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dr prog 
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 Posted: August 29 2016 at 03:35 |
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Forest is the only fun song on the album. Full of cool melodies. Silly vocals just like Supper but better song. Fave song on album. Cinema, firth and moonlit are fairly good tracks although they have moments which spoil them a bit
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All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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Libor10
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Posted: August 29 2016 at 01:32 |
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If I should choose one then it is More Fool Me. It foreshown how Genesis will sound without Gabriel in their pop era. I never understood hate toward Battle, it's quite good song in vein of Get 'em Out By Friday. Agreed - it's not among their best songs but why it's so unpopular is beyond me. I consider I Know What I Like worse one as the years go by... for some reason it seems to me more and more boring with poppish tendency. And in fact I didn't expect Firth Of Fifth could have any vote... it's one of their materpieces IMO - but there you are...
All in all, SEBTP in the whole is Genesis best record (with Foxtrot) for me and what I wrote above has no impact on this meaning whatsoever.
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Progosopher
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 21:38 |
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More Fool Me is the weakest track and does not fit in well with the rest of the album. Collins lacks confidence in his voice here, it sounds so tentative.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Dellinger
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 21:08 |
 LakeGlade12 wrote:
Can't believe that Epping forest is currently winning the worst song contest. Its of the most entertaining Prog epics out there and one of Genesis's best tracks period. Nobody does comedy Prog like Gabrial-era Genesis does!
No weak songs on the album, but the 2008 remaster extends the length of Aisle of Plenty by cutting off the ending The Cinema Show (my no 2 Genesis song) which ticks me off, so it gets the chopping block. |
The thing is, I have never liked comedy in music, really. And Gabriel and Genesis have a way to make this "comedy" particularly annoying for me, wether it is in the music/melody itself, or on the lyrics/concepts... it just puts me off from the songs. I just don't like the images those "comical" words put in my mind. I guess the only comic part I actually enjoy (at least as far as I remember) is "Willow Farm" from "Supper's Ready"... that one really fits the flow of the music and it wouldn't work the same without it (and the live versions I have heard haven't done it justice).
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Dellinger
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 21:03 |
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Battle of Epping Forrest.... at least the other horrid song was short... Epping Forest is the Chinese Water Torture of prog. 
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Exactly my thoughts... I was thinking how to put them to words, but you just did it anyway. Only thing is, the question is "Which one is least interesting"... in which case "More Fool Me" might actually be the one that deserves the vote. But I went with the "Worst track" for voting.
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Barbu
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 20:29 |
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Firth of Fifth
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akaBona
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 16:16 |
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More Fool Me.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 15:56 |
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Epping Forest has always been the low point for me.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Hercules
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 15:12 |
I used to really hate More Fool Me. Now I rather like it. And TBOEF is very funny with very clever lyrics and some great keyboard work.
I just can't vote for any of them.
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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BaldJean
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 14:50 |
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"awful me", without a doubt
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 14:47 |
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More Fool Me is pretty lame but The Battle Of Epping Forest... I'd rather brush my teeth for 11:43 (++) minutes.
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DDPascalDD
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 11:59 |
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It has to be More Fool Of Me, that is easy filler and BOEF is something with lots going on which just didn't work out well and became boring. The lyrics are very nice though!
Edited by DDPascalDD - August 28 2016 at 12:00
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Wanorak
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 11:19 |
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The Battle of Epping Forest. Never liked it. I actually like More Fool Me, a nice change of pace.
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A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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maryes
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 10:29 |
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More Fool Me
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progmatic
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 10:08 |
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I LOVE "The Battle of Epping Forest." (I've never seen anything like it, and it's right outside my door!) Used to love the whole album but Phil Collins' overexposure due to hi solo career/pop Genesis makes it hard for me to enjoy "More Fool Me" the way I used to. So that song gets my vote, no foolin'.
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PROGMATIC
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 10:06 |
LakeGlade12 wrote:
Can't believe that Epping forest is currently winning the worst song contest. Its of the most entertaining Prog epics out there and one of Genesis's best tracks period. Nobody does comedy Prog like Gabrial-era Genesis does! |
That's the thing about comedy, it has to be funny to work. I don't find it funny or clever, just a long slog that messes up the pacing of the album.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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LakeGlade12
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 09:59 |
Can't believe that Epping forest is currently winning the worst song contest. Its of the most entertaining Prog epics out there and one of Genesis's best tracks period. Nobody does comedy Prog like Gabrial-era Genesis does!
No weak songs on the album, but the 2008 remaster extends the length of Aisle of Plenty by cutting off the ending The Cinema Show (my no 2 Genesis song) which ticks me off, so it gets the chopping block.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 09:19 |
micky wrote:
Battle of Epping Forrest.... at least the other horrid song was short... Epping Forest is the Chinese Water Torture of prog.
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Absolutely agree. "More Fool Me" is just a basic love song and is blessedly short, whereas Epping Forest drags on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 08:58 |
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Easily Epping Forest. More Fool Me is a nice song. It's nothing special, but it's well done. Epping on the other hand is neither...
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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DeadSouls
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Posted: August 28 2016 at 08:42 |
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More Fool Me
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