I gotta give at least rudimentary props to a band Jello Biafra refers to as "the most violent band in the world," even beyond inventing a language to sing in. I'll generally give a platter a few spins to try to digest it, and if it's too dense I quite. Many Magmas are on that inaccessible side of the knife edge but others like Üdü Ẁüdü focused in. Yeah, weird as af band.
Gong, I arrived from the other direction, starting with their most fully-formed psychedic opus "You" (got it on 8-track from that one warehouse on Harlem Rd... think it was 10 cents). Being an essential, top-tier prog album of the ages is a thing; Daevid Allen reined in his goofballness and Gilli's cringe to embrace the tourniquet tightness of the band and especially Moerlen and Howlett, not to minimize Hillage and Malherbe with some crushing riff interludes, particularly side 2 (once I got the platter). It was like Hawkwind with something other than 4/4 rhythm and guys who weren't so tripping that they could actually play at the absolute highest level. That album I'll always have fond memories of being out in the fields with the 8-track blasting from the car, climbing trees and picking cherries (no metaphor, that actually happened).
Edit: Continuing the story because I'm as drunk as bored. @DrW just skip to 33:20
I came to learn this was third of a trilogy, and the next I was to acquire was the first - Radio Gnome Invisible. I was... taken aback by how absolutely freakin' weird it was, yet somehow captivated. Years went by and I saw at some obscure store (probably Home Of The Hits) Angel's Egg. The missing piece, the holy grail. And in my recollection it did NOT disappoint. It was the most agressive and grabby in my view. Although these guys were still freakin mutants.
(is it normal to not blink for that long?)
A weird progression to be sure, and with the curse of way too much listened to, the Gong trilogy seems to track most closely (IMO) with the Foxx Ultravox epoch going from most accessible, to most aggressive, to most accomplished.