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St.Cleve Chronicle 
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 Topic: favorite Gentle Giant songs
Posted: November 29 2008 at 02:55 |
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So far I only have "Octopus", "Free hand" and "Interview". I've heard some of "The power and the glory" and I'm thinking about buying "In a glass house".
Anyway, here are my favourites from what I have heard (approximate order):
1. Just the same
2. The advent of Panurge
3. Interview
4. Knots
5. Free hand
6. Proclamation
7. The boys in the band
8. On reflection
9. Raconteur, troubadour
10. A cry for everyone
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AdamHearst
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Posted: November 29 2008 at 02:18 |
1 - Playing the Game 2 - I Lost My Head 3 - His Last Voyage 4 - Alucard 5 - Cogs in Cogs 6 - Black Cat 7 - No God's A Man 8 - School Days 9 - Think of Me With Kindness 10 - Experience 11 - Aspirations 12 - Empty City 13 - Pantgruel's Nativity 14 - Raconteur Troubadour 15 - An Inmate's Lullabye so many more great songs to choose from... my favorites tend to be the more quiet atmospheric songs though. Brilliant brilliant band! 
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity...
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micky
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Posted: October 31 2008 at 05:24 |
 Hawkwise wrote:
Thats right first 4 albums top notch all goes a bit wonky for me after that, though Some parts of Free hand are ok
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yep... the first four are true gold... but the 'soul' of the group sort of falls through on latter albums for me.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: October 31 2008 at 05:19 |
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Everything.
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Prof.
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Posted: October 31 2008 at 01:43 |
Cant possibly put these in order (in album release order):
Funny Ways
Why Not?
Plain Truth
Working All Day
Peel The Paint
The Boys In The Band
River
The Runaway
In A Glass House
Cogs In Cogs
On Reflection
Free Hand
Talybont
Excerpts From Octopus
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micky
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Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:58 |
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^ THAT is a KICK ASS sig Mike.. wow.... thinking of stealing it...
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:39 |
TGM: Orb wrote:
Only got 4 or so of the albums, and lacking a few of the classic ones, so sticking to five
1. Free Hand
2. The Moon Is Down
3. Mr. Class And Quality
4. Schooldays
5. The House, The Street, The Room
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forgot about that one 
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:18 |
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Only got 4 or so of the albums, and lacking a few of the classic ones, so sticking to five
1. Free Hand
2. The Moon Is Down
3. Mr. Class And Quality
4. Schooldays
5. The House, The Street, The Room
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:15 |
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personally for me their first 4 are hit and miss and Octopus never
struck a chord with me (expectations too high, maybe?). but for some
reason the removal of one brother made the band a lot better for me.
Well, up to Free Hand, anyways...
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Hawkwise
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Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:10 |
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Thats right first 4 albums top notch all goes a bit wonky for me after that, though Some parts of Free hand are ok
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:04 |
not into the band after Octopus there Hawkwise? 
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Hawkwise
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Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:02 |
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1. Nothing at All
2. Why Not
3. Wreck
4. Black Cat
5.Dogs Life
6.Raconteur Troubadour
7.Knots
8.School Days
9.Three Friends
10. Giant
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: October 30 2008 at 19:51 |
1. On Reflection
2. Free Hand
3. Schooldays
4. Why Not?
5. Wreck
6. Time To Kill
7. Peel The Paint
8. The Boys In The Band
9. Giant
10. Talybont
subject to change 
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Logan
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Posted: October 30 2008 at 16:45 |
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1. The Moon is Down
2. Pantagruel's Nativity
3. Way of Life
4. Advent of Panurge
5. The House, The Street, The Room
6. Why not?
7. Three Friends
8. His Last Voyage
9. The Face
10. I Lost My Head
I could change around the order and substitute other tracks. Lots of excellent material on the first eight albums.
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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967).
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Foolsdrummer
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Posted: October 30 2008 at 16:36 |
This list could change anytime, but let's say.
1. On reflection
2. The moon is down
3. His last voyage
4. Experience
5. The house, the street, the room
6. Playing the game
7. Mister class and quality
8. Three friends
9. Why not?
10. Free hand
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 20:22 |
No order just the first ten that jump into my head...
Free Hand
Black Cat
Three Friends
Knots
A Cry for Everyone
The Boys in the Band
River
Prologue
Peel the Paint
Mister Class and Quality
I love all of the "Three Friends" album!
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The Quiet One
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Posted: October 15 2008 at 19:13 |
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A new one:
1. River
2. Advent of Panurge and Plain Truth
3. Free Hand
4. Just the Same
5. Experience
6. Cry for Everyone
7. The Boys in the Band
8. Prologue
9. Peel the Paint and The House, The Street, The Room
10. Three Friends
Special Mention to the great riff off All Through the Night!
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Negoba
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Posted: October 15 2008 at 15:34 |
1. Knots
2. Funny Ways
3. Advent of Panurge
4. Wreck
5. Mr. Class and Quality
6. Black Cat
7. River
8. Proclamation
9. On Reflection
10. Dog's Life
I don't have really much of anything from albums 5-10, though I've sample some of the big songs. I may have to make another list later.
Edited by Negoba - October 15 2008 at 15:36
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 18:13 |
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My top five:
1- The advent of panurge
2- River
3- A cry for everyone
4- Free Hand
5- The boys in the band and Time to Kill
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micky
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 00:22 |
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wow... don't listen to them as I once did... but still.... putting on School Days is one of the tracks... and rare indeed in prog... that can simply bring tears to your eyes. Man I love that song.. .in fact... putting Three Friends on now. Been awhile since I've listened to it. Don't do the 'english' thing much these days.
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