Your favorite Gentle Giant song is on which album?
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Topic: Your favorite Gentle Giant song is on which album?
Posted By: ClosetothSupperBrick
Subject: Your favorite Gentle Giant song is on which album?
Date Posted: February 09 2018 at 17:35
| Also, please comment the song you used for your vote. If you want to, list your top 5/10 GG songs if you cant choose 1 favorite. |
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Posted By: ClosetothSupperBrick
Date Posted: February 09 2018 at 17:41
| "In a Glass House" is my favorite song by them. |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: February 09 2018 at 17:57
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I'll get crucified for this on here but my favorite GG song is probably I Am a Camera from Civilian. This past Monday I was on the elliptical(listening to Civilian), and when that song came on.. I basically went crazy lol. Got the biggest 'runners high' EVER. Edit: I see that album isn't one of the choices. Oh well, have to be a 'write in' vote I guess.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 09 2018 at 18:17
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So many, but I voted Acquiring the Taste for “Pantagruel’s Nativity”. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 09 2018 at 18:38
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In a Glass House (title track) far and away. 2. Cogs in Cogs 3. I Lost my Head 4. The Boys in The Band 5. River ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Mista-Gordie
Date Posted: February 09 2018 at 18:48
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1-The Advent of Panurge 2-In a glass house 3-Experience 4-The Boys in the band 5-Cogs in cogs 6-Pantagruel's nativity 7-Proclamation 8-The Runaway 9-So Sincere 10-Schooldays |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: February 09 2018 at 19:09
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Hmmm...one favorite...that's going to be tough...Here's a list of my faves from each album: Gentle Giant: Alucard Acquiring: The Moon is Down 3 Friends: Title track Octopus: A Cry for Everyone In a Glass House: tie between the title track & A Reunion Power: No God's a Man Free Hand: His Last Voyage Interview: Design Missing Piece: For Nobody Narrowed down to 1...I'll have to go with The Moon is Down so Acquiring get's my vote  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 09 2018 at 19:27
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Interesting question. My favorite GG song is Give it Back, from Interview. But that’s by no means my fav GG album. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 09 2018 at 20:20
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A band for me that is hard to have a favorite song....but probably it would be on ATT. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: February 09 2018 at 21:07
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"Schooldays", Three Friends -------------  
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Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 02:58
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It's not fair. My favorite song is Shadows on the Street, and it's on Civilian :D But I choose Free Hand, because the other 5 favorite songs are on that album. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 03:54
| This is torture. I’m thinking my fave tune is Giant , from the debut. One of the few, erratic songs in can play on bass !! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 04:03
Since one of my two favourites is on The Missing Piece, voting is quite easy: Free Hand. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 04:32
| .....I hate all the typos when posting via iPod..... |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 04:47
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My favourite GG track is on The Missing Piece ...which is not on the list....the track is "For Nobody" It's been my favourite for quite a while. |
Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 04:54
| Freehand , the title track ! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 07:59
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Three Friends - Schooldays best song they ever did. It had it all... especially what GG completely forgot soon after... beauty,emotion and atmosphere ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 08:35
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Acquiring The Taste for the exquisite The Moon Is Down and the powerhouse Wreck. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 10:48
| Hard to choose, since I love GG's music. I'll have to think hard before I can single out a particular song. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 11:45
My favorite "Playing the Game" from The Power and the Glory. My second favorite is "Inside Out" from Civilian. An album which surprisingly did not make the list. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 12:11
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my favorite song is from "Octopus", and it is "Knots" -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 12:26
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Freehand - His Last Voyage. What an epic, I move through so many incredible vistas when I listen to this. ------------- My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head. |
Posted By: grantman
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 12:28
| funny ways |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 12:56
Agreed. More or less. Prologue+Schooldays... You simply don't find music sounding like that anywhere else (closest I can think of are some of Grachan Moncur III's early to mid-60's avantgarde-jazz compositions) and in many ways why I still listen to prog.
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micky wrote:Posted By: ClosetothSupperBrick
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 13:44
| I'm sorry I didn't include Civilian YESISIS. I don't hear people on ProgArchives talking about that album, so I didn't include it. Now I see I should've have included all the Gentle Giant studio albums. I'm sorry, but thanks for commenting still! |
Posted By: ClosetothSupperBrick
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 14:13
I'm sorry I didn't include The Missing Piece. Most people on ProgArchives don't talk about that album, so I thought it was not liked by prog fans (even though that album is by a prog band). Now I see I should've have included all the Gentle Giant studio albums. I can't add new entries to the poll question, but thanks for commenting still! |
Posted By: ClosetothSupperBrick
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 14:22
Sorry about that. That album not being on Spotify or iTunes is part of the reason why it was not included. Another part of it is the fact that that album has been criticized for not being prog enough here on PA, and GG is said to have gone down a lot in quality after Interview. That's why the last album chronologically in this poll is Interview. |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: February 10 2018 at 16:56
It's completely understandable. You made the choice you felt was right, and no doubt many on here agree with you. Good poll really. A big part of the problem with me is that I usually listen to this band when I'm meditating(aside from Civilian while exercising lol), and so my eyes are closed and I honestly don't know what most of the songs are called. Like when there are threads asking what's your favorite song on a certain album.. I have to go back and listen to a little of each song to see what titles go with what songs.
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Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 07:26
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love all of these albums tough call went with School Days from Three Friends ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 14:15
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Octopus ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 14:16
| The Missing Piece? |