Best Songs on Gentle Giant's Octopus
Octopus is the 4th album by Gentle Giant, released in 1972, and contains Progressive rock and Experimental rock.Gentle Giant are a British progressive rock band.
I have to say that Gentle Giant are the progressive rock band with the best vocals, close to them are Uriah Heep vocals - I am talking about prog rock bands of the 70s but Gentle Giant's vocals can also beat some more modern prog bands.
Vocals are divine. I also like the jazzy instrumental part.
Side note:
this is the original cover of the UK release. Songs with this cover were already available on TheTopTens and I added them.
Songs with the green-ish cover weren't on TheTopTens and I added them from iTunes (iTunes didn't offer song samples with the original cover).
The green-ish cover was an Alternative cover for the US and Canadian releases. The song samples I added from iTunes with the green cover are known as "Steven Wilson Mix" (Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree).
This song is a an interesting mix of jazz, classical and folk
The first half of this song is an intricate and brilliant vocal workout (madrigal-styled).
I think at least one Rush song was influenced by this song, especially the riff type
Instrumental (I like the most its fast intro, it's cool)