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Marc Baum 
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 Topic: Best Gentle Giant album!
Posted: December 19 2005 at 18:18 |
My favourite GG album is and always will be my first by them, "Three Friends". Though I feel "Octopus" is their best album. I wouldn't change a note to be honest. There isn't much difference between the albums "Aquiring The Taste" and "Free Hand" though. All are must-haves!
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"All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT
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The Miracle
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Posted: December 19 2005 at 18:15 |
Same as Blowie 
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Moatilliatta
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Posted: December 19 2005 at 18:06 |
Extremely difficult choice. While I am still waiting to get copies of a handful of their material, I can say I listen to In a Glass House the most, so I will give it my vote.
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Gentle Tull
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Posted: December 19 2005 at 12:57 |
I dont have them all yet so I won't vote.
However, my favorites so far are In a Glass House, Free Hand, Octopus, and Power and the Glory.
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Deliriumist
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Posted: December 19 2005 at 12:54 |
- Acquiring the Taste
- Free Hand
- Octopus
- Three Friends
- In a Glass House
- The Power and the Glory
- Gentle Giant
- Interview
- ...and the rest
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cucacola54
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Posted: December 19 2005 at 12:30 |
ahh all albums are great!!
but ill go with Free Hand
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: December 19 2005 at 08:09 |
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OT Räihälä
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Posted: December 19 2005 at 06:41 |
IMO Free Hand is almost perfect. It is a definition of Gentle Giant at its best.
Acquiring The Taste is their most creative and adventurous, along with In A Glass House.
For me Gentle Giant simply are the best band ever, with no real contestants anywhere near them. They are even better than Stravinsky.
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Violenza
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Posted: December 19 2005 at 06:33 |
They're all incredible, I voted for 'In a Glass House'.
Now I better hit the 'Post Reply' button before I change my mind.
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ANDREW
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Posted: December 19 2005 at 05:20 |
- ACQUIRING THE TASTE
- OCTOPUS
- GENTLE GIANT
- THREE FRIENDS
- IN A GLASS HOUSE
- THE POWER AND THE GLORY
- FREE HAND
- INTERVIEW
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White Duck
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Posted: December 19 2005 at 03:43 |
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Trotsky
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Posted: June 16 2005 at 13:33 |
I can't decide between Giant For A Day and Civilian ... 
No seriously ... Three Friends ... narrowly ahead of GG, Acquiring The
Taste and Octopus ... an alarmingly consistent band ... I'm one of
those who still hasn't gotten into The Power And The Glory though, and
it may never happen ...
I suppose I like the more accessible early GG albums 
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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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Philrod
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Posted: June 16 2005 at 01:14 |
How are we supposed to decide ??? Too hard!!! 
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Posted: June 16 2005 at 00:13 |
this is difficult, but...
for me these are my favorite in this order:
first -
second -
secondish to thirdish -
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NetsNJFan
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Posted: June 16 2005 at 00:09 |
Octopus!
I love Racontuer Troubadour
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: June 15 2005 at 23:38 |
I go with Freehand. The title track really made an impression on me when I first listened to it (I got it on right now ).
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Velvetclown
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Posted: June 15 2005 at 14:00 |
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Ben2112
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Posted: June 15 2005 at 13:54 |
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Since I discovered the band several months ago, my favorite album has constantly been changing. At first it was Three Friends (the first one I fell in love with), then Free Hand for a while. Right now, I think The Power And The Glory is my fave.
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Posted: June 15 2005 at 08:46 |
I love these polls, I voted for Acquiring the taste 
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Moogtron III
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Posted: June 15 2005 at 07:58 |
Acquiring The Taste. Their most "soulful" album. Incredible album, and in my all-time album top 10. Pantagruel's Nativity, Edge Of Twilight and Black Cat in particular are amazing tracks.
Octopus and Three Friends are my nr. 2 and 3. I love them a lot too. Octopus because it is GG at it's most varied and original, and Three Friends mostly because of the last songs on the album.
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