Your first Genesis album your favorite?
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Topic: Your first Genesis album your favorite?
Posted By: peskypesky
Subject: Your first Genesis album your favorite?
Date Posted: June 15 2008 at 23:49
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I'm wondering if other people are like me, in that the first Genesis album I bought (or heard) is still my sentimental favorite.
For me, it was "Seconds Out", which I bought when I was 11 years old, back in 1977. My second album was "Foxtrot" and that's also a fave. So what was your first Genesis album and what's your favorite? |
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: June 15 2008 at 23:57
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This might be less likely for the generations that followed, who first heard Abacab. x)
Nursery Cryme is still my favourite and it's the one I first gave serious attention to. I heard others first but they didn't register at all - with Nursery Cryme I was listening voluntarily. ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: peskypesky
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 00:01
| That's a good point you made about the younger folks. |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 00:10
| I actually first heard Foxtrot despite being a young bugger. It didn't really catch until I heard Nursery Cryme though. Still I'd have to say my favorite is (so predictably) Selling England By The Pound, although I do spin W&W and Trick Of The Tail quite often. Never managed to get into Trespass. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 00:20
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Hmm...
I struggle to remember which album of theirs I heard first.
 It was either Foxtrot or The Lamb...I want to say it was Foxtrot...but I don't know. If it was in fact Foxtrot, then yes. That is my favorite Genesis album nowadays. If not, then no. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 00:25
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Genesis Live First and still my Fav 1974 i think it was i bought it from Woolworth's along with Relics Pink Floyd both for 99p , the following week i went and bought Trespass ( good old Paper round money ) thats always been my Fav studio album
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Posted By: Figglesnout
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 00:38
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I"m only 18.
First Genesis album I ever heard fully through that 'clicked' with me was Nursery Cryme, and it is still my favorite. Not the biggest Foxtrot fan, honestly. And I think SEBTP is a bit overlong. Which is an odd thing to say considering that I also think that TLLDOB is near perfect and is my second favorite Genesis album.... I know, I make no sense... ------------- I'm a reasonable man, get off my case |
Posted By: Prof.
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 02:09
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Why yes the first is my favorite. I havent heard much of Selling England, or Nursery Cryme, but Foxtrot has me hooked. Get 'Em Out By Friday and Supper's Ready are simply amazing.
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 02:13
Don't forget Can-Utility! |
Prof. wrote:Posted By: Prof.
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 02:21
Well Watcher Of The Skies is Also great. I just didnt want to list every song.
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 02:21
What about Horizons and Timetable? 
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Posted By: Prof.
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 02:23
| What about them? Are they great, yes. |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 02:25
 There, I made you reference the whole album. 
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Posted By: Prof.
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 02:25
| Aye, but I didnt in one post, that means I win....something. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 02:35
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No as a fact just the contrary, I heard Selling England and A Trick ofvthe Tail almost simultaneously and:
1.- SEBTP is by far my least favorite Gabe era Prog album.
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.
My list goes in order:
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 03:24
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For me actually, it used to be...but I've FINALLY decided that Foxtrot is ever so slightly inferior to Selling England (my first and second purchases respectively). ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 03:31
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England was my first on the rec of a veteran proggie and I wasn't thrilled with it.. now I love it from there I think it was Cryme, Trot, Lamb, Live, Trespass, Tail, Wind, Abacab, ATTWT, Three Sides, Duke |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 03:37
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Well, I only have:
'Trot
England
Live
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'Pass,
so I'm hardly in any state to admit authenticity. I reckon I like Live under England and Foxyladay, then Trespass. Too much Moody Blues and immature Gabriel solo sounding stuff on that one; not enough of the "classic Genesissy" sound. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 03:41
 I'm not the only one who wasn't thrilled with Trespass?I can only think of White Mountain that I really like off that album. Although, listening to Firth Of Fifth right now is making for a very high bar to pass to be memorable. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 03:44
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oh I think Trespass is an amazing album, one of the best in prog |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 03:46
| 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. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 03:50
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yes it took me awhile too, but then I'd remember it was 1970 and it became clear what a major piece of work it really was, plus I started to really like the music as well |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 03:57
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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.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 03:58
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or maybe you will have |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 04:00
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Well... maybe... I was a teenager last time I heard it. So long ago.......... |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 04:08
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First listen was Foxtrot
First purchase was Second's Out
Favourite - The Lamb, wins hands down! ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 04:14
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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." ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 04:57
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Listening to it (trespass) right now and it's better than I remember. But it hasn't quite HIT me yet. The Knife is proving to be very fun, but I always remember that. Visions Of Angels is one that I like this time around that I remember disliking previously. Will listen to this more in the future. |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 05:27
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? |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 05:38
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First Genesis album was 'And then there were three' and I still think it's a great album, partly for sentimental reasons, perhaps.
Objectively speaking, though, it's not one of my faves. My top five Genesis: Trick of the Tail Foxtrot Wind & Wuthering The Lamb SEBTP ATTWT would probably be level with both Trespass AND Duke, in 6th place. |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 05:42
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I fell in love with Foxtrot the first time I laid my ears on it. I have Selling England, Nursery Cryme, and The Lamb.
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 07:47
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Nope, my first album was SEBTP and it was a big dissapointment, nowdays i think its OK, but no real favorite, the best Genesis album is from the first time i heard it until today the Lamb. I allso like Tresspas very much that was the first one i realy liked and i whuld place it as number 2 after the Lamb. ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 07:57
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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. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 08:03
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I know Selling England was the first I bought, but maybe not the first I'd heard. It's my favorite, though.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 09:57
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Yes, Foxtrot was the first I heard and is still my favourit, but not for sentimental reasons but because I think its their peak.
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 12:18
No Pssionist, because From Genesis to the Revelation is not a Prog album, and my statement is about Prog Genesis albums.
Iván -------------
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Posted By: moderan
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 12:55
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The first one I bought was A Trick of the Tail...my favorite is Trespass. ------------- "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - Cyril Connolly http://www.myspace.com/planetmoderan - modspace |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 13:06
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I've heard Lamb first. But never caught my attention and still tried with Foxtrot and Nurse, but nothing paid my attention.
UTIL: I bought Trespass! My favourite Genesis album. Thx for Trespass, I love Genesis, and like every single album up to W&W, while I do like Duke. Faves: #1 Trespass 
#2 SEBTP #3 Foxtrot(though this could be 2nd) #4 Wind & Wuthering #5 Lamb Lies Down on Broadway #6 Duke (yeah, I do like it) #7 Nursery Cryme or Trick of the Tail(have in mind I think they're excellent, but they give no atraction to me) |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 14:21
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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.
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Posted By: Relayer09
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 14:38
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Abacab was the first full album I ever listened to but it s far from my favorite after hearing everything that came before it. I would have to say Selling England By The Pound is my favorite. ------------- If you lose your temper, you've lost the arguement. -Proverb |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 15:46
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The first Genesis album I heard was Nursery Cryme, and I was in love as soon as that flute part started in "The Musical Box". We're taking the kids to Paris next year, too!
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Posted By: Prospero
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 17:52
| Mine was The Lamb, I usually like it when it's epic like Miles' Bitches Brew, Frank's Läther or Yes' Topographic Oceans, so when I decided to go through Genesis I started with The Lamb, and yes, it became my favorite. |
Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 22:48
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First album I heard : Abacab
Favorite album : Selling England By the Pound. ------------- 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 03:08
| I started out with two albums that I got for my 17th birthday. Thanks to two brothers. The albums were/ Genesis Live and Duke. Both have been favourites of mine for some period of time, as well as a lot of other Genesis albums, but since some years I do have a favourite which seems to remain my favourite: Selling England By The Pound. |
Posted By: kenmartree
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 05:57
| SEBTP was my first, the Lamb is my fav though everything from Trespass to the Lamb is incredible and I can see arguments for any of those albums. |
Posted By: grahawk
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 12:36
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My first Genesis album was Trick of the Tail. The second was And Then There Were Three. My third was Selling England. My favourite is Trick of the Tail. My second favourite is And Then There Were Three. My third favourite is Selling England. Mind you I don't like any of the others much. |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 02:23
| Hmm. Well the first Genesis I ever heard was that I Can't Dance: The Shorts live thinger. Or whatever its actually called. Anyways, I liked its novelty when I was 8, but when I got Selling England by the Pound almost 10 years later I loved it. So I guess the first Genesis ALBUM I heard is my favorite. |
Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 03:47
| I can't remember what Genesis album I first bought but of them all I probably like Nursery Cryme the most. I was a big Genesis fanboy as young adult, but in the last few years their music has seen less and less time in the CD player. I don't know, it's funny how tastes change over time. I do listen to Steve Hackett quite a lot though. |
Posted By: cohen34
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:43
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I totally agree! My first genesis purchase was Foxtrot and its still top of the pack for me. Nursery Cryme comes close, it just doesnt have Supper's Ready. Selling England is also good but too uneven.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:57
I don't agree. My first purchase was SEBTP and I absolutely hated it... ....
My second purchase was FOXTROT and it remains as my favorite Genesis album.. Of course now I DO love SEBTP and pretty much every other album besides InTouch and GENESIS... But my favorite is not the one I listened to first... ------------- 
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Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:28
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Strangely enough... I have said just now on another thread that the first Genesis album I heard was ..And then there were 3... in 1981. We were on a 2 week camping holiday and we just had 2 tapes for a fortnight - we wore it thin and we all loved it. Such an underrated album - the forgotten diamond. My brother played Undertow 14 times in a row once. Really really good, and I got into Genesis after that point seeing them live at Wembley Arena only months later (one of my favourite ever gigs) - strange as prior to that I was a punk rock fan - I was changed for life! However, it isn't my favourite album - when I got to know more of their music I grew to love Trespass and Nursery Cryme the best - so haunting and mystical, never to be beaten. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:37
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mine was the s/t album in 1983... and still love it... more than any of the rest but SEbtP.
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Posted By: mothershabooboo
Date Posted: June 25 2008 at 09:59
| I agree! The first time I ever heard Genesis was when my dad took me to see 'Selling England by the Pound' preformed by the Musical Box. That is what got me into progressive music. After hearing 'Firth of Fifth' there was no going back for me. And 'Selling England...' is my all time favourit album because of it. I don't know if it's because I saw that one first, or if I'd like it as much if I saw 'The Lamb' or 'Foxtrot' first, but that night my musical library would never be the same again. The next day I bought 'Selling England...' and 'Genesis Live'. |
Posted By: Gentlegiantprog
Date Posted: June 25 2008 at 17:41
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I heard Foxtrot first but my Favourite is the Lamb.
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Posted By: Nowhere Man
Date Posted: June 25 2008 at 23:13
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Well, I've only heard the big three (Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, SEBTP), but SEBTP was my first, and, even though it took me a while to really get it, it's probably still my favorite. However, Nursery Cryme, which is my third purchase, is creeping up on it. I haven't heard it nearly as many times as SEBTP, though, so that might change (got SEBTP over a year ago, and just got Nursery Cryme a week and a half ago. It's strange how it took me a while to get into SEBTP, and I was able to easily get into the other two (because I got them later and was already "into" Genesis, yet it still remains my favorite album. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: June 26 2008 at 02:43
| The first Genesis album I heard was "A Trick of the Tail" and yes it still is my favorite. After that I listened to "Seconds Out" which is my favorite live album of theirs and my favorite live album in general. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 26 2008 at 03:20
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My first Genesis album was also part of my conversion to prog - in the late 1970s I was into anything loud & heavy, so knowing my brother in law was into music I asked if he had anything heavy - he sent me away with Floyd's "Dark Side" (an immediate epiphany) & Genesis "Live"... from there I went on to get Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, Seconds Out, etc etc etc.
'Live' is still one of my favorites, along with Nursery Cryme, but one album not mentioned yet here is the superb "Archives Vol 1" containing a full live performance of 'Lamb' + another concert from 1972/73 (?) on the 'SEBTP'tour - reminds me every time I hear it why I love prog-rock 
[edit] It's also nice to know I'm not the only one not over-keen on SEBTP; for me, it's a great album, but it would be a stunning one if only they'd dropped 'Battle Of Epping Forest' ------------- 
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: June 26 2008 at 11:37
My first heard is still my all time Genesis favorite: Nursery Cryme. |
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: June 26 2008 at 11:48
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Doesn't work for me. My first Genesis album was Foxtrot, but my favorite is The Lamb, which actually took me the longest to "get". ------------- 
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Posted By: Luke. J
Date Posted: June 26 2008 at 12:10
| At first I heard "We Can't Dance" and really hated it. It has grown on me a bit, but is by no means my favourite. I can not decide when it comes to their albums from Trespass to A Trick of the Tail (no, Wind & Wuthering is definetly not for me!), besides Nursery Cryme off which I only like the last song.. think I like Foxtrot the most, but Trespass is right behind. |
Posted By: peskypesky
Date Posted: June 27 2008 at 01:26
Although I respect SEBTP, it's not one of my favorites either. In no order, I'd pick these over SEBTP: Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, TLLDOB, and TOTT. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 27 2008 at 11:24
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First Genesis album I bought was 'Selling England by the Pound' and yes, it's probably a dead heat between that and the 1973 'Live' album as to which is my personal fave.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 27 2008 at 12:17
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Lamb is my favourite, but probably the forth or fifth Genesis album I'd heard (can't remember if I heard FromG2R before or after buying Lamb) ... pretty sure Trespass was the first I'd listened to. At the time I never saw anything in SEBTP that would say it would become the great album it is regarded as today - something I wasn't aware of until I started visiting here. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: June 27 2008 at 15:52
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The first Genesis album I bought was A Trick of the Tail just after its release in 76.
My favourite has always swayed between Selling England.... and Foxtrot......perhaps slightly wavering towards Selling England...
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: June 27 2008 at 15:58
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First Genesis album was Abacab; however, these days I put Duke, Selling England By The Pound, Wind And Wuthering, Foxtrot and Trick Of The Tail ahead of it. E ------------- 
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Posted By: peskypesky
Date Posted: June 28 2008 at 16:20
I'm like you. I keep listening to it hoping I'll eventually love it, but I still find it less than great. |
Posted By: leowe
Date Posted: June 30 2008 at 18:00
| A trick of the tail grabbed me 31 years ago (especially the intro of Dance on a Volcano) and is still my favorite (not the best Genesis-album, most Gabriel-era albums can compete witt ATOTT and I like them also very much). |