The Power and the Glory - Gentle Giant
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Topic: The Power and the Glory - Gentle Giant
Posted By: Epignosis
Subject: The Power and the Glory - Gentle Giant
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 08:50
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Unquestionably my favorite Gentle Giant album, The Power and the Glory is a wonderful concept album about the cycle authority and rebellion, one which is especially relevant to American politics, particularly with respect to our highest office. (Boy, that read like a college thesis statement) If you are interested, http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=191356 - here is my review of the album, which I feel is one of my best reviews (it was so much fun dissecting the music on this one). So which song is your favorite? I have included the title track, which was not a part of the original album, just for the hail of it. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 09:04
| Tough poll. This was the one that got me into the band. |
Posted By: Mladen_Serbia
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 10:17
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Playing the game. Other standout tracks are Proclamation and Valedictory. Overrated album... |
Posted By: dedokras
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 10:22
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I can see Playing the Game winning this easily, I have also got a soft spot for the much maligned by the band title track . A Glass House poll might be really tough though ------------- http://mlyk.bandcamp.com/ |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 10:34
Not for me. "The Runaway" would easily take my vote. And I of course voted for the horse currently in the lead, which will never ever lose... ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
dedokras wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 10:47
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I'm voting for "The Face." "Proclamation" is up there too.
------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 11:00
Good on you! The Face is one of those GG tracks which rarely gets a proper mention despite being a stonking good song, IMO. Having said that, I went for Proclamation. Playing the Game will almost certainly top this poll, but I don't know why. In some ways that track really outstays its welcome (Kerry's awesome hammond solo notwithstanding). Lastly, I would like to be a pedant and point out that the so-called "title track" was in fact nothing of the kind as it never appeared on the album in question. It was simply a last-minute attempt at a single recorded to promote the LP which has, unsurprisingly, ended up as a bonus track on most reissues of the album. |
Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 11:16
| Proclamation, followed closely by Cogs in Cogs. This is definitely one of my favourite GG albums, too. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 11:59
| Great album. I went with the opening song. It's really hard to go against any of the songs on it. |
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 13:21
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It has to be Proclamation.
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 13:25
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Proclamation Some bloody fantastic keyboard work right there from Mr Minnear. ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 13:59
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It was between Proclamation and Cogs in Cogs, and since CiC had fewer votes I gave it mine.
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Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 14:41
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"Proclamation," "Playing the Game," "No God's a Man," and "The Face" jump out as the best from this album. Upon closer inspection "Playing the Game" is the first to be eliminated. The remaining three are pretty mcuh equal but "No God's a Man" has no votes so my vote goes to it. ------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 14:43
I voted for Playing The Game, but I think it was that keyboard work in that song that really made me fall for the band. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 15:32
| Playing the Game that Hammond from Kerry is simply awesome. |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 19:04
| No mention of the beautiful "Aspirations" yet, I'll give it my vote but Proclamation and Playing the Game are pretty much tied with it as my favorite. |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: October 27 2009 at 01:26
| My fav GG album aswell, Aspiration is one of the best pieces ever recorded |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 27 2009 at 01:59
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Love this record, and glad they added the title cut to the CD. Favorite cut? Jeez I 'd have to listen to it to answer. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 27 2009 at 03:08
I have not heard all tracks ( ), so I don't vote, but of what I heard, Playing the Game is my favourite.------------- 
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Posted By: Anderson III
Date Posted: October 27 2009 at 09:38
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I agree that this is GG's best album. And their best song is So Sincere. ------------- "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 27 2009 at 15:54
'Playing the Game' gets my vote. Closely followed by 'Aspirations' Two of my fave GG songs back to back! 
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Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: October 27 2009 at 21:00
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I have to listen again. i do not remember the songs of this album.
I remember more Free Hand, thus i bought them at the same time, maybe that's say why i remember more Free Hand -------------  |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 27 2009 at 22:17
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Great album! Any song on side one could win it for me, but I'll go with Proclamation, for it's weirdly funky riff, and dramatic mid section. Honorable mention to Aspirations, one of the prettiest melodies I've ever heard. ------------- 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: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 27 2009 at 22:23
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Oy.
Favorite album by GG (  ) myself. Really hard to choose. I have to give a vote to So Sincere though. Proclamation or The Face should also get votes for me, as well as a honorable mention vote to Aspirations just for being so damned cool.------------- 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: Zombywoof
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 19:24
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I finally heard this great album for the first time this past week and I'm really starting to enjoy it all of the way through, however "The Face" sticks out to me as a possible favorite and almost a tie with "Cogs in Cogs". "The Face" gets the vote, though this will probably change! |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 10:39
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My 2nd favorite Giant album!
Proclamation, So Sincere and No God's a Man are my personal favorites here though I dunno which one of them I'll vote for..
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 10:58
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Proclamation, I suppose - but each of the first 4 tracks are fantastic. ------------- 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: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 11:15
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Why doesn't The Face get more love? ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 15:05
| "Playing the Game", easily for me. |
Posted By: Johnnytuba
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 18:16
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This was hard for me because I love the whole album! For me it was a toss up between Playing the Game and Proclamation, but Playing the Game came out on top. ------------- "The things that we're concealing, will never let us grow. Time will do its healing, you've got to let it go. |
Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 11:11
| Another vote for Aspirations. |
Posted By: missinglink07
Date Posted: February 03 2010 at 18:17
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Cogs in Cogs for sure; it blends all of GG's trademark sounds and styles into one 3-minute insane yet glorious roller-coaster of sound. Also, a live performance of this song I found on Youtube a while back got me into this band in the first place. And since I feel like bragging, i found a MIDI version on a fan site and using a certain computer program, learned to play along on the guitar  I played it for my girlfriend and it sorta blew her mind (despite her abhorrence for much of progressive rock).
------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841cXnzESZw - A song I wrote, please listen! |