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    Posted: June 03 2015 at 04:55
I honestly didn't want to include the title track, as no progger in their right mind would choose it over all the beautiful pieces on this record. Nevertheless, I felt obligated to for some reason.

One of the albums I've been obsessing over recently, and my vote goes to Dance on a Volcano.
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Entangled.
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I could choose six of these, but Dance on a Volcano is the best, methinks...
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Robbery, Assault & Battery
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Originally posted by WrytXander WrytXander wrote:

I honestly didn't want to include the title track, as no progger in their right mind would choose it over all the beautiful pieces on this record. Nevertheless, I felt obligated to for some reason.

 
I kind of agree, and yet the title track always cheers me up when I hear it, in a way that none of the other tracks do. so I picked it, even knowing it's far from the best song on the album. Ermm


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Mad Man Moon, though this is quite an even album.
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Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

Mad Man Moon, though this is quite an even album.

Agree---I have played Mad Man Moon more than any other track---there is something about the melody that I find gorgeous----Star
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Los Endos just ahead of Dance on a Volcano.
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Entangled +1
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Originally posted by emigre80 emigre80 wrote:

Originally posted by WrytXander WrytXander wrote:

I honestly didn't want to include the title track, as no progger in their right mind would choose it over all the beautiful pieces on this record. Nevertheless, I felt obligated to for some reason.

 
I kind of agree, and yet the title track always cheers me up when I hear it, in a way that none of the other tracks do. so I picked it, even knowing it's far from the best song on the album. Ermm

See, it's all because of weirdos like you that the title track has more points than "Mad Mad Moon" right now! WinkLOL
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WHAT? SQUONK HAS NO VOTES YET?

That's probably the best thing Phil Collins ever wrote with Genesis! It's so powerful and has so much emotion. It's a classic for sure and I have to vote for it. If i, for some reason could not vote for it I'd go for the underrated beauty, Mad Man Moon
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I've always seen the great Entangled and Squonk as Parts A and B of a longer song for some nutty reason - you can't separate them. Mad Man Moon is just plain brilliant. Dance On a Volcano is the show stopper though as it heralded to the world that the Gabriel era had definitely come to a close.
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Originally posted by WrytXander WrytXander wrote:

Originally posted by emigre80 emigre80 wrote:

Originally posted by WrytXander WrytXander wrote:

I honestly didn't want to include the title track, as no progger in their right mind would choose it over all the beautiful pieces on this record. Nevertheless, I felt obligated to for some reason.

 
I kind of agree, and yet the title track always cheers me up when I hear it, in a way that none of the other tracks do. so I picked it, even knowing it's far from the best song on the album. Ermm

See, it's all because of weirdos like you that the title track has more points than "Mad Mad Moon" right now! WinkLOL
 
Yes, but it doesn't have more points now, so justice prevailed in the end. 
 
whaddaya mean, "weirdos"?  You want to step outside and say that? Wink
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"Dance on a Volcano", because it sets the tone for the rest of the album and best exemplifies the "new" Genesis sound found on both ATotT and Winds and Wuthering. One of the reasons this album was the first Genesis release I actually cared for.
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Went for Entangled, but the album is more than the sum of its parts. The tracks work great together. When removed from the context of the album each track is somewhat diminished. I suppose that this is one of the measures of great album.
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At the same time, 'Stamp, Robbery' always seemed to me that throwaway, red-headed stepchild among the mix with the jarring beginning that went against the relative smoothness of the rest of the proceedings.
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Dance on a volcano.
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Originally posted by Green Shield Stamp Green Shield Stamp wrote:

Went for Entangled, but the album is more than the sum of its parts. The tracks work great together. When removed from the context of the album each track is somewhat diminished. I suppose that this is one of the measures of great album.
 
Parallels my thoughts closely.  Handshake
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Los Endos, baby.
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Entangled followed by Dance on a Volcano.
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