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Posted: July 08 2011 at 08:08

Anthony wrote:

Almost everything on their first album

It sounds like the "Bee Gees".

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Posted: July 08 2011 at 08:12

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A guy played Invisible Touch at work and I almost stabbed him.

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Posted: July 09 2011 at 08:05

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Posted: July 10 2011 at 07:18

I am bored a little bit, so I made this list of "good and bad" Genesis Songs of the studio albums and no b-sides or sth. else. Don't blame on it and make your own list, if you have the "right "opinion.....

So I have 71 songs I dislike (47%) and 81 songs I like (53%). Hahaha this is absolutely unimportant, but nice to know that I don't listen to almost the half of all the songs of my "favourite band".

"bad songs":

Where The Sour Turns To Sweet

In The Beginning

Fireside Song

The Serpent

Am I Very Wrong?

In The Wilderness

The Conqueror

In Hiding

One Day

Window

In Limbo

Silent Sun

A Place To Call My Own

Looking For Someone

White Mountain

Vision Of Angels

Dusk

For Absent Friends

I Know What I Like

More Fool Me

Battle Of The Epping Forest

Counting On Time

A Trick Of The Tail

Mad Man Moon

Undertow

Ballad Of Big

Snowbound

Burning Rope

Deep In The Motherlode

Say Its Alright Joe

The Lady Lies

Follow You Follow Me

Guide Vocal

Man Of Our Time

Heathaze

Alone Tonight

Cul de sac

Please Dont Ask

No Reply At All

Keep It dark

Who Dunnit

Man On The Corner

Like it or not

Another record

Illegal Alien

Takin it all to hard

Just a job to do

Silver Rainbow

Its gonna get better

Invisible Touch

Anything she does

Throwing it all away

The Brazillian

No Son Of Mine

I Cant Dance

Never A Time

Tell Me Why

Living Forever

Way Of The World

Since I Lost You

Calling All Stations

Congo

Shipwrecked

Alien Afternoon

Not About Us

If Thats What You Need

The Diving Line

Uncertain Weather

Small Talk

There Must Be Some Other Way

One Mans Fool

"good songs":

Stagnation

The Knife

The Musical Box

Return Of The Giant Hogweed

Seven Stones

Harold The Barrell

Harlequin

The Fountain Of Salmacis

Watcher Of The Skies

Time Table

Get Em Out By Friday

Can Utility and The Coastliners

Horizons

Suppers Ready

Dancing With The Moonlit Knight

Firth Of Fifth

After The Ordeal

The Cinema Show

Aisle Of Plenty

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Fly On A Windshield

Broadway Melody Of 1974

Cuckoo Cocoon

In The Cage

The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaing

Back in NYC

Hairless Heart

The Carpet Crawlers

The Chamber Of 32 Doors

Lilywhite Lilith

The Waiting Room

Anyway

Here comes the supernatural Anaesthesist

The Lamia

Silent Sorrow in emtpy boats

The Colony Of Slippermen

Ravine

The Light lies down on broadway

Riding the scree

in the rapids

Dance On A Volcano

Entangled

Sqounk

Robbery, Assault & Battery

Ripples

Los Endos

Eleventh Earl Of Mar

One For The Vine

Your Own Special Way

Wot Gorilla

All In A Mouse`s Night

Blood On The Rooftops

Unquiet Slumbers For the sleepers

In that quiet earth

Afterglow

Down And Out

Many Too Many

Scenes From A Nights Dream

Behind The Lines

Duchess

Misunderstanding

Turn It On Again

Dukes Travels

Dukes End

Abacab

Me And Sarah Jane

Dodo/Lurker

Mama

Thats All

Home By The Sea

2nd Home By The Sea

Tonight, Tonight , Tonight

Land Of Confusion

In Too Deep

Domino

Jesus He Knows Me

Driving The Last Spike

Dreaming While you sleep

Fading Lights

Hold On My Heart

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Posted: July 10 2011 at 11:30

Juan - there are some utter classics amongst your "bad" list - remind me not to seek your opinion in the future when discussing Genesis Big smile

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Posted: July 10 2011 at 12:12

lazland wrote:

Juan - there are some utter classics amongst your "bad" list - remind me not to seek your opinion in the future when discussing Genesis Big smile

...and there are some terrible wastes of album space in your "good" list Tongue

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Posted: July 10 2011 at 12:56

That`s a matter of opinion. Tongue

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Posted: July 10 2011 at 14:57

I kinda like your list Juan. Heavy on the Lamb, my fav, and not ashamed of Abacab. I would have swapped Suppers Ready with Epping Forest however. Suppers is slow simple and sluggish to me. Epping took a while and some nice noise cancelling headphones, but I'm still waiting for that aha moment with Suppers...

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Posted: July 10 2011 at 16:39

@hobocamp: I'm not a fan of the studio version of Suppers Ready. I prefer the live version with Phil Collins on vocals from Seconds Out. It is way better than the Peter Gabriel performance. Maybe you will have the "aha-moment" with this version :-)

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Posted: July 10 2011 at 21:11

Funny you should mention it Juan. I'm a huge Gabriel fan but the vocals on Suppers Ready are not very good. There's even a video about why they are poorly sung. He wasn't using his diaphragm as the MILF in this video clearly explains.

Edited by hobocamp - July 11 2011 at 14:30

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Posted: July 11 2011 at 00:08

I think a better thread would be, "what is your worst Genesis song before 'Duke.'"

Most real Genesis fans still like And Then There Were Three."

Which, I think is a tough question. Mine would probably be "Knife" because of the violent
lyrics, although it has a good melody and song structure. I also like the band
Soulfly but also don't like some of their lyrics and I have the version of the Primitive
album with the &*#(%# words silenced (didn't buy it that way on purpose, it was serendipitously found).

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Posted: July 11 2011 at 00:14

brainstormer wrote:

I think a better thread would be, "what is your worst Genesis song before 'Duke.'"Most real Genesis fans still like And Then There Were Three."Which, I think is a tough question. Mine would probably be "Knife" because of the violentlyrics, although it has a good melody and song structure. I also like the band Soulfly but also don't like some of their lyrics and I have the version of the Primitive album with the &*#(%# words silenced (didn't buy it that way on purpose, it was serendipitously found).

Now what's wrong with violent lyrics it's what makes a song interesting like the knife is a song I highly acknowledge in genesis's catalog

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Posted: July 11 2011 at 10:27

Triceratopsoil wrote:

A guy played Invisible Touch at work and I almost stabbed him.

No disrespect, but are you a flaming PG fan?

for your entertainment from a Phil Collins fan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMiDhmL_zFo&feature=related

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Posted: July 11 2011 at 12:20

criticdrummer94 wrote:

Triceratopsoil wrote:

A guy played Invisible Touch at work and I almost stabbed him.

No disrespect, but are you a flaming PG fan?

for your entertainment from a Phil Collins fan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMiDhmL_zFo&feature=related

lol you know nothing about my musical taste.

Bad music is bad music regardless of which of them sings it. But Invisible Touch is on a whole new level.

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Posted: July 11 2011 at 22:07

~~Worst~~... least favorite song on each Genesis album, IMHO (there are very few Genesis songs I hate)

Trespass: "Looking for Someone"
Nursery Cryme: "Harlequin"
Foxtrot: "Time Table"
Selling England: "More Fool Me"
Lamb Lies Down on Broadway: "Riding the Scree"
Trick of the Tail: "Robbery, Assault and Battery"
Wind and Wuthering: "Your Own Special Way"
ATTW3: "Down and Out"
Duke: "Behind the Lines"
Abacab: "Who Dunnit?"
Genesis: "Silver Rainbow"
Invisible Touch: "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"
We Can't Dance: "Never a Time"
Calling All Stations: "Small Talk"

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Posted: July 11 2011 at 22:20

"The Battle of Epping Forest", without question. Twelve minutes of meandering tripe. 1/5 of an album. Think of all the poor little vinyls that had to be sacrificed for that waste of space.

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Posted: July 12 2011 at 05:36

@catfood: Only one song from each album?

But why do you hate, or why is Down and Out not a favourite for the most Genesis listeners?

I really really like this song with its uptempo, main riff, odd times, the agressive vocals, the doodle-keyboard parts etc. It reminds me of early prog metal songs in the 80ies. The ATTWT is not really good, but IMO Down and out is the best track from this album.

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Posted: July 12 2011 at 06:53

Originally posted by Juan Carlos de Mulde

Juan Carlos de Mulde wrote:

@catfood: Only one song from each album?

Like I said there's not many Genesis songs I hate. Ok, so Like It Or Not could have joined Who Dunnit? for least favorite for Abacab for example, but I like it just slightly more than the latter.

Juan Carlos de Mulde wrote:

But why do you hate, or why is Down and Out not a favourite for the most Genesis listeners?

When I consider all the songs from ATTW3 this one just isn't as good as the others. For me its musical progression from verse to chorus feels a bit too awkward and the entire song is a bit noisy, my favorite part of the song is the intro where Mike's guitar comes in.

But you have Burning Rope, The Lady Lies, and Deep In the Motherlode as "bad" songs on your list. Those are my favorites!

We do agree that ATTW3 is not one of the bands best, perhaps someday I'll rank the albums, but that's for another thread. These Genesis threads don't come around that often, y'know!

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Posted: July 12 2011 at 14:22

hobocamp wrote:

Funny you should mention it Juan. I'm a huge Gabriel fan but the vocals on Suppers Ready are not very good. There's even a video about why they are poorly sung. He wasn't using his diaphragm as the MILF in this video clearly explains.

MILF?

I wouldn't do her if you paid me.....well perhaps 10K, then I'd think about it.....

Suppers Ready is an absolute CLASSIC and probably influenced more of the prog - 1980-the present day than most other tracks in the progressive era....

It suffers from you young-uns listening to the super-slick modern recording studio productions and then listening to the some-what dated sound equipment of the seventies.

It's like comparing modern CGI with the original King-Kong.....

If somebody re-recorded SR - it would be AWESOME!

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Posted: July 12 2011 at 14:36

M27Barney wrote:

MILF?

I wouldn't do her if you paid me.....well perhaps 10K, then I'd think about it.....