Free Hand (studio album)
by Gentle Giant
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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 1953 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 848.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Free Hand track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Free Hand rankings
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Free Hand ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 3 days ago | Exist-en-ciel | 4,699 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/08/2025 03:21 |  ExTeaSea | 5,079 | 82/100 |
| ! | 08/25/2025 01:02 | FrancK | 490 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/20/2025 17:03 |  RockyRaccoon | 6,726 | 84/100 |
| ! | 01/10/2025 10:05 | Fullsized | 163 | 85/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.8/100, a mean average of 78.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.
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Jboy56 07/27/2023 06:28 | #298357
Late Giant is very poppy and not very imaginative
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.
My favorite Gentle Giant album
A new sound for Gentle Giant. It took me while to like this record.
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