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Gentle Giant

  • 10-05-2008 9:48am
    #1
    MoominPapa
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    Another band I've been meaning to check out for years and only now getting around to it. Pretty cool stuff I reckon
    The Advent of Panurge
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdPaKxz4pII


    Any fans? Recommendations?


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  • #2
    Arucard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭Arucard


    Gentle Giant are fantastic. i have the self titled, and Acquiring the Taste - both great albums


  • #3
    MoominPapa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭MoominPapa


    Cool.
    Some great stuff on prog archives:clicky


  • #4
    damonjewel
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    Really just know the first 4 albums. I'd have to say that Gentle Giant's music is complex, they don't have the theatre of genesis, the bombastic of ELP, the edginess of Van der graff generator, nor the wacky jazz of Gong. However their musicianship is top drawer, as well as having super vocal harmonies and mesmerising vocal arrangements, check out knots on the fourth album Octopus.

    The first album is a good debut but is patchy in areas (cover version of God save the queen at the end really sounds pants) The second Acquiring the taste is my choice, it has a nice flow to album some lovely tracks on it. the third one '3 friends' has some great moments in it. its the blistering solo of Peel the paint which does it for me on this album. Octopus seems to be the fans choice but I think it kind of dies off on the second side, still great stuff all the same.


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