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Tony Fisher 
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 Topic: Gentle Giant videos
Posted: October 21 2006 at 18:59 |
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I've just spent a merry evening watching all the Gentle Giant videos on youtube.
What brilliance!! What a band!!!
But what surprised me was this: I have always shied away from the Giant for a Day album because of the slating it has had on this site, but the 2 tracks from it featured on youtube (Giant for a Day and Words from the Wise) are absolutely brilliant. Totally different from normal; it's Gentle Giant, but not as we know it.
Question is, are the rest of the tracks like this? (because if they are, I'm going to buy it).
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aspinosa
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Posted: October 21 2006 at 23:16 |
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I saw these videos too, they are amazing among my top 5 prog band.
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blindtoad
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 00:24 |
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The other song's are not great... Buy them only if you want all their album (such as me)... but please don't buy civillian... the missing piece got one or 2 song that are great, giant for a day same thing... but on the other hand... you have 10 minutes of good music but 30 of lazy 4/4 pop:P
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quelqu'un pour un jam?
blindtoad = Poor english...
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Badabec
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 06:53 |
 blindtoad wrote:
The other song's are not great... |
I have to disagree, the "Spooky Boogie" is a very original and nice song. But that is the only song I really like on Giant For A Day. The Missing Piece
contains four true good songs, "Memories Of Old Days" (to be honest on
of my favourite Gentle Giant-songs), "Winning", "Two Weeks In Spain"
and "For Nobody" and the other songs are still listenable and rocky. Civilian is much better than Giant For A Day,
in my opinion, for example "Shadows On The Street" or "Convenience
(Clean And Easy)" are two very rocky songs and the other stuff on that
CD is listenable or good either.
Gentle Giant is not just awesome in studio, they are live awesome either!  
Ah, did I mention that they are my favourite band?  
If you like the live perfomances you have seen on the internet, than
you should buy "Giant On The Box" or "GG To The GG", both are pretty
good DVD-boxes. 
Edited by Badabec - October 22 2006 at 06:54
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Mesmo a tristeza da gente era mais bela
E além disso se via da janela
Um cantinho de céu e o Redentor
- Antônio Carlos Jobim, Toquinho & Vinícius de Moraes - Carta ao Tom 74
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Sasquamo
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 21:59 |
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Yeah, I've seen a couple of Gentle Giant videos on Youtube. I love the videos, and they are great live. However, one thing struck me as kind of weird, but funny. The members acted like total goofballs on the stage! The guitarists hopped up and down while playing, and some members tapped their foot by bringing their whole lower leg up and stomping it back down. The singer made weird hand motions with the music and danced around the stage. But what really struck me as funny was when John Weathers was returning to his drum set after playing the xylophone or whatever it was, he skipped/hopped back. Did they always act like this? I don't find anything wrong with it, it just seemed kind of weird to me (although it was funny).
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SlipperFink
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Posted: October 23 2006 at 00:42 |
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Giant is Giant.
The greatest prog band ever.
Absolutely peerless when they were at the top of their game.
Hardcore Giant fan for 30+ years here.
ONLY prog band that has proven absolutely timeless IMNTLBFHO.
The 'stiff upper lip' demeanor of much of the bands presentaton hides an amazingly passionate group of individuals.
I remember vividly the day I "got" the musical and emotional impetus of Giant.
I was like a wave of realization/emotion rolled over me.
Sitting under the awning in Lincoln Park Gezebo, smoking a joint with my best friend Mike... who had been trying to turn me onto them since "Aquiring".
I was a PG Genesis head, and those more obvious romantic elixirs where what I drank deeply of, and valued most... The new record was "Power and the Glory", but he was torturing me with "3 Friends". The outro coda of the title track played and the sheer wisdom and beauty of the song simply brought me to tears. I feel much the same way thinking about the moment. Intense.
This is why I listen to, and love, Prog... At it's best... it reaches our hearts and souls THRU our mind. It makes us think. And feel.
Long live Prog!
Long live Giant.
Best regards,
SM.
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Peter
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Joined: January 31 2004
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Posted: October 23 2006 at 01:10 |
Tony Fisher wrote:
I've just spent a merry evening watching all the Gentle Giant videos on youtube.
What brilliance!! What a band!!!
But what surprised me was this: I have always shied away from the Giant for a Day album because of the slating it has had on this site, but the 2 tracks from it featured on youtube (Giant for a Day and Words from the Wise) are absolutely brilliant. Totally different from normal; it's Gentle Giant, but not as we know it.
Question is, are the rest of the tracks like this? (because if they are, I'm going to buy it).
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Tony, my review covers the album track-by-track, and if you'll read it you'll see that I like those songs too, but the rest of the album is just not of the same high quality:
Sorry, but there's good reason for all of those low ratings! 
Still, I have GFAD on a double-CD release, with The Missing Piece. In that format, if you already have all their earlier, classic releases, it's not a bad purchase, but you'll almost certainly soon be programming just a few select tracks.
Too safe, too commercial, too bland, overall. It's my least-liked GG album.
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Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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