Album · 1971
Pawn Hearts
Pawn Hearts is an album by Van der Graaf Generator, released in 1971, with 8 tracks.
- 8
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- 66 min
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Album · 1971
Pawn Hearts is an album by Van der Graaf Generator, released in 1971, with 8 tracks.
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8 tracks · 66 min
Pawn Hearts is the fourth album by English progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator, released in October 1971. The album reached number one on the Italian album charts. 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-in-studio versions of older Van der Graaf Generator songs like "Killer" and "Octopus". When the Van der Graaf Generator catalog was remastered for reissue in 2005, several of the 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 band members' personal projects, "Angle of Incidents", "Ponker's Theme", and "Diminutions". The title of the album resulted from a slip of the tongue by Jackson, who said one time: "I'll go down to the studio and dub on some more porn hearts", of course meaning to say 'horn parts'. Robert Fripp plays electric guitar on "Man-Erg" [5:55-7:10] and "A Plag…
