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product_id: 39668519
title: "Quiet Zone"
brand: "van der graaf generator"
price: "€ 45.03"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 4
url: https://www.desertcart.sk/products/39668519-quiet-zone
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region: Slovakia
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# Quiet Zone

**Brand:** van der graaf generator
**Price:** € 45.03
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- **What is this?** Quiet Zone by van der graaf generator
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## Customer Reviews

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    Last great studio efforst until 2005
  

*by V***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 17, 2005*

"The Quite zone" "The Pleasure Dome" was by far the more adventurous of the post VDGG reformation of 1975three  lp's. Banton and jackson had sadly left and was replaced" by ex-bassist Nic Potter and Graham Smith of "String Driven Thing" and could not of filled the VDG ethos better. Both departures seemed to free Hammill in the writing of the lp in a sense more like a solo lp than a band effort. Not that anything at this time was short of amazing but this lp seems to stand out more for me, for some strange reason.  Side 1 "lizard Play" is true Hammill in the sense of the story that is told and "Last frame" could of been on "In camera" or "Future now" for that matter.  side 2 "the Pleasure Dome" Oviously one of the best sides in prog rock history "Wave" starts slowly but the side explodes threw "Cats Eye" "Sphinx" and "Chemical world"The band broke up after the first leg of the eruo tour to promte the lp sadly a live lp "Vital" soon followed and now in 2005 we eargly await "PRESENT'

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    Zone of Little Pleasure
  

*by T***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 31, 2000*

There's a violin player on here that sounds like a cross between L.Shankar and Stephane Grappelli instead of David Jackson on saax and winds. Hammill's voice has disappeared, when he tries to sing, it's as if he's talking, when he screams nothing comes out. Why he decided to record with his voice in this condition, I have no idea. The drums sound fantastic and overall the songs are more interesting but not necessarily better than on "Still Life." The 3 standouts are Lizard Play, Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever, and The Sphinx in the Face, but there's nothing here that even comes close to the level of the  pre-'73 Van Der Graaf Generator records. Don't say I didn't warn you.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    atypical but very good
  

*by A***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2008*

In the 2 years since I wrote this the album continues to grow on me, and I am upgrading it to 5 stars.This album is very controversial.  Some people love and some dislike it.  AMG actually lists it as their pick among all the VDGG albums.  Technically this is not VDGG but VDG.  Hugh Banton and David Jackson had left after the previous album, taking with them the trademark organ/saxophone lead instrumentation.  For this album Peter Hammill's piano and guitar move to the front, along with a violin player.  Nick Potter, a previous VDGG member is brought back on bass.  The result is a sound that is very different to any previous albums.  Another difference is a focus on shorter songs with simpler structures.  It can be argued that this really sounds more like a Peter Hammill solo album than VDGG, but it really is a one-off anomaly in his catalog.  One could say that this album, along with "Nadir's Big Chance" and "Over" are transitional works between the progressive rock of VDGG and Hammill's early albums on one hand, and his work after the breakup of VDG(G) in 1978.The album has two titles, one for each former LP side (released in 1977).  The first half has shorter and simpler songs, while the latter half has somewhat more involved songs.  The overall sound is more subdued, largely because of the instrumentation, but also because of Hammill's (relatively) more subdued singing.  The streamlined sound does allow Hammill's lyrics to stand out more, and in most cases they are of the usual high quality.The songs in the first half are all quite good, particularly "Last Frame" and "The Wave", which has become a concert staple.  "Chemical World" is one that I like a lot, with a very striking vocal and acoustic guitar intro.  "Sphinx in the Face" is pretty good, except for the falsetto chorus at the end, which irritates me (and which they unfortunately choose to bring back for a reprise at the end).  Yellow Fever / Cat's Eye (Running) is a song which Hammill seems to like a lot (he named it 3 times!), since he has released several versions - I now own 4.  I must say that I don't share his enthusiasm for it.  A review I read commented that it sounds like Hammill was trying to do an ELO song.  On this track I find the violin to be very grating, and I just don't like the song.  On other tracks the violin works very well, usually playing a role roughly analogous to what David Jackson did previously.I was initially not that impressed with this album, but I have gotten to like it a lot with repeated listenings.  As with anything, it helps to approach it without preconcepttions of what it ought to be.  If you listen to it as a VDGG album, or as a "prog-rock" album, you might not appreciate it.  If you look at it as part of the continuum of work that Hammill has done with VDGG and solo, it fits in very well.In a nutshell,it is not really representative of VDGG or Peter Hammill's solo work (it's probably closer to the latter).  Nevertheless it's a very enjoyable album which fans will want to get.

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