Octopus

Which one of the GG's OCTO OPUS is your favourite?

Edited by Niki ( IO ) - March 13 2007 at 06:57

Well, The Advent of Panurge rules!

Gentle Giant's Octopus would have to be one of my favorites as well!If you've ever seen the dvd that has the segment called,"features from Octopus", they really demonstrate how talented they are.When I first heard the little recorder cannon that went into yankee doodle dandy I was so tickeled. Watching bands like Gentle Giant just makes me wish that I had the oppritunity to have a jam session with them!

Moogtron III wrote: The River for me, with the wonderful vibes solos.   One of these days, the mailman will bring me the Giant On The Box-dvd that I ordered. I just can't wait!

Sorry if I spoiled it!

"Think of me with kindness" is wonderful, but I have to go for "Raconteur Troubadour". The arrangement is really clever.

A Tie between 'The Advent of Panurge', 'Knots' and 'Boys in the Band'.

For me "the advent of Panurge" really is the first "complete" GG song. They had been building up their repertoire of changes, tones, arrangements & influences. Then on Octopus, they started nailing classics left & right. I love the 3 previous records, but this is where GG start hitting the peaks regularly.

P.S. Also where I got my alias from, though Pantagruel was already taken

Raconteur Troubadour

Nobody likes A Cry For Everyone??

I vote for "Advent of Panurge" (still slightly prefer "Pantragruel's Nativity" -- great companion pieces and inspired me to read Rabelais) although "Boys in the Band" is a fantastic instrumental -- it's such a tight and exciting composition.

I'm not terribly keen on "Knots" either (love "On Reflection") -- though I actually do like it well enough.  Good song; some days I really love it.

For many their least favourite track is "A Cry for Everyone."  This poll has been done a couple of time before, and in the last one I chose that track (would have gone for "Advent of Panurge" but it found its way into the subject line) because: "I'm going to be a rebel and choose "A Cry For Everyone".  It starts off sounding as a typical kind of rock song I'd think I would hate, and then it takes some, once,  unexpected and fantastic twists, and proves itself not to be typical at all (which is quite  typical for GG of course)."
 
My least favourite track, and in fact it's one of my least liked tracks of the first eight albums, is "Raconteur Troubadour" -- it's so effete.   Makes me roll my eyes a bit.  Though It's still really not a bad song according to my tastes..

"River" is great, as is "Think of Me With Kindness" (yeah that's rather effete and emotive but I love it anyway -- beautiful, actually), and "Dog's Life" is delightful.