Most Accessible Gentle Giant Album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Civilian, definitely, but since it's from their "commercial" period, I don't think it's in the spirit of the question.

So I'll say Free Hand. Least amount of dissonance and abstract time signatures and instrumentation; all the GG "trademarks" still present and in effect.

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From the "classic" albums: Free Hand. A good place to start. Then it's time to try Gentle Giant, Acquiring The Taste, Three Friends and Octopus in no particular order.

Personally, for me In A Glass House is not one of the most accessible albums. It's good, though!

Great band, GG, and their music really grows on you!

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In a glass house is their best and also most acessible album.

The last albums Civilian, Giant for a day are the worst in their exellent opus

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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.

Woah... got to disagree with you there. All that "haaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL!!!" stuff is accessible? And what about So Sincere? Cogs in Cogs? Bloody strange, challenging stuff I'd say.

The "title track" incidentally is not even from the album. It was recorded after the album was complete when the record company cajoled the band into writing a quick promotional single, hence it being "accessible". The album itself is up there with Acquiring the Taste and Interview in terms of weirdness though.

Their most accessible albums are Giant for a Day and Civillian, but neither of them are prog albums. The best one to start with if you want something listenable but still ostensibly Giantesque would have to be Free Hand or Three Friends.

Trouserpress wrote:

Publius wrote:

I'd say Power and the Glory. It's easy to listen to. The title track sounds like something Stevie Wonder might write.

Woah... got to disagree with you there. All that "haaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL!!!" stuff is accessible? And what about So Sincere? Cogs in Cogs? Bloody strange, challenging stuff I'd say.

The "title track" incidentally is not even from the album. It was recorded after the album was complete when the record company cajoled the band into writing a quick promotional single, hence it being "accessible". The album itself is up there with Acquiring the Taste and Interview in terms of weirdness though.Right on , brother

Their most accessible albums are Giant for a Day and Civillian, but neither of them are prog albums. The best one to start with if you want something listenable but still ostensibly Giantesque would have to be Free Hand or Three Friends.

Now that almost every single album has been thrown as the most accessible, except for the most obvious one .......

I would tend to agree at least partly with TP.

TP&TG is not accessible , neither are Octopus, ATT, IAGH and FH.

Three Friends is easily the most accessible with the debut a distant second amongst the classic album (which is generally considered until Interview) as you had asked.

The three last albums ( Missing Piece, Giant For A Day and Civilian) are more easily accessible but are not considered classic GG

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Octopus and The Missing Piece

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In a glass house (my second favorite) is the most accessible

Acquiring the taste (my favorite) is probably the less accessible

Three Friends got me into the band. It remains my favorite album by them as well. Peel the Paint is definitely one of their better songs.

I think Three friends is twice as good as Octopus. If I recommended some GG albums to someone. I'd say Power and the glory. Three friends and Civilian. Three great albums from three different eras.

i think missing piece has 3 of GG's best ever songs. Winning, As old as you're young and For nobody. Great stuff