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	Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste Review - sputnikmusic
		The base of Acquiring the Taste’s songs is very hard rock driven, complex bass lines and dirty blues guitar riffs, but laden with various instruments, a lot of them somewhat unexpected.
		Acquiring the Taste is truly a strange progressive trip, going in the direction of a nightmarish Jethro Tull.
		Acquiring the Taste sometimes slows down too much, but the intrigue of what may come up usually keeps any boredom away.
	www.sputnikmusic.com /album.php?p=5246 (895 words)

	GENTLE GIANT Acquiring The Taste reviews and MP3
		"Acquiring the Taste" is the first gentle Giant masterpiece, putting a special emphasis in the gentle side of this prog giant after its impressive namesake debut.
		Acquiring the taste is a little bit better than their debut, but it takes a couple of spins before you will hear the intrinsic beauty of some of the songs, it doesn't keep my attention through out the album though, a problem I have with most GG albums for that matter.
		“Acquiring the Taste” features superb compositions which easily overpower the occasional dull moments found on the album; hether any elements of what would become known as the “classic” GG sound still have to be refined holds significance only stylistically, with no effect whatsoever on the musical content.
	www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=1145 (8636 words)

	When passion becomes an obsession / Thoughts of endive frolic in her head
		But as acquired tastes go, it's easy to slip from acquiring the taste into passion and from there, into obsession.
		Velly's soup had the tiniest croutons that were hot and sizzling and utterly buttery tasting; it also had little cubes of foie gras.
		Taste for seasoning and serve immediately, as it is on its way to wilting even as we speak.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/03/FDGVA5909H1.DTL (1053 words)

	Progressive Ears Album Reviews
		Acquiring the Taste is one their most progressive early releases.
		"Acquiring the Taste", although the title track, is the shortest song and is not very memorable.
		In Acquiring the Taste, they continually push the boundaries of classic rock and it is obvious that they cared more about the musical aspect of the album than any commercial success.
	www.progressiveears.com /ASP/reviews.asp?bhjs=0&albumID=265 (698 words)

	Gentle Giant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gentle Giant was a British band considered to be one of the most original progressive rock bands of the 1970s.
		Gentle Giant was formed by the three Shulman brothers in 1970 after they dissolved their soul/pop band Simon Dupree and the Big Sound in 1969.
		For example, the title track on Acquiring the Taste begins with an obvious artifact, possibly due to a damaged master tape, on virtually all current CD and vinyl releases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gentle_Giant (616 words)

	Ground and Sky review - Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
		A noticeable leap in terms of both sophistication and quality (compared to the debut), Acquiring the Taste is one of my favorite Gentle Giant albums.
		Although Acquiring probably has more in common with the debut than any other of the band's albums, I nevertheless think that this is the record where the band really began to find its voice and become less reliant on their influences.
		But whereas the Yes song interfered with the flow of the other music and also didn't really have much of a point to it other than to be showy and possibly to impress the contingent of their fans who were familiar with Brahms, "Acquiring the Taste" adds to the flavor of the album.
	www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=gg-att (1250 words)

	ADLER ARCHIVE: Differences in Taste
		But it is still quite possible to tell a man that he has poor taste and that what he likes is in itself not excellent or beautiful.
		They start from the fact that people differ in taste, in what they like and dislike, and conclude that that is all there is to it.
		Acquiring good taste in some field of art depends on acquiring knowledge about that art and learning to recognize excellence in workmanship.
	radicalacademy.com /adlerontaste.htm (791 words)

	Progressive Rock Music Discography (Albums, DVDs Videos and compilations), MP3 and album reviews
		— "Acquiring the Taste" is the first gentle Giant masterpiece, putting a special emphasis in the gentle side of this prog giant after its impressive namesake debut.
		Though admittedly "Acquiring the Taste"'s fire does not match that in "Three Friends" or "The Power and the Glory", nor is it as appealing as "Free Hand", it sures encapsulates and incarnates the most exquisite expression of GG's prototypical finesse and sophistication.
		No effort should be spared in order to acquire the taste to enjoy it properly, with the heart and the mind.
	www.progarchives.com /Review.asp?id=6028 (339 words)

	The Reading Experience: Acquiring the Taste
		It's an acquired taste and the cultural education that not only constitutes the taste but encourages you to acquire it (no one likes their first sip of beer but there are any number of cultural markers and pressures that persuade us to keep trying it until we do) has been privatized.
		But she probably does represent a sigificantly large group of readers for whom unconventional writing seems to be anathema, and, unfortunately, this group has a fair amount of influence in the "mainstream media." Periodic attempts to correct their willfully obtuse misreadings are probably warranted.
		They might indeed be able to acquire the "education" they need to accomplish this, although it would be an education provided directly by writers and literary critics, not by professors and scholars.
	noggs.typepad.com /the_reading_experience/2005/01/in_response.html (743 words)

	The Accidental Connoisseur : An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World - Into Wine Shop@IntoWine.com
		Taste is not learned out of books; it is not given from one person to another.
		Taste is like a perverse coral: it grows slowly and inexorably into unpredictable shapes, precisely because it's an offshoot of living itself.
		Acquiring taste, then, is not a result of study; it's a talent for living life.
	www.intowine.com /shop/0865476330.html (1388 words)

	ASTR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Performances "in good taste" typically involve the exhibition of a body's physical or virtuosic skill, while performances considered "in bad taste" have nearly always involved the presentation of bodies that are somehow not "normal" bodies that are not, for example, clothed, white, thin, beautiful, clean, or healthy.
		In addition, judgments of taste can usually be traced to a bodily reaction in the viewer, a visceral assessment of what does (or should) make some body feel admiration, in the case of good taste, or discomfort, in the case of poor taste.
		Both the aesthetic and material faculties of taste are modeled in the theatre, and the relationship between these two faculties is performed through scenes of eating not only on the stage but also in the language of dialogue and stage directions, in the theatre lobby and café, and in the spectator's imagination.
	www.astr.org /conference2004/ASTRConference_call_seminar.html (5703 words)

	Worldview Blog » Blog Archive » Acquiring Taste
		We used to recognize that children needed to acquire a taste for the higher and the better, while hypocritically asserting that as adults our tastes are fully formed.
		Somehow, at graduation, the child whose tastes still needed to be molded suddenly became hardened into the adult who “knew what he liked” and never ventured outside of his cultural ghetto.
		We live instead with the assumption that taste is relative, and that it’s unfair to judge anyone else’s proclivities.
	www.worldview.org /blog/index.php?p=114 (634 words)

	Gentle Giant - Satan Stole My Teddybear
		However, their second album, Acquiring the Taste found the band moving in a radically diverse and progressive direction, with eclectic compositions, edgy arrangements, and a sound so ahead of its time that contemporary rock still hasn't caught up with it.
		Acquiring the Taste sounds like jazz, modern (atonal) music, prog rock, proto-heavy metal, classical music and R&B thrown in a blender.
		Pizzicato strings, braying trumpets, syncopated bass grooves, Romantic piano interludes, jarring atonality, thick Black Sabbath-like riffs, both warm and aggressively cold singing- all of these converge in Acquiring the Taste, creating a sound so distinct and influential that the phrase "Gentle Giant influenced" would pass into the lexicon of common prog rock terminology.
	www.ssmt-reviews.com /db/searchrev.php?artistID=483&showReview=true (614 words)

	Acquiring The Taste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gentle Giant's second album was a departure from the blues and soul influences found on their debut: more experimental, more dissonant, and even more diverse instrumentation.
		"Acquiring the taste is the second phase of sensory pleasure.
		This album was also released in the Motive series by Mercury, but only the word "Motive" appears on the cover, so it looks like the album title.
	www.blazemonger.com /GG/albums/acquiring.the.taste.html (458 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - The Tribune Lifestyle
		Charmed circles in the city are acquiring a taste for wine and it is in to have a long-stemmed glass in hand and a tingle in the throat, says
		Though, he says, a majority of taste buds are still inclined towards hard drinks like whiskey, vodka and rum, it is the fashionable and health conscious that are showing inclination towards wine.
		Comprising a tasteful display of craft pieces for the benefit of art connoisseurs, the Thanjavur picture paintings, brass lamps with peacocks, parrots and swans give an expression to the culture of the state.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20051022/ttlife.htm (5528 words)

	Acquiring the Taste for Careers in High-Tech Industries
		In some of these paces, if we were lucky/or influential we would have them meet with a group of leaders of industry (female or male) who could share with the young pupils the challenge and the beauty of the engineering profession, the satisfaction of "doing it".
		We assumed that they might "acquire" the taste for science and technology".
		Drawing on the experience of the pupils in writing the research projects they can discuss better the different possibilities of science and technology tracks, and as a result a much larger number of pupils registered for these.
	mop.ort.org.il /projects/naarot/gasat1.html (2620 words)

	ACQUIRED TASTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Basically what it means is that if you don't like something when you first taste it, you keep on putting it in your mouth until you either start liking it (acquired taste) or you get sick.
		There is a long list of things that I've never tasted simply because I'm told you must acquire a taste for them.
		Smell is a big factor in not wanting to taste things like Limburger cheese and dog poop, while appearance prevents me from eating raw eggs and road kill.
	www.tcnj.edu /~hofmann/taste.htm (387 words)

	Free Hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Acquiring the Taste (1971) and Three Friends (1972) show the group further developing their sound.
		Acquiring the Taste begins with “Pantagruel’s Nativity,” and the orchestrated character that pervades the album generally is immediately apparent on this track.
		Kerry Minnear’s penchant for contrapuntal writing is especially clear on the instrumental cut, “Acquiring the Taste” (based on a melody by Ray Shulman), as well as in the fugatto string passages of “Black Cat.” With Three Friends the group underwent their first personnel change, as Malcolm Mortimore replaced Martin Smith on drums.
	www.ibiblio.org /johncovach/gentlegiant.htm (1897 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Taste
		The concept of taste developed across the eighteenth century into an often-used discriminator of aesthetic judgement, but whilst there were consistent efforts to raise it to the level of a philosophically satisfactory category, it remained conceptually vague.
		James Miller in The Man of Taste (1735) would aver that despite “the superabundance of taste, few can say what the it really is, or what the word means”, and by the end of the century it is doubtful if the question had been resolved.
		Frances Hutcheson, in the first comprehensive attempt to theorise taste, his Inquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), argued that because taste is a consequence of the senses and is more intuitive than rational, all people have taste in some measure.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1091 (443 words)

	Metro City Records Catalog - Gentle Giant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gentle Giant Acquiring The Taste (LTD) - CD Made in Japan
		Gentle Giant Acquiring The Taste (SE) - CD Made in EEU
		Special Edition is limited to 3000 copies and packaged in a die-cut sleeve with a replica of the original poster that came with the vinyl.
	www.metrocityrecords.com /catalog/GentleGi.htm (222 words)

	Gentle Giant [www.progweed.net]
		Virtually all the albums from Acquiring the Taste through Playing the Fool are essential progressive rock releases (with the possible exception of Interview), standing as a testament to the bands ingenuity, talent and consistent reinvention.
		By the time they "abandoned all preconceived thoughts on blatant commercialism" on their second album Acquiring the Taste in 1971, the idea of a classical/rock fusion was not completely new -- the style that would later come to be called "symphonic prog" had been around since sometime around 1969.
		A lot of the musical ideas on Acquiring the Taste are not so much "modernistic" as "just plain weird." Take, for example, "Edge of Twilight," with its middle section for timpani (mixed very high) and xylophone (mixed very low), which seems to come out of nowhere.
	www.progweed.net /reviews/gentlegiant/gentlegiant-band.html (3831 words)

	Acquiring a taste for organic food (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Debbie Davis gives her 4-month-old daughter, Charlize, a taste of organic dressing during an open house Sunday at Pioneer Organics in Ballard.
		Consumers not used to organic produce might also be put off by appearance.
		"Organic vegetables aren't always as pretty or consistent in size as others, but I think they taste better," said Kerry Sear, chef at Cascadia restaurant in Seattle.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/60804_organics05.shtml (836 words)

	Planet Mellotron Album Reviews: G3
		Their 'mission statement', as stated boldly in the sleevenotes to their second album, Acquiring the Taste, was to "expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of being very unpopular".
		Acquiring the Taste was the only Giant album to give individual, track-by-track credits, from which we find out that Kerry used his 'Tron (probably by now an M300) on three tracks: Pantagruel's Nativity, a superb piece, has a string pad under much of the song, but nothing that really leaps out at you.
		For the Mellotron, probably only Acquiring the Taste and Three Friends are worth it, and they're not exactly in the Genesis or Crimson league.
	www.planetmellotron.com /revg3.htm (4208 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on A Taste for Adventure: A Culinary Odyssey Around the World at Epinions.com
		A Taste for Adventure: A Culinary Odyssey Around the World
		But during a bleak January in Ohio, a land full of sun, white sand beaches, jungle and spicy food that simultaneously assaults and delights every single tastebud you own seems very far away.
		This is why I picked up Anik See's A Taste for Adventure: A Culinary Odyssey Around the World.
	www.epinions.com /content_86191214212 (1272 words)

	SAF Publishing - rock and pop music books - Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
		Acquiring the Taste is the story of one of the most enduring bands of the British progressive rock movement.
		Based around the Shulman brothers, the band quickly acquired a large cult following the world over.
		He is the author of Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin and Digital Gothic a Critical Discography of Tangerine Dream both for SAF Publishing, as well as books on Roxy Music and The Music's All That Matters, the definitive analysis of Progressive Rock in Britain.
	www.safpublishing.com /store/pages/html/ggiant_book.htm (190 words)

	Creators.com - Creators Syndicate
		Weekly wine columnists for newspapers often fall into a habitual pattern: Facing a deadline, they taste a handful of recent-release wines, write a brief introduction about the class of wine they fall into, and plop down, at the end of the column, a few "tasting notes" on the best wines they tasted.
		Moreover, if the group of wines tasted is randomly selected, chances are the group has at least one low-priced wine among the pricier wines.
		If a wine you've bought doesn't impress you on first taste, decant it into a pitcher or decanter and see if a half-hour or an hour improves it.
	www.creators.com /lifestyle_show.cfm?columnsName=dbe (734 words)

	Amazon.ca: Gentle Giant: Acquiring the Taste: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The story of one of the most enduring bands of the British Progressive movement.
		Gentle Giant quickly acquired a huge cult following the world over as concert tours in Europe and America became ever more grandiose and elaborate-and then along came punk.
		But Gentle Giant's music has stood the test of time, and new generations are as entranced by their intricate sound as were audiences of 30 years ago.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0946719357 (214 words)

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