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Posted: August 24 2016 at 06:13

Selling England By The Pound trounces everything else. Not even close...

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Posted: August 24 2016 at 06:38

All the ingredients are there, but I struggled.

I have never gotten into them except for a couple of excellent standout tracks (carpet crawlers, watcher, salmacis, invisible touch).

Everytime I've tried listening to the Lamb i've failed.

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Posted: September 23 2016 at 14:42

Nursery Cryme is their ultimate Album - contains Prog´s best mini-epic "The Fountain of Salmacis".

The most powerful GENESIS songs performed live were "The Knife" and "The Musical Box" back in their creative peak.

These always shook the foundations of venues by sheer GENESIS power. For those who are really interested in experiencing the GENESIS LIVE magic I recommend buying some bootlegs (certain Japanese HIGHLAND CDs are great). The Pound tour 1973-74 especially marks their best ever performances.

Trespass is their most beautiful work, very poetic and pastoral. Unique, strange dreamy yet dense sound. A masterpiece second to none. And sadly Prog´s most underrated album.

Foxtrot, still brilliant and just perfect (flawless). "Supper´s Ready" was another powerhouse epic and really showcased their live magic, band loved to play it and audiences always waited for it... and got it almost every time.

You may see a smile on Tony Banks´ face but that´s unlikely.

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Posted: September 23 2016 at 15:36

1.- Foxtrot

2.- Nursery Cryme

3.- Trespass

4.- The Lamb

5.- Selling England

6.- Wind & Wuthering

7.- A Trick

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Posted: September 23 2016 at 15:40

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Posted: September 23 2016 at 15:53

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

1.- Foxtrot

2.- Nursery Cryme

3.- Trespass

4.- The Lamb

5.- Selling England

6.- Wind & Wuthering

7.- A Trick

works for me. Although Nursery has a special place in my heart - because I discovered Genesis and perhaps prog because of it

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Posted: September 23 2016 at 16:10

I quite like the Lamb

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Posted: September 23 2016 at 18:30

mechanicalflattery wrote:

Selling England By The Pound trounces everything else. Not even close...

Me too!.. They have a number of good tracks on that album!!...Too good IMHO!!!!!! Smile

Could not quite get into Lamb like their other albums. The tracks on Lamb seem to lack character IMHO as after 20 minutes of play time was bored to death!! Not sure why? As most Genesis fans rate this quite highly. I have all the Genesis collection and although I don't rate this album as good, its not their worst, in fact the last album they did was very strained!!...

Edited by noni - September 23 2016 at 18:38

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Posted: September 23 2016 at 19:16

Best Genesis album in a 5.1 mix is 'Seconds out'
Runner up would be A Trick of the Tail against Duke. Can't decide.
Both are so damn good in this sonic codec.

Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣

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Posted: September 23 2016 at 19:41

A Trick of the Tail by far. It's the album that made me a Genesis fan in the first place.

"You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..."

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Posted: September 23 2016 at 19:57

A Trick of the Tail

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Posted: September 25 2016 at 10:27

My favorfite album of GENESIS is "Seeling England by the Pound" follow by "Nursery Crime", "Foxtrot" and "A Trick of the Tail" !

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Posted: September 25 2016 at 11:18

Saperlipopette! wrote:

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

1.- Foxtrot

2.- Nursery Cryme

3.- Trespass

4.- The Lamb

5.- Selling England

6.- Wind & Wuthering

7.- A Trick

works for me. Although Nursery has a special place in my heart - because I discovered Genesis and perhaps prog because of it

I always have that problem.

Nursery Cryme has my two favorite songs

a) Musical Box

b) Fountain of Salmacis

But Foxtrot is flawless

BTW: Very shakey, but here is Fountain Live by Hackett a couple weeks ago in Lima

Can't do much better with a cel phone.

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Posted: September 25 2016 at 12:54

No Jacket Required and So are my favorite Genesis albums.

(this is a joke by the way in case someone takes this seriously)

Edited by Pastmaster - September 25 2016 at 12:55

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Posted: September 28 2016 at 13:02

the lamb lies down on broadway is good the rest not so much.

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Posted: September 29 2016 at 03:16

BaldJean wrote:

we made a "Nursery Cryme" special edition which includes the singles "Happy the Man" and "Twilight Alehouse". that special edition is about the same length as "Foxtrot", "Selling England by the Pound", "A Trick of the Tail" and "Wind and Wuthering"

Always a good idea. The "extra" or non LP tracks added, or in some cases replacing the original ones give the albums a new and possibly more correct vision. You get a more um, album experience rather than the heh, compromise of the initial release.

Play with history because what you learned is not all you could ever know.

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Posted: September 29 2016 at 04:25

1. Foxtrot

2. Selling England by the Pound

3. Nursery Cryme

4. Wind and Wuthering

5. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

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Posted: September 29 2016 at 09:04

Pastmaster wrote:

No Jacket Required and So are my favorite Genesis albums.

(this is a joke by the way in case someone takes this seriously)

Damn, and I had my torch and pitchfork within arms length. Wink

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Posted: September 29 2016 at 11:16

Trespass

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Posted: September 29 2016 at 11:42

SEBTP, though I rarely listen to Genesis these days

While that is my favorite, it doesn't have any of my top 5 Genesis tracks (although it probably occupies most of 6-10), which would be, in no particular order, except the first one Tongue

Musical Box

Carpet Crawlers

Lamia

Watcher of the Skies

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