Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer download song

Among the top prog rock songs yes a killer of a band.

Van Der Graaf Generator was a great metal band with no electric guitar player.

This was a band that was always spectacular...the concise and thunderous Guy Evans' drums, the energy, arrangements, performance, the maniacal David Jackson saxes...inspired perhaps by Roland Kirk. Jackson often played dual saxes simultaneously. Must be seen to be believed. There is guitar but VGG was not guitar-led. Peter Hammill, like Tom Waits, wrote, sang and performed his musical genius pieces like no one else in progressive rock. Even the master prog guitar player Robert Fripp of King Crimson played with this band more than once and Hammill appeared on Fripp's solo albums. Van der Graf Generator is one of the most impressive group of musicians in the world -- live as well. It's all there in the music. They are also credited with the birth of the new era punk: in 1974 Peter Hammill recorded a solo album with Van der Graf musicians -- "Nadirs Big Chance." Johnny Rotten had said he listened to this album a lot before he formed The Sex Pistols. This was a genius band...they still are. There is no rap band in this world that could compete with this musicianship and intensity. VGG has been playing and recording since 1967! Check also: Mr X and Faculty X by Peter Hammill & Van der Graaf for something compelling.

Guy Evans is definitely one of the most under rated drummers.

I was just surfing in the net to make some more research about my physics project of building a high voltage van der graaf generator and found this song...kinda strange

How can a band this quality be mostly unknown outside Prog scene? Most underrated band of 20th century!

Stunning band...This track is an absolute masterpiece...One of many by them

Best Progressive Rock singer. And what a talented composer. Peter Hammill rules!

dislike on a song like this? you must be joking, ha! grow up and learn to dig for such a diamonds from the past! thanks for uploading.

One of the ten greatest rock songs of all time.

The most ignored and underrated prog band of all time. An absolute powerhouse of talent!

Hugh Banton is one of the most underrated keyboardists in modern music...Hard to understand why

my second favorite VDGG song after "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers"

So you live in the bottom of the sea, And you kill all that come near you But you are very lonely, because all the other fish Fear you And you crave companionship and someone to call your own; Because for the whole of your life You've been living alone. On a black day in black month At the black bottom of the sea, Your mother gave birth to you and died Immediately 'Cause you can't have two killers living In the same pad And when your mother knew that her time had come She was really rather glad. Death in the sea, death in the sea, Somebody please come and help me, Come and help me Fishes can't fly, fishes can't fly, Fishes can't and neither can I, neither can I Now I'm really rather like you, For I've killed all the love I ever had By not doing all I ought to and by leaving My mind coming bad. And I too am a killer, For emotion runs as deep as flesh And I too am so lonely, and I wish that I could forget We need love, We need love, We need love

this is the song that kicked me into a different level of ecstatic appreciation of music when I first heard it and still does. Calling this masterpiece a song doesn't quite cut it somehow. A transcendent work of art is more like it.

A killer song !!!. Along with King Crimson the best Prog.Rock Band ever !!!

I love that song, like all that is sang by Peter Hammill. He pushes me to let my tears flow.

This made the hair on my neck prickle the first time I heard it. "So this is where that Roger Waters-era Floyd thing came from" I thought. The way Hamill spits his words out with perfect venom... ...'cause all the other fish FEAAAAAAR YOU-OU-OUOU-OU!" It's no surprise that John Lydon had always been a big fan.

43 years after having listened to this song for the first time ,it's still the same incredible shock ! Definitely Progressive Rock has been one the best period of Rock ever. And VDGG stands with Yes, Jethro Tull, Caravan , Gentle Giant , on the top !