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Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Vallenato, Vaporwave, Vegan straight edge, Venezuelan rock, Viking metal, Vispop, Volksmusik – a vehicle to view your vibrant videos, varied vocalisations, venerated visuals, vaunted volumes of verse

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Another voyage into the vaults as this vacuous yet vaguely vivacious vanity project veers towards its vestigial verges.
I’d value vital versions from voluble veterans as well as virginal visitors


Diego Velázquez – Arctic Monkeys: One for the Road

Lets get things started with something obvious:
Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs

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  1. I used to think Van the Man was in the Velvets. My favourite of his would be ‘When Heart is Open’, but his is a good one for showing off his vocal stylings:
    Van Morrison – Vanlose Stairway

  6. V is, of course, for VAFFANCULO. Which, should you ever venture to Italy for your hols, means “certainly” in that there Eyetalian. As in “Could you spare some change, please?” “Vaffanculo.”

    • That title: “H to He” in the title refers to the fusion of hydrogen nuclei to form helium nuclei, a basic exothermic reaction between the sun and stars.

      But yeah, VDGG have never been high on my list of prog faves.

      Sleeve artist Paul Whitehead also did covers for other Charisma artists, including Genesis and Lindisfarne.

    • In one of my rare brushes with stardom I played in a band with Guy Evans, VDGG drummer, so I faithfully bought all their early releases until I lost touch with him and no longer feared having to admit that I didn’t think much of them. I last played with him at a mutual friend’s birthday party about 10 years ago, when he turned up with the most amazing little fold-up drum kit.

      This is abut the only track that’s stuck in my head – I even bought the single.

  41. Kinks- Village Green Preservation Society

    Released on the same day as The White Album, and a fortnight before Beggars Banquet – that may explain why it bombed on release

  48. There’s nothing like a bit of baroque lute, is there?
    Let’s bring on the maestro – Jozef Van Wissem, who’s worked a lot with top director chappie Jim Jarmusch.

  49. Have we really come this far without Suzanne Vega?

    Here she is with Afterword favourite Richard Thompson on guitar.

    “We strangers see each other now as part of the same design”

  66. Delightful oddball Tomas Di Leva with “Vi Har Bara Varandra”, an invitation to aliens to land and a song that contains the lines: “Everything can be inside the egg, the apple is not forbidden”… Indeed.

    One of his best. I’ve seen him countless times around Stockholm, but it’s definitely easier to spot celebrities when they dress in colourful embroidered caftans!

  76. Stretching it a little – as an ex choirboy can I post something by Charles (V for) Villiers Stanford? His Magnificat in G is beautiful but I’ve always preferred the setting in C.

  84. Victor Feldman, 1934-1987. Drummer, pianist and vibraphonist.
    Born in Edgware, North London. A child prodigy on drums, known as “Kid Krupa”, he worked for a while with Ronnie Scott in the UK before emigrating to the USA at Scott’s suggestion to further his musical ambitions.
    Composed the title track and played on Miles Davis’ album “Seven Steps To Heaven”.
    Frequently recorded as a session player with Steely Dan and many other rock bands.
    A very talented chap.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f93_AkjzNhE

  85. Victor Jara; 28 September 1932 – 15 September 1973
    A Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist, tortured under interrogation and subsequently murdered shortly after the Chilean military coup of 11 September 1973, led by General Augusto Pinochet.

  88. Wot?
    No Vivian Stanshall yet?
    I must forthwith correct this shocking oversight.

    The Bonzo Dog Band – Rawlinson End

    Fine piano accompaniment courtesy of Neil Innes.

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