I’m praying this song doesn’t just become known as that song that was used for the intro of Utopia (even though it sadly probably will). Such a great and underrated prog masterpiece. Definitely was not expecting it to be sampled on Utopia (let alone be the intro to the album) but it worked pretty well. I must say respect to Travis’s production.
Nah, the hypebeast, new age mainstream jackasses will consider it JUST the Travis Scott Utopia intro. But they’re are curious people like myself Who are interested and do the research. I’m 31 and grew up on hip hop and R&B solely. No introduction to Rock at all. Growing up in the internet age and getting out my comfort zone plus seeing music BUFFS mention Gentle Giant introduced me to their music. The REAL ONES will have an appreciation for Gentle Giant. Trust me.
A very unexpected sample from Travis Scott but at least the band will know a little bit of recognition they deserve for their masterpieces after 50 years
@@chiefwhitenoise5227 Pantagruel and Panurge are characters in his novels that ended up in GG songs. I have to admit, I haven't actually read any of them!
@@chiefwhitenoise5227 This "strange character", François Rabelais, is one of the greatest writers of all time and one of the most learned men of his time - ecclesiastician, writer, physician -, correspondent of Erasmus of Rotterdam and some of the most important exponents of the humanistic culture of his time. I say this without the intent of controversy but for the sake of truth and accuracy.
@@rossanopinelli5150 thank you. I certainly have not read anything from him. I was just wondering what was Rabelais expressing with the "giants". As for the band, per say Octopus supposed mean octa opus. Okay - I see "occultists" everywhere 🙂 I wanted to leave another comment but utube didn't allow it. Merry Christmas ✝️ (in relation to No God's a Man) /this was the edit.../
You could drop this as a modern prog metal song and no one would be wiser. The influences from this are so evident in bands like Haken it’s almost laughable. Just amazing it holds up so well.
I saw Gentle Giant in Seattle in the fall of 1975. Changed my life. They played tunes off of this album and In a Glass House... when GIANTS walked the Earth!
I'm glad Travis sampled this song because as an old music lover I wouldn't have heard this. Connecting us to the great music of the past is something I can always appreciate
Gentle Giant could play everything in every form structure logic or wtf, while remaining AT LEAST interesting from first to last note. I loved Genesis, and even more Gabriel alone, Jethro Tull, Yes, the canterbury odd prog by guys like Hatfield & the North, or Fred Frith's big family, but Gentle Giant are always one step beyond.
This certainly applies to our current situation. Alas human nature has not changed regardles of our trinkets and garments. Really what a timeless classic!
I have been meditating on the meaning of this song for 40 years. Each time I get a little closer to what has meaning for me. First off, it is a proclamation of a Kings entrance, and uses irony as the door. Once irony is opened, it's meaning becomes clearer. It is I/WE who has the choice whether we can change or stay the same, it matters not to times fickle nature. We are that which pays fealty, not nations, but you who are my people, which each moment I can select. Extraordinary. It is a litotes.
Hail should give you a clue. Clearly it was a warning about totalitarian dictatorship . Sig heil being the Nazi form of salute. The 70's were only 30 years removed from the era of Hitler , Stalin, Mussolini , Tojo .So I think they were reminding us of how bad it could get again. Pol Pot was killing over a million people in Cambodia around the time this song was written.
Zappa loved this band . He understood what they were doing with their melodic experimentations and use of keys and time signatures. They were WAY ahead of their time. Loved this album in my teens - played it to death !
This is a fantastic track. A testament to the quality of the band is the fact that the live versions are better than the album version. The fan made lockdown version is wonderful too. Great band, great fans. Win, win, winedy win. While I am at it, and being a fan of drums, Pugwash has to be placed with the best of British drummers. Top class.
Travis was obviously very inspired by kanye. this is very reminiscent of the song kanye sampled on his song dark fantasy which also opened the album “can we get much higher”
Puede que no tengas todo lo que quieres o necesitas Todo lo que tienes se debe a mi mano Puede cambiar, puede permanecer igual ¿Quién puede decir, quién puede hacer su reclamo? La situación en la que nos encontramos en este momento. Ni buena ni tan mala Puede cambiar, puede permanecer igual Puedo decir, puedo hacer mi reclamo Salve ... Salve ... Salve La fuerza de la unidad y todos deben ser uno La confianza en tu esperanza se reflejará en mi Creo que todo el mundo no es mi nación Ustedes son mi gente y no debe haber cambios Puede cambiar, puede permanecer igual Puedo decir, puedo hacer mi reclamo Salve ... Salve ... Salve Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria Día a día Puede que no tengas todo lo que quieres o necesitas Todo lo que tienes se debe a mi mano Puede cambiar, puede permanecer igual ¿Quién puede decir, quién puede hacer su reclamo? La fuerza de la unidad y todos deben ser uno La confianza en tu esperanza se reflejará en mi Creo que todo el mundo no es mi nación Ustedes son mi gente y no debe haber cambios Puede cambiar, puede permanecer igual Puedo decir, puedo hacer mi reclamo Salve ... Salve ... Salve Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria Día a día
Found Gentle Giant on Spotify a few months ago, this album blasted up to my top five favorite. A lot of songs by Gentle Giant are EXACTLY what I’m looking for, makes me wonder if there are other relatively obscure bands I’m missing out on.
@@-Ruben It took me many listens to get into Elephants Never Forget, but it is now among my favorite songs now. I did not know about the Elephant Man before listening, so I had no idea what they were talking about and the frequent shifts in the song were confusing. Now I get it, but it took a while since there's four different 'voices' in the song, a circus presenter, the crowd, a neutral narrator, and the Elephant Man.
I saw GG when they first toured with Black Sabbath - one of the audience threw an M-80 on the stage, and when it exploded, Ray said some words that I can't post on RUclips, and GG walked out. The bass player for Black Sabbath was sick, and they never took the stage. I can't remember the artist who did - a one hit song type of guy. Then I saw GG at a concert in San Bernardino, Calif. They WERE the headliners that time. It was amazing.
You're not listening to enough prog rock of the classic 70s era then. There are TONS of overlap between both prog and jazz fusion at the time, more than you probably ever aware of. Listen to "Dance with the Moonlit Knight" by Genesis, the extended instrumental section is basically a tribute to another contemporary jazz fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra, as evident with Phil Collins' attempt at emulating the drumming style of Billy Cobham there.
Travis's producer horribly mangled the vocal passage, this song is timeless. What a way to waste a sample, would've been sick if Travis wrote a strong acapella verse instead with lyrics using similar themes. He has a strong voice just like Derek here, would've been epic
You may not have all you want or you need All that you have has been due to my hand, It can change, it can stay the same, Who can say, who can make their claim The situation we are in at this time Neither a good one, nor is it so unblest It can change, it can stay the same, I can say, I can make my claim. Hail ... Hail ... Hail Unity's strength and all must be as one, Confidence in you hope will reflect in me I think everyone not as my nation for You are my people and there must be no change It can change, it can stay the same I can say, I can make my claim Hail ... Hail ... Hail Hail to Power and to Glory's way Hail to Power and to Glory's way Hail to Power and to Glory's way Hail to Power and to Glory's way Day by day. You may not have all you want or you need All that you have has been due to my hand, It can change, it can stay the same, Who can say, who can make their claim Unity's strength and all must be as one, Confidence in you hope will reflect in me I think everyone not as my nation for You are my people and there must be no change It can change, it can stay the same I can say, I can make my claim Hail ... Hail ... Hail Hail to Power and to Glory's way Hail to Power and to Glory's way Hail to Power and to Glory's way Hail to Power and to Glory's way Day by day
That feeling when you launch UTOPIA and you hear Gentle Giant... I thought my Spotify was broken for a while
same lmao
@@NicolasCatalani haha amazing,
utopia??
@@theboraxbandit9563 New Travis Scott album give it a listen, this sample got used on his first song intro
Same Bro hahaha
IT CAN CHANGE
IT CAN STAY THE SAME
I CAN SAY
I CAN MAKE MY CLAIM
Most unexpected sample I've heard in a while. No idea Travis was gonna sample this.
So glad he did
which song?
@@theboraxbandit9563
Hyena
it's not everytime him it could be Ye or somebody else who credited in the song
The fact that he sampled just the vocals is the wildest part to me, I feel like the instrumentals lend themselves pretty handily to making a beat
I’m praying this song doesn’t just become known as that song that was used for the intro of Utopia (even though it sadly probably will). Such a great and underrated prog masterpiece. Definitely was not expecting it to be sampled on Utopia (let alone be the intro to the album) but it worked pretty well. I must say respect to Travis’s production.
fr it shocked me, weirdest crossover ever lol its like 2 of your best friends meeting and hitting it off
@@justsomejusstsome8994when you mix the friend groups together and it works
Here to enjoy It the last time before the hit.
Well, at least Gentle Giant will still 10s alive in form of a trap sample.
Nah, the hypebeast, new age mainstream jackasses will consider it JUST the Travis Scott Utopia intro. But they’re are curious people like myself Who are interested and do the research. I’m 31 and grew up on hip hop and R&B solely. No introduction to Rock at all. Growing up in the internet age and getting out my comfort zone plus seeing music BUFFS mention Gentle Giant introduced me to their music. The REAL ONES will have an appreciation for Gentle Giant. Trust me.
A very unexpected sample from Travis Scott but at least the band will know a little bit of recognition they deserve for their masterpieces after 50 years
It was used by the Lootpack decades prior as well.
Gentle Giant's music ages really well.
Did you know they got their name from the writings of this strange character Rabelais. He was some sort of a monk.
@@chiefwhitenoise5227 Pantagruel and Panurge are characters in his novels that ended up in GG songs. I have to admit, I haven't actually read any of them!
@@chiefwhitenoise5227 This "strange character", François Rabelais, is one of the greatest writers of all time and one of the most learned men of his time - ecclesiastician, writer, physician -, correspondent of Erasmus of Rotterdam and some of the most important exponents of the humanistic culture of his time. I say this without the intent of controversy but for the sake of truth and accuracy.
@@rossanopinelli5150 thank you. I certainly have not read anything from him. I was just wondering what was Rabelais expressing with the "giants". As for the band, per say Octopus supposed mean octa opus. Okay - I see "occultists" everywhere 🙂 I wanted to leave another comment but utube didn't allow it. Merry Christmas ✝️ (in relation to No God's a Man) /this was the edit.../
You could drop this as a modern prog metal song and no one would be wiser. The influences from this are so evident in bands like Haken it’s almost laughable. Just amazing it holds up so well.
Elephants Never Forget brought me straight here, haha
Love your comment! Happy 2023 sending love from a Las Vegas musician who can only dream that she could play like anyone in this band! Hugs! ❤
@@Hulloder ? Haken has plenty of songs that could fit as prog classics.
UTOPIA
@@littlehorchata7566 fr
I saw Gentle Giant in Seattle in the fall of 1975. Changed my life.
They played tunes off of this album and In a Glass House... when GIANTS walked the Earth!
Jealous.
I had the fortune to see and hear them twice in Germany.
They were enormous!
heard this on travis utopia great to hear the influence
Yes!!! Just enjoy GG
Incredible how he can play the keys on the beat everytime
Mr.Kinear also played 400 other instruments, honest google it.
he should be able to bc he's a ..... musician??? like isn't that the basic necessity, to be on beat? lmao
@@bluesyace9564the joke is that it’s off beat
@@Guy.WhoAsked what is?
@@Guy.WhoAsked if you mean the keyboards in the intro... it's not. it's meant to be heard two different ways once the singing is introduced.
Recognized this immediately love this album
I'm glad Travis sampled this song because as an old music lover I wouldn't have heard this. Connecting us to the great music of the past is something I can always appreciate
HYAENAAAAA
IT CAN CHANGE IT CAN STAY THE SAME!!!!
This is gold
The best group that never quite made " the big time"
❤
R.I.P. Ray Shulman ✌
Inesquecível, ímpar, genial. Clássico do Rock Progressivo.
como um Rhodes pode ser tão bom assim, tipo, é absurdo
Gentle Giant could play everything in every form structure logic or wtf, while remaining AT LEAST interesting from first to last note. I loved Genesis, and even more Gabriel alone, Jethro Tull, Yes, the canterbury odd prog by guys like Hatfield & the North, or Fred Frith's big family, but Gentle Giant are always one step beyond.
I spent the 80s listening to new and exciting music from a decade earlier. Gentle Giant were aliens, man.
Waiting for this to blow up after Utopia
UTOPIA HERE THIS TRACK IS INSANE THANK YOU TRAVIS🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yes!!! More people to GG!
@@lucasholmgrenmusic I checked them out because of Travis but this song is fire and I’m liking the album so far, glad I discovered them
This certainly applies to our current situation. Alas human nature has not changed regardles of our trinkets and garments.
Really what a timeless classic!
I have been meditating on the meaning of this song for 40 years. Each time I get a little closer to what has meaning for me. First off, it is a proclamation of a Kings entrance, and uses irony as the door. Once irony is opened, it's meaning becomes clearer. It is I/WE who has the choice whether we can change or stay the same, it matters not to times fickle nature. We are that which pays fealty, not nations, but you who are my people, which each moment I can select. Extraordinary. It is a litotes.
I don't get it
@@chimpydweebMe neither
@@chimpydweeb well, you don't have the 40 years to mull over the song's meaning yet
Hail should give you a clue. Clearly it was a warning about totalitarian dictatorship . Sig heil being the Nazi form of salute. The 70's were only 30 years removed from the era of Hitler , Stalin, Mussolini , Tojo .So I think they were reminding us of how bad it could get again. Pol Pot was killing over a million people in Cambodia around the time this song was written.
For a long time prog fan, good to see GG genting recognized lol
Saw Gentle Giant 4 times
Brilliant
That is all
This band is raw talent and deserves to be ranked higher on the holy prog archives
Every but like one of the first 8 albums from GG are rated above 4. Fuck are you talking about.
Hoping this song being used on Utopia can get this band some more recognition
It will. Thankful from it.
Zappa loved this band . He understood what they were doing with their melodic experimentations and use of keys and time signatures. They were WAY ahead of their time. Loved this album in my teens - played it to death !
Love the animation on the King!
One of my desert island discs. R.I.P. Ray Shulman.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
De lo mejor del rock progresivo inglés, junto con Jethro Tull, Yes y King Crimson….wow!! grandes bandas, ni a cual irle!
This is a fantastic track. A testament to the quality of the band is the fact that the live versions are better than the album version. The fan made lockdown version is wonderful too. Great band, great fans. Win, win, winedy win.
While I am at it, and being a fan of drums, Pugwash has to be placed with the best of British drummers. Top class.
Excelent
What the hell is Utopia?
The Masterpiece of Masterpieces.
The first song from my 2nd favorite album #1 is Playing the Fool seen them playing it live outstanding.
The best music from them
the trav sample sounds really good
Heck yea. Get more people into GG!!!
Estou viciado nessa música 👏
DIdn't think the song would be this good, wow what a great sample.
Great Song !!!
Exceptional great music.
I love this song ❣️
Love to see more people get introduce to progressive rock
Especially a band like Gentle Giant❤❤
Long.Live.Prog🤘🏿
The best album from gentle giant!!!! Below three friends
Travis was obviously very inspired by kanye. this is very reminiscent of the song kanye sampled on his song dark fantasy which also opened the album
“can we get much higher”
It's more reminiscent when kanye sampled king crimson on power for me
@@nathanmontgomery1516 Madvillain also sampled "Funny Ways" in their song "Strange Ways"
HAIL
Brilliant Track!!!
UTOPIA
i came
YES!!! Dig into this band, They're amazing.
Perturbingly genious synchronicity
This would be my campaign song if I ever ran for public office🤩
Those beats! All Hail!
Puede que no tengas todo lo que quieres o necesitas
Todo lo que tienes se debe a mi mano
Puede cambiar, puede permanecer igual
¿Quién puede decir, quién puede hacer su reclamo?
La situación en la que nos encontramos en este momento.
Ni buena ni tan mala
Puede cambiar, puede permanecer igual
Puedo decir, puedo hacer mi reclamo
Salve ... Salve ... Salve
La fuerza de la unidad y todos deben ser uno
La confianza en tu esperanza se reflejará en mi
Creo que todo el mundo no es mi nación
Ustedes son mi gente y no debe haber cambios
Puede cambiar, puede permanecer igual
Puedo decir, puedo hacer mi reclamo
Salve ... Salve ... Salve
Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria
Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria
Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria
Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria
Día a día
Puede que no tengas todo lo que quieres o necesitas
Todo lo que tienes se debe a mi mano
Puede cambiar, puede permanecer igual
¿Quién puede decir, quién puede hacer su reclamo?
La fuerza de la unidad y todos deben ser uno
La confianza en tu esperanza se reflejará en mi
Creo que todo el mundo no es mi nación
Ustedes son mi gente y no debe haber cambios
Puede cambiar, puede permanecer igual
Puedo decir, puedo hacer mi reclamo
Salve ... Salve ... Salve
Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria
Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria
Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria
Salve al poder y al camino de la gloria
Día a día
Rip ray schulman😢
Found Gentle Giant on Spotify a few months ago, this album blasted up to my top five favorite. A lot of songs by Gentle Giant are EXACTLY what I’m looking for, makes me wonder if there are other relatively obscure bands I’m missing out on.
Haken are really inspired on their sound, Elephants Never Forget is a great song 😁
yes (band)
@@-Ruben It took me many listens to get into Elephants Never Forget, but it is now among my favorite songs now. I did not know about the Elephant Man before listening, so I had no idea what they were talking about and the frequent shifts in the song were confusing. Now I get it, but it took a while since there's four different 'voices' in the song, a circus presenter, the crowd, a neutral narrator, and the Elephant Man.
@@drwwsattic Yes is what got me into prog, I believe I've been through most of their catalogue at this point.
I found sanctuary in this album. Thank you
Une musique pas facile à entendre pour les masses , mais avec de l’attention le miracle a lieu . SPLENDIDE
I saw GG when they first toured with Black Sabbath - one of the audience threw an M-80 on the stage, and when it exploded, Ray said some words that I can't post on RUclips, and GG walked out.
The bass player for Black Sabbath was sick, and they never took the stage. I can't remember the artist who did - a one hit song type of guy.
Then I saw GG at a concert in San Bernardino, Calif. They WERE the headliners that time. It was amazing.
god bless u travis 🙏🙏🙏
Amazing
it’s lit 🔥
Grande el Travis eScroto, sampleando fragmentos de una canción de Rock Progressivo de una gran banda como lo es Gentle Giant
Nice! The art is amazing! Who is the artist?
Travis really genius
Genius!
HAIL!
If you’re looking for the part hyaena sampled it’s 0:47
The thought behind the song is still true today.
HAIL, HAIL, HAILLLLLLL
I know it's prog rock but this has some undeniably jazzy elements
prog rock is basically nerdy jazzy rock
Prog has heavy influences in jazz
The whole point of prog was to make rock music more complex and intricate on a technical side
You're not listening to enough prog rock of the classic 70s era then. There are TONS of overlap between both prog and jazz fusion at the time, more than you probably ever aware of. Listen to "Dance with the Moonlit Knight" by Genesis, the extended instrumental section is basically a tribute to another contemporary jazz fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra, as evident with Phil Collins' attempt at emulating the drumming style of Billy Cobham there.
@@CanisVindicatethat's not the whole point and never was
HAIL UTOPIA
Travis's producer horribly mangled the vocal passage, this song is timeless. What a way to waste a sample, would've been sick if Travis wrote a strong acapella verse instead with lyrics using similar themes. He has a strong voice just like Derek here, would've been epic
Utopia ❤
My favorite song by GG
Got here by way of Madlib's production on Lootpack's Likwit Fusion song.
OKAY TS IS OUTTA CONTROL
ts was hard on hyaena
0:48
0:25
1:06
I was big into GG back in the day, all their stuff is great check it out!👍
HYAENAAAAAAAA
Can someone help me I've heard this sample or melody in another song not the one by Travis Scott. Where the singer says I can't breath or something😊
Un clásico
Travis Scott
Theres no way that this becomes a sample for travis scott in utopia right?
Oh no the Travis Scott people are here…
whats your problem?
coool
The singer reminds me me messiahs of candlemass
THIS SONG IS UTOPIAN! GOOD FIND TRAVIS SCOTT!
Yes!!!
My favorite rock band in 1975 when I was 16. My favorite rock band 50 years later in 2023.
All of these coments are abt travis scott lol it aint a moshpit if aint no injuries
funkiest english people in the history of english people
I hope this song isn't sampled by travis scott for his new album utopia
You may not have all you want or you need
All that you have has been due to my hand,
It can change, it can stay the same,
Who can say, who can make their claim
The situation we are in at this time
Neither a good one, nor is it so unblest
It can change, it can stay the same,
I can say, I can make my claim.
Hail ... Hail ... Hail
Unity's strength and all must be as one,
Confidence in you hope will reflect in me
I think everyone not as my nation for
You are my people and there must be no change
It can change, it can stay the same
I can say, I can make my claim
Hail ... Hail ... Hail
Hail to Power and to Glory's way
Hail to Power and to Glory's way
Hail to Power and to Glory's way
Hail to Power and to Glory's way
Day by day.
You may not have all you want or you need
All that you have has been due to my hand,
It can change, it can stay the same,
Who can say, who can make their claim
Unity's strength and all must be as one,
Confidence in you hope will reflect in me
I think everyone not as my nation for
You are my people and there must be no change
It can change, it can stay the same
I can say, I can make my claim
Hail ... Hail ... Hail
Hail to Power and to Glory's way
Hail to Power and to Glory's way
Hail to Power and to Glory's way
Hail to Power and to Glory's way
Day by day
GG could funk with the best of them, funkin' harxercthwn most (if any) other prog band.
이 샘플링 하나가 유토피아 도입부를 찢음
travis damn
Yoo it's HYAENA
UTOPIA BROUGHT ME HERE
Hell yea!!! Please stay. GG will blow your mind.