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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2005 at 07:35
i think u should go and listen to winning and As old as you're young again ;). They are brilliant prog songs. Many GG fans will agree with that ;)
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Points: 1242 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2005 at 08:25

If Missing piece is "great stuff", and content 3 best GG songs, than you don't understand anything.

Do you thing that the fact that you are younger define also that you have to be right?

I'm not writing abut Items I dont listen and feel
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Points: 1242 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2005 at 08:32

Originally posted by gentletull gentletull wrote:

i think u should go and listen to winning and As old as you're young again ;). They are brilliant prog songs. Many GG fans will agree with that ;)

You have the amazing talent to pick the worst albums from any band you are talking about (Jethro tull, Gentle giant, King Crimson), and fight to death for your statement.

How do you manage this?

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Points: 3064 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2005 at 17:10

IN A GLASS HOUSE.
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I disagree!

I think IAGH is their strangest, hardest-to-get-into album (besides Interview maybe). It also happens to be one of my favorites.

Most accessible is Three Friends IMO, especially for a fan of symphonic prog as this is the closest they ever came to that sub-genre.
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Points: 259 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2005 at 19:41

Originally posted by zabriskiepoint zabriskiepoint wrote:

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.

That says all about the greatness of this band, specially because YOU don't like them but on the other hand also thing that they are extremely good.

Well, their most accessible album is without a doubt their debut, at least to my ears.

"All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2005 at 21:21
What makes Missing piece any weaker than Interview? If you take out Mountain time and Betcha thought we couldn't do it. The rest of the album is very good. Interview is more consistent with the songs quality, but I think Missing piece has the biggest highlights and lowlights. I rank both albums equally ;). Anyway I think Power and the glory is their greatest album, then 3 friends, free hand, In a glass house and Civilian. I actually prefer Missing Piece to Octopus.
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 24 2005 at 16:12
Originally posted by gentletull gentletull wrote:

What makes Missing piece any weaker than Interview? If you take out Mountain time and Betcha thought we couldn't do it. The rest of the album is very good. Interview is more consistent with the songs quality, but I think Missing piece has the biggest highlights and lowlights. I rank both albums equally ;). Anyway I think Power and the glory is their greatest album, then 3 friends, free hand, In a glass house and Civilian. I actually prefer Missing Piece to Octopus.


I wouldn't go that far meself. TMP also has the godawful ballad "I'm Turning Around" which has NO PLACE on a GG album. Interview, on the other hand has nary a dull moment and the orgasmic delights of Design, Another Show, I Lost My Head and the storming title track are far better than the likes of "Two Weeks in Spain" or "For Nobody", you must admit?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 24 2005 at 16:46
2 weeks in spain is a cool song. I'm turning around isn't bad at all. I think design is a bit overrated, the song gets lost in places

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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 24 2005 at 18:31
Originally posted by gentletull gentletull wrote:

I'm turning around isn't bad at all.


If GG were a pop band this may be correct. They are, however, a progressive rock band. Progressive rock bands should not play pop ballads.
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They should play prog ballads, of course" Look at Starless or, more ballady still, Soft Machine's A Certain Kind Pure beauty
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Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

They should play prog ballads, of course" Look at Starless or, more ballady still, Soft Machine's A Certain Kind Pure beauty


Oh by all means! I'm Turning Around, however, is as progressive as my left buttock.
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I'd say Octopus and Free Hand are the most accessible.
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Originally posted by Ben2112 Ben2112 wrote:

Originally posted by ANDREW ANDREW wrote:

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I disagree!

I think IAGH is their strangest, hardest-to-get-into album (besides Interview maybe). It also happens to be one of my favorites.

Most accessible is Three Friends IMO, especially for a fan of symphonic prog as this is the closest they ever came to that sub-genre.

Maybe you're right.

THREE FRIENDS is their most accessible work.

This album was placed fifth in ITALY in the seventies.
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