The group's first U.S.
release in two years featured ornate playing from Kerry Minnear on keyboards and Gary Green's loudest guitar work up to that time.
The Power and the Glory is also a fairly dissonant album, yet it made the charts, albeit pretty low.
There seems to be a unifying theme having to do with one's place in the social order, but it's very vague in contrast to Pink Floyd's re-creations of the post-'60s drug experience, Yes' sweeping album-length suites, and ELP's sci-fi epics.
"No God's a Man" is an infinitely more challenging piece of music than anything on Jethro Tull's Aqualung, but that wasn't a commercial virtue; nor could the electric violin break on "The Face" or the rippling electric guitar passages throughout cover the effort involved in absorbing these songs.
The Power and the Glory vaguely resembled Genesis' early art-rock albums, but without any presence as charismatic as Peter Gabriel.
"Playing the Game" and "So Sincere" were the most accessible tracks and ended up as key parts of their concert set.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ProclamationKerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman | Gentle Giant | Play | 06:47 | 15 MB | 43 MB |
| 2 | So SincereKerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman | Gentle Giant | Play | 03:49 | 8 MB | 22 MB |
| 3 | AspirationsKerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman | Gentle Giant | Play | 04:39 | 10 MB | 24 MB |
| 4 | Playing the GameKerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman | Gentle Giant | Play | 06:45 | 15 MB | 41 MB |
| 5 | Cogs in CogsKerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman | Gentle Giant | Play | 03:08 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 6 | No God's a ManKerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman | Gentle Giant | Play | 04:26 | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| 7 | The FaceKerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman | Gentle Giant | Play | 04:11 | 9 MB | 28 MB |
| 8 | ValedictoryKerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman | Gentle Giant | Play | 03:23 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 37 mins | 85 MB | |||||
| 37 mins | 234 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gentle Giant | Arranger, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 2 | Gary Green | Guitar |
| 3 | Fred Kevorkian | Remastering |
| 4 | Gary Martin | Engineer |
| 5 | Kerry Minnear | Cello, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals |
| 6 | Derek Shulman | Composer, Saxophone, Vocals |
| 7 | Ray Shulman | Bass, Composer, Violin, Vocals |
| 8 | John P. Weathers | Drums, Percussion, Vocals |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |