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Poll Question: Which is their best studio album?
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    Posted: October 20 2018 at 02:31
In A Glass House all day, son!

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Acquiring The Taste
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Very good comment, Chaser! 

For me, The Power And The Glory manages to capture all the fire and excitement of Gentle Giant in contained short bursts.  I love every song, Cogs in Cogs and Valedictory especially.

Free Hand for me is a single perfect side
Octopus is amazing, but still seems primordial

Now, if Three Friends had been on that list, I'd have had trouble deciding, but of those...  The Power And The Glory!

Glass House is incredible, but still one degree short of perfection for me.
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So you don't have the taste for the other one?
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I voted for Free Hand but could have easily pulled the trigger for Octopus, Power & Glory or Glass House.

Those four tower above all others!!!
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The Power and The Glory
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In a Glass House is their best work and my favorite of theirs
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Free Hand is my favorite but Octopus is their masterwork imo.
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Listened to The Power and The Glory the other day, and boy was that enjoyable. Probably doesn't get enough credit in their catalogue me thinks. 
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I posted in an old Gentle Giant poll to appease any who question your methodology (though the bumped poll is missing the last three). It would be interesting to see how different the results after so much time has passed between these two polls and with the difference in options. It used to be that Octopus would almost always lead in these polls as I recall.
 

Good thinking. And about Octopus that could well be, certainly one of their better(if not best) album/s. I think it's In a Glass House myself, but a really strong case can be made for Octopus as well. 
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In a Glass House
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Toss up between Octopus and Power.

I'll go th former. 
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Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

No vote as I'm still exploring their catalog but hearing The Power And The Glory is what made me a GG fan. I couldn't believe what I was listening to.


Hearing "The Power and the Glory" first is what made me take longer to get to know them, and hearing Octopus made me think that I might just as well try them out. Then getting "Playing the Fool" as my first album almost made me discard the possibility of liking them completley... still I don't know why I decided to give them yet another chance... someone in the forum convinced me, so I tried all their first 4 albums and did like them (specially the first 2 ones I really liked a lot). For what I have heard, I'm not really interested at all in the albums after Octopus.
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Went with The Power and the Glory. 

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Acquiring the Taste is their best album for me, but Three Friends has few better songs. Not much love for the rest.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Not saying that my tastes indicate what is "best" (I assume that you mean "What is best for you?"), but the debut and Three Friends would be high on my list. That said, Acquiring the Taste has almost always got my vote as my favourite, and it did again.

I might rank the first eight while happily ignoring the other three studio albums as:

1. Acquiring the Taste
2. Three Friends
3. Gentle Giant
4. In a Glass House
5. Octopus

6. Free Hand
7. Interview
8. The Power and the Glory
My almost identical top eight also happily ignoring the other three:   

1. Acquiring the Taste
2. Three Friends
3. Gentle Giant
4. Octopus
5. The Power and the Glory (used to be at the bottom but now I consider the opening trio of tunes as peak wrong era-Gentle Giant for me)

6. Interview
7. In a Glass House
8. Free Hand
Taste is a funny thing. I plan on doing a GG refresher for some of the albums I haven't heard in a while, so this may be slightly inaccurate for me right now, but here goes: 

1. Free Hand
2. Interview
3. In a Glass House
4. The Missing Piece (oh yes I feel the contrarian power lol)
5. The Power and the Glory

From here it gets fuzzy, not necessarily a huge drop in quality  

6. Civilian (hey it's a good rock album)
7. Acquiring the Taste
8. Three Friends
9. Octopus
10. Gentle Giant
11. Giant for a Day

But I plan to find out how close this is these days for me, and possibly make some more CD purchases!  

  


Edited by irrelevant - August 22 2018 at 20:11
New album!
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385
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Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:


I feel like this is a poll several times a year?
The important questions must be brought forward often.
New album!
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Not saying that my tastes indicate what is "best" (I assume that you mean "What is best for you?"), but the debut and Three Friends would be high on my list. That said, Acquiring the Taste has almost always got my vote as my favourite, and it did again.

I might rank the first eight while happily ignoring the other three studio albums as:

1. Acquiring the Taste
2. Three Friends
3. Gentle Giant
4. In a Glass House
5. Octopus

6. Free Hand
7. Interview
8. The Power and the Glory
My almost identical top eight also happily ignoring the other three:   

1. Acquiring the Taste
2. Three Friends
3. Gentle Giant
4. Octopus
5. The Power and the Glory (used to be at the bottom but now I consider the opening trio of tunes as peak wrong era-Gentle Giant for me)

6. Interview
7. In a Glass House
8. Free Hand

 
 
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In a Glass House.

I feel like this is a poll several times a year?

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I posted in an old Gentle Giant poll to appease any who question your methodology (though the bumped poll is missing the last three). It would be interesting to see how different the results after so much time has passed between these two polls and with the difference in options. It used to be that Octopus would almost always lead in these polls as I recall.
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