{"id":29066,"date":"2025-03-19T05:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=29066"},"modified":"2025-02-17T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:27:36","slug":"review-roundup-gentle-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/review-roundup-gentle-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Review Roundup: Gentle Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9874\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gentle_giant_octopus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gentle_giant_octopus.jpg 280w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gentle_giant_octopus-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gentle_giant_octopus-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>Gentle Giant made some of the most distinctive progressive rock of the 1970s. The group&#8217;s remarkable musical sensibility set them apart from their contemporaries. I love &#8217;em. And I have reviewed a good bit of their catalog. Links are below. Note, too, that <em>Three Friends<\/em> will get an in-depth chapter &#8212; based on my interview with Derek Shulman &#8212; in my upcoming book about concept albums, <em>What&#8217;s the Big Idea<\/em>. It&#8217;s due later this year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/19\/album-review-gentle-giant-three-friends\/\">Three Friends<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/02\/album-review-gentle-giant-octopus\/\">Octopus<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/11\/album-review-gentle-giant-octopus-steven-wilson-remix\/\">Octopus (Steven Wilson Remix)<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/10\/album-review-gentle-giant-in-a-glass-house-2010-reissue\/\">In a Glass House<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/09\/album-review-gentle-giant-the-power-and-the-glory-2010-reissue\/\">The Power and the Glory<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/15\/album-review-gentle-giant-free-hand-2010-reissue\/\">Free Hand<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/17\/hundred-word-reviews-for-december-2017-reissues-compilations\/\">Three Piece Suite<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/hundred-word-reviews-for-may-2015-part-8\/\">Live at the Bicentennial 1776-1976<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle Giant made some of the most distinctive progressive rock of the 1970s. The group&#8217;s remarkable musical sensibility set them apart from their contemporaries. I love &#8217;em. And I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,65],"tags":[893],"class_list":["post-29066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prog","category-review","tag-gentle-giant","cat-56-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29068,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29066\/revisions\/29068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}