Here is a request to all Van der Graaf Generator/ Progressive Rock Enthusiasts. Let's vote for favourites. The results can bring a surprise. Or maybe not. Just fill out the information below to be entered into the vote.

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Favourite Van der Graaf Generator original album:

select in this list The Aerosol Grey Machine (1969) The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (1970) H To He Who Am The Only One (1970) Pawn Hearts (1971) Godbluff (1975) Still Life (1976) World Record (1976) The Quite Zone / The Pleasure Dome (1977) Vital (1978) Time Vaults (1985) Maida Vala (1994)

Favourite Peter Hammill album:

select in this list Fool's Mate (1971) Chameleon in the Shadow of Night (1973) The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974) In Camera (1974) Nadir's Big Chance (1975) Over (1977) The Future Now (1978) pH7 (1979) A Black Box (1980) Sitting Targets (1981) Enter K (1982) Patience (1983) Loops and Reels (1983) The Margin (1985) Skin (1986) And Close As This (1986) Spur of the Moment (1988) In a Foreign Town (1988) Room Temperature Live (1990) Out of Water (1990) The Fall of the House of Usher (1991/1999) Fireships (1992) The Noise (1993) There Goes the Daylight (1993) Roaring Forties (1994) The Peel Sessions (1995) X My Heart (1996) Tides (1996) Sonix (1996) Everyone You Hold (1997) This (1998) Typical (1999) The Appointed Hour (1999) None of Above (2000)

Favourite other progressive rock artist or band:

select in this list Abraxas After Crying Akasha Alphataurus Alusa Fallax Amazing Blondel Amon Duul II Jon Anderson Anabis Ange Anekdoten Anyone's Daughter Asgard Änglagård Apogee Area Art Bears The Art of Noise Arti e Mistieri Art Zoyd Art Bears Ash Ra Temple Asia Minor Asturias Atoll Audience, The Kevin Ayers Bacamarte Balletto di Bronze Banco del Mutuo Soccorso Barclay James Harvest Jeff Beck Bi Kyo Ran Birth Control Bloque Blue Chip Orchestra Bonfire Camel Campo Di Marte Can Los Canarios Caravan Carpe Diem Celeste Cluster Collage Comus Cro-Magnon Crucis Curved Air Dead Can Dance Delirium Devil Doll Dice Deus ex Machina Deuter Devil Doll Druid East Eden Eela Craig Emerson, Lake & Palmer Egg Eloy The Enid Brian Eno Epidaurus Epidermis Et Cetera Family Faust Fermata Finisterre The Flower Kings Focus Robert Fripp Fruupp Fusioon Peter Gabriel Galadriel Gandalf Genesis Gentle Giant Gerard Gnidrolog Goblin Gong Gracious Greenslade Grobschnitt Gryphon Guru Guru Claire Hamill Steve Hackett Halloween Happy the Man Annie Haslam Harmonia Harmonium Hatfield & the North Hedningarna Heldon Henry Cow Hinn Islenski Pursaflokkur Hoelderlin Horslips Illusion Il Trono dei Ricordi In the Nursery The Incredible String Band Iona IQ Island Isuldurs Bane Jade Warrior Jethro Tull Kenso King Crimson Kraftwerk Landmark Latte e Miele Rodrigo Leão La Locanda delle Fatte Magma Magna Carta Mahavishnu Orchestra Manfred Mann's Earth Band Marillion Maxophone Wim Mertens Metamorfosi Mezquita Miriodor Montefeltro Mugen Museo Rosembach National Health Nektar Neu Nice, The New Trolls Novalis Mike Oldfield Le Orme Opus Avantra Osanna Outer Limits Ozric Tentacles Pär Lindh Project Pell Mell Penguin Cafe Orchestra Pentacle Anthony Philips Pink Floyd Pollen Popol Vuh Porcupine Tree Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) Procol Harum Pulsar Quella Vecchia Locanda Quidam Renaissance Steve Roach Il Rovescio della Medaglia Ruphus Terje Rypdal Saint Just Samla Mammas Manna Daniel Schell Klaus Schulze Sebastian Hardie Sinkadus Sky Sky Soft Machine Solaris Solstice Spock's Beard Spring St. Tropez Stackridge Starcastle Stoa String Driven Thing David Sylvian Tangerine Dream Tantra Tasavallan Presidentti Terpandre This Mortal Coil Tiemko Tomita Towscream Traffic Triumvirat U.K. Univers Zero Vangelis Andreas Vollenweider Rick Wakeman Wallenstein Wapassou Robert Wyatt Wigwam Wolf Yes Yezda Urfa You and I Frank Zappa Hector Zazou Zoviet France Other. Please specify in the suggestions box

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Poll Results   Favourite Van der Graaf Generator original album Pawn Hearts (1971) - 229 points Still Life (1976) - 150 points Godbluff (1975) - 92 points H to He. Who I Am... (1970) - 77 points The Least We Can Do... (1969) - 56 points World Record (1976) - 28 points The Quite Zone... (1977) - 15 points Vital (1978) - 14 points The Aerosol Grey Machine (1969) - 13 points Maida Vale (1994) - 1 points Time Vaults (1985) - 1 points   Favourite Peter Hammill album The Silent Corner... (1974) - 148 points Over (1977) - 79 points In Camera (1974) - 76 points Fool's Mate (1972) - 63 points Chameleon in the Shadow of Night (1973) - 60 points A Black Box (1980) - 29 points Fireships (1992) - 28 points Everyone You Hold (1997) - 28 points Nadir's Big Chance (1975) - 25 points pH7 (1979) - 21 points The Future Now (1978) - 21 points Sitting Targets (1981) - 13 points Roaring Forties (1994) - 10 points Typical (1999) - 9 points Patience (1983) - 8 points X My Heart (1996) - 7 points And Close As This (1986)- 7 points This (1998) - 6 points Enter K (1982) - 6 points Skin (1986) - 6 points The Fall of the House of Usher (1991) - 5 points The Peel Sessions (1995) - 5 points In a Foreign Town (1988) - 3 points The Margin (1985) - 3 points Room Temperature Live (1990) - 2 points Loops and Reels (1983) - 1 point Out of Water (1990) - 1 point   Favourite other progressive rock artist or band King Crimson - 114 points Genesis - 58 points Gentle Giant - 56 points Yes - 33 points Pink Floyd - 32 points Pär Lindh - 25 points Frank Zappa - 21 points Jethro Tull - 20 points Gryphon - 20 points Peter Gabriel - 16 points Premiata Forneria Marconi - 14 points Emerson; Lake and Palmer - 10 points Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - 10 points Änglagård - 8 points Brian Eno - 8 points After Crying - 7 points Univers Zero - 7 points Dead Can Dance - 7 points Magma - 8 points Amon Düul II - 7 points Marillion - 7 points Robert Wyatt - 7 points The Flower Kings - 7 points Can - 7 points Curved Air - 6 points Renaissance - 6 points Robert Fripp - 6 points Henry Cow - 6 points Gong - 6 points Anekdoten - 6 points Mahavishnu Orchestra - 5 points Camel - 5 points Mike Oldfield - 5 points Rush - 5 points Area - 5 points Le Orme - 4 points Wigwam- 4 points Art Bears - 4 points David Sylvian - 4 points Kraftwerk - 4 points Soft Machine - 4 points Isuldurs Bane - 3 points The Incredible String Band - 3 points Hatfield and the North - 3 points Porcupine Tree - 3 points Legendary Pink Dots - 3 points Eloy - 3 points Museo Rosembach - 2 points Popol Vuh - 2 points U.K. - 2 points Devil Doll - 2 points Focus - 2 points Traffic - 2 points Spock's Beard - 2 points Art of the Noise - 2 points Faust - 2 point Art Zoyd - 2 points Fruupp - 2 points Klaus Schulze - 2 points IQ - 2 points Tangerine Dream - 2 points Ange - 1 point Steve Hackett - 1 point Nick Cave - 1 point Penguin Cafe Orchestra - 1 point Hedningarna - 1 point Willy The Fox - 1 point Egg - 1 point Kenso - 1 point Wim Mertens - 1 point Pulsar - 1 point Spooky Tooth - 1 point Finneus Gauge - 1 point Tasavallan Presidentti - 1 point Family - 1 point Il Rovescio della Medaglia - 1 point Iona - 1 point Daniel Schell & Karo - 1 point The Enid - 1 point Shylock - 1 point Harmonium - 1 point Fish - 1 point Greenslade - 1 point Nektar - 1 point May Blitz - 1 point Guru Guru - 1 point Pere Ubu - 1 point Todd Rundgren - 1 point Evidence - 1 point Foetus - 1 point Dezo Ursiny - 1 point The Audience - 1 point Klimperei - 1 point Horslips - 1 point Cardiacs - 1 point XTC - 1 point String Friven Thing - 1 point Motorpsycho - 1 point Lands End - 1 point (Updated on June 4th, 2000, after 676 votes)