2nd Favorite Song on Foxtrot
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Topic: 2nd Favorite Song on Foxtrot
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Subject: 2nd Favorite Song on Foxtrot
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 11:02
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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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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 11:17
| 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. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 11:24
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Can't vote. I dig them all. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 11:37
I voted for "Watcher of the Skies" as my favourite off Foxtrot after, dun dun duuun!, "Supper's Ready".  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 11:45
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1. Watcher of the Skies 2. Supper's Ready
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 11:56
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Can-Utility and the Coastliners. Thanks for the dimensionless numbers and ferrofluids! Yum! ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Moonshake
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 12:07
| Get 'Em Out by Friday |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 12:23
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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. |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 12:48
| Watcher of the Skies is one of the great album opening tracks in my entire collection... |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 15:26
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All of them!
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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 15:29
I'll '2nd' that!  ------------- |
Octopus II wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 15:43
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Can Utility, because it's everything Genesis could do soooo excellent, condesed into below 6 minutes. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 16:09
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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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Posted By: Progfan1958
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 16:20
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Also for me : 1. Watcher of the Skies 2. Supper's Ready ------------- Progfan1958 "Peace to you all" "La paix est avec vous" "Pax vobiscum" "Al salaam a'alaykum" "Vrede zij met u allen" "Shalom aleichem" |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 17:02
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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. ------------- ...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... |
Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 18:59
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Horizons ------------- The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 19:01
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Time Table. My #1 is Can-Utility though. Supper's Ready comes at #3. ------------- On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became. Ernest Vong |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 19:17
| Watcher of the skies. I enjoy hearing it on Genesis live too. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 22 2024 at 03:32
| 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. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 22 2024 at 04:21
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Get 'em Out.... I've always loved the lyrics and my word, they are more relevant today than ever! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: August 22 2024 at 05:58
| This is an album I enjoy as a whole, so it's hard to pick a favorite. I'll have to think very hard before I can vote for a first or second favorite. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: August 22 2024 at 08:01
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Watcher Of The Skies too. ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: August 23 2024 at 11:00
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1 Watcher of the skies 2 Can-utility 3 Suppers
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 26 2024 at 20:01
| Time Table, I don't understand why it gets so much dislike. Now, the one I do dislike is Get'em out by Friday. Just annoying. Part of my annoying trilogy, along with Harold the Barrel and Battle of Epping Forest, the three songs that ruin albums for me. However, Watcher of the Skies somehow never called much my attention until I heard Hackett's solo version on Tokyo Tapes... now, that one on that version would be my favourite of the lot. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 26 2024 at 20:04
It's one of those songs where the verse and bridge is better than the chorus (dear father by Yes is another one like that).
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 27 2024 at 11:04
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Can-Utility. The only song I like from Side One. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: August 27 2024 at 15:55
| Can-Utility and the Coastliners ( aka Bye Bye Johnny when played live before 1972) |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 27 2024 at 20:10
Should be a poll maybe?  I'm also thinking that ELP would also have an 'Annoying Trilogy' with Jeremy Bender, The Sheriff and Benny The Bouncer. In both cases the middle one chronologically speaking is the least annoying of the 3 for me anyway.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 27 2024 at 21:41
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