Gentle Giant is hard to get into, but worth it.

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   I remember when I first joined the forums I made a very fiery immature post about how much I hated them, someone suggested acquiring the taste and a week later I made another post about how I had changed my mind and I loved them. Could not a have been a good first impression to many!

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dougmcauliffe Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 23 2019 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 3895	Post Options Post Reply Quote dougmcauliffe Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 24 2020 at 22:10
	I remember when I first joined the forums I made a very fiery immature post about how much I hated them, someone suggested acquiring the taste and a week later I made another post about how I had changed my mind and I loved them. Could not a have been a good first impression to many!
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Tom Ozric Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15926	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tom Ozric Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 24 2020 at 22:22
	Octopus was my first album by GG back in the mid-90’s. It definitely took quite a number of spins to get my head around it (likewise Henry Cow). Took a few years searching for all their LP’s - but worth it. I bought Giant for a Day on two seperate occasions, only to ditch it (the first I used as a frisbee, the 2nd i hocked). Very disappointing album. Even Civilian is a good, solid rocking album by comparison.

The Doctor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 23 2005 Location: The Tardis Status: Offline Points: 8543	Post Options Post Reply Quote The Doctor Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 24 2020 at 22:52
	Interesting that I'm watching a Gentle Giant video as I type this. The first time I heard GG was on a prog box set "Supernatural Fairy Tales" in the form of their song Free Hand back in 96. I liked that song a lot so I got the album Free Hand, but that was hard to get into at the time, so I put it away for awhile and came back to it later. Got a couple more of their albums and still had trouble getting into them. Somewhere around 10-15 years ago it finally clicked with me and now I have all their albums, their oddities stuff (Scraping the Barrel, Under Construction) and their most recent box set, which I got mostly for the live stuff since I had all of their studio albums anyway. By the way, Kerry's daughter (who debuted on Scraping the Barrel saying "On fasari" when it should have been "On safari" when she was like 3 years old) is an incredible vocalist working with Dave Bainbridge (of Iona). Mostly live stuff, and some vocals on his Celestial Fire album, but hoping for a full fledged studio album from the pair at some point. Edited by The Doctor - April 24 2020 at 22:53
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