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Topic ClosedFoxtrot VS. Selling England by the Pound
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Poll Question: What do you prefer?
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Points: 8890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2005 at 14:54
I like them both about the same, but Foxtrot slightly more.  I'm surprised to see it winning by this much.
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Points: 3491 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2005 at 17:10
Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

Foxtrot by a mile, SEBTP is great, but by far my least favorite Gabriel Genesis album.

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I agree completly.

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Originally posted by John Gargo John Gargo wrote:

Selling England By the Pound for four reasons.  First it was my first Genesis album, and I think that it was first to really IMPRESS me so it will always have sentimental value.  Secondly, I love the theatrical nature of the album, which seemed much more pronounced than Foxtrots.  The third reason is Dancing With the Moonlit Knight and the fourth is The Cinema Show.

I can second every point here, except the, well, second one!  I see the theatrical side of Foxtrot as being one of the reasons why I prefer Selling England (Epping Forest notwithstanding, a threatrical track no doubt, yet despite of this also one that I've always found quite easy to digest.)

SEBTP just sounds so much more sophisticated and musical to me. It seems to me that the band had clearly matured in their approach to making music by the time they started working on this gem -even though I have read that it wasn't the smoothest writing and recording session in the band's career.

The Cinema Show in particular takes my breath away. And when it is followed by Aisle of Plenty, well, that is as perfect as it gets...
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Points: 163 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2005 at 05:20
As an album, I prefer Selling England (for I voted), but I think Foxtrot has the better songs with Can-Utility and Supper's Ready... Hard choice, this one.
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Points: 282 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2005 at 05:29
Neither album can be considered heavyweights of prog in a classic album sense but I do prefer Foxtrot [just]!
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Duh. Selling England of course..
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Originally posted by Progger Progger wrote:

I like Selling England, mainly because Firth Of Fifth is the best Genesis song I've heard but the difference is that Foxtrot has no weak tracks .....

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Is there a version of Foxtrot that wasn't released cos' the 'Foxtrot' I know is full of filler!

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By the looks of things most people like Genesis and find that Foxtrot is a masterpiec with no filler.
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Originally posted by Tommy Tommy wrote:

Neither album can be considered heavyweights of prog in a classic album sense but I do prefer Foxtrot [just]!

I disagree. Both are big prog classics in my opinion. Foxtrot has so many influential and beautiful tracks and of course Supper's Ready is one of the most important songs in prog history. Selling england has some great tracks aswel, Firth of Firth, The Cinema Show and Dancing with the Moonlit Knight are pure genius...
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