Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Prog Polls
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - GENTLE GIANT - OCTOPUS
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedGENTLE GIANT - OCTOPUS
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  12>
Poll Question: Favourite track ?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
20 [30.77%]
13 [20.00%]
3 [4.62%]
13 [20.00%]
6 [9.23%]
2 [3.08%]
3 [4.62%]
5 [7.69%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted

Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
moonchild View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: May 15 2004
Status: Offline
Points: 146 		Direct Link To This Post Topic: GENTLE GIANT - OCTOPUS
    Posted: May 19 2004 at 15:25
I love Raconteur Troubadour.
In the Wake of Poseidon
Back to Top
Certif1ed View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: April 08 2004
Location: England
Status: Offline
Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2004 at 15:27

Great choice!
Back to Top
Dan Bobrowski View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: February 02 2004
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2004 at 16:19
I love the whole disc, but Knots is the fav for me.
Back to Top
Peter View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: January 31 2004
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 9669 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2004 at 17:02

Thumbs Up I'm with you, Moon!

A solid album -- "River" is another of my faves, and "Knots" is very clever and original -- good choice, Sir Dan!
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
Back to Top
Wayman View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie


Joined: May 15 2004
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 19 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2004 at 20:03
'Knots' is certainly my favorite piece on 'Octopus,'
indeed one of my favorite Gentle Giant pieces,
because of its originality, clever lyrics, and classic
Gentle Giant instrumentation. However, the whole
album is fantastic (especially after repeated listens),
and 'Think of Me With Kindness' deserves
recognition as one of the most sensitive tracks ever
recorded by this band. Ironically, 'Octopus,' one of my
favorite albums, bored me the first couple of times I
listened to it.

Wayman
Back to Top
diddy View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer


Joined: March 02 2004
Location: Germany
Status: Offline
Points: 1117 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2004 at 20:03
Knots is my favorite even though nearly all Gentle Giant songs are phantastic...
 
btw this was my first GG album, I think it's a good one to start with... 
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear...
George Orwell
Back to Top
maani View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Founding Moderator

Joined: January 30 2004
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 2632 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2004 at 23:24

I'm with moonchild and Peter.  It's simply too easy to vote for "Knots," given its place in the GG pantheon (which is very high).  This does not mean I think "Raconteur Troubador" is "second best," but rather equally good in a different way: it really conveys the "sense of what it is," if you know what I mean.

Peace.
Back to Top
Cesar Inca View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: May 19 2004
Location: Peru
Status: Offline
Points: 4888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2004 at 23:35

 

Hi everyone, this is Cesar Inca.

I've just voted for 'Knots'. Well, not an easy thingto do, since every track of this album is a masterpiece on its own right... without any one of them being too long. But definitely, I give it my gold medal (so to speak).

Regards.

 
Back to Top
Dan Bobrowski View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: February 02 2004
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2004 at 00:36
Originally posted by maani maani wrote:

I'm with moonchild and Peter.  It's simply too easy to vote for "Knots," given its place in the GG pantheon (which is very high).  This does not mean I think "Raconteur Troubador" is "second best," but rather equally good in a different way: it really conveys the "sense of what it is," if you know what I mean.

Peace.

Easy, C'mon maani, grow some ..... yerself. You know that "Knots" placed GG in a class on it's own. A style copied by Spock, Echolyn and others because this tune alone created a unreachable goal. Never again attained... Instruments are cold, the voice, yes, the voice is the most personal instrument and this tune is IT, brother. Desert Island, nothing but coconuts and Jim's wild gyrations..... This tune is the ONE......
Back to Top
Bryan View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: April 01 2004
Status: Offline
Points: 3013 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2004 at 00:51
Am I the only one who doesn't like "Knots"?
Back to Top
Vibrationbaby View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: February 13 2004
Status: Offline
Points: 6898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2004 at 01:07

I voted for Raconteur Troubadour because of my wife's preferance for this piece.

Gentle Giant Octopus is prog-rock tour de force. Even classically trained musicians are fascinated by this work.
Back to Top
Paco Fox View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: February 10 2004
Location: Spain
Status: Offline
Points: 500 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2004 at 04:26

Knots is for me the most paradigmatic song for explaining that prog mantra of 'ou don't like it first, but it grows on you'. My first listen was 'What the h....!?'. But then it grew spectaculary in me, specially the really powerfull chorus.

 

 
Back to Top
Paco Fox View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: February 10 2004
Location: Spain
Status: Offline
Points: 500 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2004 at 04:28

By the way, recently I discover a truly gorgeous song in the Under Construction GG album. It's from their first recordings and called 'Freedom's Child'. It's not their typical complex GG song, but it's vey beautiful and should appeal a lot to Strawbs or Moody Blues fans.
Back to Top
John Hicks View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: May 21 2004
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 17 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2004 at 11:03
I like the entire album. I'll vote for River because no one else has.
_____________________________
Back to Top
Man With Hat View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team

Joined: March 12 2005
Location: Neurotica
Status: Offline
Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2005 at 02:09

The Boys In The Band

What a fantastic song

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
Back to Top
Moogtron III View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: April 26 2005
Location: Belgium
Status: Offline
Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2005 at 03:08

I voted for River, but The Boys In The Band and A Dog's Life come close. But there is no weak track on the album, and Knots certainly deserves it's many votes.

River: I love the wonderful complex vibes solo with bass and drums and the vocals are like floating on a meandering river. It's like prog caviar!

Oct-opus - oct =8 and opus = a (musical) work : the album title is a nice pun.
Back to Top
dalt99 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 23 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 454 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2005 at 04:53
WOW, I am in the minority bigtime here. My favorite is "The Advent of Panurge" (so funky and demented a rhythm!) and my second favorite song is "Think of Me With Kindness". All the songs are wonderful though so it's not like Knots and Troubadour are far off in my book
Best of 2006 that I've heard:
PFM-Stati Di Immaginazione
Zenit-Surrender (Best "unknown" album)
Oaksenham - Conquest of Pacific
2007:
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
La Torre Del Alchimista - Neo
Back to Top
MustShaveBeard View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: February 20 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 366 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2005 at 21:17

Raconteur Troubadour, then Advent of Panurge, then Knots, then Boys in the Band

Knots is great, but On Reflection is SO much better. It's like a more developed version of Knots.
Your life or your lupins!!!
Back to Top
yesman72 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: May 28 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 185 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2005 at 21:17

A very hard decision but I think its either Advent Of Panurge, Raconteur Troubadour, or Knots.

I gotta go with the Troubadour!!!!  Perfect song and a real feast for the ears. I hear its influence in Kansas and Yezda Urfa.

Back to Top
Play Me My Song View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie


Joined: June 07 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 10 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2005 at 22:04
Knots
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  12>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.156 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.