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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 18:35
Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Scheherazade by Goddess!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 18:39
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 18:40
Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Renaissance can take a trip to the Renaissance Fair and get lost.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 19:01
Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Absolutely! Heart


shame she didn't have a bit of Gracie in her LOL  That is why I was always more of a Sonja Kristina guy.. not half the voice of Annie.. but the voice of one you could tell would take you.. and probably everyone in the band to the moon and back LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 19:05
^What, Annie could also sing? No way! LOL Yeah, Grace was awesome too! But I was always afraid of girls that could drink me under the table! Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 19:17
Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

  But I was always afraid of girls that could drink me under the table! Embarrassed


That would have been Janis. LOL. I would have loved to have tried to match her drink for drink. Out of all of them..those stable of classic women rock stars... Janis was the queen. Heart
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 20:01
Renaissance, of course. Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2015 at 06:44



the power of Annie compels you.... the power of Annie compels you...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2015 at 06:56
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2015 at 07:01
You bet it does. If it were some other album like say Selling England, I might have been tempted to change my vote. But just out of the root-for-the-underdog spirit, I am going to post a more potent photograph from Renaissance Fanfare. Struck by beauty gripped in fright, Rael will helplessly succumb to Renaissance.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2015 at 08:11
True to my word, here it is:


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2015 at 08:52
^She has great feet.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2015 at 09:22
Supposedly a highlight of her gigs, or at least so I have heard.  I mean her bare feet.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2015 at 16:33
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Strange, I find Octopus to be their warmest and most listenable recording. Great melodies and interesting ideas and sounds.  Without trying too hard to be complicated like their more prog-cred albums.
Yes I don't get this reservation towards their earliest stuff. If it was Free Hand I'd understand (although I like it). I think their first quartet of albums has plenty of warmth, heart and playfulness. More than most prog really. Think Of Me With Kindness is nothing but a big loving heart.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2015 at 22:35
^^^  Me neither.  Octopus through to Free Hand is my favourite GG period.  I never found GG to be the kind of band that could really touch my heart the way say KC could with Fallen Angel.  On the other hand, their stuff has a (probably inadvertent) goofiness and playfulness that probably none of the other big prog rock bands quite have to the same extent.  I thought this playfulness was accentuated in the Octopus and onwards phase as the music got tighter at this point.  Regardless, I love Acquiring the Taste a lot too.  GG were one of the most consistent prog rock bands until...well, their sound changed. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2015 at 01:17
^I agree with all that. King Crimson is dark and existential art while Gentle Giant are often touching in their wondrous playfulness but they never had the profound impact on me that the former band has. The chosen band names says it all really. They were aiming for different things.    
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2015 at 01:20
^ love the harp-playing coon
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2015 at 01:23
^a virtuoso no doubt.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2015 at 01:47
Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

^^^  Me neither.  Octopus through to Free Hand is my favourite GG period.  I never found GG to be the kind of band that could really touch my heart the way say KC could with Fallen Angel.  On the other hand, their stuff has a (probably inadvertent) goofiness and playfulness that probably none of the other big prog rock bands quite have to the same extent.  I thought this playfulness was accentuated in the Octopus and onwards phase as the music got tighter at this point.  Regardless, I love Acquiring the Taste a lot too.  GG were one of the most consistent prog rock bands until...well, their sound changed. 


I've been listening to ATT and yes, I do find it more enjoyable than their later stuff. I doubt I'd ever go overboard about it but it is certainly pleasant and well executed. To be fair, had I got into it back in the day I'd probably have a bit more affection for it.

 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2015 at 12:23
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Next up... Yet another battle of two greats! LOL

In previous rounds we did song samples, great PA's reviews, with this round I wanted to do something a different. So I went outside PA's..  what do people outside of this site say about these albums.


All kinds of fond memories spin when I think of these two albums; well, one in particular-
It was 1973 and I had just moved to San Francisco on my own as a very young music student-(I refused to wear bell-bottoms, and no I didn't have shoulder length wavy hair with a beard!)

But I remember visiting a friend in his tiny Victorian flat with no furniture but a small twin bed surrounded by a scatter of albums on the floor and there on top of some albums was this funny shaped album, Octopus! My friend hadn't even heard it yet and only bought it because of it's cover-So I put the record on his old Dual turntable with these dusty Pioneer speakers and the moment I heard The Advent of Panurge is all it took! My friend hated it, and he handed me the album to take it!

Maybe it's because of these sentimental reasons, but Octopus has always been my favorite Gentle Giant album, but also because it was early GG at their best with almost every instrument in an orchestra including krumhorns! To me all of their following albums were just a repetition of this album.

A few years later I bought Scheherazade and threw it in my recycle box of albums to sell or trade! Boring and pretentious! Maybe it's because I already had Gentle Giant & Genesis...

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