Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory


Wowzers is this thing wacky. The Power And The Glory is a lot of peoples' favorite Gentle Giant album. I don't think it's my favorite, but they certainly aren't wrong.

The album is loosely about how ridiculous the whole hoping for a powerful leader to make everything awesome again really is. Hey you, go be King, no wait you suck, maybe that guy will be a better King, oh wait....

For the 40th anniversary 10 years ago, Derek Shulman explained that Watergate, the Cold War, and the 40 years of corporate consolidation their label would experience were the thing they were talking about. Money and power will always win. Not because they're good or beneficial to anyone, merely because "winning" is the only kind of raisins they eat. This year's the 50th anniversary and i shouldn't even need to whisper forebodings about this coming November.

Best i can say is that it's really true, No God's A Man, especially not an orange tinted one. Please don't vote for a mulligan on 2017-2020. In all honesty, it's probably about time for facebook to die as well. Sure it'll be sad that you can't connect with people, but you already can't anyway, unless you pay facebook to put your posts in front of more than 12 people at a time. I'm just rambling, i don't really care, other than that it's hard to tell people about your record store when telling people about your record store tells fewer people about your record store and you get in trouble for "spamming" your own pages/groups. But publicorps gotta publicorp for the benefit of the shareholders or something. 

Regardless, if you have a liking for the kind of acutely insane Avant-Prog noone will ever play on commercial radio, Gentle Giant will not disappoint. The Power And The Glory is pretty far out there even by Prog-Rock standards, but well worth the listen. And it turns 50 this June, so that's fun.

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