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Points: 199 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 06 2005 at 07:08 
Prologue
Three friends are made, three lives are laughs and tears
Through years of school and play they share
As time stands still the days change into years
And future comes without a care.
But fate and skill and chances play their part
The wind of change leaves no good-bye
Three boys are men their ways have drawn apart
They tell their tales to justify.
The way that GG sings this amazes me, especially the third and the fourth sentence as marked above in bold.
This is one of the best harmonies I have ever heard in any music.
The same holds for the title track but I enjoy Prologue more.... ..hail to the Giant!!!! !!
But I'm wandering of the subject here...The advent of Panurge...I think I have to listen to it more often but until now I do not consider it as being my favourite GG track.


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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 06 2005 at 08:33
It's a greatv ssong Horzy, but I prefer others on the album...like Racanteur trobadour for example, or Knots or...........
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One of their best for sure!
But it's hard to decide wich GG song is the best!
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Points: 3047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 06 2005 at 11:52
one of their best and most intriuging, but my faves are In a Glass House (song), Raconteur Troubadour, Funny Ways, Interview (song), No God's a Man
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Get a hold of the album 'In A Glass House', it is my personal favorite and all songs on it are great. 'The Runaway', 'Experience', 'Way of Life' and the title track are amongst my favorite GG tracks. Also grab the album 'Free Hand' and you have what are what I consider GG's best albums.
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It's the very first GG song I ever heard (first song on the Edge Of Twilight compilation!) ... my God, it blew me away ... took a while to get it too ...

may not make it into my Top 5 nowadays, but it's close
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Now its time to investigate 'Free Hand' and 'In a Glass House' - listening to 'An inmates lullaby' as I type
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A great song by a truly great band, no doubt about it. GG were really an inventive bunch, giving definition to the world "progressive". However, I have a slight preference for "Nothing at All" from their debut album.
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The Advent of Panurge is the first song I've heard of GG. I also really like In a Glass House, Three Friends, and Free Hand (songs).


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^It was my first too, when I bought Octopus Still my favorite GG album, with Advent Of Panurge being one of the best songs on it
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Advent Of Panurge - awesome, awesome, awesome as all GG stuff! Three years ago I lent my copy of Octopus to a colleague who has not yeat returned it - do you think it is sufficient cause to hire the killers?
yet you still have time!
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Originally posted by RaphaelT RaphaelT wrote:

 


Advent Of Panurge - awesome, awesome, awesome as all GG stuff! Three years ago I lent my copy of Octopus to a colleague who has not yeat returned it - do you think it is sufficient cause to hire the killers?



i hate people who keep music they have been lent

set the dogs on them
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The Advent of Panurge is a fantastic song from a fantastic album, which features an extraordinary instr. like The boys in the band...but sometimes my romantic vein goes to Think of me with kindness...
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Originally posted by horza horza wrote:

Now its time to investigate 'Free Hand' and 'In a Glass House' - listening to 'An inmates lullaby' as I type


In a glass house and Free hand (on Reflection!!!!!) are two wonderful ways to investigate GG
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Originally posted by horza horza wrote:

Originally posted by RaphaelT RaphaelT wrote:

 


Advent Of Panurge - awesome, awesome, awesome as all GG stuff! Three years ago I lent my copy of Octopus to a colleague who has not yeat returned it - do you think it is sufficient cause to hire the killers?



i hate people who keep music they have been lent

set the dogs on them



Never lend a GG album!!
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Originally posted by RaphaelT RaphaelT wrote:

 

Advent Of Panurge - awesome, awesome, awesome as all GG stuff! Three years ago I lent my copy of Octopus to a colleague who has not yeat returned it - do you think it is sufficient cause to hire the killers?

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Originally posted by magog magog wrote:

The Advent of Panurge is a fantastic song from a fantastic album, which features an extraordinary instr. like The boys in the band...but sometimes my romantic vein goes to Think of me with kindness...

Completely agree with you!

What about Knots? Do you like it?
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Points: 1453 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2005 at 14:24

 

Knots - marvellous, but my personal favourite of two GG songs with very complicated harmonies is On Reflection from Free Hand.
yet you still have time!
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Points: 288 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2005 at 14:35
Currently listening to GG.  It may sound stupid but I only 'discovered' Gentle Giant some two years ago.  In the seventies and eighties, when browsing through the vinyl in the local record shop, Gentle Giant was alwasy directly  after Genesis. I never considered listening to it. Until  I was able do download via progarchives the tracks Experience and Three friends. Directly bought three albums (Gentle Giant, Three Friends and In a Glass House).

Because you guys (and girls?) were talking about Knots and Advent of panurge I could not resist downloading them. Smile Another album on my list .

BTW, I find 'Intimates lullaby' on In a Glass House beautifully strange.
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Points: 388 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2005 at 15:02

That song is good, but in comparison to all of the other Gentle Giant songs, it's not that significant and doesn't really deserve any special attention, IMHO.

 

 
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