WTF!! VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - A PLAGUE OF LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS REACTION
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Ah! The ultimate in British progressive music. Masterpiece is an often used word on You Tube, but this piece really is. Art at its very highest
thick as prick -:-??
Esto es reliquia bella
Nada nuevo.... sólo unico
"This is exactly what music is supposed to be about" - nailed it! *thank you*
To answer your question what you just heard was imho the greatest album of all time... I bought it in 1971...it was immediately my favorite album... 51 years later it remains my favorite album... Absolute musical masterpiece.
It's one thing listening for the first time to compositions by the more well known prog rock outfits, but you're on another level with VDGG... and then you ramp the intensity up by opting for A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers as your starter for ten 😱😱 Brave man. VDGG are the creme de la creme; once you go down this rabbit hole, there's no coming out.
VDGG were the "dark side" of prog ...my favourite prog group, together with Yes and Genesis...
Mine also favorite albumm...
my favorite lp ...
World Record..
butt all the lps are insanly good
In their own way😅
World Record
VdGG are not "together" with Yes and Genesis, which i both adore. VdGG are another level.
Best prog rock album ever
Bro--massive props to you for being so open to listen to this EPIC VDGG classic masterpiece. Twisted, dark, uneasy listening in the extreme and yet, this piece has beauty and hope as well. One of the great prog epics of all time. A masterful work by the master Peter Hamill and Guy Evans, Hugh Banton and David Jackson. Simply incomparable. Seek out "Childlike Faith in Childhoods End" from the Still Life album.
I will never cease to be amazed by the level of fanaticism and understanding of the music / lyrics and themes by ardent VdGG / Hammiill fans. I don't know of any other band that commands the same reverence and longstanding admiration.
I have listened to them since I got Pawn Hearts when it came out, having been introduced to them by my English teacher who used After the Flood as a poetry exercise ! Traumatised a lot of the class but I was hooked.
VdGG may not have been all that popular sales wise unfortunately, but the few fans they had then are still ardent fans now from what I read and that is truly amazing.
Long live Peter and VdGG.
Oh damn, hittin' that hard stuff! If you end up liking VDGG, Peter Hammill's (singer) solo career is just as vast and interesting.
One of the greatest masterpieces of modern music. 👏
The buzz in the fog section is a battery shaver on a grand piano! And Bob FRIPP sitting in on guitar! Check out VOYAGER on INGENIOUS DEVICES by BIG BIG TRAIN - trust me you will love the brilliance of a musicians band!
Quite a nice dance you did there. 😆
Seriously, I never expected this to show up on your channel. Pretty good job for a first-timer. And Peter Hammill's vocals are just out of this world. Check his solo stuff out, by all means.
I feel like Hammill's solo material is often superior to what he did with VDGG. Although "Lighthouse" is definitely a highlight. As is "Meurglys III".
Oh man, first Van Der Graaf. That's another total rabbit hole you can go down. In the original run, from The Aerosol Grey Machine thru Vital, just a series of absolutely stunning albums. And you certainly dove in at the deep end haha
so true. this is a deep hole
this whole album is great!!
Peter Hammill the frontman, vocalist and piano in the band is a singer/songwriter and has an extensive solo catalogue as well!! (the whole band usually plays on his solo albums too so...)
very dynamic and varied! they have some very dark songs but also quite a few light and lovely tunes as well!
VDGG uses a LOT of dissonance and their chaotic breakdowns can be a real doozey! they also pioneered the dead animal saxophone solo.
sax is a main instrument instead of guitar for VDGG but I swear you don't miss it! there is guitar sometimes, but usually there is some sick jazz sax just blasting through or sometimes a soft flute, so awesome 😁
unfortunately they don't have many 20 minute epics! the only other VDGG i know would be Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild) from '76.
Peter Hammill in a solo album has Flight (just under 20 minutes) from 1980.
they do however have a tonnn of 10+ minute epics!
if you want another super dark metal song there is his solo piece "(In the) Black Room/The Tower" (but the band still plays on it so...) which is about tarot cards, a haunted house and acid lol
Scorched Earth is juuust under 10 minutes but I'm pretty sure it's about that dank.
you can't go wrong with their early 70s stuff though cause that's the classic era for most prog.
At last you discovered this masterpiece! I also recommend you "La Rossa" - ten minutes of utter greatness!
Whole "Pawn Hearts" is great. You must try other tracks. One of the greatest gems of prog music. I'm glad you liked it. VDGG is one of the most unique bands in history. Stunning vocals, great instruments and almost no solos. What a musicianship.
Literally came on here 15 minutes after this was uploaded. Your reaction was one of the most satisfying I’ve ever seen! I also love how you called them Jethro Tull’s alien cousin lol. What’s even more amazing is that they did this without a single guitar!
There is no Van der Graaf Generator song that tops this, but the other two songs on this album (Pawn Hearts) are absolute masterpieces as well.
The album Godbluff is my personal favorite, though. Four tracks, not one dull moment in all of its forty something minutes. Just to get you started 😄
Robert Fripp from King Crimson plays guest guitar on the outro/coda
@@aarongonzalez7482 Really now? I know Fripp was a guest for Emperor in his War Room, but never knew this. But that does make sense. He was pretty much everywhere in prog rock at the time lol. Seriously, imagine if he’d actually joined Yes!
On that note, Pope, King Crimson is another great one to check out! I know you said one time that 21st Century Schizoid Man would be blocked. That’s okay, as there are several other songs that are just as awesome. Larks Tongues in Aspic, The Sheltering Sky, I Talk to the Wind, Starless and Bible Black. If you like all of these bands I’ve seen you like, you will LOVE these guys. Promise! 😄
@@aarongonzalez7482 No, not in the outro; that's Hugh Banton on organ. I read the VdGG book by Jim Christopulos and Phil Smart, so I know. Many make this mistake though; he perfectly emulates Fripp in tone and phrasing. Fripp plays in the "Presence of the Night" section.
@@LS-tw4rj I already said this to Aaron: This is not Fripp in the outro; it's Hugh Banton on organ. I read the VdGG book by Jim Christopulos and Phil Smart, so I know. Many make this mistake though; he perfectly emulates Fripp in tone and phrasing. Fripp plays in the "Presence of the Night" section.
Listen more than once. You can’t wait for the changes, the ups and downs. So great it hurts. 🙏
Please listen to Man Erg from the same album by VanDerGraaf Generator - seriously dark & on all my rock playlists. Great reactions, keep it up
Talk about diving into the deep end without your floaties on! VDGG is one of the premiere prog rock bands and one of the heaviest of them all. Peter Hammill is genius. Twisted genius perhaps, but genius nonetheless. Want another huge banger from them? Try out "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End".
Blessings.
You're only the second person in the many years on youtube I've seen that suggested that song...I see it as VDGG's magnum opus...So profound.
@@godbluffvdgg Hi IT? - Just in case you missed it here's a link to a reaction to Childlike Faith.
ruclips.net/video/gMSj3m4GSBA/видео.html
This reactor also did Louse. Still waiting for Meurglys and Gog.
Hi Leo - a link to a Childlike Faith reaction -
ruclips.net/video/gMSj3m4GSBA/видео.html
@@vdggmouse9512 You and I have traded comments a few times...I've been on youtube since it started...I went by godbluffvdgg for most of those years...I recognize your name...:)...I'll check out the link!
@@vdggmouse9512 Just checked the link...JP is my boy...I copy and pasted the lyrics on there 5 months ago....:)
Jackson the sax player would play two saxes at once out of his mouth
And a 3rd one out of his....
@@feline1973 I,ve been following Van der Graff from thier begining always a proifond
artistic band with a hard rock and classical
edge. which leads you into Peter,s solo stuff
@@robertwands9185 i wasn't born when they started, but I have been enjoying them since the early 1990s. An awful shame that they fell out with Jaxxon after 2005
RIP Rashan Roland Kirk, remember...
26:05 Jethro Tull's Alien Cousin... that's perfect 🙂
Great prog band. Thanks.
Freakish how cosmic and advanced they were so seemingly long ago. Watching you choreographing with interpretive upper body dance, reminded me that skaters, and others who rely on music, would do well do skate outside the musical box. I saw Katarina Witt skate to some avant-garde music once, and she made everyone else look wooden and cliche. I've encouraged other music reactor/reviewers to move to the music, and it seems ear buds would allow more freedom than earphones.
I only knew one person in Charlotte who had this album and he was basically the smartest guy in town. He had all the great prog records, as well as avant-garde, foreign imports in strange plastic, and contemporary classical. Some jazz. All the long Yessongs and all King Crimson, early Genesis, Pink Floyd, Renaissance, Moody Blues, but also stranger ones like Faust, Tomita, Elliott Carter, Xenakis, Morton Subotnik, George Crumb, and other candy for the imagination. Worlds to explore!
I believe this is their best piece. I only know a little about them, but I've heard this a few times now, and it's really something. Very theatrical, and very cool. Glad you listened to it : )
Try Still Life
Man-Erg from the same album is actually my favorite along with After the Flood.
@@TeamIFDVideos cool, thanks, I'll check them out
You look like you were wondering if it was safe to come out after it ended! LOL!!! My first Van der Graaf album back when. I WAS GODSPMACKED & OVERCOMEEEE. With all the incredible variety in Prog, this was the missing link for me. It's still my favorite! Good to see you take the leap into these dark waters to get tumbled, rinsed, spun, expelled and left to dry! Peter Hammil cast some mean spells!
This is so cool. Loved your reaction. You cracked me up. At a boy! Good that you were open to this music.
Been listening to VDGG since the '70s. Wish i had a nephew/niece open like you to this experience. Have a lot of their vinyl to share.
Saw Peter H solo w/piano. It was a great show. Thanks!
From a time when music was ART! Movie of the ears.. yeah, that's a good description.
Starting at 19:36 and on through that whole section is probably the best use of a mellotron that I’ve ever heard. This piece haunts me every time, and that triumphant ending… These guys are actual artists
Peter Hammill actually found your reaction quite funny, he posted on Facebook about that.
thanks for letting me know 🙏🏿
@@POPE. No problem!
really? wow
You totally get it!
Loved your reaction to this incredible band and Peter Hammill's amazing storytelling: "All things are a part, all things are apart". Yes, they are all those things you said and more. Give "Man Erg" a try, it's off this same album and/or "When She Comes", off the album "World Record" - both 10 mins long. There is a lot to choose from with these guys and THEN there's Peter Hammill's solo work. It's all worth your time. Awesome stuff.😊😺
Glad you liked it. I loved how you were really living the song. You should read the Wikipedia entry about this song to fully understand what it is about. Van der Graaf Generator are one of the best progressive rock bands; they still exist and tour. Their last album "Do Not Disturb" was released in 2016.
I wonder if you are ready for the Masterclass. By this I mean the French band Magma. Magma are generally considered to be a progressive rock band, but they actually created a completely new style of music they called „Zeuhl“.
What's more: They even created the language they sing in called „Kobaïan“. It is spoken on the planed Kobaïa from which (and from the future) they allegedly come from, Mankind will emigrate to Kobaïa some time in the future when planet Earth is ecologically destroyed. „Zeuhl“ actually means „celestial music“ in Kobaïan. The French/German TV-channel ARTE who broadcasted a fearure of them a year ago described „Zeuhl“ as being a mixture of „rock, jazz, classical, modern avant-garde, R'n'B, metal and world music; so you can guess this music is pretty weird stuff.
All their albums are concept albums, linked together and tell a consecutive tale, though not necessarily in the order of their appearance. Many of their albums consist of one long track only.
Magma are best experienced live though, and the next best to that is seeing a live video of them. I recommend to watch a live performance of „Theusz Hamtaahk“ (meaning „Time of Hatred“). It is the first part of a trilogy of the same name. There is no studio version of it. The other two parts of the trilogy are „Ẁurdah Ïtah“ meaning „Dead Earth“ and „Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kommandöh“ which needs no translation; apparently some words from planet Earth made it into the Kobaïan language. These two tracks made up whole albums of the same name.
For their 30th anniversary concert they played the complete trilogy and published a video of this concert. „Theusz Hamtaahk“ is actually the shortest of these tracks in this live version at about 35 minutes; the other two songs are over 45 minutes even.
All three tracks were uploaded to RUclips; unfortunately „Ẁurdah Ïtah“ was cut up into several pieces for this. The other two tracks were left whole. I recommend you watch and listen to „Theusz Hamtaahk“; I'll give you a link. The first 90 seconds show the band backstage and the audience entering; you can skip them if you want.
If Van der Graaf Generator already transported you into space Magma should definitely do so. Their music is definitely something else. Certainly not for everyone, but since you love adventurous music I am pretty certain you will love it.
And here the link: ruclips.net/video/rbXi7WN5n-c/видео.html
Have fun watching them, and a good trip to space!
Brilliant...................
good for you this is true art
I'm a huge Peter Hammill fan, but I've never heard VCGG described as "The Dark Yes" before.
That's pretty funny, and I must admit it's kinda true!
Trippy first time hearing it ;)
VDG are (always were) an acquired taste.
Brave of you to attempt them ...
Peter Hammill is not to everyone's taste, but he's always had his own unique style - and has stuck to it.
Definitely a poet AND a musician.
You know, I never noticed this before, but there's a section in this song (from 9:45 to 11:45) that sounds a lot like a section in "Meurglys III" (when Hammill sings "Meurglys III he's my friend, the only one I can trust" etc.)
Pretty cool, as those are my two favorites by VDGG ;)
Your reaction to this wonder is the best I've ever seen.
Sorry for my poor English
Awesome 👏
Whoa...you got through the first listen of "Lighthouse Keepers" without a break! Impressive! It's NOT an easy work to grapple with, but it's the sheer intensity that both makes this work and which can make people flip the hell out of they're not ready for it.
If you get this (yeah, the clip here is over a year old), one other super-intense prog masterwork you need to wrap around your skull has GOT TO be Magma's "Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh". 37 minutes well spent!
But it requires background. The album-length piece is the third part of the band's epic saga of humans who leave Earth, then thousands of years later, they return. And it's sung entirely in Kobaian, a "constructed language" used extensively by Magma across several albums. Musically, it's the vision of the bandleader, Christian Vander, and it draws on everything from metal, Carl Orff's works (such as "Carmina Burana"), free and New Thing jazz...big list of inclusions.
Be warned, tho...this is very much on the same intensity level as VdGG's best. It can and WILL kick you around the room in numerous ways. But the work is beyond based. It's literally its own thing.
One other, because you're vectoring into the Krautrock space: Can's first, "Monster Movie". Cut in 1968...but sounds like it was tracked last month, and it ALWAYS sounds that fresh. The only worry I have about recommending it to you is that it'll stick in your head like a cocklebur and you won't be able to put it down! Quality stuff!
Three of them are still on Tour!
If Yse is divine music, this group's music is like a cosmic distortion. And I thought his voice was human. But it was a pocket in another dimension.
Ah, the machine that generated dark dreams and haunting music like no other. Great to see more people getting into VdGG's music. Not for mass consumption though.
My #1 favorite work of progressive music. David Jackson one remarked on how they were getting better at creating 'crossovers' with 2 members playing one time signature and the others a different one. The finale of Man Erg does this. The album Pawn Hearts had no less than 4 engineers all of whom became famous in their own right, so it's a milestone in recording technology and technique. It's great to see a young person actually getting this challenging music.
back in the 70,s the was great mucic to listen with a buzz on
You just gone deep, you cant go back now
So true. No way back after VDGG 🤘
No,King Crimson is the Dark And somewhat of an asshole YES!
Just when you think it can’t… it does!
Great. I’d like to request Silver Machine by Hawkwind. Thanks.
Prog rock forever!!!
please react to: CARDIACS - ON LAND AND IN THE SEA (1988)
alien jazz opera! That’ll how you listen!
pawn hearts full album. dare you.
Yeh.......
Still as otherworldly as it was back than.
Arte musical del fino
Thank you for doing this. Refugees and Necromancer are more 1960's and worth a listen (headphones)
Must say... I saw the length of the video and unlike mee .
I staid till the end! never clicked clicked off...
thinking ill click off off at the begining give the kid a chance ...Thanks for not talking through the song.. this band is mee fav >40 anos...butt I never play this lp now Im going too listen again
Thank you for your video and presence!
What were they on? Acid and weed and the finest wines available to humanity.
Just listened to Pawn Hearts for the first time this morning and wasn’t super floored by it. It’s so hard to digest. Im hoping it’ll connect with me soon
They're not the easiest band to get into. It took me some time, but I love them now.
It does not, and never has, gotten better than VdGG.
Lady Lake by Gnidrolog, try it!
Yes could only dream about such a vocals... Hammill is genius, and Anderson is... gifted but boring...
This kinda sucked ngl, always would prefer koenjihyakkei
Shut up