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Alagithil 
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 17:19 |
Well, out of their classics, which one of these boys' efforts is easiest to get into? Most melody? Least dissonance? Fewest loads of dead seagulls being catapulted? You make the call!!!
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Life is like an avantgarde play because tuna.
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horza
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 17:20 |
Octopus for me 
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Originally posted by darkshade:
Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Joren
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 17:23 |
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From the classics? Easy! Their debut!
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zabriskiepoint
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 17:38 |
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I find Gentle Giant extremely abstract, and i just can't get a hold of the idea of each song, I , at least right now, don't like them at all, though I think they are extremely good.
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chopper
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 17:50 |
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I'm new to GG and I've got quite a few of their albums, but so far I
would agree with horza - Octopus is the one I've really got into first.
Dead seagulls?
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Publius
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 18:05 |
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I'd say Power and the Glory. It's easy to listen to. The title track sounds like something Stevie Wonder might write.
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I'm so prog, I clap in 9/8
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Gentle Tull
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 18:11 |
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Free Hand, its the one I started with.
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Korova
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 19:20 |
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I think that Octopus would the best one to start with because is the
most representative of their sound. Anyway the debut album is
accessible too for a beginner to GG music.
I personally was introduced with In a Glass House
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La Speranza della coscienza è forza
La Speranza del sentimento è schiavitù
La Speranza del corpo è malattia
(G.I. Gurdjieff)
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Bj-1
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 19:24 |
In a Glass House and Free Hand, IMO
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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The Miracle
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 19:33 |
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I think Octopus. I got into it much faster than the others.
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dalt99
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 20:07 |
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Octopus. Though I've only heard that one, Three Friends and Acquiring the Taste. AtT is not as easy as the other two.
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Best of 2006 that I've heard:
PFM-Stati Di Immaginazione
Zenit-Surrender (Best "unknown" album)
Oaksenham - Conquest of Pacific
2007:
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
La Torre Del Alchimista - Neo
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Trotsky
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 20:55 |
Definitely the first one ... stuff like Why Not, Isn't It Quite And Cold, Funny Ways and even Nothing At All are all very good, yet relatively accessible GG songs ...
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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greenback
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Posted: November 14 2005 at 23:31 |
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civilian
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[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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NetsNJFan
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Posted: November 15 2005 at 00:11 |
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Free Hand of the classic stuff
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Pafnutij
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Posted: November 15 2005 at 00:24 |
Their first, though frankly, I dont like GG that much either.
And I cant see how Octopus is accesible. Their best maybe, but do you expect people to appreciate stuff like "Knots" on the first listen?
Edited by Pafnutij
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dima_olkov
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Posted: November 15 2005 at 01:12 |
I never understood why everybody loves Octopus and In The Glass House that much!!! I've always thought that their first THREE ALBUMS are much better than the rest...
Debut album is one of their best and the most accessible!
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PF, Genesis, KC, Yes, VdGG, GG, Camel, Jethro Tull
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OT Räihälä
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Posted: November 15 2005 at 01:55 |
IMO Three Friends should be quite accessible, and the debut as the close second.
The least accessible for a prog lover were The Missing Piece and Giant For A Day (Haven't heard Civilian).
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richardh
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Posted: November 15 2005 at 02:47 |
The Power And The Glory.I'm not a great GG fan but I love that album so that must count for something.I can't believe that anyone thinks In A Glass House is accessible 
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SlipperFink
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Posted: November 15 2005 at 02:53 |
 greenback wrote:
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Indeed.
And a great rock record to boot.
SM.
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robertplantowns
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Posted: November 15 2005 at 03:16 |
I'll third that. Civilian is the most poppy, least abstract and most straightforward and melodic Gentle Giant album, although it might not be considered as one of their "classic" albums. (although I think it is) Of course that's the easiest to get into if you like that sort of thing, but for a hardened prog listener, I would say that Octopus is the easiest to get into because lots of people wouldn't get into Civilian at all.
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