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I will not rank them, but I will tell my nickname for "More Fool Me": "Awful Me".


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1. Firth of Fifth
2. The Cinema Show / Aisle of Plenty
3. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
4. The Battle of Epping Forest
5. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
6. After the Ordeal
7. More Fool Me (the really poor track on this album, absolute garbage)
The Battle of Epping Forest is possibly one of progs most underrated tracks, absolutely brilliant lyrics with some of the best word-plays ever heard on vinyl - and I think that the music is excellent and quirky (probably why its underrated) - this track should have been extended out to suppers ready length - what a treat that would have been!
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1. After the Ordeal
2. Dancing With the Moonlight Knight
3. Cinema Show
4. Battle of Epping Forest
5. Firth of Fifth
6. More Fool Me
7. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
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Firth of Fifth.
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Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

1, 2, and 3 switch around every now and again, but 9 times out of 10 I think I'd put them in this order:

1. The Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty (I too consider them to be one track)
2. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
3. Firth of Fifth 
4. After The Ordeal
5. More Fool Me 
6. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
7. The Battle of Epping Forest (Possibly the worst Genesis song, period)

1-5 are all good or great songs, the last two not so much.

This post pretty much mirrors my own choices and I fully concur that The Battle of Epping Forest is one of the worst Gabriel-era pieces. Not only does Gabriel not shut up, but there’s no kind of interesting instrumental sections, which is strange given the strength of the rest of the album.
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1) Firth Of Fifth
2) Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty
3) Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
4) Battle of Epping Forest
5) After the Ordeal
6) I Know What I Like (In your Wardrobe)
7) More Fool Me.........

........and I like More Fool Me a lot !!
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1. Firth of Fifth (mostly for the solo gives it the edge over #2)
2. Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
3. The Cinema Show/Aisle of plenty
4. After the Ordeal 
5. The Battle of Epping Forest 
6. I Know What I Like
7. More Fool Me (But i still like it)
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I haven't listed to this album in so long.  It's probably my favourite from Genesis.  I don't think anyone has put out precisely this order

the ones I like
1.  Dancing with the the Moonlit Knight
2.  Cinema Show
3.  First of Fifth
4.  After the Ordeal
5.  I know what I like

the ones I don't like
6.  More Fool Me
7.  The Battle of Epping Forest
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1. Firth of Fifth
2. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
3. The Battle of Epping Forest
4. Cinema Show/ Aisle of Plenty
5. After the Ordeal
6. I Know What I Like (In your wardrobe)
7. More Fool Me
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1 Dancing wit the Moonlit Knight
2 Cinema Show/ Aisle of Plenty
3 Firth of Fifth
4 Epping Forest
5 I Know What I Like
6 After the Ordeal
7 More Fool Me
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1. The Cinema Show / Aisle of Plenty
2. Firth of Fifth
3. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
4. The Battle of Epping Forest
5. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
6. After the Ordeal
7. More Fool Me
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

How would you rank the tracks on "Selling England by the Pound" by Genesis. Here's my order:

1. Firth of Fifth
2. Cinema Show/ Aisle of Plenty (I consider them one track)
3. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
4. After the Ordeal
5. I Know What I Like (In your wardrobe)
6. The Battle of Epping Forest
7. More Fool Me




Precisely this ranking for me too!
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

How would you rank the tracks on "Selling England by the Pound" by Genesis. Here's my order:

1. Firth of Fifth
2. Cinema Show/ Aisle of Plenty (I consider them one track)
3. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
4. After the Ordeal
5. I Know What I Like (In your wardrobe)
6. The Battle of Epping Forest
7. More Fool Me


I'll go with this order as well.
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I won't say I like the 80's Genesis as much as the 70's but I will say that I probably like it more than most prog fans seem to. I think part of it is I grew up as a teen in the eighties and that was my first exposure to them(not the seventies stuff). However, after I started going backwards in the Yes discography I soon did the same thing with Genesis and that's ultimately how I became a prog fan. 
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Duke Thumbs Up  Great songs from start to finish.. I don't give a sh*t if they are prog or not. I love music. Simple as that.  And that something earlier Genesis failed at IMO.  Great songs.. and they had some...mixed with absolute crap which they had plenty of...
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

1. The Cinema Show


yeah.. that about about sums it up... 

5 star album? my ass  .not with 3 easy 1 star clunkers on it. Fanboys... you all need to get out more.

So what is your favorite Genesis album?

I actually don't like it as much as I used to. At one point it was my favorite but now that title would go to ATOTT.
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Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

1. The Cinema Show


yeah.. that about about sums it up... 

5 star album? my ass  .not with 3 easy 1 star clunkers on it. Fanboys... you all need to get out more.
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not my favorite genesis album, that title goes to foxtrot. still an amazing, 5-star effort

1. dancing with the moonlit knight
2. firth of fifth
3. after the ordeal
4. the cinema show/aisle of plenty
5. the battle of epping forest
6. more fool me
7. I know what I like
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

Originally posted by mechanicalflattery mechanicalflattery wrote:

Firth of Fifth
The Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
After The Ordeal
I Know What I Like
The Battle of Epping Forest
More Fool Me

The top three are untouchable, the next two are great, Battle is decent, More Fool Me is tolerable

Edit: Just realized I have the exact same listing as the OP. Not bad... 

My choice exactly.

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Dancing
Firth
Cinema

Ordeal
Know
Aisle

Battle

I've erased Bore Cool Pee from my memory...it doesn't exist.
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