What is the best Gentle Giant studio album?
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Topic: What is the best Gentle Giant studio album?
Posted By: Boi_da_boi_124
Subject: What is the best Gentle Giant studio album?
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 11:27
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I'm caught between Octopus, Three Friends, Power and the Glory, and Free Hand. What do you think? Happy voting! Prog on! |
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Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 11:31
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My Personal Vote Goes to Octopus, however most of them are fantastic! ------------- The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 11:37
| All but "Giant for a Day" are excellent, but Free Hand seems to be the one I listen to most. The surround mix of the "On Reflection" is amazing. Each voice has it's own space. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 11:41
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IaGH, followed by Octopus. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 11:42
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Hi, I feel like I'm being asked which I like best? The 5th, the 7th, the 9th ... and I can honestly tell you that I do not have an answer because just about all the albums are great on their own. I'm probably more partial to Octopus and In a Glass House ... but all in all, for me, the composer is what matters and their listing of material is phenomenal, and no piece is better than the others ... the creativity involved is out of this world and far out and they deserve credit for it. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 11:49
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Acquiring the Taste > Three Friends > self-titled > Octopus > In a Glass House... I would be saddest not to have Acquiring the Taste and Three Friends in my collection. Both are considerably different and great albums in their own rights. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 11:52
The Power and the Glory |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 11:54
| I like lot of them .. eventually voted for 'In a glass house' the very first that I listened to back in the mid seventies |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 12:08
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For me it's a tie between TP&tG and Free Hand. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 12:10
I love all of them (even 'Giant For A Day'. My personal favourite is 'Octopus'. 
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Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 12:22
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This is like picking your favourite child. It so happens one of my kids is called Octopus and he is, er, my chosen one.
------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 23 2023 at 14:18
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my favourite is Acquiring the Taste ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 01:19
| TPATG . Also happens to be Derek Shulman's favourite GG album according to a recent interview he gave so I'm in good company. |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 01:58
| For me The Power and the Glory, followed by Octopus, Three friends and Free hand |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 03:32
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Very difficult choice. With time my mood about my favourite has changed. My favourites probably are: "Acquiring The Taste", In A Glass House", "The Power And The Glory" and "Free Hand". At the moment my favourite is perhaps "The Power And The Glory". So, my vote goes to it. ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 04:28
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Free Hand. It's the only album they've made which is consistently brilliant and the only one I'd give 5* to. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 05:47
| Three Friends, Octopus, In a Glass House, The Power and the Glory. How can I pick one over the other? |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 06:18
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Free Hand over In a Glass Houe and Three Friends. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 06:32
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The Power and the Glory was my (fairly recent) intro to GG and I like it the best. Right now anyway. That may change in the future. ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 09:01
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One of my three favorite bands. Except Giant for a day, I love all the albums. Voted In a Glass House. ------------- 
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 09:30
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First vote for Three Friends. My first GG purchase a life ago. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 11:41
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Octopus. The orange cables lead to the league litter. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 24 2023 at 18:02
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I think I like their debut album the best, but I've believed for a long time that Free Hand is their best. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 25 2023 at 00:57
| Their first two are the ones I liked best. I think I should go with Aquiring the Taste. |