Is gentle giant worth listening?
How good are their albums besides octopus?
Is gentle giant worth listening?
Eli Davis
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Logan Mitchell
First song on s/t is one of my favorites of all time
The Power And The Glory is really good too
Sebastian Clark
I like "Gentle Giant", OP, I also like the song "Focus" by Hocus Pocus
Justin Gray
It's a good gateway band if want to get out of metal. Used to love a couple of their songs. Can't tell which album is best because most of them aren't coherent at all. They have some great tunes I still love to this day. Give them a listen, I think their an essential prog band. They probably were more impressive live.
Anthony Rivera
Their first seven LPs are all worth listening if one is a prog fan in my opinion. Very consistent band till 1975, then they start making shitty LPs BUT they did release a sick ass live recording in 1977 called Playing The Fool.
If you're new to prog, I would honestly recommend going through some of the stuff most people already know about because GG have one hell of an anti-prog filter. But if you do legit enjoy prog definitely check them out.
Jace Perry
S/T and Acquiring the Taste are great.
After that, Visconti leaves. The playing is just as good, but the production is just terrible.
Carson Davis
>I like "Gentle Giant", OP, I also like the song "Focus" by Hocus Pocus
I feel you.
Aaron Ramirez
It's your typical, dime a dozen, cookie cutter prog rock. It all sounds the same
Daniel Reyes
Really? Can you name a prog band that sounds like Gentle Giant that came before them?
Liam Jenkins
Why does it have to be before them? I'm saying all prog music sounds the same. And gentle giant just happens to be one of the pioneers of a genre of music that all sounds the same.
But if I have to name a few.
Genesis, yes, ELP
Jack Baker
>And gentle giant just happens to be one of the pioneers of a genre of music that all sounds the same.
William Baker
>Why does it have to be before them?
Because that's how you know a band is original. Better listen to whoever pioneered it than the later bands who copied them.
>Genesis, yes, ELP
Wow you really do know a lot about prog rock.
Jayden Ross
>It's your typical, dime a dozen, cookie cutter prog rock. It all sounds the same
I think you are wrong, not all progressive rock sounds the same. Listen to the song "Awaken" or "Mind Drive" by Yes for example
Sebastian Kelly
Nah. The only band that comes close to Gentle Giant's approach to more technical based songwriting are Yes and Rush. Yes is too far on the symphonic side with a more grandiose feel to be compared to GG, and Rush lacks the psychedelic feel of GG even on albums where they, like GG, do that fantasy world stuff.
Genesis is closer to prog's folk roots while ELP is super keyboard centric symphonic prog that is far from GG's style.
Dylan Edwards
>The only band that comes close to Gentle Giant's approach to more technical based songwriting are Yes and Rush
That's what I said, I said listen to the song "Awaken" by Yes:
Matthew Phillips
Listen to something like Henry Cow, Magma, Univers Zéro or Kōenjihyakkei them tell me it sounds like Yes, Genesis, ELP or Gentle Giant.
Jackson White
In a Glass House is far and away their best album imo
Brandon Cruz
They are one of my favorite prog bands of all time. They are so unique and I've never found anything quite like them
It's tough to choose a favorite album, because they have so many good ones, but if I had to choose it would be a tie between Power and the Glory and Three Friends
Isaiah Young
Did you only read the first sentence?
Thomas Rivera
No, I read his entire post.
Brandon Jones
I listened to Three Friends the other week and loved it. I recommend