Gentle Giants best songs
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Topic: Gentle Giants best songs
Posted By: Olympus
Subject: Gentle Giants best songs
Date Posted: October 31 2005 at 17:53
What are your favorite 10 GG songs?  ------------- "Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day" |
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: October 31 2005 at 18:06
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Tough call, given that Octopus would normally account for 8 of them, but (in no particular order):
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.
------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: November 01 2005 at 00:17
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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 |
Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: November 01 2005 at 00:33
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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 ------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: November 01 2005 at 01:41
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1 Schooldays (Easy to guess I prefer Kerry Minnear's vocals!) |
Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: November 01 2005 at 01:50
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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 ------------- My recent purchases: 
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Posted By: Badabec
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 09:59
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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 |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 10:13
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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! |