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Poll Question: Which song on Selling England by the Pound is your Favorite?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
13 [15.48%]
2 [2.38%]
32 [38.10%]
5 [5.95%]
3 [3.57%]
28 [33.33%]
1 [1.19%]
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I've come to the point where I can actually listen to More Fool Me, but yeah, it still has no chance of being the best one, ever.

It's a tough call between Dancing With the Moonlit Knight, Firth of Fifth and Cinema Show. Maybe I'll go with Cinema Show this time.

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Cinema show/Aisle of plenty (one song for me).

Although Dancing With the Moonlit Knight and Firth of Fifth score 10/10 on the DP scale as well.
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 Cinema show for me it has the greatest keyboard solo of all time. Fifth of Firth is next and Dancing 3rd , After the Ordeal 4th and Ailse of Plenty  are also genius tracks.

 Battle of Epping Forrest is OK but really never did much for me

 I know What I Like  Not much depth to this one. A not so good attempt at a single

 More Fool me A  filler its adds  contrast but not much else

 There is an enormous gap between the better and weaker tracks on this album and there are some midway also.

  All the top 10 have flaws so I think the challenge is still there to produce the definitive prog classic.

 

 
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Cinema Show, I suppose... It really is a battle between three masterpieces on this album! (I don't need to name them, do I? )

The funny thing is, I didn't fall in love with Cinema Show because of the keyboard playing, like so many others apparently, but thanks to the percussion work that accompanies it during that amazing instrumental section. It's just, I don't know... so musical!
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"The Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty" is my personal zenith as far as progressive rock songs go....

 

 

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A very underrated and short instrumental is "After the Ordeal", which has a great guitar solo with a climax that runs chills up your whole body over and over again. Its so moving and beautiful... (Starts around 2:10 and the climax is about one minute later)

 

 

I voted for Firth though... What a great keyboard part. The intro, the "Combined Brass" sound solo, and basically everything else (when gabriel sings and plays the flute) is just a BRILLIANT keyboard part.

Tony Banks is a genius!

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Really hard... In the end it has to be: Dancing with the Moonlit
Knight, with Cinema Show as number 2, and then Epping
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The instrumental section of Cinema Show propels it to the status of my favorite song... ever. Final answer.
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Originally posted by Solids2k Solids2k wrote:

The instrumental section of Cinema Show propels it to the status of my favorite song... ever. Final answer.

I second that.
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Looking at those songs has just reminded me just how much filler was on that album!
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'Cinema Show'. It turned me onto exploring early Genesis which I thought was a boring pop rock band before hearing this song.
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Cinema Show because its the only one Iv heard.
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firth of fifth is the best song ever made in this world until today
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CINEMA SHOW

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Originally posted by raindance raindance wrote:

Looking at those songs has just reminded me just how much filler was on that album!


Besides More Fool Me (which I really like) and I Know What I Like (which i don't like) I can't find anything that would even REMOTELY qualify as filler material on this album.
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