Van Der Graaf Generator - Anthology 1970 - 1976 (UK) 

Genre : Progressive 
Years : 1970-1976 Class Code states Vinyl : VG + / Ex
Audio Codec : FLAC 
Rip type : image +. cue   
Quality: 24/192 
bitrate:~4500-5000kbps
Length : about 4 hours 
 
1970 - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
Tracklist:
1. Darkness (11/11)
2. Refugees
3. White Hammer
4. Whatever Would Robert Have Said?
5. Out Of My Book
6. After The Flood
Charisma CAS 1007 large hatter, 1973 press

1970 - H To He Who Am The Only One
Tracklist:
1. Killer
2. House With No Door
3. The Emperor In His War Room
4. Lost
5. The Pioneers Over C
Charisma CAS 1027 large hatter, 1973 press

1971 - Pawn Hearts
Tracklist:
1. Lemmings
2. Man-Erg
3. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Charisma CAS 1051 small hatter, 1975 press

1975 - Godbluff
Tracklist:
1. The Undercover Man
2. Scorched Earth
3. Arrow
4. The Sleepwalkers
Charisma CAS 1109 small hatter, 1st press

1976 - Still Life
Tracklist
1. Piligrims
2. Still Life
3. La Rossa
4. My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)
5. Childlike Faith In Childhood's End
Charisma CAS 1116 small hatter, 1st press

1976 - World Record
Tracklist:
1. When She Comes
2. A Place To Survive
3. Masks
4. Meurglys III (The Songwriter's Guild)
5. Wondering
Charisma CAS 1120 small hatter, 1st press

Additional albums (24/96):
Audio codec: FLAC
rip type: tracks
Bitrate: ~2500-3000

1969 - The Aerosol Grey Machine
Source: Vinyl Format : 24/96 Audio Codec: FLAC. Rip Type: Tracks

2011 - A Grounding In Numbers (+ Bonus Single)
source:Vinyl Format: 24/96 Audio Codec: FLAC. Rip Type:tracks

Background information


Origin
Manchester, England 

Genres
Progressive rock 

Years active
1967ΓÇô1972, 1975ΓÇô1978, 2005ΓÇôpresent 

Labels
Mercury, Charisma, Fontana, Vertigo, Probe, Dunhill, Virgin 



Members
Peter Hammill
Hugh Banton
Guy Evans 



Past members
Chris Judge Smith
 Nick Pearne
Keith Ellis
Nic Potter
David Jackson
 Graham Smith
 Charles Dickie 


Van der Graaf Generator are an English progressive rock band, formed in 1967 in Manchester by singer-songwriter Peter Hammill and Chris Judge Smith and the first act signed by Charisma Records. They did not experience much commercial success in the UK, but became popular in Italy during the 1970s. In 2005 the band reformed, and continue to perform as of 2013.

The band formed at Manchester University, but settled in London where they signed with Charisma. They went through a number of incarnations in their early years, including a brief split in 1969. When they reformed, they found minor commercial success with The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other, and after the follow-up album, H to He, Who Am the Only One, stabilised around a line-up of Hammill, organist Hugh Banton, saxophonist David Jackson, and drummer Guy Evans. The quartet subsequently achieved significant success in Italy with the release of Pawn Hearts in 1971.

After several exhausting tours of Italy, the band split in 1972. They reformed in 1975, releasing Godbluff and frequently touring Italy again, before a major line-up change and a slight rename to Van der Graaf. The band split in 1978. After many years apart, the band finally united at a gig at the Royal Festival Hall and a short tour in 2005. Since then, the band has continued as a trio of Hammill, Banton, and Evans, who record and tour regularly in between Hammill's concurrent solo career. Their most recent album, ALT, was released in June 2012.

The group's albums have tended to be both lyrically and musically darker in atmosphere than many of their prog-rock peers (a trait they shared with King Crimson, whose guitarist Robert Fripp guested on two of their albums), and guitar solos were the exception rather than the rule, preferring to use Banton's classically influenced organ, and, until his departure, Jackson's multiple saxophones. While Hammill is the primary songwriter for the band, and its members have contributed to his solo albums, he is keen to stress that the band collectively arranges all its material. Hammill's lyrics frequently covered themes of mortality, due to his love of science fiction writers such as Robert Heinlein and Philip K Dick, along with his self-confessed warped and obsessive nature. His voice has been a distinctive component of the band throughout its career. It has been described as "a male Nico" and would later on be cited as an influence by Goth bands in the 1980s. Though the group have generally been commercially unsuccessful outside of early 1970s Italy, they have inspired several musicians, including John Lydon and Julian Cope.