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Last of the Runaways
(1989)
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Free Hand
(1975)
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Gentle Giant
Free Hand is perhaps Gentle Giant's most realized effort. After the excellent In a Glass House, the group further developed its Renaissance-medieval approach, producing one of the most creative and complex recordings in progressive rock history. Their vocal approach to the four-part fugue "On Reflection" was revolutionary for its time and is ...
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Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams
(1993)
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Various Artists
The shear breadth and diversity of artists gathered for this benefit project, Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams, is a tribute to the affection Victoria Williams' peers had for her. It conveniently also makes for heady listening for any fan of contemporary music. The hard, brittle edges of Soul Asylum ("Summer of Drugs") and Buffalo Tom ...
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Octopus
(1972)
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Gentle Giant
Returning to Gentle Giant's fourth album after any kind of lengthy absence, it's astonishing just how little Octopus has dated. Often written off at the time as a pale reflection of the truly gargantuan steps being taken by the likes of Jethro Tull and Barclay James Harvest, the band's closest relatives in the tangled skein of period prog, Gentle ...
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Three Friends
(1972)
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Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant's third album (and their first self-produced effort, Tony Visconti having run the sessions on the two previous records) was another advance, this time in the direction of a harder rock sound -- everything sounds turned up here, especially the guitars, the bass, and the electronic keyboards. Three Friends hardly sacrificed any of the ...
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Acquiring the Taste
(1971)
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Gentle Giant
The band's second album is a major advance on its first, featuring superior singing, playing, and songwriting, as well as a more unified sound, without sacrificing the element of surprise in the first record. Many of the melodies and even the riffs here (check out Gary Green's first guitar flourish on "Pantagruel's Nativity") have a pretty high ...
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Giant Bear
(2007)
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Giant Bear
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1 Giant Leap
(2002)
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1 Giant Leap
The global village shrinks down to a single neighborhood in this ambitious project. Rhythm is the road that runs through it all, drawing residents from most of the corners of the world; odd, though, that with legions gathered from India, Africa, New Zealand, Europe, and the U.S., no one from South or Latin America, or from any Native American ...
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Is All Over the Map
(2004)
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Giant Sand
It's been four years since the last album from Giant Sand (Cover Magazine doesn't really count), and Howe Gelb is still making albums to please himself. Which is as it should be, since no one makes records that sound quite like this: a shambolic, atmospheric mixture of hushed tones, deadly distortion, tender poetics, and rock & roll. There are ...
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Playing the Fool [35th Anniversary Edition]
(2005)
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Gentle Giant
One of the more widely distributed (but not necessarily well-liked by fans) albums in Gentle Giant's output now gets at least its third distinct incarnation on CD, and this one is a winner, even though it takes the album back to being a double-disc release. The voices and instruments are now closer to the listener than ever in the mix, and the ...
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Swerve
(1990)
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Giant Sand
Featuring a variety of guest performers throughout, including Green on Red's Chris Cacavas, Juliana Hatfield, Steve Wynn, and a fair hunk of Poi Dog Pondering, Swerve features the then duo of Gelb and Convertino on a fine slew of songs. Recorded at a number of different locations, from Boston to Los Angeles, Swerve found Gelb reaching the ten-year ...
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In a Glass House
(1973)
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Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant was reduced to a quintet on In a Glass House with the departure of elder brother Phil Shulman, but its sound is unchanged, and the group may actually be tighter without the presence of his saxophones. The time signatures are still really strange, and the tempo changes are sometimes jarring, as is the wide range of dynamics, but this ...
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Hearts and Unicorns
(2005)
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Giant Drag
Giant Drag's debut is a sometimes hazy, sometimes fizzy blast of who-cares rock, meaning not that you, the listener, will find it as disposable as the cups sitting next to the beer keg, but that its creators, singer/guitarist Annie Hardy and drummer/keyboardist Micah Calabrase, seemed to have tossed it off while waiting for their next turn at the ...
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The Power and the Glory
(1974)
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Gentle Giant
The group's first U.S. release in two years featured ornate playing from Kerry Minnear on keyboards and Gary Green's loudest guitar work up to that time. Power and the Glory is also a fairly dissonant album, yet it made the charts, albeit pretty low. There seems to be a unifying theme having to do with one's place in the social order, but it's ...
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Hearts and Unicorns [Bonus Track]
(2006)
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Giant Drag
Giant Drag's debut, Hearts and Unicorns, is a sometimes hazy, sometimes fizzy blast of who-cares rock, not meaning that you, the listener, will find it as disposable as the cups sitting next to the beer keg, but that its creators, singer/guitarist Annie Hardy and drummer/keyboardist Micah Calabrase, seemed to have tossed it off while waiting for ...
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Giant for a Day! [35th Anniversary Edition]
(2005)
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Gentle Giant
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The Missing Piece [35th Anniversary Edition]
(2005)
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Gentle Giant
The Missing Piece was Gentle Giant's last album to chart in the U.S. Until 1977 the band's complicated music won them fans all over the world, but as market tastes changed, their fan base ceased to grow. In an attempt to attract a wider audience, the band decided to streamline its sound with simpler styles and a more "live" sound. There were ...
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Dread Champions of the Last Days
(2007)
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Sleeping Giant
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Time to Burn
(1991)
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Giant
Giant's second effort, 1991's Time to Burn is another excellent, melodic, hard rock album in the vein of Foreigner and Journey, but with the added sting of Dan Huff's incredible chops and blinding technique (especially on the title track). The rest of the band provides equally impressive musicianship throughout, and one is left with the feeling ...
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Throw: The Yo-Yo Studio Compilation
(2001)
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The lo-fi pop/rock songs on this appealing compilation were all laid down between 1987-1992 at Pat Maley's Yoyo Studios in Olympia, WA. The first track, "Fuck the Rules" by Kicking Giant, would by its placement seem to serve as Throw's manifesto. Not all of the bands are from Olympia -- Superchunk is from North Carolina, the Cannanes are from ...
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Alien I.D.
(1994)
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Kicking Giant
From the opening guitar rev up of the title track, Kicking Giant's Tae Won Yu (guitar/vocals) makes a declaration of unadulterated indie rock. Combined with the primal-stomp drumming of Rachel Carns (played standing up à la Maureen Tucker), Alien I.D. proves just how unnecessary a bass player can be when making hook-laden indie punk-pop. What's ...
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Strange Daze Festival 1997
(1999)
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Metridium Fields
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Giant Squid
For their debut album, California-to-Texas migrants Giant Squid did something that more groups should, perhaps, do -- they not only released it twice, but recorded it twice. Having first put out Metridium Fields on their own, the bandmembers got back together with engineer Billy Anderson to redo it entirely for their initial release on The End ...
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Ramp
(1994)
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Giant Sand
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Monster Madness
(2000)
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Various Artists
Monster Madness is an entertaining sampler of '80s-vintage hard rock and mainstream metal, featuring some of the genre's biggest pop hits of the decade. That means there's a preponderance of hair metal, but in this case, that's a good thing, because the songs included are consistently memorable and instantly recognizable. There's also a nice blend ...
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