The Box

by Van der Graaf Generator

The Box cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 13 November 2000
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 4:43:22
  • Community rating: 4.05/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Graham Smith, Judge Smith, Hugh Banton, Paul Ridout, Keith Ellis, Peter Hammill, Paul Russell, Robin Schwartz, Armando Gallo, Dinu Laz膬r, Chas Dickie, John Anthony, Nic Potter, George Martin, Gordian Troeller, Guy Evans

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Four-disc box set spanning the band's Charisma and Virgin catalogue from 1970 to 1980, mixing album tracks with BBC sessions and live material. It was the first comprehensive retrospective of the group's work.

Genres

Descriptors: compilation, progressive, saxophone, archival, long-form

Tracklist

  1. People You Were Going To (live) (3:32)
  2. Afterwards (live) (4:45)
  3. Necromancer (live) (4:11)
  4. Refugees (live) (6:19)
  5. Darkness (11/11) (live) (6:52)
  6. After the Flood (live) (10:59)
  7. White Hammer (8:16)
  8. House With No Door (6:33)
  9. Killer (8:20)
  10. Lost (11:09)
  11. Theme 1 (live) (3:01)
  12. W (4:28)
  13. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers (23:06)
  14. (In the) Black Room/The Tower (live) (11:47)
  15. Lemmings (live) (16:42)
  16. Man-Erg (live) (11:09)
  17. La Rossa (9:51)
  18. Arrow (edit) (8:53)
  19. Still Life (7:26)
  20. My Room (edit) (7:29)
  21. Sleepwalkers (10:26)
  22. Pilgrims (7:11)
  23. Childlike Faith in Childhood's End (12:25)
  24. Scorched Earth (live) (10:13)
  25. Masks (7:00)
  26. Meurglys III (edit) (16:47)
  27. When She Comes (8:02)
  28. Wondering (6:42)
  29. The Wave (3:15)
  30. Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever (live) (4:49)
  31. Chemical World (6:14)
  32. Door (3:26)
  33. Sci-Finance (live) (6:16)
  34. The Sphinx in the Face (live) (5:33)

Credits

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