Band: Best Album - Worst Album

LAM-SGC wrote: Pink Floyd: Relics - The Wall Genesis: A Trick of the Tail - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Jethro Tull: Songs from the Wood - A

Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte....til We Have Faces.

LAM-SGC wrote: Cristi wrote: Sorry for complaining, I just could not help it.    Different strokes for different folks. We can't all like the same stuff. I have heard every PF album and every Genesis album. And I much prefer Invisible Touch and Calling All Stations to Lamb.  To my ears they are good pops albums, plus in 86 when it came out Invisible Touch was the very first CD I bought. Lamb to me is just unlistenable. As for The Wall, no thanks. There are many other PF albums that are far better. Never understood the fascination with The Wall. Why would I listen to the Wall when I can listen to Relics, Piper, Saucerful, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, DSOTM, Ummagumma, More, AHM.....and The Final Cut!

Mascodagama wrote: ^ Not entirely unique, I find all Genesis unlistenable.

Cristi wrote:  But finding The Lamb... unlistenable or Genesis' worst is a rather unique point of view.

^I felt that way for a while or at least felt it was the weakest Gabriel era album. I'm not so sure anymore though. I think it has this strange quirky charm that the others don't have. I disagree about the average Genesis fan not liking it though and also of the average Genesis fan preferring the Collins era. Having spent plenty of time on fb Genesis groups I can tell you most of them are fans of the prog era. Maybe the casual Genesis fans prefer the later pop stuff but based on my experience most of the hardcore fans seem to prefer the Gabriel or Hackett era over the later stuff.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - January 10 2019 at 18:41

LAM-SGC wrote: Cristi wrote:  But finding The Lamb... unlistenable or Genesis' worst is a rather unique point of view.  Not a unique point of view at all. Far from it. If you cast your net wider than just prog fans and just what prog fans and prog sites have to say you will find that the average pop/rock listener to Genesis does not like Lamb at all, you will further find that the average pop/rock listener to Genesis prefers the Collins era to the Gabriel era, as do I. You will also find that the average pop/rock listener to Genesis in the 80s and 90s had no idea about the previous prog rock incarnation of Genesis with Gabriel. I first heard Wind & Wuthering when it came out, then heard Trick in 81 when a friend played it at her party and I carried on from there with the later Collins albums. I didn't even know about Gabriel and the early albums until the late 80s, even though I'd heard bits of W&W in the late 70s.  But I bought them, listened to them, and disliked about half of every album from Trespass to SEBTP and disliked Lamb entirely. I just couldn't get along with Gabriel's voice, lyrics and his clowning around with accents and silly voices. For me Lamb is unlistenable.

jethro tull thick as a brick best, worst rock island
genesis foxtrot the best worst duke, not all of duke but some of duke
king crimson icotck worst lizard not all but some of lizard
yes close to the edge, worst open your eyes all of it
emerson lake and palmer debut, worst in the hot seat, very bland outing
moody blues to our childrens children, worst strange times

I'm bumping this because it was a good idea for a thread.