Giant – What’s In This Life For You? (1970)
Artist: Giant
Title: What’s In This Life For You?
Year: 1970
Format: LP
Label: Mercury
Giant, a simple name for a complex of ideas. So here we have another new group; there are so many popping up why should we get excited about this one? The point is we shouldn’t; the idea here is to relax and let their music do it to you.
While we’re asking the questions, we may well try to figur out what set GIANT apart from so many others. First of all the people, and second, the music and the way David Spinozza and Al Del Monte have arranged it.
On the people’s side we have nine individuals who, though each is a distinct musical personality in him (and her) self, have formed a cohesive musical unit which is apparently capable of thinking, creating and performing as one.
That, it seems, is what it’s all about. The arrangements speak for themselves: in this era of superhype which leads to super group which in turn leads to superduper egos, it is indeed refreshing to hear that Al and Dave have devised some unique yet unpretencious ways of putting it down, as it were.
Much attention will most likely be focused on Christie as she is (a) the only girl in the group, and (b) really good. Again, as with the arrangements, she does her numbers with taste, balance, and control. She’s thoroughly professional.
People, mostly critics (whether they’re people or not is a highly debated point) are spending a lot of their time talking about jazz rock, classical rock, blues rock, slock rock, and fusions and permulations of all of these terms.
The possibilities are theoretically and semantically endless. GIANT can be classified as being in any number of modes you can make up, but the only correct category for thier scene is mucic – some of it funky, some polished, but all real.
So there you have it, or as much as you can say about them in print. The previous suggestion therefore stands, that you simply listen to GIANT and just let it happen. (Bob Moore Merlis – Record World)
Track Listing
- Think! What’s In This Life For You?
- You Ain’t Gonna Find Me
- That’s The Way It Goes
- Range Rider
- Dear John
- One Night Stand Man
- Plastic World
- Queen Of Downs
- In My World
- Dedicated To Your Head
- Last War
Glad you found this one, Leonard
dont know what to make of this one
UPDATE:
On top of the Megaupload shutdown and the File*sonic and File*serve panic, here’s the news:
File*Jungle – 90% of content deleted. Blocked in the US.
Upload*Station – Blocked in the US.
Uploaded – Blocked in the US. Under FBI investigation. Slowed to a crawl.
File*Post – Deleting pratically all content apart from PDFs.
4*shared – Purging contents. Under FBI investigation.
Z*share – Blocked over 3000 files.
Media*Fire – Asked to testify in 90 days and their servers will be object of investigation.
Also, prior to the SOPA scare, in October 2011, an international agreement called ACTA, forged in secret during the last 3 years, was signed between the US and 6 other countries. Other signataries can join until 2013. The EU will soon be deliberating on it. For the time being Europe is one of the only safe-haven for file-sharing. Don’t let this happen!
Megaupload is shut down here in Canada as well. That was one of my favorites.
Hello
This was one strange listen…it just sat somewhere between the ears in suspended animation??
Cy at Pck
ps megaman….thanks for update…Ike warned us of the Military Industrial Complex and now the good old folks at $$/££-Land are closing down the channels…sort of reminds me of the survivors in the moving “On The Beach” all crowded around waiting on the poison air from the H-bombs reaching them on the distant shores after stepping out from their submarine…
Ahhhh….such is life.