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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by dwill123 dwill123 wrote:

Just play this album in its entirety.
 
Yup, can't go far wrong. You have to do Musical Box!

So many suggestions for just copying this but I think Watcher of the Skies and Get 'em out by Friday are amongst the dullest Genesis/Gabriel era songs... weak melodies and nagging vocals...
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Originally posted by dwill123 dwill123 wrote:

Just play this album in its entirety.
 
Yup, can't go far wrong. You have to do Musical Box!
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Just to be different:

Stagnation
In the Beginning
Harold the Barrel
Time Table
The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging [Kevin Gilbert's version of this was fantastic]
Riding the Scree

and for kicks:
The Battle of Epping Forest
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My top five essentials:

White Mountain
The Knife
The Musical Box
The Fountain of Salmacis
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

My list of very favourites from Genesis is mostly from their classic line-up
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YMMV ..... Be careful how you swing that thing around Smile   In the England of my youth the "classic line up" is the one that got most airplay, sold more albums and appealed to far more people, i.e. Rutherford, Banks, Hackett, Collins.    Trick and W & W.  

Just saying...  Smile     
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Ripples
Lamia
One for the Vine
Seven Stones
Get'em Out By Friday
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The Musical Box
The Return of the Giant Hogweed
Watcher of the Skies
Firth of Fifth1
The Cinema Show / Aisle of Plenty

Encore:
In the Cage

1Or Dancing with the Moonlit Knight. I find it hard to choose between these two.
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The Knife (great organ riff influenced heavily by Keith Emerson)
Return Of Giant Hogweed ( the piano break is a killer)
Watcher Of The Skies (Mellotron!)
Firth of Fifth (the piano intro is a 'bugger' though. I saw another Genesis tribute band struggle to get this out because of it)
In The Cage ( just for the sunshine in my stomach lyric if nothing else)
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

The marvellous 1973 Live album has most of the best stuff. On top of that maybe the Cinema Show, Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, Fly on a Windshield.
If your listeners are mainly into later Genesis, they will probably love Carpet Crawlers.


Actually, they managed to miss most of my favourite songs on that one... not from the performance, as I understand it, but they left those ones out in order to make space for a single LP album instead of a double (which is the way I belive they should have released it, with the complete show).
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My list of very favourites from Genesis is mostly from their classic line-up, and it includes:
- The Musical Box.
- Supper's Ready (yeah, I know, you said you wouldn't play it anyway).
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight.
- Firth of Fifth.
- The Cinema Show.

I might add as close ones, The Knife (because of the live version with the classic line-up) and In the Cage. Yet, if you are thinking about pleasing the more pop oriented fans of the 80's stuff too, then you might consider including "I know what I like".
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Because you said Gabriel's period:
The Return of the Giant Hogweed
Looking For Someone
The Musical Box
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
The Knife

Had you asked for Genesis as a whole, regardless of period, it would have been:
Blood on the Rooftops
The Return of the Giant Hogweed
Ripples
Follow You Follow Me
Dance on a Volcano






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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

No Supper's Ready? Sacrilege. 

Anyway, if you ask five different people you will probably get five different answers. Here is my list of five(I'll also add another five as a bonus). Nope, no "carpet crawlers" from me but I'm sure others will list it. ;)

1. Firth of Fifth (next to SR this is the most essential Genesis song imo).
2. The Musical Box
3. Watcher of the Skies
4. In the Cage (you could do what the original Genesis did with this and incorporate a medley in it)
5. Cinema Show/ Aisle of Plenty (really one track imo)

Bonus 5:

The Knife
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (title track)
Fountain of Sulmacis
Stagnation (very under rated imo)
Return of the Giant Hogweed 

Just missed the list: Dancing with the moonlit knight

Pretty much how I feel.
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^Yup. Problem solved. Smile
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Just play this album in its entirety.
 
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If I could see Genesis in concert, 
I'd like to listen:

1. Looking for Someone, 
2. White Mountain
3 The Knife
(Trespass is a great album)

4. The Return of the Giant Hogweed
(Musical Box is a must but in my opinion is overrated)  
5. Time Table
6. Can-Utility and the Coastliners
(the last one is for me the best track of Foxtrot)
7. Dancing with the Moonlight Knight
8. Firth of Fifth.
9. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
10. The Carpet Crawlers 
 
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Just learn Supper's Ready and you're all set Cool.

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You really should try 'Twilight Alehouse' and 'Happy the Man'. Just because nobody else does.

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 Watcher of The Skies
 Firth of Fifth
 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
 In the Cage
 The Musical Box

Also you may want to conciser doing some abbreviated sections of Supper's Ready. 
That end section is so powerful. May be incorporate it in to a melody with something else. 



Edited by Argo2112 - January 29 2019 at 13:35
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The Knife
The Musical Box
Watcher of the Skies
Can-Utility and the Coastliners
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
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Originally posted by Friday13th Friday13th wrote:

1. Watcher of the Skies
2. Firth of the Fifth
3. Carpet Crawlers
4. The Musical Box
5. I Know What I Like

That would be my set if Supper's Ready is disqualified.

Pretty much this, I'm not sure I would even want to hear Suppers' Ready. I suspect that would eat up 80% of your allotted set time.
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