In a Glass House [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Gentle Giant | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 15, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 1974
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Alucard UK
• ASIN: B000053GTK
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,071 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Runaway

2. An Inmates Lullaby

3. Way Of Life

4. Experience

5. A Reunion

6. In A Glass House

7. The Runaway/Experience (Live)

8. In A Glass House

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of the progressive rock act's 1973 album that's never been released in the United States. Repackaged with the original plastic window. Includes two bonus tracks, live versions of the album tracks, 'Runaway' (1974) and ' In A Glass House' (1974).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond stupendous, September 19, 2004

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S. Armeson "Sleeve51" (San Diego, Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In a Glass House (Audio CD)

This album is so ridiculously overlooked. From start to finish you are whisked away, downtown to beyond the infinite. I cried (real tears) after purchasing this masterpiece. This is brave, brilliant and off the charts. If you don't own this, or haven't heard this, you have lived an incomplete life. Complete your life and hear this. You won't be disappointed, prog fans.

Sleeve51

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A progrock treasure resurfaces, November 21, 2000

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Paul Minot (Waterville, ME United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In a Glass House (Audio CD)

As a progressive rock band, Gentle Giant was always a bit different. Avoiding the virtuoso-hero ideals and overblown symphonic textures of their contemporaries, GG blended Elizabethan themes with 20th century music (Stravinsky and Bartok being obvious influences) and out-and-out RAWWK. The result was a sort of rock and roll chamber music, and whatever lyrical weaknesses they had were rendered inconsequential by their incredible sense of adventure and unbelievable contrapuntal jams. They were simply one of the very best instrumental ensembles rock has ever seen. And though they put out a number of amazing albums, "In a Glass House" is in my opinion their greatest. The diverse elements that GG showcased on their other seminal albums are all here, but in this album they are synthesized most successfully into a coherent whole that makes philosophical and artistic sense--a true progressive rock model that would make coherent sense even today, at least more so than the mellotron-driven bombast of most of their peers. Some of this stuff sounds downright Alternative--especially the dissonant, polyrhythmic prog-punk of "Way of Life." The production is intimate, driving, and crystal-clear, with John Weathers driving drums (the John Bonham of progrock) right in your face whenever he is playing. The album is emotionally and intellectually gripping throughout. In short, it is a progrock masterpiece. Buy it. P.S. The last bonus live track is rough sledding, but the first one is incredible.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Prog-Rock's finest!, December 11, 2000

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Frederick Lauritzen - See all my reviews

This review is from: In a Glass House (Audio CD)

If you've gotten this far on this page my review will probably be superfluous. Us GG fans have been waiting for this for a long time. I would have been happy with the original on CD, but the addition of two "in concert" tracks (Gary Green's guitar solo in the live "In a Glass House" left me gasping!) adds even more value. If you are just browsing around in the more arcane ventures of the Progressive Rock movement and have never heard of Gentle Giant, well, you've got a special treat in store. From the opening track, with its rhythmic shattering glass (imagine Pink Floyd's cash register in "Money" but with high-strung intensity) to the end (the title track which combines celtic-folk with high energy rock - and much more besides) this is one of the most inventive and powerful creations of the '70s.