Search - Van Der Graaf Generator :: Present

Love this band but not this record

Speedy | Fl, MO USA | 10/20/2005

(2 out of 5 stars)

"i did not like this work for a number of reasons. The first thing i hated was the sound. Too much echo or reverb. Unlike past albums were the sound was up-close and warm. The other thing i noticed was the poor attention to structure of songs. Most of these songs sound like rock improvisations . Obviously some were taken and worked into more structured songs but they all have this 'jam' feeling to them.

Also the aproach is more in the late Hammill compositional style than what we've come to know as the VDGG style.

Of course this is my opinion but if you compare this to any of the best works from the past you will know what i am talking about."

This disc is copy protected!!

K. Orrson | Columbia, MD United States | 11/13/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Van Der Graaf Generator's Present advertised as

[ENHANCED] [IMPORT]on Amazon from EMI is copy

protected, and I could not see any enhanced content

but then looking at the disc in explorer is somehow

disabled.



I bought this 2CD set in the this summer when it was released

and only played it on CD machines and not through my computer. Well out of curiosity because of all the press about Sony's CDs protected by rootkits I put one disc it in my computer.



Up popped a message that you need to install something to

play the CD. I instantly exited out of the Yes/NO

install box and yanked the offending disc out of my

computer. I did not even give the disc time to

respond to the Yes/no box.





Well I immediately tested burning a DATA disc and my

16X NEC burner had become a 1X wonder!!!!

Luckily I did a system rollback to the previous day

and all seems Ok but Beware!



Hey I bought ALL VDGG releases and was thinking of

rebuying all the remasters. I now am having second

thoughts. While I respect their rights, to

inconvience a customer is just totally unacceptable.

If I ever see another disc so marked....or mismarked

like at Amazon I will return it unopened!!



So be careful out there!"