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* [[Canon Dis Continuity]]: Fans generally disregard the last three albums.
* [[Christian Rock]]: After the group disbanded, Kerry Minnear, a Methodist convert, tried to make a career in this genre.
* [[Common Time]]: Mostly [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Sometimes played straight and sometimes [[Playing Withwith a Trope|played with]]: Often the time signature is 4/4, but the rhythms are still incredibly complex such as in the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIaG8a9ACYY So Sincere].
* [[Concept Album]]: FOUR of them!
* [[Design Student's Orgasm]]: The cover of their second [http://a.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/2150/gentle_giant.jpg album] is a tounge licking a peach. [[Unfortunate Implications|It looks like something else, if one only views the front however.]] This is intentional.
* [[Doing It for Thethe Art]]: At least at first. See the quote above.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Before forming Gentle Giant, the Shulman brothers played in a blue-eyed soul group called Simon Dupree & The Big Sound. When their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imf3NyO27Js attempts in soul] proved commercially fruitless, they tried their hand at psychedelia (while still going under the Simon Dupree moniker) and got a Top Ten hit with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0svzLY-u7E "Kites"]. When they couldn't follow that up, they made the Beatle-esque single "We Are The Moles", this time going by The Moles. Due to the hype surrounding the anonymity of the Moles (at one point, it was speculated that [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]] themselves had made it), sales of the single started to pick up, but quickly petered out when Syd Barrett (yes, ''that'' [[Pink Floyd (Music)|Syd Barrett]]) spilled the beans on the project. Eventually, the Shulman brothers gave up on Simon Dupree & The Big Sound and, out of its ashes, formed Gentle Giant.
* [[Epic Rocking]]: Surprisingly [[Averted Trope|averted]]. Their compositions manage to encompass much more in less time, it seems.
** They tended to mix things up live and play extended [[Medley|medleys]] however.
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: The album ''Interview'' is a concept album of an interview.
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Derek Shulman
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