Your first Genesis album your favorite?

A trick of the tail grabbed me 31 years ago (especially the intro of Dance on a Volcano) and is still my favorite (not the best Genesis-album, most Gabriel-era albums can compete witt ATOTT and I like them also very much).

First Genesis album was Abacab; however, these days I put Duke, Selling England By The Pound, Wind And Wuthering, Foxtrot and Trick Of The Tail ahead of it.

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Lamb is my favourite, but probably the forth or fifth Genesis album I'd heard (can't remember if I heard FromG2R before or after buying Lamb) ... pretty sure Trespass was the first I'd listened to. At the time I never saw anything in SEBTP that would say it would become the great album it is regarded as today - something I wasn't aware of until I started visiting here.

Jim Garten wrote: It's also nice to know I'm not the only one not over-keen on SEBTP; for me, it's a great album, but it would be a stunning one if only they'd dropped 'Battle Of Epping Forest'

Although I respect SEBTP, it's not one of my favorites either. In no order, I'd pick these over SEBTP: Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, TLLDOB, and TOTT.

Doesn't work for me.

My first Genesis album was Foxtrot, but my favorite is The Lamb, which actually took me the longest to "get".

My first Genesis album was also part of my conversion to prog - in the late 1970s I was into anything loud & heavy, so knowing my brother in law was into music I asked if he had anything heavy - he sent me away with Floyd's "Dark Side" (an immediate epiphany) & Genesis "Live"... from there I went on to get Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, Seconds Out, etc etc etc.

'Live' is still one of my favorites, along with Nursery Cryme, but one album not mentioned yet here is the superb "Archives Vol 1" containing a full live performance of 'Lamb' + another concert from 1972/73 (?) on the 'SEBTP'tour - reminds me every time I hear it why I love prog-rock

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It's also nice to know I'm not the only one not over-keen on SEBTP; for me, it's a great album, but it would be a stunning one if only they'd dropped 'Battle Of Epping Forest'

Edited by Jim Garten - June 26 2008 at 03:24

Well, I've only heard the big three (Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, SEBTP), but SEBTP was my first, and, even though it took me a while to really get it, it's probably still my favorite. However, Nursery Cryme, which is my third purchase, is creeping up on it. I haven't heard it nearly as many times as SEBTP, though, so that might change (got SEBTP over a year ago, and just got Nursery Cryme a week and a half ago.

It's strange how it took me a while to get into SEBTP, and I was able to easily get into the other two (because I got them later and was already "into" Genesis, yet it still remains my favorite album.

I agree! The first time I ever heard Genesis was when my dad took me to see 'Selling England by the Pound' preformed by the Musical Box. That is what got me into progressive music. After hearing 'Firth of Fifth' there was no going back for me. And 'Selling England...' is my all time favourit album because of it. I don't know if it's because I saw that one first, or if I'd like it as much if I saw 'The Lamb' or 'Foxtrot' first, but that night my musical library would never be the same again. The next day I bought 'Selling England...' and 'Genesis Live'.

Strangely enough...

I have said just now on another thread that the first Genesis album I heard was ..And then there were 3... in 1981.  We were on a 2 week camping holiday and we just had 2 tapes for a fortnight - we wore it thin and we all loved it.  Such an underrated album - the forgotten diamond.  My brother played Undertow 14 times in a row once.  Really really good, and I got into Genesis after that point seeing them live at Wembley Arena only months later (one of my favourite ever gigs) - strange as prior to that I was a punk rock fan - I was changed for life!

However, it isn't my favourite album - when I got to know more of their music I grew to love Trespass and Nursery Cryme the best - so haunting and mystical, never to be beaten.

I totally agree! My first genesis purchase was Foxtrot and its still top of the pack for me. Nursery Cryme comes close, it just doesnt have Supper's Ready. Selling England is also good but too uneven.