Enjoy! Check Top 11 Gentle Giant songs by Prog Sphere. Gentle Giant's self-titled debut studio album was released in late 1970. Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band. Textually inspired by philosophy, personal events and the works of François Rabelais, the group's early compositional purpose was to "expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of becoming very unpopular." NB Three Friends (1972) was the band's third album release. The line up on the album is Gary Green, Kerry Minnear, Derek … NB Three Friends (1972) was the band's third album release. Three albums is more than enough time to see if a style is working for a band, and the divorcement from wacky prog insanity was a death knell to virtually everything that made Gentle Giant interesting in the first place. Gentle Giant should really rank amongst the best prog-rockers, they are so mind-blowingly fantastic and underrated! The top rated tracks by Gentle Giant are Proclamation, Peel The Paint, Three Friends, In A Glass House and Black Cat.This band appears in 531 charts and has received 4 comments and 27 ratings from BestEverAlbums.com site members. Every song is great and were it not for the album before it, it would be my favorite. Not a wasted note. 11: 11. 10. Octopus This album is one of the greatest albums in all of music, let alone prog. To their credit, it’s a good thing that Gentle Giant called it quits when they did. “Gentle Giant” is the self-titled debut studio album of Gentle Giant and was released in 1970. So I'm a huge Gentle Giant fan, and I find them very creative and talented. It's a shame that they broke up too early, because I like them so much. Rampant eclecticism, incredibly tight and busy arrangements, and the general ‘weirdness for weirdness’ sake’ that coloured every Gentle Giant album (arguably excluding Giant for a Day) are central to Octopus. This album is my #2 album for sure. Even that album though is better than the weaker albums of most prog bands. This is hardly Gentle Giant anymore, it feels and sounds nothing like them, but it is not a complete surprise after The Missing Place how the band deteriorated into this. Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band. In my opinion it is an incredible record and one that I would enthusiastically recommend to any fan of Progressive Rock music and which I would definitely label as a 'must own' for existing Gentle Giant fans. Gentle Giant released eleven studio albums in the period from 1970 to 1980. Gentle Giant war eine britische Progressive-Rock-Band um die Brüder Phil, Derek und Ray Shulman.Die Gruppe war zwischen 1970 und 1980 aktiv und bekannt für die Komplexität ihrer Musik und die vielfältigen musikalischen Fähigkeiten ihrer Mitglieder. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant on AllMusic - 1970 - Astonishingly daring debut album, not as focused… It sounds like a “best of” album… Textually inspired by philosophy, personal events and the works of François Rabelais, the group's early compositional purpose was to "expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of becoming very unpopular." To me, this is Gentle Giant’s ultimate masterpiece. Perfection. No shit. The Missing Piece, 1977. The Missing Piece is, if nothing else, an eclectic album.Unfortunately, that’s where its similarities with Gentle Giant‘s earlier albums begins to end.Yes, this is where things really started to unravel for a band I’ve heard described as the ‘quintessential prog rock act.’