Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees
photo © Luca Fiaccavento - www.lucafiaccavento.net www.flickr.com From "The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other" (1970) N. was somewhere years ago and cold: ice locked the people's hearts and made them old. S. was birth to pleasant lands, but dry: I walked the waters' depths and played my mind. E. was dawn, coming alive in the golden sun: the winds came gently, several heads became one in the summertime, though august people sneered... we were at peace, and we cheered We walked along, sometimes hand in hand, between the thin lines marking sea and sand; smiling very peacefully, we began to notice that we could be free, and we moved together to the West. W. is where all days shall someday end; where the colours turn from grey to gold, and you can be with the friends. And light flakes the golden clouds above: West is Mike and Susie, West is where I love. There we shall spend the final days of our lives... tell the same old stories: well, at least we tried. So into the West, smiles on our faces, we'll go; oh! yes, and our apologies to those who'll never really know the Way.... We're refugees, walking away from the life we've known and loved... nothing to do nor say, nowhere to stay; now we are alone. We're refugees, carrying all we own in brown bags, tied up with string... nothing to think, it doesn't mean a thing, but we'll be happy on our own. West is Mike and Susie; West is Mike and Susie; West is where I love, West is refugees' home.
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Lost
Ok, all time favourite band. VDGG. This is this playing a fairly-laid-backy version of "Lost" off H to the He Who Am The Only One. In Sweden?...Glorious
Van Der Graaf Generator - "Necromancer"
Van Der Graaf Generator playing one of my top ten favourite VDGG songs: "Necromancer". This is the studio version from the album "The Aerosol Grey Machine". There is another version on the album "The Box", recorded live at the BBC radio session Top Gear on 18th November 1968, a radio show mostly hosted by John Peel, which I shall upload separately. I compiled the video myself utilising footage mostly downloaded from YouTube, with some of my own added effects and filters. Please check out my other videos. Comments are most welcome.
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Pilgrims
A song written by Peter Hammill and David Jackson Song: Pilgrims Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator Album: Still Life Year: 1976 Genre: Progressive Rock Lyrics: Sometimes you feel so far away, distanced from all the action of the play, unable to grasp significance, marking the plot with diffident dismay, stranded at centre stage, scrabbling through your diary for a lost page: unsure of the dream. Kicking a stone across the beach, aching for love and comfort out of reach: the way ahead seems to be so bleak, there's no-one with any friendship left to speak or show any relation between your present and future situations... lost to the dream. Away, away, away--look to the future day for hope, some form of peace within the growing storm. I climb through the evening, alive and believing in time we shall all know our goals and so, finally, home; for now, all is secret - though how could I speak it, allow me the dream in my eye! I've been waiting for such a long time just to see it at last, all of the hands tightly clasped, all of us pilgrims. Walking in silence down the coast, merely to journey - here hope is the most, merely to know there is an end; all of us - lovers, brothers, sisters, friends hand in hand. Shining footprints on the wet sand lead to the dream. The time has come, the tide has almost run and drained the deep: I rise from lifelong sleep. It seems such a long time I've dreamed but now, awake, I can see we are pilgrims and so must walk this road, unknown in our <b>...</b>
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Undercover Man (1975 Live Belgium)
"Godbluff" Live Performance. Best Quality
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Mr Bean - Van der Graaf generator
Mr Bean plays with a Van der Graaf generator. Instead of his hair standing up he absorbs the static electricity. Eventually making a woman's skirt fly up. Welcome to the Official Mr Bean channel. The first episode of the original Mr Bean series starring Rowan Atkinson was first broadcast on 1st January 1990. Since then Mr Bean has become known all over the world. Created by Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll, there were only 14 episode of the live action series ever made. To find out more about Mr Bean visit: www.mrbean.co.uk Mr Bean on Facebook http Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com Standard Tags: "mr bean" mr. mister "rowan atkinson" funny video comedy british actor humour classic top best bena baen holiday videos divertidos vidéos drôles
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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers (Pawn Hearts)
A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers : Eyewitness Pictures / Lighthouse Eyewitness SHM Presence Of The Night Kosmos Tours (Custard's) Last Stand The Clot Thickens Land's End (Sineline) We Go Now
Van Der Graaf Generator - Wondering
Song: Wondering Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator (VDGG) Album: World Record Year: 1976 Genre: Progressive Rock Lyrics: I will arise: in the depths, I will open my eyes; as my breath almost fails me, survive. Wait - there's something unclear, there's something I fear now drawing close. Could it be you? Whose is that voice? Is it now time to make a choice? Ah - that irrational pain! This ridiculous brain now bursts with joy. Could it be me? Could it be now? Should I begin to take my vows? I will return: as I live, as I breathe, as I burn I swear I will come through, with my hands stretching out in the dark, with my eye pressed up tight to the glass, wondering if it's all been true. Wondering, wondering, wondering... Wondering if it's all ... wondering if it's all been true...
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Van Der Graaf Generator - "LOST"
Van Der Graaf Generator playing one of my top five VDGG songs: "Lost". This is rarely played live, and appears on very few bootlegs. This is the studio version from the album "H to He Who Am The Only One" (1970). "H To He" = Hydrogen to Helium = Nuclear Fusion. I compiled the video montage myself utilising footage mostly downloaded from YouTube, with some of my own added effects and filters. Please check out my other videos. Comments are most welcome.
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Van Der Graaf Generator - house with no door
There's a house with no door and I'm living there at nights it gets so cold and the days are hard to bear inside. There's a house with no roof, so the rain creeps in, falling through my head as I try to think out time. I don't know you, you say you know me, that may be so, there's so much that I am unsure of ... You call my name, but it sounds unreal, I forget how I feel, my body's rejecting the cure. There's a house with no bell, but then nobody calls; I sometimes find it hard to tell if any are alive at all outside. There's a house with no sound; yes, it's quiet there ... there's not much point in words if there's no-one to share in time. I've learned my lines, I know them so well, I am ready to tell whoever will finally come in Of the line in my mind that's cold in the night, it doesn't seem right when there's that little dark figure running ... There's a house with no door and there's no living there: one day it became a wall ... well I didn't really care at the time. There's a house with no light, all the windows are sealed, overtaxed and strained NOW NOTHING IS REVEALED BUT TIME I don't know you, you say you know me, that may be so, there's so much that I am unsure of ... You call my name, but it sounds unreal, I forget how I feel, my body's rejecting the cure ..... Won't somebody help me ...
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Van der Graaf Generator - Nutter Alert
Van der Graaf Generator - Nutter Alert. Recorded in Leverkusen - 2005. Peter Hammill-David Jackson-Hugh Banton-Guy Evans. Nutter Alert (Present 2005) It might come in a letter, darkness falls in a telephone call; I await the unexpected with one ear to the party wall. Is it the pricking of the conscience, is it the itching of hair shirt, is it the dictionary definition of a precipice to skirt? It's the nutter alert. Though this face is familiar something in it has bred contempt; I never asked for your opinion or your back-handed compliments. Oh, but here comes that special nonsense all the words out in a spurt, the unhinging of the trolley as the mouth begins to blurt... it's the nutter alert I can see we're in trouble from that glint in the eye you've got; there's no sense to the story, comprehensively lost, the plot. And how contorted is that logic you so forcefully exert: you're a car crash in the making, head-on, that's a racing cert. It's the nutter alert, this is the nutter alert.
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts (Full Album)
Breathtaking and Sublime... Band: Van Der Graaf Generator. Album: Pawn Hearts (1971). Track List: 00:00 - Lemmings (Including Cog) 11:39 - Man-Erg 22:01 - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers -- including: "Eyewitness" "Pictures/Lighthouse" "Eyewitness" "SHM" "Presence of the Night" "Kosmos Tours" "(Custard's) Last Stand" "The Clot Thickens" "Land's End (Sineline)" "We Go Now"
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van der graaf generator - Darkness (11/11)
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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers (Pawn Hearts) 1971 with Lyrics
Peter Hammill - guitar, piano/keyboard and vocals Hugh Banton - organ, bass pedals and bass guitar Guy Evans - drums David Jackson - saxophone and flute Lyrics: I. Eyewitness 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 knights 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/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 ancient myths Are solemnly directed straight at You... Ii. Pictures/Lighthouse (Eddies/rocks/ships/collision/remorse.) Iii. Eyewitness 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 Anyway, I'm 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... Iv. SHM 'Unreal, unreal!' ghost helmsmen scream And fall in through the sky, Not <b>...</b>
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Darkness
Van Der Graaf Generator - Darkness. From album THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS WAVE TO EACH OTHER (1969) Record: Leverkusen - 2005. Peter Hammill-David Jackson-Hugh Banton-Guy Evans. DARKNESS - THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS WAVE TO EACH OTHER (1969). A song of numbers: although I am no numerologist, the circumstances of writing this highly instinctual song dictated its form and direction. It was composed on the night of 11th November, 1968, Remembrance Day, by chance. Some years before I wrote a novel which purported (with devastating failure) to be an Icelandic saga; on re-reading it, some time after finishing these lyrics, I was struck by the opening sentence: 'It was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.' November is, of course, the month of Scorpio, under which sign I was born, and my life number is 11. It was, I suppose, inevitable that a song about fate should be wrought amid these conjunctions. To this day I do not know how Hereward the Wake came to be involved. Day dawns dark, it now numbers infinity... Life crawls from the past, watching in wonder I trace its patterns in me.... Tomorrow's tomorrow is birth again/ Boats burn the bridge in the fens/ The time of the past returns to my life and uses it. Don't blame me for the letters that may form in the sand; don't look in my eyes, you may see all the numbers that stretch in my sky and colour my hand... Don't say that I'm wrong in imagining that the voice of my life cannot sing! Fate enters and talks in old words: They amuse it <b>...</b>
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Van der Graaf Generator - House with No Door
Sorry for the low audio quality. From the 1970 Van der Graaf Generator's album "H to He, Who Am the Only One" Lyrics: There's a house with no door and I'm living there at nights it gets so cold and the days are hard to bear inside. There's a house with no roof, so the rain creeps in, falling through my head as I try to think out time. I don't know you, you say you know me, that may be so, there's so much that I am unsure of... You call my name, but it sounds unreal, I forget how I feel, my body's rejecting the cure. There's a house with no bell, but then nobody calls; I sometimes find it hard to tell if any are alive at all outside. There's a house with no sound; yes, it's quiet there there's not much point in words if there's no-one to share in time. I've learned my lines, I know them so well, I am ready to tell whoever will finally come in Of the line in my mind that's cold in the night, it doesn't seem right when there's that little dark figure running Won't somebody help me? There's a house with no door and there's no living there: one day it became a wall... well I didn't really care at the time. There's a house with no light, all the windows are sealed, overtaxed and strained now nothing is revealed but time I don't know you, you say you know me, that may be so, there's so much that I am unsure of... You call my name, but it sounds unreal, I forget how I feel, my body's rejecting the cure... Won't somebody help me?
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Van Der Graaf Generator-The Sleepwalkers
This is a recording of VDGG performing the track Sleepwalkers from the superlative album Godbluff. It was filmed in 2005 at the Forum in Leverkusen. Godbluff was released in 1975 following a 3-year split in which band members had gone off to pursue other projects. As such, the labum could - and should - be considered as one of the great comeback albums. Sleepwalkers was the last track on the album and is considered by many to be the weakest. I however, take completely opposite view and feel that it is the strongest track by some distance. The album was noted for the wild saxophone playing of David Jackson which lay on top of some brilliant organ work by Hugh Banton. But again and as ever with VDGG, it is Hammill that draws my attention. I find him quite mesmerising to watch and I always remain transfixed by his wordplay. As viewers will note, the song is split in the middle with a sort of Latin 'Cha Cha Cha' sequence that I cannot really explain. Possibly this is to lighten the mood of the song (and indeed the album which is quite dark and intense). Godbluff is probably the album that I would recommend if I was trying to introduce somebody to VDGG. It is accessible but thought provoking. I would also - tentatively - suggest that The Sleepwalkers is the best introduction to the album.
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Van der Graaf Generator - Every Bloody Imperor
Van der Graaf Generator - Every Bloody Imperor - From album "Present" - 2005. Recorded in Leverkusen, 2005. Peter Hammill-David Jackson-Hugh Banton-Guy Evans. Every Bloody Imperor (Present 2005) By this we are all sustained: a belief in human nature and in justice and parity...all we have is the faith to carry on. Imperceptible the change as our votes become mere gestures and our lords and masters determine to cast us in the roles of serfs and slaves in the new empire's name. Yes and every bloody emperor claims that freedom is his cause as he buffs up on his common touch as a get-out clause. Unto nations nations speak in the language of the gutter; trading primetime insults the imperial impulse extends across the screen. Truth's been beaten to its knees; the lies embed ad infinitum till their repetition becomes a dictum we're traitors to disbelieve. With what impotence we grieve for the democratic process as our glorious leaders conspire to feed us the last dregs of imperious disdain in the new empire's name. Yes and every bloody emperor's got his hands up history's skirt as he poses for posterity over the fresh-dug dirt. Yes and every bloody emperor with his sickly rictus grin talks his way out of nearly anything but the lie within because every bloody emperor thinks his right to rule divine so he'll go spinning and spinning and spinning into his own decline. Imperceptible the change as one by one our voices falter and the double standards of propaganda still all our <b>...</b>
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Afterwards [HQ sound]
Lyrics: You stare out in yellow eyes Larger than my mind In viscous pools of joy Relaxing, we glide It's all too beautiful For my mind to bear And as we shimmer into sleep Something's unshared. But, seeing the flower That was there yesterday A tear forms just behind The soft peace of your shades The world's too lonely For a message to slip But between the dying rails of peace You trip The petals that were blooming Are just paper in your hand Your eyes, which were clear in the night Are opaque as you stand It was too beautiful For it to last These visions shimmer and fade out of The glass The petals that were blooming Are just paper in your hand The petals that were blooming Are just paper in your hand The petals that were blooming Are just paper in your hand
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Van der Graaf Generator - Trisector- 4. Lifetime
Van der Graaf Generator - Trisector 2008 1. The Hurlyburly 2. Interference Patterns 3. The Final Reel 4. Lifetime 5. Drop Dead 6. Only in a Whisper 7. All That Before 8. Over the Hill 9. (We are) Not Here Lifetime I can remember it so well, the bed of roses where we lay, the crown of thorns I was so keen to give away. All the warning signs ignored, the passion's played. I could foresee what was to come, I had a sense of what might happen. The river runs and very rapidly becomes a torrent, sweeping us towards our ricochet. It takes a lifetime to unravel all the threads that have tied us in our webs of tourniquet. I stake no claim on memory. I stand on ceremonial quicksand. I look for something with solidity to hold: something lasting, something pristine, with no sense of decay. Can you remember how that was? Can you remember? It takes a lifetime's understanding of the flow to surrender, let the current sweep you away. What if I'd told you I would never let you go, I would hold you every step along the way. It takes a lifetime to unlearn all that you know to return the things you borrowed for a day.
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Meurglys III,the Songwriters Guild
Van Der Graaf Generator - Meurglys III, the Songwriter's Guild - Live @ Rosignano (LI) 29/3/2008 Sorry for the video quality, but I had to film it without using the display to avoid disturbing other spectators. Lyrics: These days I mainly just talk to plants and dogs, all human contact seems painful, risky, odd, so I stay acting god in my own universe where I trade cigarettes in return for songs. The deal's made harder the longer I go on: I find me gone from all but secret languages. If only I could phrase satisfactory words in conversation, to make my passion heard, if only.... Meurglys III, he's my friend, the only one that I can trust to let it be without pretence, there's no-one else. It's killing me, but in the end there's no-one else I know is true, there's none in all the masks of men, there's nothing else but my guitar... I suppose he'll have to do. Talking in tongues is easy when you know how, quite pleasing, but still nothing works out right. Pressurised lungs, heart bleeding, you'd better slow down and show that you can make it through the night. However dark it seems, the present is just the present, beyond it no further darkness lies concealed and through these desperate dreams, this longing for friends and comfort, you know that in the end all will be revealed. When no more plants or dogs or rooms are there to hear you, and no-one is left near you, then you'll see: in the end there's only you and Meurglys III, and this is just what you chose to be. (Fool <b>...</b>
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Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life - live Stuttgart 2007 - b-light.tv
Van der Graaf Generator ... live ... filmed by b-light.tv in Stuttgart, Theaterhaus 3.4.2007 with the song: Still Life ... ... a fantasic 2 hours performance of the genius VDGG here with the encore ...check all CD and DVD releases of this great progressive rock band and go to the upcoming VDGG 2011 tour check also an other song of this gig here on this channel ...for complete gigs of many other artists filmed by us check our website: www.b-light.tv or for older recordings from us ... the oldUndergroundLiveTV channel here
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Mirror Images
"Vital" 1978 If I'm the mirror and you're the image then what's the secret between the two, these 'me's and 'you's, how many can there be? Oh, I don't mind all that around the place, as long as you keep it well away from me. I've begun to regret that we ever met between the dimensions. It gets such a strain to pretend that the change is anything but cheap... with your infant pique and your angst pretensions sometimes you act like a creep. And now I'm standing in the corner, looking at the room and the furniture in cheap imitation of alienation and grief. And now we're going to the kitchen, fix ourselves a drink and a cigarette, getting no closer to being the joker or thief. Still, I reflect, this nervous wreck who stands before me can see as well, can surely tell that he's not yet free; he can turn aside, but can no more ignore me than know which one of us is he, than tell what we are going to be, than know which one of us is me. And now we're going to the kitchen, fix ourselves a drink and a cigarette, getting no closer to being the joker or thief. These mirror images, these mirror images won't stay, go away, are no help. In these mirror images of myself there are no secrets.
