Favourite Genesis Member’s 1st solo album
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Topic: Favourite Genesis Member’s 1st solo album
Posted By: daz2112
Subject: Favourite Genesis Member’s 1st solo album
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 12:13
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My favourite is Tony Banks, a fantastic & beautiful album followed by Steve Hackett's Acolyte! ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 13:16
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Hackett's Voyage of the Acolyte by a MILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -------------  |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 13:45
| Steve Hackett's Voyage of the Acolyte |
Posted By: Ounamahl
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 13:48
If someone asks who the hell voted for Face Value, its me  Face Value is one of the best pop-albums ever created. I love itm sorry boys but it crushes even Voyage of the acolyte  ------------- This is an electrified fairytale |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 14:35
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TheProgtologist wrote:Posted By: piltdown man
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 14:53
| If I had to choose a song from the albums it had to be Gabriels - Here comes the flood. I like Smallcreep´s day, Not that keen on Collins or Hacketts. Haven´t heard all of Banks album. But I always go back and listens to Geese & the Ghost and always find new favourite bits. Best 1st solo album is by Ant Phillips! |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 14:58
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Hackett, followed by Gabriel, two excelent albums. ------------- 
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 14:58
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"Voyage of the Acolyte" by far! An absolute classic!
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 15:24
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I deleted your post yankeerose,which was uncalled for. The Progtologist |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 15:29
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'Voyage Of The Acolyte' is probably Hackett's finest hour, and by my estimation the finest solo album any band members ever attempted, so that's a no brainer for me. As for 'Face Value', I don't think it's a bad album at all (ducks). I don't have it now, but I had it a few years ago and always enjoyed the album considerably. It had the feel of John Martyn's solo work at times (one track I think was a co-write; 'If Leaving Me Is Easy') in its sense of experimentation. However, Collins has managed two songs worth listening to since that album- 'Thru These Walls' and 'Both Sides', two excellent tracks imo. The rest is MOR pap. |
Posted By: Pylo
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 16:01
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My vote goes for Peter Gabriel although i like "Voyage of the acolyte" (but I think "Please don't touch" & "Spectral mornings" are the better Steve Hackett's albums)
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 16:19
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Have only heard Voyage and Smallcreep, but I pick Voyage of those! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 00:22
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Are you sure you feel comfortable posting in PROG ARCHIVES? Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 15:38
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I am seriously beginning to doubt you Genesis fans about your taste and credentials about prog music in general. When I see 'Smallcreeps Day' below Banks, Collins and Hacketts debuts my doubts are founded. Rutherford's album is the only Genesis solo masterpiece!
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 15:45
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For me it's exactly the other way around. Hackett's and Banks' albums feature magnificent, breathtaking music! Rutherford's album has some great moments as well. Gabriel's and Collins' first albums are okay with me: both innovative (even the first Collins' album) but they don't touch me emotionally. Well, Gabriel's album sometimes. I could never get into Phillips' first, even though I like some of his later Private Parts and Pieces and more official albums. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 15:50
Thank you allmighty taste master, since today Smallscreeps Day is mu favourite album Please Progger why are you so arrogant to believe your taste is the only valid one????? Iván -------------
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 16:17
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I'm with the majority on this one; Voyage of the Acolyte is my favourite off that list. Peter Gabriel and Geese & The Ghost are also strong contenders, and I still dig them out from time to time. I haven't heard either Smallcreep's Day or A Curious Feeling for many years, but neither made much impression on me - I may give them another try. To give Phil Collins his due, Face Value is superbly crafted but it's the kind of slick, slightly anonymous 80s pop that leaves me cold. Still, it probably sold more copies than all the other 5 albums combined so I doubt that he's too bothered about my opinion! ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Sir Hogweed
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 16:49
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Sadly, I haven't heard The Geese and the Ghost or Smallcreeps Day yet, so i'm picking between the other four. Voyage of the Acolyte is IMHO the best post-Gabriel Genesis album (even when Banks isn't on it) and the only one I would rate 5 stars. If I'm informed correctly most of this music was originaly written to be used by the band. Maybe this is why it has that special "mood" you find in early Genesis. A must-have for fans of that stuff, unless you don't like instrumental records. |
Posted By: nobody
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 07:10
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Voyage of the Acolyte is as good a record as you'll find in all of prog, IMO. It's in my top 10 all-time favorite albums of any kind. ------------- "Some of you are going to die... martyrs, of course, to the Freedom I will provide!" |
Posted By: Gog/Magog
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 06:11
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Voyage of the Acyolyte followed very closely by A Curious Feeling. I think Banks solo debut is very underrated and features some of the great prog moments, but isn't quite as consistent as Voyage |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 07:38
Definetely Hackett's album...while Gabriel's have few nice tracks - Moribund,Here comes the Flood,Humdrum...ah,and,surely,Solisbury Hill 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 07:52
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Car.
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Posted By: Norm Cash
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 07:57
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Like many others, I went with Acolyte, although I'd have been just as happy selceting Curious or Geese. ------------- 
"We did it....you and me! Put him right under the table!" |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 15:26
Gabriel's 1st. "Solisbury Hill" is still being played and enjoyed all these years later. And now it's been licensed as a telco commercial so you KNOW it's been accepted as mainstream (which is not a bad word). The world came around to Peter's point of view, not the other way around. And that's the sign of truly influencing society's tastes.  ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 17:44
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Voyage of the Acolyte -this choice is so obvious, I can't really see much point in voting. This one is the only one totally in vein of the best of Genesis, and is considered by many as lost Genesis album.
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Posted By: dagrush
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 20:08
| PG 1. Hackett's is obviously pretty strong, but I think Gabriel did the best the first time out. |