Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts

Pawn Hearts is an album by the British progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. It was released in 1971. It is hailed as one of the masterpieces of progressive rock by many fans of the genre. The music is complex and non-standard. The album held number 1 in Italy for 12 weeks in 1972.As ambitious as it is, Pawn Hearts was originally conceived as a double album somewhat along the lines of Pink Floyd's album Ummagumma. The first half of this concept was the album as it came to be released, but the second half was to be divided between personal projects and live versions of older Van der Graaf Generator songs.When the Van der Graaf Generator catalog was remastered for reissue in 2005, several of tracks from the missing half of the album were found and added as bonus tracks. A live, in-studio version of "Squid / Octopus" was added to the H to He, Who Am the Only One reissue, while the Pawn Hearts reissue contains three of the bandmembers' personal projects, "Angle of Incidents", "Ponker's Theme," and "Diminutions."

Hugh Banton – Hammond and Farfisa organs, piano, mellotron, ARP synthesizer, bass pedals, bass guitar, vocals
Guy Evans – Drums, tympani, percussion, piano
Peter Hammill – Lead vocals, acoustic and slide guitar, electric piano, piano
David Jackson – Alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones, flute, and vocals
Robert Fripp – Electric guitar

1 - ''Lemmings (Including Cog)" – 11:37
2 - "Man-Erg" – 10:20
3 - "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" – 23:04, including:
"Eyewitness"
"Pictures/Lighthouse" (Hammill/Hugh Banton)
"Eyewitness"
"S.H.M."
''Presence of the Night"
"Kosmos Tours" (Guy Evans)
"(Custard's) Last Stand"
"The Clot Thickens" (Hammill/Banton/Evans/David Jackson)
"Land's End (Sineline)"
"We Go Now" (Jackson/Banton)

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