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    Posted: October 31 2005 at 17:53
What are your favorite 10 GG songs?
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Tough call, given that Octopus would normally account for 8 of them, but (in no particular order):

  1. Peel the Paint
  2. Pantagruel's Nativity
  3. Think of me With Kindness
  4. Funny Ways
  5. Knots
  6. The Runaway
  7. Wreck
  8. An Inmate's Lullaby
  9. Raconteur Troubadour
  10. Working all Day

Peel the Paint is one of the best songs ever written in any genre ever, and is a splendid description of the creative process. I've never understood why 3 Friends is such an overlooked album. I make no excuses for including Wreck - I know lots of hard core fans look down on it, but I like it. Let's face, Gentle Giant put more good ideas into one song than many bands put into entire albums.

 
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I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

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Edge of twilight

Funny ways

Boys in the band

Mister class & quality

Three friends

Wreck

Aspiration

Moon is down

Knots

Think of me with kindly
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From what I've heard (Octopus, Acquiring the Taste and In a Glass House)

1.) Advent of Panurge
2.) the Boys in the Band
3.) A Cry for Everyone
4.) Raconteur Troubadour
5.) Pantagruel's Nativity
6.) Wreck
7.) The Moon is Down
8.) Experience
9.) Think of me with Kindness
10.) Knots
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1 Schooldays
2 Think of Me With Kindness
3 Pantagruel's Nativity
4 Advent of Panurge
5 Edge of Twilight
6 Aspirations
7 Moon is Down
8 Three Friends
9 Funny Ways

(Easy to guess I prefer Kerry Minnear's vocals!)

10 (by Simon Dupree & Big Sound = pre-GG:) Kites  - covered in Finnish as 'Leijat' by Kirka
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Hard to say.  I haven't heard all of their albums, but out of the ones I've heard:

1. His Last Voyage (first song I heard by them)

2. River

3. Peel the Paint

4. In a Glass House

5. On Reflection

6. Just the Same

7. Boys in the Band

8. Three Friends

9. Time to Kill

10. The Runaway
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1) Time to kill

2.) The moon is down

3.) Prologue

4.) Free Hand

5.) The boys in the band

6.) Interview

7.) Plain Truth

8.) Just the same

9.) I lost my head

10.) The Runaway
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They have so many good songs that I can't decide!
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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