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Van der Graaf Generator
Released 1976

My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)
08:02
86 plays

Pilgrims
07:12
182 plays

Still Life
07:24
146 plays

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- 1
- Pilgrims
- 07:12
- 182 plays

- 2
- Still Life
- 07:24
- 146 plays

- 3
- La Rossa
- 09:52
- 131 plays

- 4
- My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)
- 08:02
- 86 plays

- 5
- Childlike Faith in Childhood's End
- 12:24
- 117 plays

album review

VDGG's second step on the mid-'70s comeback trail saw Peter Hammill attempting to meld the introspective and the cosmic throughout, though this did not stop him from taking a dead run at a grandiose concept or two -- the consequences of immortality on the title track, and the grand fate of humanity on the epic "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End." The theme of humane cooperation informs the opening "Pilgrims," while "La Rossa" is an epic tale of desire fulfilled (a story that would be concluded on Hammill's solo album, Over). The true highlight, however, is the beautiful, pensive "My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)," with its echoes of imagination and loss. Hammill did not achieve such a level of painful beauty again until "This Side of the Looking Glass" on Over. ~ Steven McDonald, All Music Guide