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| 4.0 excellent | Jethro42 | May 13th 09 |
Pretty good debut album. Less consistent than 'Acquiring The Taste' but it rawks. Highlights; The first 3 ones and 'Nothing at All' with its drum solo emerging in the middle of a classical piano ride that soon turns to a more jazzy feel. As Gentle Giant does so well.The band is essential for those who are fond of adventurous and complex electic prog rock. Also, the band offers some of the most beautiful melodies, and incomparable multi-part vocal harmonies and dissonant musical counterpoint.
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| 4.0 excellent | BillyBrill | April 10th 23 |
Filled with little quirks and gems, this blend of progressiveness and danceability makes them the scrunkliest boy of prog, second only to Hatfield and the North
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| 3.5 great | GamamJ | September 20th 20 |
Absolutely brilliant. An oft-overlooked gem in 70s UK prog-rock, Gentle Giant take the concept of progressive music a step further than most of their peers. Although there may be more technical bands, none in the scene were just as quirky and experimental as this trio. You've got classical, jazz, and rock all present in spades with an ode to the queen and UK anthem to boot. Awesome
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| 4.0 excellent | Deadwing2112 | April 6th 20 |
The eponymous debut of Gentle Giant provides nearly every appreciable asset normally treasured by progressive rock fans and yet remained in the castle dungeon without ever receiving its due accolades. This is superior musicianship and quite impressive considering its status as the band's inaugural studio release. Nothing At All is an epic nine minute experience and features a terrific drum solo courtesy of Martin Smith. Why Not? begins as a progressive number and shifts mid tempo into somewhat a southern blues time frame that would seem more in line with The Allman Brothers. The lyrics are fanciful of merry ole England during a time that no longer exists. And until today this reviewer missed the obvious Alucard ananym for Dracula. These lads are clever and cheeky.
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| 4.0 excellent | kheman1317 | July 29th 18 |
An outstanding debut album and a must listen to all prog fans. "Nothing at all" is my personal favorite track from this album, especially the drum solo which blew me away.
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| 4.0 excellent | TheIntruder | August 28th 15 |
I am a big Gentle Giant fan. Gentle Giant was one of the pioneer bands of the progressive rock music and is also one of their bigger and best representative groups. Gentle Giant is an excellent debut album. It's probably their less complex musical work and it is for sure their most hard and heavy rock album. We must not forget that this is an album of 1970 and therefore one of the first progressive rock albums in the history. However, this album already have some of the main characteristics of their future music like the avant-garde and experimentalism, the fusion of rock, blues and jazz, the influences of the renaissance and medieval music and the prolific use of the multi-musical instruments.
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| 4.0 excellent | ThrashK | August 15th 15 |
The beginning of one of the best, most distinctive and consistent progressive rock groups ever.
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| 4.0 excellent | CrazyFool84 | March 26th 09 |
A pretty refreshing progressive unit, Gentle Giants self-titled debut should probably be listened to a few times before judgement starts to get passed on it. It definitely helps to let this one soak in, as there is a lot hidden amongst the music waiting to be discovered with each listen.
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| 4.0 excellent | Rodrigo | July 25th 25 |
| 3.5 great | Zakusz | January 8th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rick64 | May 25th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Verdr | April 5th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Denis | February 16th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Djang0 | October 17th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Lodger | September 18th 23 |
| 3.5 great | broitt | June 20th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Timmy | January 21st 23 |
| 3.5 great | HalapenYo CONTRIBUTOR | November 27th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bren80 | June 9th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | ZIG | February 19th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | J1m1 | May 21st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | boleyn2 | April 28th 21 |
| 3.5 great | bungy | November 28th 20 |
| 3.0 good | igi78 | August 13th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aranox | August 4th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | fenman | August 1st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Eva | May 7th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | dgropp | March 8th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Divaman | January 5th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Akifexx | October 4th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | kempokid | September 1st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | solrage | April 23rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Geomi | March 2nd 18 |
| 4.5 superb | gster04 | February 23rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sine | December 12th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rmazer | December 10th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Majkl | November 26th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | October 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Santet | June 3rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bolibar | January 15th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jpjpablo | December 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | progsun | August 22nd 16 |
| 3.5 great | Scoob | July 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | zx890c | February 9th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Mus | January 24th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | akosto | January 8th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Pegana | November 23rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | btati | November 12th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | wham49 | October 8th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | e210013 | September 14th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Zoink | June 29th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pane | March 14th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Louis04 | February 16th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Hsur | November 16th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Beats59 | November 6th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | RTCW | September 20th 14 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Miata | April 8th 14 |
| 3.5 great | manosg EMERITUS | March 24th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Patrik | March 5th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | denislg | February 7th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | January 9th 14 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Mootgut | December 16th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | gagnonov | November 14th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | rrodjf | September 27th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | tef | September 25th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | 1313 | September 4th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | DUIF | June 12th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | kual21 | April 3rd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thor | February 22nd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | igorvt | December 21st 12 |
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| 3.5 great | OmairSh | November 19th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Atheus | November 10th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | DRZ | October 24th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | dosia | September 15th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | tomasf | July 22nd 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Gard3n | July 17th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cru | July 7th 12 |
| 3.5 great | quelus | June 23rd 12 |
| 3.5 great | CutMan | June 15th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Riano | June 3rd 12 |
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| 3.5 great | GROK | October 4th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | greg84 EMERITUS | August 30th 11 |
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| 4.0 excellent | ast | March 6th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Greggers | February 15th 11 |
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| 3.5 great | noisy | September 5th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | wilde | November 20th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Boaz | May 9th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Maz | November 29th 07 |
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