Your first Genesis album your favorite?

Hrmm. Maybe I'll listen to it again next. It's one of those albums I'm positive I'm missing something but I don't know what it is yet.

That's the frustrating part is that (with the ability of hindsight) I know how BIG the album was in importance but I just haven't gotten around to liking the music yet. Well, White Mountain, yes - one of my favorite Genesis tunes, but the rest... not so much yet. Maybe it's like fine wine - it's been sitting on my shelf for a while now, maybe it will have gotten better with age. 

Well... maybe...

I was a teenager last time I heard it. So long ago..........

Meh. I think the best tracks were the thing invloving angels, whatever it was called (I don't have it in front of me, and I'm too lazy to look it up), because it sounded like what would become Pete's solo work, and of course, "The Knife." But that one got the sh*t kicked outta it (in a good way) on the live album, where it highly benefits from Hackett's guitar and Phil's drumkit. They were far better than "those earlier guys."

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: 2.- ATOTT is my least favorite Genesis Prog album even much further than SEBTP.   Note: I don't consider any post W&W album Prog and to be honest, neither consider any of them remotely good. ... Foxtrot & Nursery Cryme (A perfect tie) Trespass The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Selling England by the Pound Wind & Wuthering A Trick of the Tail From Genesis to the Revelation Iván

But then, shouldn't ATotT be on the 7th place?


Personally I'm very thankful for my mom. I was around 14 or so, when some friends of mine were talking about prog, mostly Dream Theater. I saw a live JT concert on the telly, and loved it. My mom told me before it was on, that THIS concert is the prog you've been asking about.

Later we went to the library, and to the vinyl shelf. I had a vinyl player, but only one disk, ELO - Face the Music. My mom looked up a few vinyls for me. King Crimson - ItCotCK, Wigwam - Nuclear Nightclub, Jethro Tull - Stand Up, and along with all these there was Genesis - Selling England by the Pound.

Needless to say I loved it. I grew a fascination to prog the way my friends never had. While they staid with metal, I went for the classic which later on lead me to jazz, they developed to Opeth etc. Selling England by the Pound might nt be the best, but the rates say so. And it holds a great personal value to me.

The beginning is lovely and melodic. Then the battle bursts out the whole album, and I love how it again eases down to the end which sounds like a closure to the whole album with the melody same asin the first song. And still, Dancing with the Moonlit Knight... Could a better opening track really be made?

I fell in love with Foxtrot the first time I laid my ears on it. I have Selling England, Nursery Cryme, and The Lamb.

Follow You Follow Me was getting a lot of airplay when I first became a serious prog fan.  My brother had a double album that was a combo of Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot.  Those two really were instrumental in turning me to prog.  I like all the studio albums from Trespass to Wind and Wuthering about equally so I can't really pick a favorite.  I have to say of all of those, I found Trespass to be the most moving.

" Ice is moving and world's begun to freeze
see the sunlight stopped and deadened by the breeze
Minds are empty bodies move insensitive
some believe that when they die they really live"

Pretty deep lyrics coming from a twentysomething.


Edited by Slartibartfast - June 16 2008 at 08:04

Yes, Foxtrot was the first I heard and is still my favourit, but not for sentimental reasons but because I think its their peak.

The first one I bought was A Trick of the Tail...my favorite is Trespass.

The first Genesis I heard was Selling England and it remains my favourite. The first I actually bought was Wind and Wuthering but these days I never listen to it.