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MustShaveBeard 
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 Topic: Genesis Vs Gentle Giant
Posted: November 04 2005 at 15:58 |
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Gentle Giant, and it has nothing to do with how virtuostic they are. GG's music affects me emotionally much more than Genesis's music does. And Genesis's music definitely doesn't have the excitement of GG's music.
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Jeremy Bender
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 07:59 |
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Gentle Giant by a mile......I always found Genesis extremely boring. It's a good band, but they leave me cold.
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Korova
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 07:57 |
I was listening to Interview 
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 04:09 |
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Two great,legendary bands.Such a hard choice but I picked Genesis.
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 03:43 |
How I could answer to such a question? Here we are speaking about TWO MILIAR STONES!
BTW I like GG a little bit more.
Edited by Andrea Cortese
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Syndromet
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 03:35 |
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 It is said to be the first Test-pressing of the corean release??
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John Gargo
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 15:28 |
Gentle Giant for me, although both bands are brilliant.
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zabriskiepoint
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 14:56 |
 AngleofRepose wrote:
Genesis. One has to try to like GG - a definitive minus in my book.
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That's exactly what happened to me, I heard of how good GG was and dl all their albums ; i listened to each like 4 times, and just hated them... i cannot stand to listen to Gentle Giant for even a second now.
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magog
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 13:09 |
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Very difficult choice, because they're both on my top three...If I had
to say progressive with a band I'd choose Gentle Giant, and also think
Genesis have never done an album like In a glass house, and in the end
Genesis betrayed their noble origins...despite it all in this moment I
go with Genesis, expecially because I find a bit of them in amost every
band I'm listening to. What would have been prog without Genesis??
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SolariS
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 12:45 |
i just got chills thinking about genesis, so i picked them.
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Wandering Days
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 05:51 |
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I like early Genesis, but there is no question that my vote goes to Gentle Giant!
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Past all mortals as we, here we can be.
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OT Räihälä
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 05:32 |
Early Genesis were good, but I rate Gentle Giant equally high as Gesualdo, Beethoven, Stravinsky and suchlike, all composers who really found a totally new path. So Gentle Giant above any other prog band, but this poll is a bit unfair to Genesis.
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Legoman
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 20:06 |
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Wow... really close poll. Gentle Giant all the way, though.
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Runaway
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 19:16 |
Everyone knows my answer by now.
(Although Genesis is also awesome...)
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AngleofRepose
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 19:01 |
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Genesis. One has to try to like GG - a definitive minus in my book.
Proggers had me going fo awhile thinking that having to desperately try
to like music was in fact a plus, until I heard jazz critics note that they're
less impressed with artists who only appeal to die-hard jazz enthusiasts.
It was then I realized that I too am less impressed with these types of
artists. GG, who fall into this category, are certainly talented, though. And
I like their albums alright.
Plus Genesis is so epic.
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Damen
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 18:29 |
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Genesis got my vote, but Gentle Giant is superior from a technical standpoint.
Edited by Damen
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"It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days."
-Chris Squire
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Charles
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 15:48 |
Unlike the YES/Genesis thread this one is a bit harder although as reitterated before Genesis is my all time favorite group of all time, Gentle Giant's music was extremely challenging, but not in a bad way, and quite virtuostic..... Many great albums and timeless songs... Their influence is now being shown in bands like Anglagard, Spock's Beard and Echolyn....
Charles
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G'day
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Murder1
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 15:14 |
I never could get into Gentle Giant; too leftfield for me.
Im a huge Genesis fan, so this was quite easy .I prefer their sense of good solid songwriting much more than Gentle Giant`s complexity.
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 14:49 |
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Ahh... a tricky one, but although I'm more familiar with Genesis there's only one album by them I love all the way through, and GG are also more adventurous, so they'll get my vote.
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Tommy
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 14:42 |
| Though I fully expected bands like YES to trounce GENESIS in the polls this one is more of a surprise! Gentle Giant beating Genesis, who'd have believed it? |
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Genesis Vs Gentle Giant
