Your first Genesis album your favorite?

Hmm. Well the first Genesis I ever heard was that I Can't Dance: The Shorts live thinger.  Or whatever its actually called. Anyways, I liked its novelty when I was 8, but when I got Selling England by the Pound almost 10 years later I loved it.  So I guess the first Genesis ALBUM I heard is my favorite.

SEBTP was my first, the Lamb is my fav though everything from Trespass to the Lamb is incredible and I can see arguments for any of those albums.

Edited by kenmartree - June 17 2008 at 05:57

The first Genesis album I heard was Nursery Cryme, and I was in love as soon as that flute part started in "The Musical Box". We're taking the kids to Paris next year, too!

The first Genesis I heard was Selling England and it remains my favourite. The first I actually bought was Wind and Wuthering but these days I never listen to it.

The first one I bought was A Trick of the Tail...my favorite is Trespass.

Yes, Foxtrot was the first I heard and is still my favourit, but not for sentimental reasons but because I think its their peak.

Follow You Follow Me was getting a lot of airplay when I first became a serious prog fan.  My brother had a double album that was a combo of Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot.  Those two really were instrumental in turning me to prog.  I like all the studio albums from Trespass to Wind and Wuthering about equally so I can't really pick a favorite.  I have to say of all of those, I found Trespass to be the most moving.

" Ice is moving and world's begun to freeze
see the sunlight stopped and deadened by the breeze
Minds are empty bodies move insensitive
some believe that when they die they really live"

Pretty deep lyrics coming from a twentysomething.


Edited by Slartibartfast - June 16 2008 at 08:04

I fell in love with Foxtrot the first time I laid my ears on it. I have Selling England, Nursery Cryme, and The Lamb.

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: 2.- ATOTT is my least favorite Genesis Prog album even much further than SEBTP.   Note: I don't consider any post W&W album Prog and to be honest, neither consider any of them remotely good. ... Foxtrot & Nursery Cryme (A perfect tie) Trespass The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Selling England by the Pound Wind & Wuthering A Trick of the Tail From Genesis to the Revelation Iván

But then, shouldn't ATotT be on the 7th place?


Personally I'm very thankful for my mom. I was around 14 or so, when some friends of mine were talking about prog, mostly Dream Theater. I saw a live JT concert on the telly, and loved it. My mom told me before it was on, that THIS concert is the prog you've been asking about.

Later we went to the library, and to the vinyl shelf. I had a vinyl player, but only one disk, ELO - Face the Music. My mom looked up a few vinyls for me. King Crimson - ItCotCK, Wigwam - Nuclear Nightclub, Jethro Tull - Stand Up, and along with all these there was Genesis - Selling England by the Pound.

Needless to say I loved it. I grew a fascination to prog the way my friends never had. While they staid with metal, I went for the classic which later on lead me to jazz, they developed to Opeth etc. Selling England by the Pound might nt be the best, but the rates say so. And it holds a great personal value to me.

The beginning is lovely and melodic. Then the battle bursts out the whole album, and I love how it again eases down to the end which sounds like a closure to the whole album with the melody same asin the first song. And still, Dancing with the Moonlit Knight... Could a better opening track really be made?