Gentle Giant - Playing the Game (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Gentle Giant | Playing the Game | The powerd and the Glory (1974)
www.gentlegiantband.com
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Lyrics:
As I hold the key to the back door
Of the world I feel my
Hand touching bounds never had before
I can view the power of my position and my
Eyes can see more than anyone in any place
I'll play the game and never ever lose
I'm the king in fighting competition
And the other pieces
Are there for my art and my tactics now
All my games are won before they're played for
I have planned that no opposition can stage a fight
I'll play the game and never ever lose
My thoughts never spoken only the
Visions inside my head the truth never broken
Within my silent words left unsaid
I will steer the helm of all the nation
As the captain
Take my rewards for all the good I'm doing now
And no words that I'm the knave will alter my
Philosophy for if any are heard, the games started
Again I'll never ever lose
Recorded 50 years ago, GG's music sounds like it was Recorded 50 years from now,,,
Standard rock music goes down the path everyone knows. Progressive rock takes a turn and goes down a different path that few know about.
the lucky few
well said..
Prog still sounds fresh tho unlike dad rock
And changes 9 times during the song……..
Idk tbh quite a bit of Garage Style Rock and Punk especially Hardcore seems wildly creative even if it's in Pop Time or whatever.
Glad to hear Derek Shulman name this as his favorite album, I feel it doesn’t get as much love from the fans. This track is so good!
Yes. Arguably their best album.
It’s my favorite. I bought this album in 1974. I still have it!
funny, i always thought this was most fan's favorite album or right behind free hand
A great track, yes!
50 years on, and still as fresh as when I first heard it. Very, very few bands can lay claim to such a legacy.
One of the best B3 rock organ solos on the break, ever. F'ing brilliant!
The whole middle section with Kerry's vocals and the electric piano is brilliant. But I agree; that is an absolutely murderous organ solo.
Memories of me my brother and best friend listening to this in the late 70s with a case of beer and some smoke RIP Bryan and Jim
Good memories!
May they both rest in peace!
This is the song that turned me into a Gentle Giant fan. By God they were GREAT!!!!
So great that God must have had a hand in it!!! Not even kidding, here.
Best song in this record?
Funky keyboard playing , sassy and cool 😉
I love Gentle Giant! I love how funky they are with "progressive rock "!
The groove of this song is illegally good, Jesus Christ!
😅❤
GG can funk out for sure 😎
The drummer in this band has his work cut out for him , but he's up to the task .
Cogs in Cogs is pretty tricky on the kit
Thank you GG
You were the best of prog alongside KC. You are a prime source of inspiration for upcoming musicians.
@@Tawanyh
Objectively, there is virtually nothing bad to say about them.
They made great music, and are part of the Founding Fathers of the Genre like Soft Machine & all the others that were forgotten.
Maybe Ive just havent got to swim enough in their pool yet, for I love experimental rock.
Thanks for reminding me of a band that Ive forgot to binge-track as time goes by.
Keep in mind right before they formed GG they needed to fire the keyboard player. A guy name Reggie Dwight. You know him as Elton John.
@@tixximmi wow, never knew this...
@@michaelfuria4257 Watched it in a interview with Derek.
I'd throw Yes and Genesis in there
As a drummer, I can say that trying to play to GG songs...it isnt so easy! John Weathers makes it seem so. Love this band
As I hold the key to the back door
Of the world I feel my
Hand touching bounds never had before
I can view the power of my position and my
Eyes can see more than anyone in any place
I'll play the game and never ever lose
I'm the king in fighting competition
And the other pieces
Are there for my art and my tactics now
All my games are won before they're played for
I have planned that no opposition can stage a fight
I'll play the game and never ever lose
My thoughts never spoken only the
Visions inside my head the truth never broken
Within my silent words left unsaid
I will steer the helm of all the nation
As the captain
Take my rewards for all the good I'm doing now
And no words that I'm the knave will alter my
Philosophy for if any are heard, the games started
Again I'll never ever lose
Sounds very new wave-y but still very rooted in progressive rock. I feel like this was influential to discipline era king crimson
yeah! there are a lot of new wave here, years before new wave even existed. it's so incredible that this song it's at least 5 years ahead from your time
Kerry's keyboards were, are, hypnotic, another musical planet, style, wisdom and taste and much more that cannot be explained.
GG, attempts at imitation, but .......... the case is closed, long live the Giant
Just listen to the repeated lick played over the diatonically shifting bass line... BRILLIANT!!!!
Where's my Guinness?????
The best album from Gentle Giant
Giving this whole album a run right now with the 🎧. Love these guys. Hitting all their albums again. So consistently great. No skipping with GG. Hit play and chill
I read an article about GG and critics and professional musicians rated GG from some top quality 500 bands around the world, GG was rated 54 in progressive rock n roll. Long Live GG!
Nice. They got it close. They were only off by 53.
An amazing song at the top of progressive music.
One of the best bass lines I've ever heard, wow.
For sure. Sometimes when I play this album, I'll isolate just the bass on this track. Fantastic
Long live the Giant!
Gentle Giant: to know and to love!
I bought it in 1974,too.Fabulous!!!
Finally a track with a satisfying sound quality on YT, I was already losing hope.
Spotify way better and they have the new mixes on GG albums. I only come to UA-cam with music for the comments when I'm already playing a good copy
13yrs powerful Young fellow and the progressive idiom around
Leur discographie est un véritable trésor .
Chaques Opus relève de la maestria
Celui-ci n’y échappe pas .
Som sofisticado demais pra 1974... Biscoito finíssimo!!! 😍
Concordo plenamente. Genialidade ao extremo! Nunca mais teremos um clássico desse. Demais!!!
WOW IHAVE GOOSE BUMPS, KUNDALINI RISING UP THE ROOF, PURE BLISS TO LISTEN TO GG , A GROUP OF GENIUS MUSICIANS. IT WAS A PRIVILEGE TO KNOW THEM AT 16.WHAT A DISCOVERY...
I like the live version better, this one is tame in comparsion, although not bad of course. Nice to have 2 versions 👍
Such great musicianship and and still inspires to this day.
Just got into Genital Giant. I love it so far.
GENITAL
@@buddhawasright lol
Aaaaaah the audio is so crisp and clean!
In it’s time, musicians music
Absolutely, always, anytime, anywhere, ENJOY YOUR LIFE WITH with G.G. Fabulous music. Good time for you
I didn't expect to find this melody years after hearing it while going through GG's discography...
Words can never adequately describe Giants music!!
So glad I saw G.G. twice at The Newcastle City Hall 1975 ish
as always, the rhythm of melodies is sublime, but also de colors of harmony, is magic
Gentle Giant could have been a very succesfull commercial band , but I'm glad that they aren't.
Absolutely fantastic❤
I played this song over and over hundreds of times. I love your work!!!!!!!
Absolutely outstanding!!!
Great song!
BRAVO!
incredible GIANTS
You are the best, GG!!😁
very very good......................................................................
wow..amazing tune!
notable
Im listening to this track about half an hour now...yo do the math!
"Okay, I'm going to attempt to drown myself. You can try this at home. You can be just like me."
una maquina !!!!!!!, noooooo?
Suggested reading: Marcus Aurelius - The Emperor's Handbook 🙂
Arguably their most complex and ‘difficult’ album - I think it’s a masterpiece.
Only In A Glass House is better.
Here is the Shulberry in action.
I heard this song and watched the video on acid, all I can say is... Jesus
shot 16mm as if this were a commercial of a young couple going to an ATM before their Date! ~1983.
Prog Rock? This is so *funky*
Suggested reading: Erich Fromm - The Sane Society🙂
The beginning makes me think of a western movie mixed with Frank Zappa.
THE WIZZARDS OF THE UNIVERSE MUSIC
What do you think GG-fans, is this their best song? To me it is
Aguante GG carajo.
Todd Rundgren must have been influenced by this song when he recorded Utopia (or vice versa!)
I'mo rap to this shit soon! I love progressive rock
Didn’t they invent that instrument at the top of the track?
SUPREMIUM
Can God beat the devil at his own game while playing by his rules? 🤔
I would love to rap to this
Please don’t.
People have tried to rap to samples of Gentle Giant before and the only MC I recall pulling it off and with good taste is MF Doom on the song 'Strange Ways'
DOOM used a track from their first album. He killed it like everything on the madvillianey album
Why destroy a work of art with the sterile garbage of shit that is rap (hip hop)? This crap can't even be called music! This rubbish has been, for decades, the same poor rhythm as always with idiotic gestures to accompany it. It always sounds like the same prayer! ...nha, nhanhanha, nhanhanha nhan...! Always the same! No creativity! Destroy this shit residue once and for all! We are tired of the garbage verbiage of that "street poetry" full of "fucks", "kill the white man"... etc. Let the Music in Peace!
@@antoncardus7864Your heroes in Gentle Giant would call you a fool and have confessed on several occaisions that rap is progressive music. Its funny people like you enjoy this type of art and can still be so close minded and ugly
ace of hearts♥