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Poll Question: Which do you prefer?
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12 [33.33%]
4 [11.11%]
9 [25.00%]
8 [22.22%]
3 [8.33%]
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    Posted: August 21 2024 at 11:02
This poll is based entirely on the presumption that 99.9% of those who own and enjoy Genesis's Foxtrot  would choose "Supper's Ready" as their favorite song on the album. I entirely agree with and support this opinion, and would even say that it's by far the best of any song on their first four albums.

None of the above 5 songs were performed very often (if at all) in the band's live shows after 1976, but they do have their defenders/supporters. After "Supper's Ready", what's your favorite song on Foxtrot?
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I voted wrong either way, Super's Ready has never been my favorite song on Foxtrot. Surely, I enjoy the epic, but Get'em Out by Friday, Watcher... and Can-Utility and the Coastliners I've always liked more. 
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Can't vote. I dig them all.
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I voted for "Watcher of the Skies" as my favourite off Foxtrot after, dun dun duuun!, "Supper's Ready".
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1. Watcher of the Skies
2. Supper's Ready
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Can-Utility and the Coastliners. Thanks for the dimensionless numbers and ferrofluids! Yum!
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Get 'Em Out by Friday
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I've never been too crazy about the A-side really. And Get'Em Out By Friday is almost as awful as Battle of Epping Forest. But something happened the last couple of times I've listened to Watcher of the Skies. Now I genuinely love it.
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Watcher of the Skies is one of the great album opening tracks in my entire collection...
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All of them! Smile
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Originally posted by Octopus II Octopus II wrote:

All of them! Smile

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Can Utility, because it's everything Genesis could do soooo excellent, condesed into below 6 minutes.
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Hard to choose between Watcher of the Skies and Can-Utility, but todat I pick the latter.
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Also for me :
1. Watcher of the Skies
2. Supper's Ready
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Actually, "Supper's Ready" is my second favorite on the album after "Can-Utility", which is everything great about Genesis in a small package. 
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Time Table. My #1 is Can-Utility though. Supper's Ready comes at #3.
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Watcher of the skies. I enjoy hearing it on Genesis live too.
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Yep they all great but I have a soft spot for Time Table. The melody is one of Genesis best. Maybe it harks back a tiny bit to their pre prog existence and perhaps would have pointed the way forward for them if progressive rock had never existed.
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Get 'em Out.... I've always loved the lyrics and my word, they are more relevant today than ever!
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