GENTLE GIANT
GENTLE GIANT.OCTOPUS+THE POWER AND THE GLORY CD
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AMG EXPERT REVIEW: 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 very vague in contrast to Pink Floyd's re-creations of the post-'60s drug experience, Yes's sweeping album-length suites, and ELP's sci-fi epics. "No God's a Man" is an infinitely more challenging piece of music than anything on Jethro Tull's Aqualung, but that wasn't a commercial virtue: nor could the e lectric violin break on "The Face" or the rippling electric guitar passages throughout cover the effort involved in absorbing these songs. Power and the Glory vaguely resembled Genesis's early art-rock albums, but without any presence as charismatic as Peter Gabriel. "Playing the Game" and "So Sincere" were the most accessible tracks and ended up as key parts of their concert set. The CD's sound is more than decent.
Tracks are:
OCTOPUS
1. The Advent Of Panurge 4:42
2. Raconteur, Troubadour 4:02
3. A Cry For Everyone 4:04
4. Knots 4:10
5. The Boys In The Band 4:33
6. Dog's Life 3:11
7. Think Of Me With Kindness 3:31
8. River 5:52
THE POWER AND THE GLORY
1. Proclamation (Minnear/Shulman/Shulman) - 6:47
2. So Sincere (Minnear/Shulman/Shulman) - 3:51
3. Aspirations (Minnear/Shulman/Shulman) - 4:40
4. Playing the Game (Minnear/Shulman/Shulman) - 6:46
5. Cogs in Cogs (Minnear/Shulman/Shulman) - 3:07
6. No Gods a Man (Minnear/Shulman/Shulman) - 4:27
7. Face (Minnear/Shulman/Shulman) - 4:12
8. Valedictory (Minnear/Shulman/Shulman] - 3:21
9. Power and the Glory [*] (Minnear/Shulman/Shulman) - 2:52
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