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• I have all the original Gong vinyls, it is so hard say which one is my favourite, I would say at least the first 5 should be a masterpieces for any music's enthusiast.
  They were so imaginatives!!
  Listening to Gong's music it were such a weird trip in a new fantastic world.

  You Can't Kill Me
  Susanna

  Posted by Susanna at 4:53 PM GMT 23/08/2006 Report Abuse

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• Oh I love this month's how to buy! I'll agree with the above, but I'll do a blow by blow descriptive in order of my top three preference:

  Camembert Electrique takes top honors as my most favorite space jam epic, to be filed somewhere near In Search Of Space Hawkwind and the first two Soft Machine LPs. Odd balance of repeato riff space whisper anthems and jazzy breakdowns breaking free of the satellite, all held together with an irresistable indescribable joie de vivre. This is the angel's egg all the modern space jammer mothers of the acid temple are born out of. The zenith of pothead pixiedom.

  Magick Brother, Mystic Sister is their acid folk debut, with a more stripped down feel and an emphasis on songwriting. It features my favorite tune of theirs; Glad To Sad To Say, a punk-primative page torn out out the Syd Barret songbook delivered with a loosely early Rough Trade DIY attitude, albeit with requisite space whispering. Quite necessarily stoned, but beautiful.

  Continental Circus is more of the same riff pouding as Camembert, minus a bit of the jazzy element. A few extended anthemic tracks cut as a soundtrack to a biker film (anyone ever seen it?) which I rate just below the above as it seems more like an o.s.t. and less like an actual album. What it lacks in conceptual fullness it more than makes up with pure rocking fury. Their most hammer down pedal to the metal driving moment.

  
  What followed is the Radio Gnome trilogy. Does anyone really want to seperate them? I like them, and they tend to be everyone's favorites, but the above three are the pinnacles in my book.

  Posted by Scorpiomoon at 9:07 AM GMT 29/08/2006 Report Abuse

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• The world og Gong, what a wonderful world... or should we say the world of Daevid?..surrounded by friends... This is my 10 picks to enter and make the trip of your life...
  1. Angels Egg-Gong
  2. Good Morning-Daevid Allen
  3. Flying Teapot- Gong
  4. You-Gong
  5. Gong est Mort- Gong
  6. Obsololete- Dashiell Hedayat
  7. Now is the Happiest Time of your Life- David Allen
  8. Camembert Electrique- Gong
  9. About Time-New York Gong
  10. Ugly Music 4 Monica- University of Errors

  Posted by Hans-Peter Thorsen at 6:10 PM GMT 03/09/2006 Report Abuse

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• With a couple of exceptions my favourite Gong releases would all include the followings involvement.....

  Allen, Smyth, Malherbe, Hillage, Moerlen, Blake, Howlett, so for me in order off favouritism it would have to be...

  1. You - The perfect coalesence of everything Gong.
  2. Camembert Electrique - Top notch acid spiked spacerock.
  3. The Flying Teapot - A masterclass in creative conceptuality.
  4. Live, etc - Jaw droppingly great, who needs a studio ?
  5. Angels Egg - My introduction to the world of the PHP's and I haven't left since

  + Dunno if this counts but Planet Gong ( Daevid, Gilli, Here & Now Band) - Live Floatin' Anarchy '77 is another favourite. Mama Maya Mantrum particularly.

  Finally a big shout for the sadly departed Pip Pyle and Pierre Moerlen with vibes to their family and friends.

  Posted by Mark B at 7:39 PM GMT 06/09/2006 Report Abuse

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• The Radio Gnome Trilogy is an extraordinary extraterrestrial adventure...the trip begins with the first note of Flying Teapot and doesn't end until the last groove of You. Have a cup of tea - and breathe in the colour.

  Posted by Rockybar Dan at 1:56 AM GMT 13/09/2006 Report Abuse

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• This is tough. I absolutely adore everything I have heard from Gong, but my favorite is Cambert Electrique. There is something about the punk energy and manic freaks gone out of control in the studio trippyness. 'Foghats dig holes in space' and 'You can't kill me' always end up on my mix tapes.

  You is also genius, where the punk factor was somewhat replaced by a jazzier more technical edege. But in no way did the music lose it's spirit, it just got more complex.

  Long Live Daevid Allen!

  Posted by Michael Crown at 2:22 AM GMT 14/09/2006 Report Abuse

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