Favourite of the first 10 Genesis albums

Well, they are all brilliant except the debut, but one record represents absolute perfection to me: Selling England By The Pound. There are the 2 first poppier Genesis songs "I Know What I Like" and "More Fool Me" but they can't really pull down the sheer brilliance of the masterpiece, because they fit somehow to the character of the album and are also really good IMHO.

The album got a perfect production, the sound problems of earlier records were maked out and the record shines with some of prog's all-time best pieces (Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, Firth of Fifth, Cinema Show, After The Ordeal, The Cinema Show). No matter, SEBTP is THE symphonic prog masterpiece beside Close To The Edge, symphonic prog ain't get better than that.

Foxtrot is musicianal and progressively as a whole maybe a bit more attractive to progheads, but SEBTP got the better production and you really can hear any single instrument perfectly. For my taste the best produced prog record of the 70's together with CTTE and DSotM.

I like "Waiting Room". From complete free-form to rocky but still weird. Never again was Genesis as experimental as on "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" (which is why that album is my favourite of Genesis).

Foxtrot

I love all of them (except Trick which I only "really like alot" haha and From Genesis to Rev. which I havent ever heard and dont really intend on hearing). I had to choose Selling England though since it has two of my favorite songs on it - Firth of Fifth and the Cinema Show. Nursery Cryme and Trespass were close seconds.

1. Selling England by the pound *****
2. A trick of the tail *****
3. The lamb lies down on broadway *****
4. Foxtrot ****1/2
5. Nursery cryme ****
6. Trespass ****
7. Wind and wuthering ****
8. Live ***
9. FGTR *

Not rated, the only one lacking in my collection: Seconds out.

I bought Nursery cryme some days ago, and have been lisening to it many times and at the moment its my favorite Album

Well, it looks like - for once - I'm actually in tune with the majority. Wonders will never cease. I am a little surprised, though, as I expected Selling England or Nursery Cryme to be the most popular.

In my teens it would have been 'The Lamb..' and I still love it, but my fave now is 'Trick of the tail'

It's always a good thing when a band slaps the critics in the face with a killer album. The obituries were being written, in all the music mags when Gabriel left, but Trick, the fist album with Phil singing, revealed great strengths within the Genesis machine, regarding both songwriting and musicianship.

I'll never forget the first time I heard 'Dance on a volcano' !! I had been listerning to Gabriels Genesis for about a year, but had ignored anything the band done after he left. 'Dance on a volcano' went on to be one of my favourite Genesis songs of all time.

Interesting to see that "Wind and Wuthering" has nil points so far, yet I'm sure almost all Genesis fans would agree it's among their finest. Maybe we should have a poll for their second or third best, I'm sure it would then rate quite highly.

Easy Livin wrote: Looks like a four horse race, but I suspect Trespass will run out of steam quite quickly, great album, but its up against superiors! I went for "Nursery Cryme", it has that naive brilliance of a band suddenly finding they have immense talent.

Very well put.

I voted SEBT£, but  NC was my introduction to Genesis, It's a tough one to call.

(Shouldn't that be SEBTlb? I don't know, the free Gabriel pound note that came with the original LP confuses the issue.)

Edited by emdiar