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* [[Common Time]]: Mostly [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Sometimes played straight and sometimes [[Playing with 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20120805133529/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 the 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 (band)|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|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.
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