progrockdeepcuts wrote: Tull are my all-time favorite band, Genesis don't even come close for me. No one does. To be fair, I had a period where I LOVED Genesis. I must've played those Gabriel albums everyday for about 2 years in high school; they WERE my favorite band for a time. I wore myself out and now they do nothing for me. When it comes down to it, comparing one bad to another and fighting over which is 'better' is just ridiculous; truly it gets us nowhere. I prefer listening to the tamed noises that one band make over the one that another makes. Perhaps we should all just listen to what we like. Trying to convince others is just a wasted exercise and all it succeeds in is making some people angry and defensive. I REALLY think it's unfair to criticize a group of fans of a particular band or try to rationalize WHY they like what they do. We like what we like.

Tull are my all-time favorite band, Genesis don't even come close for me. No one does.

To be fair, I had a period where I LOVED Genesis. I must've played those Gabriel albums everyday for about 2 years in high school; they WERE my favorite band for a time. I wore myself out and now they do nothing for me.

When it comes down to it, comparing one bad to another and fighting over which is 'better' is just ridiculous; truly it gets us nowhere. I prefer listening to the tamed noises that one band make over the one that another makes. Perhaps we should all just listen to what we like. Trying to convince others is just a wasted exercise and all it succeeds in is making some people angry and defensive. I REALLY think it's unfair to criticize a group of fans of a particular band or try to rationalize WHY they like what they do. We like what we like.


Edited by progrockdeepcuts - January 06 2015 at 00:54

bhikkhu wrote: Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: I love Tull, but honestly, after a few minutes I get bored of this pastoral sound, no matter how much I love TAAB, I haven't listened the whole album in decades without getting sleepy. Funny, I've never listened to it without getting sleepy.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - January 05 2015 at 21:03

manofmystery wrote: Why can't Genesis fan boys behave more like DT fan boys and bugger off? Sick of this lackluster band dominating this genre.  It's good prog buried under awful singing from a guy in a stupid flower costume.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Stop building it into something it's not. To be fair Jethro Tull is one of my favorite bands of all time but there's absolutely no doubt they made much more interesting music.

Edited by Catcher10 - January 05 2015 at 20:35

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: Dellinger wrote: Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: It's funny how Micky tries to convince people this is about the Pop Genesis, when as a fact it's about Prog Genesis A perfect streak like Trespass>>>>Nursery Cryme>>>>>Foxtrot>>>>>SEBTP>>>>>>The Lamb...Is simply unbeatable.   Well, for me Pink Floyd beats that streak easily, with Dark Side, WYWH, Animals, and yes, I guess I can include Meddle and The Wall too (though I would have to ignore Obscured by Clouds). Then it's not a streak. BTW: I would have to include a) Trespass b) Nursery (13) c) Foxtrot (5) d) SEBTP (3) e) The Lamb (44) f) A Trick of the Tail (49) g) Wind & Wuthering - No band has that 7 streak, not a single bad album  - 2 albums <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.4;">in the top 5 of PA</span> <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.4;">- 5 in the top 50</span> <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.4;">- 6 in the top 126</span> <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.4;">- The 7 in the top 250</span> <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.4;">- 7 Continuous albums with an average over 4 stars</span> <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.4;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.4;">That hasn't been beaten, </span><span style="line-height: 14.3360004425049px;">despite</span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.4;"> the haters and the Yes fanboys </span>

Oh well, the thing for me, is that none of those albums is really a 5 star masterpiece. All of them have at least one song that I really dislike. The closest album for me would be Selling England by the Pound, and even that one has Battle of Epping Forest. Also Tresspass is really close, but even though that one doesn't have any song that I really dislike, it doesn't have such highlights on it as the next albums would have.

Genesis.

Why can't Genesis fan boys behave more like DT fan boys and bugger off?
Sick of this lackluster band dominating this genre.  It's good prog buried under awful singing from a guy in a stupid flower costume.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Stop building it into something it's not.
To be fair Jethro Tull is one of my favorite bands of all time but there's absolutely no doubt they made much more interesting music.

Catcher10 wrote:   Who cares if this is about pop, prog, disco, country, jazz, zydeco, symphonic Genesis......

^The funny thing to me about the whole Genesis vs Tull deal is that Tull's TAAB ranks just a hair under Yes' CTTE for the best Prog album ever made, IMHO. If Tull had Rick Wakeman instead of John Evan, the ranking would be reversed.

^Two Clappys, Richard. Spot on!

Edited by SteveG - January 05 2015 at 16:35