics. For the long-in-the-tooth aficianado, it's a sound test, to see whether the quality of the remasters is strong enough to justify buying THE BOX.
VdGG released just eight official albums on the Charisma label, which was then purchased by Virgin. This compilation largely goes for the one-track-from-each-LP system of selection, apart from: wisely avoiding the live VITAL album altogether, including two tracks from LEAST WE CAN DO ... and the non-album track 'Theme 1'. It would be pointless to haggle over the track selection -- all the songs chosen here are excellent, but there are plenty of excellent songs left for newcomers to discover on the original studio CDs
Songs like 'When She Comes' positively sparkle here. Beatles producer George Martin's 'Theme 1' continues to be a dense mix -- I still cannot tell whether there is a lead guitar tracking the sax note-for-note. 'Still Life' features a sustained bass with a lot of reverb.
The text on the inlay card is informative but badly written. It needed something like the self-deprecating words provided by VdGG themselves for the FIRST and SECOND GENERATION CDs. Without them and with only the song lyrics to go by, you feel Hammill takes himself just a little too seriously.
No details are given about the remastering -- these days with multiple remastered versions available for many albums (not VdGG yet!), I feel the customer deserves to know who, where and when. No mention is made of the session artists appearing on the tracks selected -- it would have been nice to see Robert Fripp get some credit, for instance.
It's crazy to try to pick just one, but for me the stand-out track here is 'Man-Erg'. Scheduled soon after the seemingly endless riffing of 'Killer', it is a track packed with ideas, music and effects, and it helps to demonstrate what a mature culminating masterpiece the PAWN HEARTS album really was.
Music Album:
Music CD
Best of Ace Cannon - The Hi Records Years ~ Ace Cannon
Live at Bad Habits Grill ~ Bad Influence
Qui C'est Celui La ~ Pierre Vassiliu