Gentle Giant 
The best album credited to Gentle Giant is Octopus which is ranked number 1,977 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 838.
Gentle Giant is ranked number 554 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 3,253.
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Gentle Giant best albums
The following albums by Gentle Giant are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:
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Gentle Giant best tracks
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Gentle Giant ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 10/08/2025 11:51 | 194 | 85/100 | |
| ! | 04/21/2023 00:13 | SethGunde | 102 | 66/100 |
| ! | 01/28/2023 18:10 | Ntax | 146 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/25/2023 14:59 | 125 | 61/100 | |
| ! | 09/07/2022 07:28 | 869 | 73/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 3% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 79.8/100, a mean average of 80.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.9/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 15.4.
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Love this band
Their melodies make absolutely no sense and I love it
Also they are groovy as hell
Definitely the most "progressive" of the prog bands in the 70s
I don't get how this guys aren't higher in the rankings. One of the best of the classic prog bands.
Diverse and intriguing, Gentle Giant were one of the highlights of mid-70s prog.
For people who can stand prog and who love vocal harmonies this is the band.
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