Be Gentle To Your Giant(The Gentle Giant Thread)

[PlayingTheFool]

Well members, this is the official Gentle Giant thread. Post all you want about Gentle Giant here. Post your favorite songs, albums or anything related to Gentle Giant!

Alexander

[Rick and Roll]

Did we do favorite songs before on another thread? Well PTF, start us off anyway!

How about that incredibly low note that Minnear sings on The Runaway? If there's a lower note on vinyl, I'd like to hear it.

And what is that babble in the middle of Advent of Panurge? (what a great song). It sounds like they say "are you good in bed" but I know that's not it.

And finally, even though there are clearly better tracks and albums, isn't the "Missing Piece" a hell of a lot of fun?

[PlayingTheFool]

Alrighty then! Post your favorite songs as well!!!!

1.Free Hand

2.I Lost My Head

3.Funny Ways

4.In A Glass House

5.Just The Same/Proclomation!

That is all I can thinkg of now.

I also hear there are going to release a live Gentle Giant DVD!!!

[Rick and Roll]

Alcard (7)
Wreck (5)
Pantagruel's Nativity (6)
Schooldays (14)
The Advent of Panurge (2)
The Runanway (6)
In A Glass House (1) (one of my top ten all time favorite songs)
Aspirations (3)
The Face (13)
On Reflection (11)
Free Hand (10)
I Lost My Head (8)
As Old As You're Young (12)
Memories of Old Days (4)
For Nobody (9)

For now.............................

[byzantium]

I'm surprised nobody mentions 'Nothing At All'

The drumsolo ruins it you think, or?

[Rick and Roll]

I only have the first Giant on album, and my record player's not hooked up. I can't remember what "Nothing At All" sounds like!

On a cassette, I taped most of the others (especially Alcard, which is a cool tune).

[byzantium]

For one thing, it features marvellous harmony singing... But there's nothing of the vocal complexity of the later releases; more straight late-60s/early-70s hard rock. (Except – of course – for the experimentalism in the mid-section)