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"the Genesis for the market" are we sure? Until '73, '74 they struggled to get by. The Slade made music for the market, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple made music for the market; albums like Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, etc. were thorns in the side of record companies, they didn't sell a damn thing, or they only went to Italy. The VDGG, if you want to look at it this way, had their small success right from the start.

The sound of the VDGG drums (and the drummer as well), especially on Pawn Hearts, is one of the best I've ever heard.

I wouldn't know what to take away either, but I just say that sometimes the tracks feel a bit overweight. Anyway, I wish there were more bands like VDGG, especially nowadays.

In comment 22, I mentioned that the last three are the best on the album "H to the he..."... A mistake, you can't overlook a masterpiece like Killer.

Pillar of progressive, but also of rock. I would instead say about VDGG (which, by the way, I like), that while Genesis, Yes, and King Crimson (even Gentle Giant at this point) were better at calibrating song structures and perhaps filtering their tracks a bit more to make them more fluid, VDGG are a burst of life. If you listen to them at the right moment, with their deliriums they seem like the best band in the world, but if you persistently continue, you realize that "maybe they overdo it a bit in one area, I would have perhaps removed that piece, maybe it would have been better to trim the sound a bit, etc." Here, I would like to give an example: on "H to He..." the last three songs are bricks of about 10 minutes (taking a mathematical average); for me, they are the best on the album, but I also realize that sometimes they are a bit haphazard, stitched together like patches. That's why I believe their best album is "The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other," where the tracks are structured but still more fluid (except for the last one, which is a masterpiece). So the moral is this: when it comes to significance in the progressive realm, Genesis definitely has the upper hand (but how many have been influenced by them? tell me), otherwise it comes down to personal taste. Supersoul and what do you think about "Refugees" and "Man Erg"?

Despite my vote, Battisti subsequently created even more brilliant music. Probably the only artist not to be overwhelmed and crushed by the music industry and the music business (or however you spell it): in 1980 he withdrew from the scene and dedicated himself solely to music: this would give rise to records that are still incomprehensible today.

I don't have the record, but since I know them all by heart...

I don't know the album, but the title track is terrible, unlistenable.

Here you go.

I was unaware of its existence.