Giles, Giles & Fripp
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Topic: Giles, Giles & Fripp
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Giles, Giles & Fripp
Date Posted: June 07 2005 at 10:06
| Surely you people know Fripp's first album with the Giles brothers. Why not add this? |
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 00:51
| Sure it should be here and I believe many others than me would like to review it. McDonald & Giles album is here anyway. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 01:07
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It's not prog. Maybe Suite No. 1. But its pretty much bad pop, of interest due to personell. ------------- 
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 04:19
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You're basically right (seeing it referred to as a classic I expected more progness of it), but I think it has enough reason to be included, not only due to personnel but also musically. |
NetsNJFan wrote:Posted By: radiognome3
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 18:51
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Why don't people like this album? The lyrics are hysterical, and the music is actually very interesting. Is it because it's not Sinfield and Fripp? I know it comes down to preference, but it amazes me how much people malign this album. As far as it being prog, to me it's at least as prog as Genesis's first album. ------------- Vive Gong! |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 19:47
............and that blows too. -------------
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Posted By: radiognome3
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 07:13
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Yeah, but the first Genesis album is in the Archives. Using whatever criteria is used to include certain albums (as the first Genesis album), perhaps The Cheerful Insanity Of... should be included under Robert Fripp's entry.... ------------- Vive Gong! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 05:37
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I would certainly approve of inclusion of the very quaint barrister/sollicitor firm Giles , Giles & Fripp. Seriously , if you listen to their Cheerfull Insanities , not only is there Suite No 1 , but also the closing track of the album as well as the opening track of the Rodney Toady saga are simply excellent with the typical Michael giles drumming , some use of Mellotron and unusual ditties. Although quaint , the songwriting is not anymore silly than a good deal of Caravan , Genesis and most of GonG. Not only is the only historical album of interest for proheads , but there is another album called The Brandbury Tapes full of exciting and noteworthy recording session tracks that shows the start of King Crimson. Ian McDonald is Present on flute on abot half of the 21 tracks and Judy Dyble (ex-Fairport Convention and future excellent sole-albumed Trader Horne) on vocals . I Talk To The Wind is present under two different versions and is very instructive.
Much needed on the ProgArchives I'll mail this to mailto:M@X - M@X and Ron. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 06:01
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Yes, I do think this should be added ... a psych-era curiosity with some distinct prog moments ... I disliked it at first, but it has grown on me ... ------------- "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." |