“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 no more ways, I am so afraid, myself won't let me just be myself and so I am completely alone..”no more say,VDGG in one of the great textual and musical climax of the 20th century!!! Peter Hammill is one of the gifted and musical genius ever
@123agidee_24 жыл бұрын
This is so groundbreaking for 1971
@neilparnell57122 ай бұрын
Still is !
@lucasgarcia-lm4prАй бұрын
Es una locura!!! Hay de todo acá. SpaceRock sobretodo.
@rickg26833 жыл бұрын
It took three engineers to master this masterpiece, and one Peter H to dream it up. Advanced genius
@LambLiesDownOnBroadway6 жыл бұрын
This song is about a very lonely lighthouse keeper who is of high class. He has gone completely mad from his solitude and mental anguish that he has suffered from. His wife died and he blames himself for it and can't forgive himself. He sees hallucinations and ghosts that want to kill him. He supposedly also accidentally killed a couple of sailors by not showing them the way via the lighthouse's shining light. He feels regret towards everything he has done during his miserable life and wants to end it all. At the very end he finds potential friends (the lemmings that represent humanity), but doesn't feel like he belongs anymore. Since he is so batshit crazy and depressed, he kills himself in the end and believes that he is now with his long dead wife. What a masterpiece this song is. A very dark, depressing masterpiece...
@uwnbaw6 жыл бұрын
Maximilian Bernard de wey is too hard for him to show de saylors
@YouCantDeleteDenzelL6 жыл бұрын
Also a song that realistically shows just how devastating depression can be, as someone who suffers from it.
@Jesse11P5 жыл бұрын
@@YouCantDeleteDenzelLyeah me too. I think Peter Hammill may have a touch of it himself.
@mikehunt89925 жыл бұрын
Thank you. A friend from Norway.
@omgleowtf4 жыл бұрын
Just watched The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers, came straight to listen to this masterpiece.
@splabbity5 күн бұрын
The way the song portrays loneliness and regret slowly eating you is perfect.
@Narcissa_XX2 жыл бұрын
scrolling until i see particular individuals from a particular community of scholars who all recently endured a great amount of pain at the hands of this very song (i will not elaborate until 24 hours have passed like a good kid)
@channpreetkular6802 жыл бұрын
im still crying internally
@danielvesga28362 жыл бұрын
Pain will we endure, community or not, we still suffer, we will bond.
@ottocastillo88912 жыл бұрын
The least we can do is wave to each other.
@teresaribeiro9886 Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean, maybe because I'm from Portugal. What happened?
@iminagonizingpaincenturiesago Жыл бұрын
elaborate? please
@BoRaXiN726 жыл бұрын
Regular humans cant create such masterpiece. They are either above-human or aliens...
@tripittidy38155 жыл бұрын
I can guarantee you that Van Der Graaf Generator have transcended humankind
@BoRaXiN725 жыл бұрын
Approved
@quollosuru3 жыл бұрын
Peter Hammill is a alien
@BoRaXiN723 жыл бұрын
@@quollosuru Approved
@vasilislakerdas10 ай бұрын
@@tripittidy3815❤
@richardhodges9923 жыл бұрын
When you grew up with this music your mind was changed forever---for the better
@leonardocapponi7131 Жыл бұрын
Am I the only one that can't make it to the end without crying? This is one of my favorite tracks of all time, the lyrics and the music are just so powerful and emotional, and they also hit closely to me. Peter Hammill is one of the greatest musicians of all time and him having almost not recognition at all feels so wrong
@user-zm3fx5cw5r9 ай бұрын
Same emotions here❤
@neilparnell9674 ай бұрын
Better to have recognition from a small band of diehard acolytes than from millions of fairweather butterflies that flit from flower to flower.
@karimebutte362826 күн бұрын
You are not the only one...
@philseida523820 күн бұрын
Same Here as well. The Human Emotion if there ever was one😢
@raybrown26084 жыл бұрын
I love the 'first time hearing' and 'How did I miss this' comments, gives me hope for music. I've been listening to this for 45 years, most of my friends didn't have the attention span for it, so mostly I listened whilst I was "COMPLETELY ALONE!"......
@The-Autistocrat-4 жыл бұрын
I got most of my family and friends listening to these guys after first hearing them about a year ago, there's hope lol
@jamie498683 жыл бұрын
You are correct. It's not a party album, better alone so you can just enjoy it without interruption.
@Fittyshow3 жыл бұрын
Yea.... so sad that ppl are so retarded. This and moon. In June by soft machine are my favorites songs but i can hardly think about a single person capable of enjoying them
@raybrown26083 жыл бұрын
@@Fittyshow Daevid Allen comes to mind as another "hard sell" with my friends. His album Good Morning is a fave.
@neilparnell9674 ай бұрын
As it should be done. In the spirit of solidarity with all other lone lighthouse keepers. All things are a part.
@custodioguimaraes998110 ай бұрын
And Robert Fripp is the (guest) guitarist on this trippy album!
@waitingforwonderland60363 жыл бұрын
I remember the first time hearing this song the 16:36 part scared the shit out of me!
@Hal9000ize2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a dalek
@waitingforwonderland60362 жыл бұрын
@@Hal9000ize agreed
@max-hy1fm4 жыл бұрын
I've been listening to this song for over 40 years but when he sings "the parallels...." at 7:59, I still get the chills
@pegjames1884 жыл бұрын
Me too
@tomt57452 жыл бұрын
amen to that
@charlotte.sometimes2 ай бұрын
All time favorite.
@deadmanwithpitchforkarms83765 жыл бұрын
11:01-11:09 and 11:17-11:24 are some of the craziest vocal lines I ever heard!
@jackal595 жыл бұрын
For me, it's 17:48 and "One more haggard DROWNED MAN...." Well, and everything else after that.
@Schwertfisch134 жыл бұрын
Playing this section on the electric guitar is awesome
@carlosmiguel-ld4rz4 жыл бұрын
I always loved that part!
@prosoloist4 жыл бұрын
surely I have heard those sections many times over the past 43ish years. Waiting to see what parts they are. I just paused it at about 10:38 ("would you cry if i died" whisper) so I am guessing it's the "UNREAL UNREAL..ghost helmsmen sream" part or whatever he says ;) EDIT --- no, I was wrong ;)
@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom39742 жыл бұрын
I don’t know words describe this artistic masterpiece
@jossuemartinez6875 Жыл бұрын
All that remains is to enjoy it.
@emilyaversa13278 жыл бұрын
the most sophisticated, literate rock band of all time.
@flyingspaguettmonster87387 жыл бұрын
You fucking right, they sound like nobody else as well
@antonismanis56496 жыл бұрын
I mean yeah. But there is Genesis too!
@123letsgopokemon6 жыл бұрын
and King Crimson
@JohnShadeLIVES6 жыл бұрын
And CARDIACS!
@Eduheep5 жыл бұрын
Gentle Giant is the more sophisticated of all!
@alistairdrumbeat1835 жыл бұрын
I genuinely think this is the best track of all time. I have listened to so much in the past fifty years, yet I still come back to this track. It is epic.
@tomt57452 жыл бұрын
Epic is just the foreword. It is a monster :)
@garri5108 Жыл бұрын
Listen to more music
@alistairdrumbeat183 Жыл бұрын
@@garri5108 I listen to music 10 hours a day. I have seen every big band except The Doors. How much more do you want me to listen to?
@garri5108 Жыл бұрын
@@alistairdrumbeat183 then how this song (really good song btw) is your favorite ? Really the best song? Seems strange to me. Either you are biased or listened not so many songs.
@alistairdrumbeat183 Жыл бұрын
@@garri5108 I love all types of rock. From the Allman Bros to ZZ Top, Floyd & ELP to Porcupine Tree & the Pineapple Thief. Greenslade & Wishbone Ash to Tool & Frumpy. I could carry on.
@Mel_ilm7 жыл бұрын
Work of genius. Just like all great music, this will never get old.
@Burt4725 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@ettorealbertogelli88934 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@enzogalli55065 жыл бұрын
un vero autentico CAPOLAVORO!!! Peter Hammill un genio con una voce unica e incredibile, una creatività immensa e i VDGG un gruppo STRAORDINARIO!!!
@ettorealbertogelli88934 жыл бұрын
SIIII!!!
@evening_awning4 жыл бұрын
Unfiltered, unadulterated, unmatched complete and total perfection in every sense of the word.
@evening_awning Жыл бұрын
still my number 1 favorite song ever to this day :)
@chriswakefield9538 Жыл бұрын
@@evening_awning Hey, is your profile pic Koenji Hyakki? I love those guys!
@evening_awning Жыл бұрын
@@chriswakefield9538 yes!!! good taste friend
@Aqua_Bargus Жыл бұрын
Peter hammill my beloved ❤❤❤
@ericsguitar80293 жыл бұрын
This blew my 15 year old mind when I first heard it
@hughcoulter83137 ай бұрын
Me to,I am 65 now...
@neilparnell57122 ай бұрын
I was 12 and I still don't think I've recovered ! Once infected with the Hammill / VdGG virus there was no hope for me. Doomed to be a Sleepwalker forever more trapped in the cycle of needing my VdGG injection on a regular basis.
@brianparks20395 жыл бұрын
This track, along with Supper’s Ready, Close to the Edge, Thick as a Brick, Song of Scheherazade, I just have no words for the experience, I love this shit, this is all I listen to, I should have been born in the 50’s.
@SaladPizzaRestaurant4 жыл бұрын
I am actually glad that I was born in 2002 because I can easily listen to all the great old bands and also all the great new bands like Sigh, Opeth and Porcupine tree
@axelord4ever4 жыл бұрын
Pawn Hearts isn't my favorite VDGG album, lyrics-wise (that would be Still Life) but this is still pretty high up the ladder.
@johnroberts37233 жыл бұрын
Apparently prof is thinking mans music!.
@PAULLONDEN3 жыл бұрын
*@Brian Parks* There was nothing funny to have been born post second world war. The few musicians who managed to put their anguish into art were few and far between .....the most of us were condemned for the treadmill or sought relief in opiates.
@Fittyshow3 жыл бұрын
AlSo moon in June 🌙
@YouCantDeleteDenzelL6 жыл бұрын
Bruce Dickinson brought me here. Holy shit, this song is absolutely extraordinary and unlike anything ever. It's basically manic episode put to music. It's pure depressive, disturbing insanity and I love it. It stays with you from the very first listen.
@riccardomatteini14726 жыл бұрын
Scott Baldwin Did you read his autobiography?
@YouCantDeleteDenzelL5 жыл бұрын
@@riccardomatteini1472 yep! That's how I'm here.
@YouCantDeleteDenzelL5 жыл бұрын
You can also hear where the majority of Bruce's vocal influences come from here! Especially the high notes about 10 minutes in.
@waitingforwonderland60363 жыл бұрын
agreed
@BaldJean3 жыл бұрын
Bruce Dickinson actually was at the reunion concert of Van der Graaf Generator on May 6th 2005 at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
@vintagerumors2 жыл бұрын
Every time I see the album cover I click and think 'ok I just listen the beginning' but then I can no longer detach myself from it till the end
@saskiakroonsberg3 жыл бұрын
During times of dispair or grief I always return to this song. It comforts me.
@flannelsykes011 ай бұрын
All things are apart
@neilparnell57122 ай бұрын
As do I and being a VdGG fanatic I understand completely. To anyone else you would appear as mad as the lighthouse keeper in his strange sources of comfort. What do they know ?
@WocklessGamingforAnimeMomsАй бұрын
I don't understand at all,this shit is distressing as fuck lol. I fucking love it though. Super brutal sounding. You can tell these guys both really did understand and care about music theory and also really were quite nerdy with the fantasy/sci-fi stuff but it all comes together in this way that feels surreal and glistening and almost alien which I would say most good progressive rock does. It's a wild intense and incredibly articulated ride with virtual no sexual themes and tons of psychological subtext which stands in stark contrast to much of more commercial music even if these bands oftentimes did actually end up being quite financially and commercially successful at times.
@neilparnell5712Ай бұрын
@@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms You certainly do understand Sir and seem very well suited to ''Keeperdom'' evermore to return to the Epic that is unlistenable to mere humans. Welcome aboard.
@jonathanhenderson94223 жыл бұрын
That key change at 12:15 is just brilliant. The song had already been building up so much tension and longing before then, a desire to resolve, to find some kind of hope and optimism, and that change just instantly launches it into abyssal nightmare territory. Considering the song is about a lighthouse keeper going mad, that's about as affective a musical means of conveying that as I could imagine anyone inventing. HP Lovecraft would be proud.
@RetroVzqz93132 жыл бұрын
The Mellotron at the end alone in this is beyond demented Pretty sure that's a mix of some truly creative playing And some very crafty edits And with how hard it is to pull anything tuneful out of one those temperamental proto synths, just shows the skill and mastery on display here Truly a twisted prog masterwork for the ages Sublime
@Zion83n67 ай бұрын
Still waiting for my saviour Storms tear me limb from limb My fingers feel like seaweed I'm so far out, I'm too far in I am a lonely man My solitude is true My eyes have borne stark witness And now, my nights are numbered, too I've seen the smiles on dead hands The stars shine, but they're not for me I prophesy disaster And then, I count the cost I shine but, shining, dying I know that I am almost lost On the table, lies blank paper And my tower is built on stone I only have blunt scissors I only have the bluntest home I've been the witness and the seal of death Lingers in the molten wax that is my head When you see the skeletons Of sailing-ship spars sinking low You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancients myths Are solemnly directed straight at you No time now for contrition The time for that's long past The walls are thin as tissue And if I talk, I'll crack the glass So, I only think on how it might have been Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream I am much too tired to speak And as the waves crash on the bleak Stones of the tower, I start to freak And find that I am overcome "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 the mindless grins Only intent on destroying what they've lost I crawl the wall 'til 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 "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 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 no 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 Lighthouses might house the key But can I reach the door? I want to walk on the sea So that I may better find a shore But how can I ever keep my feet dry? I scan the horizon I must keep my eyes on All parts of me Looking back on the years It seems that I have lost my way Like a dog in the night, I have run to a manger Now, I am the stranger I stay in All of the grief I have seen Leaves me chasing solitary peace But I hold experience in my head I'm too close to the light I don't think I see right For I blind me Where is the God that guides my hand? How can the hands of others reach me? When will I find what I grope for? Who is going to teach me? I am me, me are we, we can't see Any way out of here Crashing sea, atrophied history Chance has lost my Guinevere I don't want to be one wave in the water But sea will drag me deep One more haggard drowned man I can see the lemmings coming But I know I'm just a man Do I join or do I founder? Which can is the best I may? Oceans drifting sideways I am pulled into the spell I feel you around me I know you well Stars slice horizons Where the lines stand much too stark I feel I am drowning Hands stretch in the dark Camps of panoply and majesty What is freedom of choice? Where do I stand in the pageantry? Whose is my voice? It doesn't feel so very bad now I think the end is the start Begin to feel very glad now All things are a part All things are apart All things are a part
@alexpieri99267 жыл бұрын
absolutely a masterpiece ......the best suite of prog with "echoes" of pinky,"tarkus" of Elp ,"moon in June " of Wyatt n "Valentyne Suite" of Colosseum after me ....
@giovannigrazzini77867 жыл бұрын
Vero Ascolta anche "Good Bluff" del 1976 circa 4 anni dopo
@elisabettaclemente72587 жыл бұрын
godbluff...
@Fildoggy2 жыл бұрын
dont forget suppers ready
@gavv9457 Жыл бұрын
"Lizard" of King Crimson
@jayechristian96977 жыл бұрын
Absolute masterpiece
@mauroscaravelli1197 Жыл бұрын
Un capolavoro senza tempo...ha corollato l' intera mia vita. Dalle prime note dell' intro...fino al finale ' epico' con un Robert Fripp sublime .
@emilioaladwhosintheinterne84213 жыл бұрын
This is "The Lighthouse" but as a song.
@GeorgePiazza6 жыл бұрын
Finally - I 1st heard this song in 1984 when I went to my high school friend's house to form my prog rock band. I never forgot the hooky triplet part. But years later, he couldn't recall the song, even after I hummed it to him - & he was the Hammill - Van der Graaf expert.. Well now I know.. 34 years later!
@RodLD3 жыл бұрын
Legend says if you make a 23 minute long song It becomes immediately a masterpiece
@lemmykay3 жыл бұрын
It's not the length, it's the quality!
@RodLD3 жыл бұрын
@@lemmykay I know but my point is that many of the greatest songs of all time coincide in lasting about 23 minutes.
@stavrosplatanas73903 жыл бұрын
@@RodLD Maybe because each one of the sides of the vinyl record was around 23 minutes
@radityatricahyarynaldi43183 жыл бұрын
@@RodLD with lizard, supper's ready, and this as an example. i can agree with that
@benijager13722 жыл бұрын
Welp u kinda were uncapable of doing longer than that and keeping the song together, the person had to change the side of the vinyl, classical music does get longer than that cuz it was always presented live
@richardhouse98134 жыл бұрын
8 mins 20 to 10 mins 30 - one of the most beautiful 2 minutes in the history of rock music. Hammill the incomparable.
@barakcohen36123 жыл бұрын
Think ! P.H was only 23 when this was created .. just mind-boggling masterpiece chiseling the depths of my soul .
@neilparnell57122 ай бұрын
True. 23 years old, 23 minutes long, so is 23 a new magic number ?
@HammondDER4 жыл бұрын
There are many bands that performed more harmonically, rhythmically etc. sophisticated music, more beautiful and even music after all, but there is no band with such psycho power, with such extreme ability to astound and give goosebumps...
@michaelsalisbury14772 жыл бұрын
Brilliant masterpiece of prog.
@asmallwhitedog04794 жыл бұрын
First time I heard this was my first week in collage, 1977. It just gets better, and never old. Amazing piece.
@BacchusAurelius-yj4mb Жыл бұрын
8:51 The Cow by Westside Gunn sample 🔥🔥🔥
@gaetanlelu149911 ай бұрын
Thanks for mentionning it
@salim53946 ай бұрын
Man
@Fittyshow3 жыл бұрын
This and moon in June by SM are the best prog songs ever. YeAh also crimson king etc but these 2 are just pure musical poetry
@fernandomarques30646 жыл бұрын
Superb work of Peter Hammill and the likes. A stunning voice carrying all the necessary emotion (as if you were there in the lighthouse). The reeds are incredible for Jackson interacts with Evans´s drums and ALL the keys, like it was the last thing he had to say in his life . To top all of this, only one of the most inspired poems you can find in a prog-rock composition. To think that this has seen the light in 1972!!! is absolutelly stunning. The end of this masterpiece is, by far, the most compelling and inspired they have ever done. Back then, the first time I heard this in 1972, I was speachless; I still get goosebumps in the present. Enjoy!
@vdggmouse95123 жыл бұрын
1971.
@laredolenny6823 жыл бұрын
Hello all. Well, I've read most of your comments. It's still 2020. I was introduced to Van Der Graaf Generator by Allison Steele from WNEW - FM in NYC many years ago. I think it was 1973. It was 72 or 73. I've gotten to see them Live as well. I know people like to say; Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are the magic triangle. And, I DO agree to some degree. I always felt Peter Hammill, Roy Harper and Peter Gabriel were the same way. This does remind me of Henry Cow/Slapp Happy to a degree. VDGG were very under rated. I fell into Prog about 1974. Sabbath and Zep were my mainstay's previously to that. The Canterbury Scene, VDGG, Early Genisis, Hawkwind, and a host of others, Soft Machine, and others, Blood Rock, so many make up my Record collection. I stopped listening to commercial Radio around 1977. It was only College radio after that. Or, I'd just go buy more Albums. Nektar, Kraftwerk, Crimson, Eno, and so on. I back tracked from album sleeves. They used to advertise other Bands on the sleeves. So, I just started buying albums based on that. Fusion is good too. Peter Hammill is really a Genius. They all are that contributed to the musics we so dearly love. Be well. Peace.
@TheBRBvideos5 жыл бұрын
Life long favourite.
@pattardn5 жыл бұрын
Lovecraft would have undoubtedly called it "eldritch". I'll just say it's stunningly beautiful.
@papinjoris8814 жыл бұрын
A lovecraftien song for sure
@ettorealbertogelli88934 жыл бұрын
Totaly agree
@moresnqp2 жыл бұрын
he also called his cat- never mind...
@leonakita7 жыл бұрын
Hammill, Jackson, Evans with an awesome dose of Fripp = MAGNIFICENCE !!
@leonakita7 жыл бұрын
The Fripp epic sustain slowly drifts in at 20:20... hitting hard at 21:15! Enjoy...and thanks for uploading this awesome work.
@leonakita7 жыл бұрын
The final movement begins at 19:13, entitled : 'We Go Now'
@leonakita7 жыл бұрын
maybe 19:14
@leonakita7 жыл бұрын
my bad... 20:20 is synth keys but totally sets the tone for where things are going at 21:15 with Fripp's treated sustained guitar work.
@wilhelmorangenbaum1637 жыл бұрын
You're miss Banton.
@ArenaNath5 жыл бұрын
Una de las mejores canciones que el rock progresivo ha dispuesto a nuestros oídos.
@micheleocchialini7 жыл бұрын
70s prog rock gave us stuff like in the court of the crimson king, fragile, n other good albums but the dark painted in this album is amazing. best of prog rock
@micheleocchialini7 жыл бұрын
yeah! first of all CAN , they are wonderful but i think that krautrock is not so similar to prog rock
@Joe-ut3sz5 жыл бұрын
@@micheleocchialini Court was 60's
@micheleocchialini5 жыл бұрын
@@Joe-ut3sz true, it was october '69 if i remember right, so not properly but practically 70's
@Joe-ut3sz5 жыл бұрын
@@micheleocchialini Yeah. Recording started June, so exactly half a century ago the boyz were dishing out some sassy flute solos
@micheleocchialini5 жыл бұрын
@@Joe-ut3sz Yeah, amazing! im gonna see them next week at Palmanova btw
@chandrakristian66023 жыл бұрын
Best part of this song is 00.00 - 23.24
@robertoavila50243 жыл бұрын
Despues de medio siglo de lo mejor del rock progresivo. Por siempre van der graaf generator! Saludos desde Mexico.
@atlasparis37022 жыл бұрын
Que obra de Arte, primera vez que escucho está canción (2021) y me está volando la cabeza. Genial!!!
@MarioMendezCaldeira2 жыл бұрын
Bienvenido al Rock Progresivo
@Phoebedumplings2 жыл бұрын
The stars shine, but they’re not for me,,,,that’s the saddest line I’ve ever heard
@neilparnell57122 ай бұрын
I constantly sing this line to myself in my head, as well as ''I'm too close to the light, I don't think I see right, for I blind me'' I wish I knew what doing this meant but I just love those lines. Oh just remembered, ''would you cry if I died'' as well. Unforgettable.
@FUCKTHESMASH24 жыл бұрын
First time Listening. Currently on the 5th repeat.... Mindblown
@gyromitre15884 жыл бұрын
Isn't it?
@neilparnell57122 ай бұрын
You are now like ''The Flying Dutchman'' forever doomed to listen to the greatest epic song of all time for all of eternity.
@MegaCirse5 жыл бұрын
At this dark hour of the night, it remains for me to put my helmet on my head to listen religiously this record. There are works that only support the heavy silence of the post-twilight under the benevolent gaze of the stars. From the back of the room, a delicate arpeggio of dry guitar wrapped in silky flute drowns in the roar of a scorching wind. And it's as if I entered a parallel universe, in the center of a desert first arid but gradually covered with lush swamps in the middle of which I pushed to half my legs. On an arid plateau, I do not know which path to follow so many! Some seem vaguely threatening, so I rely on my instinct! Returning then after a few hesitant steps, a valley extends to my amazed look, lit by a flashing and gibbous moon, I perceive the rattling of the arms of a black and spidery army. It is not possible for me to turn back. Stumbling I fall on the gleaming rails of an abandoned railway belt surrounded by tares of wild and hostile vegetation. A plaintive melody with a curiously metallic resonance closes my eyes. When I reopen it appears to me an ocean purple and epileptic and between two waves monstrous and roaring, rises like a rostrum a lighthouse all white! Then this clamor rising from the depths, louder and louder, that twists my eardrums and tears me away with sobs of rage and deliverance. A piano mixed with the sepulcher organ finishes my journey and I reappear in reality, trembling, my face covered with tears
@jackal595 жыл бұрын
21:15 is one of the best arguments that Fripp does his best work on other people's records (the other argument being all of Eno's "Baby's on Fire" on Here Come the Warm Jets).
@brucebeasman1925 жыл бұрын
Fripp is the thread that weaves together most of the early 70s prog rock.
@robertklouse38685 жыл бұрын
jackal59 baby on fire is lukewarmness and non-existant regards to vg, however.. now, maybe roxy music's work.. "for your pleasure"
@MyJakeyd4 жыл бұрын
Dont forget Paul Rudolph's contribution to 'Babys On Fire'. 😉
@BaldJean3 жыл бұрын
That is, however, not Fripp at all; it is Hugh Banton on the organ. Don't worry, I was of the same opinion until I read the VdGG book.
@giuseppeliucci53403 жыл бұрын
So many feelings in one song..
@ariacurva5 жыл бұрын
Quest'album è incluso nei 5 album che più amo in modo assoluto! Meraviglioso Peter!
@Fittyshow3 жыл бұрын
Idem! Insieme a Third dei soft machine. Gli altri tuoi quali sono?? Sono curioso!
@ariacurva3 жыл бұрын
@@Fittyshow In the Court of the Crimson King Selling England by the Pound The Wall Abbey Road
@cosmojairzinho144 жыл бұрын
2:24. This is beyond music
@user-oh9wh7sc2s Жыл бұрын
I`m so in love with this band, you just can`t run away from reality listening to it. That`s real art, what it should be!
@TheAndrej300005 жыл бұрын
Truly great music. Thanks for sharing!
@kosovoblues50195 жыл бұрын
How i miss my burnt out turntable and amplifier,to play this albums and feel mesmerized again while watching the night fall outside my window
@PumaTwoU Жыл бұрын
While often overlooked - this is one of the most outstanding progressive bands of the 60's/70's and those of us who came of age then, knew it.
@Anderph2 жыл бұрын
To what extent does this constitute justified true belief?
@walkerhailey29882 жыл бұрын
How does the author use descriptive language to create atmosphere?
@karimahsiddiqui73742 жыл бұрын
How and to what effect is imagery used?
@rotunda_10 күн бұрын
Mother, will they try to break.. my balls?
@tomt57456 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing. This piece is beyond description
@Dremeli2 жыл бұрын
"One more haggard DROWNED MAN"
@Burt4727 жыл бұрын
Another overwhelming work of music...As usual with VDGG
@revo13377 жыл бұрын
This fuckin shit is so freaking awesome i want to set myself on fire and melt into the waves of pure excellance this piece of art is emitting
@hervemertes25246 жыл бұрын
au delà de tout ce qui existe........au delà de la musique.....l'expression du génie....
@whogotasprite5875 жыл бұрын
his voice is the definition of prog rock
@anniegog4 жыл бұрын
This is not prog rock.
@davidhaag024 жыл бұрын
@@anniegog What genre would you call it?
@Lellos_4 жыл бұрын
@@anniegog this is undoubtedly prog rock.
@d.unknown33884 жыл бұрын
Too bad Hamill can't sing.
@Lellos_4 жыл бұрын
@@d.unknown3388 then you didn't even listen to a full song of his.
@michaelcraig94493 жыл бұрын
Listening to this band for the first time now.
@hyf68453 жыл бұрын
Welp, that first time listening through it was something special
@bjrnrichardsen91517 жыл бұрын
Sorry, - ment to say "this is music" and a very good one. Have listened to the group since the late 60s, and love them stilll
@stefanobetti67685 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece.
@butenator66682 жыл бұрын
11:01 is the Iron Maiden Part. Van der Graaf Generator were one of Bruce Dickinsons greatest influences.
@Age_of_Apocalypse3 жыл бұрын
There are several masterpieces in progressive music, but this piece is right up there with the best of the best of them: stunning! 👍👍👏👏😍😍
@ai.2013 жыл бұрын
Beautiful beautiful beautiful Peter hammil.
@gianniskatsios8033 Жыл бұрын
the clot thickens 16:30-19:13 is so chaotic, i love it so much Having exprerienced those kinda thoughts the lighthouse keeper is having, i honestly find the song to be quite an accurate depictions of how your mind limbos between romantic and intense thoughts. Don't know if there was any intention for that. But this is a true masterpiece.
@kimtimms614 Жыл бұрын
.me two so much so so thank full to sort of helps my mental health take care 🌹
@pegjames1884 жыл бұрын
Just dug this out of the back of a store cupboard along with In Camera and Yes , Genesis, Neil Young,etc,etc,etc.Giving them to the granddaughter. Forgotten the weight of albums, now it coming out of a speaker the size of my spectacle case; wonderful.
@neilparnell57125 ай бұрын
Here again ! This is the song that keeps giving. Just realised that ''I've seen the smiles on dead hands'' refers to dead sailors (e.g. all hands on deck) and I have only been listening to it for nearly 50 years ! How did I miss that ? Now just need to work out what ''White bone shine in the iron-jaw mask'' actually means. Any ideas anyone ?
@emilysongs.7 жыл бұрын
I think that along with "Supper's Ready" this song, has the most epic ending ever written in pop music
@emilysongs.7 жыл бұрын
Yeah I know ... they are not so popular :)
@kovvvas7 жыл бұрын
I don't know if pop is a style.
@emilysongs.7 жыл бұрын
Pop is the largest matryoshka :)
@Keskinkeskinoglu6 жыл бұрын
+echoes and close to the edge. they're not only great epics, they all have incredible endings.
@josejuliosuarez6 жыл бұрын
Keskin Keskinoğlu Echoes ending is lovely! I worship that "talking" between the guitar and the piano.
@polki802 Жыл бұрын
Been far too long since i heard this. I key part of my musical growing and, if anything, it means even more than it did 50 years ago (really?). I'd be hard pressed to think of a more powerful piece of music. It was magnificent then and it still is. This is the music our grandchildren will still revere and how privileged are we to have been there at the start?
@swifter23832 жыл бұрын
This sounds nothing like how I imagined it
@soarel325 Жыл бұрын
What'd you expect it to sound like?
@johnnyguitar8067 Жыл бұрын
@Soarel he was probably expecting something psychedelic or pink Floyd esque
@Syfoll5 жыл бұрын
16:35-19:13 my god. this part is actually scarring
@julyccg1174 жыл бұрын
yes, sounds perfect for a videogame boss fight
@giannisalustri78487 жыл бұрын
I had live and felt this sound on my young skin .... strong sensation never forget ....pride of my eve !
@davidmascarenhas26083 жыл бұрын
best song of VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
@petergrossett67636 жыл бұрын
Epic work.
@templeofswitches2 жыл бұрын
absolutely brilliant!
@davidhorner56553 жыл бұрын
I first listened to this when I was maybe 10, it makes much more sense now that I have some life under my belt. It’s still a bit mystic, but it ties together much better now.
@gorblimeyguv Жыл бұрын
Staggering genius......different every time, and yet it is the same....nothing else is remotely like it.....their finest hour
@fiorentinodario4 жыл бұрын
colonna sonora per la quarantena
@opisthokonta5 жыл бұрын
I don't want to be one wave in the water But sea will drag me deep
@mauriciobatoripardo7 жыл бұрын
Muy bacano!!decadas buscando esta cancion!
@angelaflorez49016 жыл бұрын
da la sensacion que a partir de esta musica construyeran el 70% de cancion pop, rock, noventeros, ochenteros y actuales.
@bernardocasarin50226 жыл бұрын
ONE OF the best álbums of the GREATEST "rock" band in human history....PERIOD!
@edumarrodriguez49527 жыл бұрын
Gracias por compartir esta Joya...
@palteonato7 жыл бұрын
espero mas comentarios latinos amigo ; es una obra maestra
@johnskelley67103 жыл бұрын
All things are apart, all things are a part
@light5353 жыл бұрын
Underrated masterpiece
@markrae13173 жыл бұрын
@王陽洋 Utter rubbish! This isn't underrated in the slightest! Do you honestly know anyone who thinks this song is rubbish?
@markrae13173 жыл бұрын
Utter rubbish! This isn't underrated in the slightest! Do you honestly know anyone who thinks this song is rubbish?
@markrae13173 жыл бұрын
@王陽洋 That still doesn't make it underrated! Underrated is nothing to do with numbers. If most people who knew this song didn't rate it very highly, THEN you could call it underrated.
@amwarmax4773 жыл бұрын
the most sophisticated...Gentle Giant & King Crimson ,PF,Yes,EL&P&first Genesis...too.