Acquiring the Taste

by Gentle Giant

Acquiring the Taste cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 July 1971
  • Label: Vertigo
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 39:06
  • Community rating: 4.08/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Ray Shulman, John Weathers, Derek Shulman, Gary Green, Martin Smith, Phil Shulman, Malcolm Mortimore, Kerry Minnear

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Declaring their intention to completely abandon commercial appeal, Gentle Giant delivered a staggeringly inventive, highly unconventional sophomore effort. 'Acquiring the Taste' is a wonderfully quirky, intensely complex progressive rock masterpiece, blending wildly shifting time signatures with beautifully mysterious medieval textures and remarkably eclectic, deeply playful avant-prog instrumentation.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, medieval, uncommon-time-signatures, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Pantagruel's Nativity (6:50)
  2. Edge Of Twilight (3:47)
  3. The House, The Street, The Room (6:02)
  4. Acquiring The Taste (1:36)
  5. Wreck (4:36)
  6. The Moon Is Down (4:45)
  7. Black Cat (3:51)
  8. Plain Truth (7:36)

Credits

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