Gentle Giant Acquiring The Taste 1st edition LP Canadian press gatefold VG +
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Nov 19, 2018 Sold Date
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Gentle Giant

Acquiring The Taste


Vertigo VEL-1005  LP  1971  (Canada)


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 haunt count, and all of the musicianship displays an elegance seldom heard even in progressive circles -- but the record also, amazingly enough, rocks really hard as well. Elements of hard rock and Gregorian chants mix freely and, amazingly enough, well throughout this album.


Tracklist

A1 Pantagruel's Nativity 6:49

A2 Edge Of Twilight 3:48

A3 The House, The Street, The Room 6:04

A4 Acquiring The Taste 1:36

B1 Wreck 4:37

B2 The Moon Is Down 4:45

B3 Black Cat 3:53

B4 Plain Truth 7:42


Distributed By – London Records Of Canada (1967) Ltd.


1st Edition: 1971 Gatefold unipak cover with a swirl label. 

Canadian Editions got title and vertigo logo in black on front cover.



Vinyl is VG+ (some visible marks with negligible effect on play) in a plastic-lined paper inner sleeve in a gatefold picture sleeve in FAIR condition (edge and general wear, tape marks).





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