Free Hand (studio album) by Gentle Giant

Free Hand by Gentle Giant
Year: 1975
Overall rank: 5,138th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 90 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1975 (85th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (860th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,138th)
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Gentle Giant bestography

Free Hand is ranked 7th best out of 18 albums by Gentle Giant on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Gentle Giant is Octopus which is ranked number 1923 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 869.

Gentle Giant album bestography « Higher ranked (5,113th) This album (5,138th) Lower ranked (13,761st) »
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Free Hand track list

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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 90 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.7/100, a mean average of 77.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.3.

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From 07/27/2023 06:28
Late Giant is very poppy and not very imaginative
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From 08/29/2018 04:06
On Reflection, Time To Kill and His Last Voyage are among my favorite GG songs. Those three songs are all amazing and all very different from one another. Gentle Giant has a way of always surprising you and proposing new ways to do songs. I think "Free Hand" is one of their best albums because it does exactly that. It surprises you and get you to places you wouldn't expect. It's also very consistent and works well as a whole. What a great album by a great band! Definitely in my top-3 GG albums.
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From 12/10/2017 22:20
My favorite Gentle Giant album
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From 03/03/2016 13:28
A new sound for Gentle Giant. It took me while to like this record.
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Best Albums of 1975
1. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
2. Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan
3. Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen
4. Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin
5. A Night At The Opera by Queen
6. Another Green World by Eno
7. Horses by Patti Smith
8. Tonight's The Night by Neil Young
9. Mothership Connection by Parliament
10. The Hissing Of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell
11. Fleetwood Mac (1975) by Fleetwood Mac
12. Toys In The Attic by Aerosmith
13. Zuma by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
14. The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett
15. Young Americans by David Bowie
16. Expensive Shit by Fela Kuti & Africa 70
17. Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John
18. Sabotage by Black Sabbath
19. The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan & The Band
20. Katy Lied by Steely Dan
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