| 词条 | Civilian (Gentle Giant album) | ||||||
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| name = Civilian | type = Album | artist = Gentle Giant | cover = GentleGiant Civilian.jpg | alt = | released = March 3, 1980 | recorded = August – November 1979 | venue = | studio = Sound City in Van Nuys, California | genre = Hard rock | length = 32:41 | label = Chrysalis (UK) Columbia (U.S.) | producer = Gentle Giant | prev_title = Giant for a Day! | prev_year = 1978 | next_title = | next_year = }}{{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}[1] }} Civilian is the eleventh and final studio album by British band Gentle Giant, released in 1980. It was recorded at Sound City Studios in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles with former Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. Consisting mostly of short rock songs, it is closer to a hard rock sound than the progressive style for which the band is best known. The album also marked a return to Columbia Records in the U.S. and Canada after an eight-year hiatus; the band's last album released with Columbia had been 1972's Octopus. Soon after the album's release, Gentle Giant played a final tour and then split up. Civilian was a critical and commercial failure, the negative reception being so overwhelming that some record stores reportedly refused to carry it for fears of generating bad publicity. A previously unreleased track, "Heroes No More", has been included on some CD reissues of the album. Another track from the period, "You Haven't a Chance", appeared on the Under Construction compilation 17 years later. Track listing{{Track listing| all_writing = Kerry Minnear, Derek Shulman and Ray Shulman except where noted | headline = Side one | extra_column = Lead vocals | title1 = Convenience (Clean and Easy) | writer1 = Derek Shulman, Gary Green | length1 = 3:13 | title2 = All Through the Night | length2 = 4:20 | title3 = Shadows on the Street | extra3 = Kerry Minnear | length3 = 3:18 | title4 = Number One | length4 = 4:38 }}{{Track listing | headline = Side two | extra_column = Lead vocals | title1 = Underground | length1 = 3:47 | title2 = I Am a Camera | length2 = 3:32 | title3 = Inside Out | length3 = 5:51 | title4 = It's Not Imagination" "That's... All... There... Is.... | note4 = This sentence was created from music that appeared in four different songs on the album. The words were extracted from the songs and then spliced together. Some CD and vinyl releases are missing this ending. | length4 = 4:03 }}{{Track listing | headline = Bonus track | extra_column = Lead vocals | title9 = Heroes No More | note9 = available on later CD re-release from One Way | length9 = 4:38 }} Personnel
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References1. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r38786 |title=Civilian – Gentle Giant | AllMusic |first=Patrick|last=Little |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |accessdate=26 June 2011}} {{Gentle Giant}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2011}}2. ^Gentle Giant's website (www.blazemonger.com/GG/) 4 : 1980 albums|Gentle Giant albums|Chrysalis Records albums|Columbia Records albums |
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