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So, we have three tracks from their debut "Gentle Giant" from , two tracks from their second "Acquiring The Taste" from , four tracks from their third "Three Friends" from , "Freedom's Child", which is a pre-debut non-album's track and a Steven Wilson's edited new version of their track "Nothing At All". It's a great opening for that album. It's a classic Gentle Giant's song, very dynamic and creative.

I love the way the guitar is played and the great keyboard work of Kerry Minnear. It represents one of the best moments on that album. It's the lengthiest track on that album and it's a surprising track.

It's an atypical Gentle Giant's track that has everything we can expect from this band. It begins as a soft and nice acoustic ballad with some melancholic harmonies.

It grows as a heavy rock song. The song ends, as initially, as a soft and beautiful acoustic ballad. This is one of the strangest, original, curious and interesting songs ever composed by them. This is a real must have for all prog heads. It's a heavy rock song, a bit dark and frantic with some calm and nice passages.

It has a clear influence of the medieval music. It isn't strange because this is a song of Minnear and he is a musician influenced by that style of music. This is one of my favourite tracks on that album. It became a classic Gentle Giant's track. It's a song with a nice melody. It has beautiful keyboards well combined with a powerful and great guitar work. What is most impressive here is the use of so many instruments such as saxes, vibraphone, celesta, harpsichord, tympani, trumpet, clarinet, in only one song.

It's an avant-garde music with some nice melody and the exploration of strange sounds. This is one of the heaviest songs recorded by the band that at some time reminds me the apocalyptic sound of Van Der Graaf Generator.

It's a nice track with experimental vocals and musical passages. It's a song with the use of several musical instruments at the same time. It has a beautiful piano work. It represents one of the best performances by Kerry Minnear. Phil Shulman sings wonderfully doing one of his best vocal moments in the group.

It's a track inspired by the classical music, in the beginning, that starts very slow and delicate, but that suddenly develops into a more intense and dense, with a heavy rock format. It has a heavy rock part that reminds me Deep Purple. Class And Quality? It's a good song.

It's probably the simplest song on that album. It has a nice melody and some interesting musical breaks. It's a rock song, with some good moments, great keyboards, a good bass line and a good drum work.

It represents the second best moment on that album with the opening track "Prologue". I particulary like the keyboard work of Kerry Minnear. We are in the presence of another great song, a very short, but a very cohesive piece. Despite be so short, this is really a great piece of music that sounds nice to my ears.

It was written before Gentle Giant's debut studio album. It was lost and then found many years later like some other tracks written in the beginning by them. The original tape has been found and appears on "Under Construction" besides this compilation. It's a ballad influenced by the 60's. It's a simple and beautiful track that sounds too much to the 60's to my taste.

Still, as a rarity, it's an interesting track that should deserves our attention. This last track is a new Steven Wilson's edited version. Conclusion: "Three Piece Suite" is another good compilation album of Gentle Giant, which is a usual thing with this excellent prog band. As happened with some other compilation albums from the band, this compilation highlights only tracks that belong to their three first studio albums.

I don't know why, since it was released only in However, I have no complaints about the tracks chosen to be part of it, because all are great, despite we can't consider it very well representative of the band's career.

Said this, here we have many great tracks from the band, which many of them have become some of my all time favourites. Anyway, many others would fit perfectly well on this compilation album, really. Besides, I love all their first eight studio albums. But, beyond these tracks, I can also say that "Freedom's Child" despite sounds too much to the 60's, is a nice track that gaves me some pleasure to hear.

Wilson's length version is interesting to hear too, especially as a curiosity. So, we are in presence of a good compilation that deserves three stars. Interview - This track is based off of the questions and answers that the band used to get from interviewers through the years. It is actually a cool concept and it works well with the complex music that the band produces.

There is a main vocal riff that is followed throughout different parts of the track, but for the most part, it doesn't have a melody that it follows. The instrumentals are great, almost sounding like the chit-chat of many interviews at once. Give It Back - This one has a reggae feel to it, and the interesting way the band messes with the rhythm is quite interesting. Of course, fans should know this is what you should expect.

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