World Record

Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator
Label: Blue Plate Caroline
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 017046182522
EAN: 0017046182522
ASIN: B000000HZV

Release Date: 1992-09-23

World Record

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Tracks:

When She Comes
Place to Survive
Masks
Meurglys III (The Songwriter's Guild)
Wondering

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H to He, Who Am the Only One

Customer Reviews:

Psychic Rock.......2005-08-01

When I first bought the CD in 2003, I admired the jams, and enjoyed the hard fifths of the saxophones. I think it's a precise introduction to progressive rock's hallmarks: time signature changes, song lengths, etc, while remaining rooted in some kind of pastoral soul music. Essentially it's a very solid collection, musically.

Then, in this order, I fell in love (When She Comes), moved around the world to be with the girl, had doubts and lost the will to go on, almost (Place To Survive), and whimpered pathetically to my friends about it (Mask).

Those who've listened to World Record will know quite well that these events are exactly what the first three songs on the album are about, in that order. I also played a lot of guitar in my room (Meurglys III). I want Wondering to be played at my funeral.

So, yeah the lyrics turned out to be spot on also. Funny, that. Go on, it's worth your ten bucks. That's, like, four bucks for Meurglys III, and a buck-fifty for the other four!

Actually, one of their most accesible albums.......2005-05-07

In a way... it definitely is their hardest rocking album. And like H to the He it has lots of memorable hooks and melodies. however, hammill then does things like meuryglis III and it goes as long as a plague, but doesn't say as much. a confused, confusing album, worth having for all the strong stuff on every song.

For the Completist.......2005-01-23

I love this band and wish more people would get into them or at least remembered them, but this is just not one of their better records. Newbies should pick up "Pawn Hearts," then "The Least We Can Do...," "Godbluff" and "Still Life," great albums all.

For the already converted, or the classic-era prog fan completist, there is still much to enjoy here. "Meurglys III" is one of their best-ever epics until that long and pointless faux-reggae jam. Adventurous and gutsy? OK, maybe, but did they have to tack it so artlessly onto the end of an already great piece of music that has nothing to do with reggae?

The closing "Wondering" is a pretty and stirring little number. VdGG did this sort of thing especially well. Elsewhere Peter Hammill was playing a lot of guitar and they rocked a bit harder than they had previously. In taking prog rock in a more raw and metallic direction, "World Record" bears a certain kinship with King Crimson around that time.

Those not steeped in progressive rock or VdGG's music would be wise to start elsewhere though. Oh yeah-nice cover art on this one, I've always liked it!

This is "Hard Rock" VDGG -.......2004-03-04

"Meaurglys III" I could never get into. "When she comes" "A place to survive" & "Masks" rank as their best stuff ever- I have seen Peter many times over the years and wished I could have caught VDGG but never did.
Not one to start your VDGG collection with and if your already a fan you own it anyway, so why the review?

"World Record" finds VDGG rocking hard.......2002-05-13

"World Record" is the third in the trilogy of 1975/1976 "come-back" VDGG albums (after "Godbluff" and "Still Life") and finds the classic line-up of Hammill-Banton-Evans-Jackson playing harder then ever. In spite of the long lenght of the album (for those vinyl days anyway... 53 min!), not a moment is wasted.

"When She Comes" and "A Place To Remember" finds the band working up to a frenzy, with Hammill's shrieking voice (no, he'll never be mistaken for, say, Frank Sinatra!), and Jackson working his saxophones tp the extreme. There are 2 slower tracks, "Masks" and the beautiful and catharsic album ending "Wondering", which is in retrospect a truly fitting end of the trilogy of albums... yes, there is hope!

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