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machineryelf

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Re: Gentle Giant

Dec 12, 2009, 12:45

One good review hardly makes cool does it, as far I can remember Supertramp never had that mysterious/syd angle that Floyd had, the 20min Genesis borefest tunes , or the Oh were so clever 10cc angle
They were also [or seemed to be] frightfully middleclass which was a big problem post 76
Having had also had a hit they couldn't even go the Camel,BJH obscure root, IIRC Even In The Quietest Moments had some fairly good writeups at the time
but generally I would say that if you were going to rate bands on their coolness at the time of release Supertramp would probably note rate much above 2.
Were they also not initially started by some consortium wanting a pet rock band or such like, there was some sort of whiff of scandal or at least mild skullduggery, probably the most controversial thing that ever happened to them

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Gentle Giant – The Sea Cat, Dec 10, 2009, 12:58


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