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Poll Question: Foxtrot? Which track (other than 'Supper's Ready') is your fave?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
10 [12.66%]
4 [5.06%]
7 [8.86%]
27 [34.18%]
3 [3.80%]
5 [6.33%]
1 [1.27%]
7 [8.86%]
15 [18.99%]
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Supper's Ready is my favorite but I love the whole album. "Watcher of the skies" has an interlude too long and insipid but the rest is pure magic. I love GENESIS
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Get 'em out by Friday...

love the bassline... and a sentimental favorite... got my last speeding ticket while enjoying this song so much hahahha..... it was the 'air' bass,  officer... I had no idea I was doing 90 in a 55....


Yeah the bassline is great once I think about it... but dont you think the song goes on for about... 3-4 minutes TOO LONG?

I understand they cant just cut the story short but... come on...
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      I don't think I have ever tried to pick a favorite from this album, as I always play the whole thing. "Watcher of the Skies" is a little special, because this was the song that made me want to hear more. It didn't take long for this to become one of my all time favorite albums, and Genesis an all time favorite band.   
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Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

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Yeah, I don't really like I Know What I like... way below the level of other songs on SEBTP.

The Lamb is great but I don't like it quite as much... the sound is just slightly different and not as great as on the previous albums. TOTT Is excellent, 4 star album, and so is WaW(perhaps a bit weaker though). They're just not as amazing as the first four.


Well I guess I just see it differently...

I think having 'I know what I like' is great (especially since its based on the cover art... and I like the cover art...) and more fool me isnt bad for what it is... I just dont like what it is very much... an acoustic phil collins sung... thingamajiggit... THAT is the weakest song on the album and 'I know what I like' beats it to hell, kicks it in the teeth and steals its wallet. Theyre both fairly poppy sounding too... which isnt a problem... at least to me... I like poppier songs every once in a while, as long as they dont suck (Like 'Love to love you' on 'In the land of Grey and Pink' by Caravan)...

TLLDOB is prooobably my favourite Genesis album (but it feels wierd to admit it somehow). There are just TOO MANY tracks that I love on the album to not say its my favourite. I dont care if there are some instrumentals that are supposedly 'filler', the story is great, the music is awesome, great keyboard solos (in the cage, the colony of slippermen, riding the scree) some awesome guitar and guitar solos (The lamia and I really, really like the guitar on 'The Supernatural Anaesthetist') and some EXCEPTIONAL lyrics and vocal performances from Gabriel like on 'In the Cage', 'Back in NYC', 'The Lamia' I also love the quirky 'Counting out time' and 'it' is great too. If SEBTP deserves five stars, then so does TLLDOB.

TOTT has a lot of awesome songs though it doesnt really have 'classic' title one would give to SEBTP or Foxtrot... The songs are just as strong... but... I just wouldnt give it the same ranking as others... I dont know why... its wierd. Dance on a Volcano = amazing, probably the best song on the album, Entangled is really, really good... haunting, Squonk is definitely a classic wierd theme & lyrics though, Mad Man Moon is a good song, I like it and the lyrics aren't bad either ("and I would welcome a horse's kick to take me back, if I could find a horse not made of sand" [hey, you may not like it but it aint half bad]) Ripples is excellent and Los Endos is a great finisher... must move on to W&W cant talk about the other tracks

W&W!!!!

Good album. I didnt like it nearly as much as the other Genesis albums for a long time and regarded it as their worst (of the prog years, hehe). After listening to it more and more I found several songs that I like A LOT. My favourite as of now is 'Unquiet slumbers for the sleepers... ...In that quiet earth'... yeah I count it as one song... anyway, its probably one of the best instrumentals ive ever heard and I love the part where it goes to that heavier riff... dun dun dah, dun dun ah uh uh ah, dun dun dah, dun dun ah uh uh ah (you know what im talking about, with the keys playing too... god damn thats so boss...)

ah what a great song. Really. No joking here its amazing.

One for the vine is a terribly underrated song (not rated actually, I never see it mentioned at all)... The story it tells, at least in my mind, is really great and gives me shivers, especially at the part where Phil sings 'He thought he recognized him by his walk, and by the way he fell, and by the way he stood up and vanished into air'... ahh... chills... up and down my spine... The story is pretty easy to 'get' ... you get it right? I love it, its simple but I dont really mind, the music is great too, especially the mid section instrumental and the end.

All in a mouse's night is great too, Eleventh Earl of mar isnt bad as well, and I like Wot Gorrila? not bad.

Your own special way... well... er... uh...

Afterglow is a brilliant last track and it is OUTfreakinSTANDING on 'Seconds Out'.

Really good album... probably 4 1/4 stars or 4 1/2 (I GUESS I wont give it a 5... but its really temptingLOL)

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Get 'em out by Friday...

love the bassline... and a sentimental favorite... got my last speeding ticket while enjoying this song so much hahahha..... it was the 'air' bass,  officer... I had no idea I was doing 90 in a 55....
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Yeah, I don't really like I Know What I like... way below the level of other songs on SEBTP.

The Lamb is great but I don't like it quite as much... the sound is just slightly different and not as great as on the previous albums. TOTT Is excellent, 4 star album, and so is WaW(perhaps a bit weaker though). They're just not as amazing as the first four.
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Originally posted by chamberry chamberry wrote:

Can I pick Horizons?


No.
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^ Sure, why not. Its a great instrumental. 
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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2006 at 23:55
Can I pick Horizons? Since its really hard to choose a favorite and I don't think many people will vote for it.

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Points: 256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2006 at 23:53
^WHAAA?

You dont like 'I know what I like'?! How can you... what... I....

AHH!

And what about TLLDOB? or TotT? or W&W???!??!


HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD?!


Edit:

Thinking about what you said for an extra second or two... W&W probably shouldnt be there because it has 'Your own special way' on it... but other than that its flawless...


Edited by Pneubauer - June 02 2006 at 23:54
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Whatever. IMO albums from Trespass to SEBTP are flawless masterpieces without a single weak track, except I know What I Like and More Fool MeTongue

Edited by The Miracle - June 02 2006 at 23:50
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^ I dont really have a problem with the voices, myself... I like when they do stuff like that (like on 'the battle of epping forest') but I feel that the track seems really, really dragged out. and it doesnt really build up or anything cool... its.. well.. its kinda... lame... AAH!

I said it.

Get em out by friday... is... my least favourite Genesis song... at least for the next five minutes or so.

Edit:

I sorta used to like 'Get em out...' but I guess it grew off of me... and 'Can-Utility', 'Time Table', and 'Horizons' are growing ON me... like a fine vintage fungus... mmm... you can practically taste the awesome.




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Supper's Ready is IMO the best composition in rock, ever.

Get 'Em Out By Friday would be second, then Can Utility.


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Foxtrot is the only Genesis album I own. Honestly, I don't see why they are so beloved, but that's neither here nor there...
I agree with you on Can Utility. It is the most coherent song on the album. I like parts of Supper's Ready and Horizon's is a really nice little instrumental, but too short. I also agree about Get 'Em Out. I find all the silly character voices annoying and I dislike the anti-capitalism message. Damn commies...


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Though I am beginning to like 'Watcher of the Skies' a little more (its a good song but it never really stood out as a classic in my mind), Can-Utility and the Coastliners and Time Table are really growing on me... so is Horizons I guess...

I think I'll choose 'Can-Utility and the Coastliners' because I've been listening to it a lot and I love the keys on it and the great guitar part before peter sings 'nothing can my peace destroy...'

Mike's wierd rolling bass thing is cool too. (You know what I'm talking about... right?)

Horizons is also amazing... watching a video of it played on Youtube by some guitar instructor... he slowed it down to show how to play it... it sounded like a lullabye or something, so soothing. What a great song. If I could play guitar worth a damn I'd be playing that nonstop.

I guess I would put 'Get 'Em Out by Friday' as my least favourite song on the album... like 'Watcher', it's not bad, but it's not my cup of hot chocolate.

Gah! So... my vote goes to 'Can-Utility...'

Howsabout you?

Remember... no Supper's Ready... too obvious.


Edited by Pneubauer - June 02 2006 at 23:24
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