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Poll Question: Which one of these Gentle Giant albums is your favourite?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
2 [5.00%]
3 [7.50%]
4 [10.00%]
11 [27.50%]
6 [15.00%]
9 [22.50%]
4 [10.00%]
1 [2.50%]
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    Posted: January 05 2021 at 08:24
I’ve encountered a lot of different rankings of these albums so I’d love to hear what you all think. Vote and, if you feel like it, write your ranking of the albums too
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Love them all, but Octopus is the one where the eight tracks hang together best, I think.
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All these are fantastic, but Octopus is my favourite GG album.
Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen
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My top 3 is Octopus / Free Hand / Acquiring the Taste
Could change tomorrow though
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Originally posted by DarkTower DarkTower wrote:

My top 3 is Octopus / Free Hand / Acquiring the Taste
Could change tomorrow though

Hahaha yeah they’re all top tier
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I love all but here's my ranking:

1. The Power And The Glory
2. Interview
3. In A Glass House
4. Three Friends
5. Acquiring The Taste
6. Octopus
7. Free Hand
8. Gentle Giant
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Octopus
Acquiring the Taste
Free Hand
In a Glass House
TPATG.
Three Friends
GG
Interview.
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The Power And The Glory (1974)
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It was always very hard for me to choose my favourite album of this great band. During the times, I frequently changed my preference between Acquiring The Taste, In A Glass House, The Power And The Glory and Free Hand. But, for some time, my preference has come to be for In A Glass House. So, In A Glass House must be my vote.
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First vote for 'Three Friends'
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love them all

Three Friends gets my vote
Prog On!
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The Power And The Glory
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All great albums, so it’s hard to choose. I voted for the Power and the Glory, but I could have gone any other way tomorrow.
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Third vote for Three Friends.
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Went with In a Glass House. The Power & the Glory would be close behind. 
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IAGH
Interview
Octopus
GG (debut)
ATT
3F
TP&TG
FH
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Free Hand > In a Glass House > Three Friends
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I'm really not sure why, but Free Hand is and has always been my go-to GG album (aside from Playing the Fool, that is). 
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Octopus
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i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag
that's a happy bag of lettuce
this car smells like cartilage
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Freehand is my favourite GG album.
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