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Marc Baum

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Joined: September 30 2005
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Topic: Rate GG albums
Posted: November 22 2005 at 13:06

We already had that, but well:

Gentle Giant (Tall Tale): 8.5/10 points = 4 stars

Acquiring The Taste: 9.5/10 points = 5 stars

Three Friends: 9.5/10 points = 5 stars

Octopus: 10/10 points = 5 stars

In A Glass House: 9.5/10 points = 5 stars

The Power And The Glory: 9.5/10 points = 5 stars

Free Hand: 9.5/10 points = 5 stars

Interview: 8.5/10 points = 4 stars

The Missing Piece: 6/10 points = 3 stars

Giant For A Day: 3.5/10 points = 2 stars

Civilian: 5/10 points = 2 stars

point-system:

0 - 3 points = 1 star / 3.5 - 5.5 points = 2 stars / 6 - 7 points = 3 stars / 7.5 - 8.5 points = 4 stars / 9 - 10 points = 5 stars

"All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT

cmidkiff

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Joined: March 08 2005
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Posted: November 22 2005 at 12:56

Gentle Giant (6/10)
Acquiring The Taste (7/10)
Three Friends (8.5/10)
Octopus (10/10)
In a Glass House (10/10)
The Power And The Glory (10/10)
Free Hand (10/10)
Interview (9/10)
Playing The Fool (8/10)
The Missing Piece (8/10)
Giant For a Day! (4/10)
Civilian (6/10)
Giant on the Box (9/10)

cmidkiff

Zitro

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Joined: July 11 2005
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Posted: November 22 2005 at 12:45

Acquiring The Taste (5.5/10)

Three Friends (7.5/10)

Octopus (4/10)

In a Glass House (6/10)

Free Hand (7/10)

That's all I have

DallasBryan View Drop Down

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Joined: November 23 2004
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Posted: November 21 2005 at 21:17

5 different views, all about the same quality. I would
score them all in the 7.5 to 8.5 range and consider
them their best, just ahead of those previous, in
between and after.

Octopus
Three Friends
Free Hand
In a Glass House
The Power and the Glory

Andrea Cortese View Drop Down

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Posted: November 21 2005 at 05:02

Acquiring the Taste - 7.5/10

Octopus - 9/10

In a Glass House - 10/10

Free Hand - 9.5/10

The Missing Piece - 6.5/10

Sean Trane View Drop Down

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Posted: November 21 2005 at 04:06

Gentle Giant (8/10)
Acquiring The Taste (7/10)
Three Friends (7.5/10)
Octopus (8.5/10)
In a Glass House (9/10)
The Power And The Glory (7.5/10)
Free Hand (6.5/10)
Interview (7.5/10)
Playing The Fool (8.0/10)
The Missing Piece (5/10)
Giant For a Day! (4/10)
Civilian (5/10)

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

Badabec

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Joined: November 14 2005
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Posted: November 20 2005 at 11:07

Gentle Giant (9/10)
Acquiring the taste (10/10)
Three Friends (9/10)
Octopus (9/10)
In a glass house (9/10)
The power and the glory (10/10)
Free hand (11/10)
The missing peace (8/10)
Giant for a day (7/10)
Gentle Giant - Champions of Rock (7/10)

I don't own "Interview" (heard "Interview", "I lost my head", "Empty city" and "Give it back", real great stuff!) and "Civilian" but I will buy this albums as soon as I can.

Bj-1

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Posted: September 04 2005 at 18:07

Trouserpress wrote:

Bj-1 wrote:

Me: 116,5

Trouserpress: 111

..And that's only because that you rate GFAD, Civilian and UC so low

Sorry, but Under Construction is pissing awful. It's like a whole double album of annoying "studio runthrough" bonus tracks. Gah!!

Well, I like it! It's interesting to hear how they builded up their songs from their best albums.

RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!

The Hemulen View Drop Down

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Posted: September 04 2005 at 17:38

Bj-1 wrote:

Me: 116,5

Trouserpress: 111

..And that's only because that you rate GFAD, Civilian and UC so low

Sorry, but Under Construction is pissing awful. It's like a whole double album of annoying "studio runthrough" bonus tracks. Gah!!

ummagumma08 View Drop Down

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Joined: May 06 2004
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 17:32

Gentle Giant (8/10)

Acquiring The Taste (8.5/10)

Three Friends (10/10)

Octopus (7/10)

In a Glass House (10/10)

The Power And The Glory (8/10)

Free Hand (9/10)

Interview (6.5/10)

Giant on the Box (8/10)

That's all I have..

Bj-1

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Posted: September 04 2005 at 17:18

Me: 116,5

Trouserpress: 111

..And that's only because that you rate GFAD, Civilian and UC so low

RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!

Eddy

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Joined: September 22 2004
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Posted: September 04 2005 at 16:41

ooo i really like seeing your guys choices. for the ones i have....

gentlegiant:6.5
aquring the taste 6.7
three friends 7.2
octupus: 5 ( for some reason this album doesnt click to me...)
iagh 9.7 ( i love this one because its a gentle giant cd that feels epic, unlike so many of theirs
free hand 8.6
power and glory 9 Proclamation is awsome HAIL!

gg is a band you cant miss!

Snow Dog

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Posted: September 04 2005 at 06:43

iI thought that GG was music!

The Hemulen View Drop Down

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Posted: September 04 2005 at 06:12

Gentle Giant (8/10)
Acquiring The Taste (9.5/10)
Three Friends (9.5/10)
Octopus (10/10)
In a Glass House (10/10)
The Power And The Glory (10/10)
Free Hand (10/10)
Interview (10/10)
Playing The Fool (10/10)
The Missing Piece (7/10)
Giant For a Day! (1/10)
Civilian (2/10)
Under Construction (4/10) - Apart from the live tracks it's RUBBISH!
Giant on the Box (10/10)

Those other two you mention are just live boots. Not really worth discussing IMO.

Interesting, I can't see why people rate TMP so low when side 2 sounds like "Free Hand Cont." or why people rate GFaD! so high when it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever apart from crisp production. Likewise Civilian - the "it may be AOR, but it's really well done!" argument does not cut the mustard for me. IT'S GENTLE GIANT PLAYING AOR!! GENTLE GIANT ARE NOT AN AOR BAND!!!

Giant on the Box is orgasmic though.

Bj-1

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Posted: August 31 2005 at 04:24

bobthesalesman wrote:

How could anyone rate Giant for a Day higher than 0

RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!

NetsNJFan

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Joined: April 12 2005
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Posted: August 29 2005 at 21:04

ranked in order of essentiality

Octopus (10/10)

In a Glass House (10/10)

Free Hand (9/10)

Three Friends (9/10)

Interview (9/10)

The Power And The Glory (8/10)

Playing The Fool (10/10)

Acquiring The Taste (7/10)

Gentle Giant (6/10)

The Missing Piece (6/10)

Civilian (4/10)

Giant For a Day! (3/10)

Edited by NetsNJFan

Ben2112

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Joined: March 15 2005
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Posted: August 29 2005 at 14:38

Gentle Giant - 8/10
Acquiring The Taste 8.5/10
Three Friends - 9/10
Octopus - 8/10
In A Glass House - 9/10
The Power And The Glory - 10/10
Free Hand - 9/10
Interview - 7.5/10
Playing The Fool - 9.5/10

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