Best Three Album Run - Gentle Giant or Camel
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Topic: Best Three Album Run - Gentle Giant or Camel
Posted By: Argo2112
Subject: Best Three Album Run - Gentle Giant or Camel
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 11:27
| We did a few of there a while ago but I don't think we did this one - Who would you pick? |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 11:30
| Camel gets the vote here, easily. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 11:32
Camel wins easily for me here, having listened to all of Gentle Giant's underwhelming albums for the first time yesterday. 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 11:37
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Wrong trio of GG-albums (for me) so Camel |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 11:38
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 12:48
| It’s a tie for me. I love all these albums a lot. |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 12:53
| Camel. Three such perfect albums in a row. Love GG as well. |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 13:40
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It's hard to choose from these great albums. But just edging it for me is the Gentle Giant run. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 13:43
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 13:44
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 14:08
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Great though Gentle Giant are, no trio of albums by anyone matches that trio from Camel. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: zbida
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 14:10
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Camel. What a powerful and a sublime trio at the same time! |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 14:14
At least you listened, Paul. 
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Posted By: tamijo_II
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 14:15
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gentle giant by far ------------- Same person as this profile: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=22524" rel="nofollow - Tamijo |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 14:22
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 14:31
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Close, but Camel. ------------- 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: Progmind
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 14:36
this
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 15:53
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Camel. ------------- ---------- 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: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 15:57
| Camel, but only just. |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 16:04
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There's one from each I either haven't heard or my copy skips so much I feel like I haven't heard it, so I'll vote based on the two from each I have heard: GG - Octopus and In A Glass House are both consistently fun and perplexing, with extremely catchy passages that double as extremely weird and difficult to reproduce ones. Both would vie for my favorite GG album any day. Camel - The Snow Goose I've only heard once but I know it's a masterpiece based on that. Just beautiful beautiful music with many changing moods and unique motifs. Moonmadness on the other hand I find just okay. Some songs are really good, others just kinda leave me cold. I've listened to it many times and still find I get lost in the tracklist. I'm also not really a fan of how it starts. Track 2 is a much better piece to my ears. It'll be Gentle Giant for me. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 16:14
Yes, nothing ventured, nothing gained, as they say, and Cristi warned me in advance that I probably wouldn't acquire the taste for Gentle Giant, so I wasn't too disappointed by them when my expectations were already low to begin with. On a positive note though, at least I'll be able to take part in Gentle Giant polls from now on, including this one.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 16:23
I only knew that a band like Gentle Giant is not your thing, not your kind of band. Therefore your so called "low expectations" make no sense to me.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 16:24
| I like Three Friends more than I like Mirage, I like The Snow Goose more than I like Octopus, and I like Moonmadness more than I like In a Glass House, so Camel edges out Gentle Giant in this one, but it's close. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 16:43
You're a pretty good judge of what kind of music I like by now and my preconceived low expectations of Gentle Giant came from having seen part of the BBC Sight & Sound concert from 1978 some time ago and having been less than impressed by them, I never listened to any Gentle Giant albums until yesterday. So there you go. It all makes perfect sense now, or maybe not, as the case may be.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 17:04
Hmm.
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 17:08
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I felt that I could not vote; wrong three album run for GG, and I don't like Camel at all. |
Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 17:16
| Can't do it. Those two bands are amongst my favorites, and those are some great albums too. No way for me to chose one over the other. |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 17:16
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Gotta go with Gentle Giant here, although personally I would have preferred to have Power and the Glory in the trio rather than Three Friends ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: EduTatsumi
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 18:04
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Easily Camel. My Gentle Giant trio would be Octopus/In a Glass House/The Power and the Glory (my favorite). Even so I would choose Camel. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 18:18
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Please. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 18:19
Thank you. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 11 2022 at 18:22
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 00:58
| The first two by both bands (in that run) are great but then IAGH just leaves me cold. If it was TPATG I would feel very different. Camel on the other hand did a perfect album run that for me is the best by any band of any genre. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 02:56
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I love all. I rated all with 5 stars. But, I need to go with Gentle Giant. It has a more adventurous and innovative prog sound.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 03:41
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Camel gets the nod. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 03:44
This ^
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 06:21
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Gentle Giant, but there's not a lot in it. In general I agree that GG were more adventurous musically, but David Bedford's orchestral arrangements for The Snow Goose showed a more exploratory side to Camel. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 09:25
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'Giant, saved by In a Glass House. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 11:05
This forum is probably littered with people who now love Gentle Giant but who did not get on with them on first hearing, and I’d include myself in that number. Of course nobody is obliged to like them, but “I listened to them once and didn’t like it, so I’ll sh*t-rate them in polls forevermore” is a bit of a…superficial…approach. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 11:07
thank you for saying that. I could not have worded better, I really couldn't.
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Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 12:14
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love all 6 albums but Gentle Giant ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 12:26
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 14:30
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Camel by the thickness of a hair. ------------- 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 12 2022 at 23:50
TPATG - Freehand- Interview , but I would still vote for Camel. make it the first four albums and GG beat everyone
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 11:01
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 16:43
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easy. 🐫 Could never get into Gentle Giant
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Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 16:52
| I've also found Gentle Giant's albums underwhelming. I've given most of them 2 listens each |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 20:23
| Camel for me. If it had been the first 3 GG albums I might have had a more difficult time deciding, but still it should have been Camel. |