What was the first Genesis album you heard?
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Topic: What was the first Genesis album you heard?
Posted By: JakeMM626
Subject: What was the first Genesis album you heard?
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 15:35
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The first one I listened to was The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. I believe I was 10 or 11 when my mother played it for me for the first time. ------------- 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 15:36
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Interesting. I think I was played a selection by a friend. I have no recolection of which album was first. Might have been Selling England..not sure......it was 38 years ago. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 15:51
| Invisible Touch |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 15:56
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I have no freaking idea. I thought for a long time Follow You Follow Me was my first song I heard, but my brother had this combo album of Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot, which was the first album that hooked me. And I have a program still that is from their 1977 tour...
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 15:56
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I don't remember......probably something on 8-track cassette. -------------   
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Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:05
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Nursery Cryme played to me by my friend. Right after that we found Tresspas. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:08
| "We Can't Dance." I've moved on, thankfully. |
Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:10
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I reluctantly checked out Foxtrot and then ended up getting the rest of their albums up to Three Sides Live -------------  
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Posted By: glenn_ecko
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:13
| It was Trespass then Nurery Cryme. I liked both albums but when Foxtrot and SEBTP came out I considered both of those masterpieces (and still do). |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:14
| What was the first forum you thought might be appropriate for this thread? |
Posted By: krishl
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:14
| Selling England by the Pound, in 1974. Shortly after, I bought a 2-vol LP with Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme. |
Posted By: JakeMM626
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:17
My b - this kinda does belong on the Band appreciation forum. but in all honesty I can say the question was not one of appreciation, it was just which album did you hear first by Genesis - a cornerstone band in Prog who i can say most people on this forum have listened to making it a more general band to discuss. -------------
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Tony R wrote:Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:21
don't worry, Jake  it was Selling England By The Pound when it comes to me .. and I know what I like, you bet  ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:21
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Foxtrot...I think. ------------- 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: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:23
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It was most likely 'Seconds Out' as that was the first I bought. But it may have been SEBTP too long ago to remember. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 17:12
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The first Genesis I've listened I think it was I Can't Dance when I was 8 years old. An english teacher we had in primary school used that song to fill in the blanks with the words that were missing on the lyrics, as a listening comprehension exercise. I remembered I loved the song (still enjoy it nowadays).
Then the first album I bought, that made me fell in love with Genesis...Selling England By The Pound.
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 17:17
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I remember being at a friends house probably in 1977 when this other mutual friend came over with the "A Trick Of The Tail" LP. He put it on and we listened to about half of it before we had to leave.I had no idea who Genesis were at that point but i really liked what i heard. The next thing i heard from them was the single from "And Then There Were Three". My first actual purchase was "Duke" on cassette when it came out. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 17:22
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'And then there were three'
It was quite an experience. I never thought I would find another band, after Rush, that would become quite such an obsession in my teens...  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Mastosis
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 19:16
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Selling England by the Pound.
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Posted By: CloseToTheMoon
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 20:27
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The first Genesis disc I voluntarily listened to was Turn It On Again the greatest hits. I immediately grabbed my dad's cassette of TotT / W&W. Although I vaguely recall hearing the self-titled album on cassette in my youth. ------------- It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. |
Posted By: ThaNuke
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 20:52
| Foxtrot. I started with that one specifically because it had Supper's Ready on it. I haven't listened to other Genesis albums, but I know to avoid We Can't Dance and Invisible Touch. |
Posted By: JROCHA
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 21:20
| A Trick of the Tail, it was the start to my Genesis addiction |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 21:22
| Genesis Live, then in short order, Selling England, Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme and Trespass. After that I bought everything as soon as it came out up to Abacab. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 22:32
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Foxtrot. A few months ago. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 01:01
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Foxtrot, a cousin of mine played it for my brothers and me, it must have been around '76 when I was only 10, but I remember he played first the 2nd side with Horizons and Supper's Ready, we were hooked immediately and listened to it a few times in a row. For sure we must have played the 1st side as well but for some reason it's like for quite some time Foxtrot was only the 2nd side, I'd say the 2nd side was played 90% and the 1st side only 10%. Only later when I got 13 or 14 and I started to play music by myself rather than just listening to what my relatives played, I really realised how good the 1st side is.
After Foxtrot, SEBTP and Nursery Cryme came very quickly and just a bit later The Lamb, which was a kind of shock by it being so different and yet so f**kng good.
It's kind of weird to think that when Turn It On Again started to play on the radio I was only 14 and I was only interested in their older discography, TIOA sounded like crap to me, but I got Duke anyway and loved most of it (everything except TIOA and Misunderstanding, both of which seem quite ok by now).
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Posted By: JakeMM626
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 01:09
Duke is so great. I once heard someone say they didn't like Duke because "It's Just Phil Collins feeling sorry for himself" I immediately gave them this look =  Followed by this one =
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Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 01:45
| Trespass. |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 03:20
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SEBTP. Still my favourite. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 03:26
| Someone lent me Seconds Out when I was at school about 1977. Found it very boring to be honest. I only started to take Genesis seriously when I heard the 1980 Lyceum gig on Radio. I recorded it as it was so good.I guess my mind was more receptive to prog at that time. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 03:31
second album I ever bought (behind Crime Of The Century), but it took two years to really get into it... I only Firth at first (not fifth
 ) and after the ordeal.... And once ToTT came out, SEBTP clicked instantly from then on. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 04:10
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Nursery Cryme, though not when it was first released - I bought it in 1974, then bought everything else they'd released up to then in fairly quick sucession. ------------- What? |
Posted By: cannon
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 06:35
Nursery Cryme over 30 years ago. Duke was the second Genesis album I picked up and still enjoy it today and I actually like Turn It On Again and Misunderstanding. Foxtrot and SEBTP followed.
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Posted By: angelmk
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 07:19
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Selling England by the Pound, and totally fell in love with this enchating music, after that i heard other Gabriel era albums, stunning masterpieces, ------------- www.last.fm/user/angelmk 
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 07:33
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Genesis Live. It was late 1974, I was just 11, I loved album jacket and because of that I bought the album. Charisma albums ( same as Virgin) were printed under licence by PGP RTB, goverment owned Serbian record company. I loved the music of Genesis, especialy The Musical Box. lol, I wasn't some kind of little wunderkind because I was listening that at 11. Simply like that, a progrock was THE mainstream at that time. As little kid, I dont know the bands, I bought LP if I liked ARTWORK - the artworks of prog bands were the best, then that music catch me and that is that. |
Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 07:49
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Nursery Crime, last year. I was searching in a pile of old discs that a friend gave us. We had a turntable and I had found two Genesis albums wich I really enjoyed: Nursery Crime, wich was the first I listened to and the best of the two, and A Trick of the Tail. I bought every other albums from the Peter Gabriel era short after that and recently I bought Wind and Wuthering. ------------- La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle! - Napoléon Bonaparte |
Posted By: ourlawisliberty
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 08:01
| not a right place to start the genesis but the way we were :longs(vol. 2) was my starting place... |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 08:42
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Three Sides Live in the beginning of the 80's. I immediately went to see them live. It was my first rock concert. They played Supper's Ready, unfortunately the last time they ever played it. After that I wanted to hear their older stuff. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 09:00
Not a bad album at all. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: ourlawisliberty
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 09:42
exactly. but not a right place to start either. it doesn't mean it is a bad album it is a very solid album actually especially domino is far far better than the original album version. |
Posted By: sgt wilko
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 09:47
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Selling England By The Pound for me, then I worked backwards.
An old worn cliche I know, but for me, never the same after Duke.
Would pay a fortune to see the original line up take to the stage one more time. Alas, never happened again for Floyd after Live 8, we're only here once fella's, so come on and get to it.
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 10:22
pretty sure everyone here would like that. but collins cant even wipe himself after the spine(i believe) damage.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 10:35
Upper neck vertebrae damage. But he is drumming so I expect he can do many other things ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Badabing666
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 10:54
Sounds very similar to me. Started with TOTT and I can't imagine what life without Genesis would be like  ------------- 
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 11:35
| Foxtrot around 74. A real eye opener for me on music in general. |
Posted By: trackstoni
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 11:56
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Nurcery Cryme & Foxtrot 1974 ! ------------- Tracking Tracks of Rock |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 12:03
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SEBTP, though at the time I didn't like it. ------------- 
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 12:05
Same here. |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 12:07
No, wait! It was The Lamb, way earlier, when I'd just started listening to Rush and Kansas. I really didn't like that then. Still far from a favourite. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 12:19
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ATTWT, on release - a mate got it and played it to me. It was the start of a very long love affair.
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Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 12:26
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Foxtrot because it had Supper's ready.
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 13:12
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I told this story several times, but one more doesn't harm. It was September 1977, I was already listening YES, ELP and PINK FLOYD but not a Proghead, so was also in the top 40's My best friend (who only listened Prog), invited me to see a Peruvian band called YOU, who played some Beatles, Wings, Badfinger and some own Poppy themes, they were huge in Lima, and played at 8:00 PM, but he insisted to go at 5 pm to see the openers (FRÁGIL http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=113" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=113 ), something strange in him, because openers used to be terrible. From the start, everything was strange, they played in an outdoors auditorium, no chairs, people sitting in the grass, with a middle size acoustical shell, and the first thing I noticed, was that there were very few women, mos of the guys with long beards and green USA army jackets, so got two beers (remember I was 13) and sitted to listen the band. The first song was an organ and mellotron opener that sounded like Bach, and suddenly a guy with a strange vampire dress started to sing, it was fantastic, I couldn't miss a second, the song was Eatcher of the Skies. Then they played Your Move (which I already knew) but then started with the Genesis avalanche, including "I Know What I Like", "Can-Utility and the Coastliners", "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight","Get 'em Out by Friday", "Squonk", and closed with "Eleventh Earl of Mar" while the lead singer (Andrés Dullude) changed outfits. I was really impressed and became an instant Genesis fan (The guys did outstanding covers before playing their own stuff some years later)m, so called my parents who were in USA and they brought me all Genesis albums, from Trespass to W&W, so I can safely say that I listened all the Golden Genesis albums almost at the same time. Iván PS: The concert ended in a riot, when You started to play "Silly Love Songs", all the people who went for Frágil (including myself and my friend) started to shout "Fragil - Fragil", and the guys from You shouted something like "We are the stars, they are only fillers", that's when some people started to throw beer cans and lets say 70% of the audience left. ------------- 
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 13:19
| Foxtrot. |
Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 14:33
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Genesis the album, which of course is absolutely horrid.
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Posted By: wilmon91
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 15:15
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The first one was Invisible Touch, which I bought second hand, very cheap. It must have been 1990-1992 sometime. I liked the album. I had probably heard "Tonight Tonight" and "Invisible Touch" before.
I wasn't listening much to music back then, because I didnt hear much that I liked and the only music I was exposed to was what I heard on the radio and the music my brothers were listening to. Great music experences was rare for me, I wasn't aware of all the great stuff that existed. But that changed with internet.
In 1996 I got Selling England By The Pound. It was the first album that really got me into Genesis. Then I bought Nursery Cryme. The following two years I bought Foxtrot and W&W and ATOTT, one at a time.
In 98-99 I got The Lamb, Trespass, From Genesis to Revelation and probably Live, the last two were second hand. I only have ATTWT on LP. The rest I don't have. ------------- http://www.lastfm.se/user/wilmon91" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 15:24
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ATOTT; very good introduction. -------------  
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 15:51
| a complilation , obviously with the trio years hits. |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 20:54
| "And Then There Were Three" around 1979 or 1980, its the first record that i remember hearing |
Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 21:33
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Genesis Live Bought from Woolworth s for 99p
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 21:37
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Selling England was the first for me, it was a wonderful listen the first time and I continue to enjoy very much although The Lamb is now my favorite album. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 22:44
Same for me, went from Selling, to Trespass, then Lamb. But Selling England by the Pound really got me hooked on progressive rock music and it still remains one of my favorite albums. |
Posted By: Harold-The-Barrel
Date Posted: February 07 2011 at 03:32
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ABACAB back in 81
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: February 07 2011 at 03:40
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I bought on vinyl at the same time Duke, Abacab and Invisible Touch. Suffice it to say i was less than impressed. However later discovered Seconds Out and Foxtrot - had no idea they wre so brilliant. ------------- 
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Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: February 07 2011 at 12:03
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Hmmm, I believe the first album MAY have been Invisible Touch, but perhaps not all of it.
The first album I remembering hearing completely was "A Trick of the Tail", thanks to a friend.
It still remains one of my favorite Genesis albums. ------------- 
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 07 2011 at 14:12
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Hi,
Selling England By The Pound
About a month right after it came out, and on an import ... it still was not out in America. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: February 07 2011 at 21:46
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Selling England by the Pound is the only album by them I've ever heard and that was about half a year ago at the insistence of people from this board. It did nothing for me, so that closes the book on that band for me. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: February 08 2011 at 01:11
Foxtrot ----1973. What a gift ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 08 2011 at 02:40
| I cannot tell. One of my brothers was into Genesis in the '70's. I was a kid back then. It was probably Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot or Live. |
Posted By: JakeMM626
Date Posted: February 08 2011 at 06:36
You would give up so easily? Try Nursery Cryme or Foxtrot or A Trick of The Tail. These are also favorites of many. -------------
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: February 08 2011 at 06:56
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Revelation To Genesis in its black and gold sleeve issued by Decca in 1969, after hearing a Genesis track from the album (turned out to be the best track IMHO) on the sampler Wowie Zowie The World Of Progressive Music. Fortunately working in record shop I could hear Revelation To Genesis in full before buying - and never did buy it. It took a couple of more years before my brother reintroduced me to Genesis through Nursery Cryme and Trespass - I felt then their first was horribly weak compared with other prog and so I was turned off from following the band any further in 1969. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: PinkFloydrulez
Date Posted: February 10 2011 at 14:46
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Selling England by the Pound, several years back (late 2005). It's the only one I've really listened to although lately Foxtrot has been getting more spins. I've really been taking my time with their discography, heh. I hate that I listen to them so little but I almost never think about them. edit: and I'm ashamed to say that for the longest time (up until a year or two ago) I basically only listened to the first side of SEbtP. It's a bummer that I never got more into them back in the day but at the time I was going more in the (for the most part) metal direction; from that time I remember a lot of In Absentia, Opeth, Iron Maiden and Modest Mouse. a wee bit of ELP too.
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 16:29
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Foxtrot ------------- 
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Posted By: drdark
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 17:24
| After the tonearms journey thru the smoky room had laid its rest against the initial groove..........the words "Can you tell me where my country lies" had invaded my skull and sent me further spiraling out of control |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 17:43
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The first album I ever bought was Genesis - s/t (shapes). I listened to it over and over and quite liked it. I was 10 or 11 and I just grabbed albums that had songs I had heard on the radio. I remembered quite a few song I liked being Genesis songs so I picked it. I think I picked up Abacab and Duke and liked them but never really bought in. One of my younger brother's first albums was Invisible Touch and So. So and Shaking the Tree were in constant rotation blaring from his room.
Not the proggiest beginnings but in college I discovered this strange album with Genesis AND Peter Gabriel - Selling England by the Pound. I had no idea was what I was buying but that sounded like it would be a cool combo.
I still think "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" is one of the best songs recorded in the rock era. What a first impression. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 18:15
 Not an album, but a decent intro to all phases of their career (save for the debut). The presence of the recent remixes made listening to the originals all the more alluring and worthwhile. |
Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 18:17
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Wind & Wuthering. It's still my favourite Genesis album. ------------- 
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Posted By: mourningknight
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 18:31
I discovered Genesis with two albums at the same time; Wind And Wuthering and...And Then There Were Three. W&W affected me much deeper but I loved both. I loved W&W so much that the cassette didn't leave my walkman for a month straight! (this was 1986 afterall, lol) I then proceeded to devour their back catologue and had every album within months. It was love at first sound.  ------------- 
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Posted By: juandhaltrich
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 19:53
| From Genesis to Revelation !!! their first album. quite different than their following releases. a more than decent work though ! |
Posted By: Blue Effect
Date Posted: February 12 2011 at 00:36
| I heard that US double LP repackaging of Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot [the one with the black cover and great photos on the back] at a friends house. Borrowed the album and played it everyday until I found my own copies. |
Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: February 12 2011 at 00:37
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My library had Trespass. I didn't get into it as much as Yes at the time. Then when i heard Trick of the Tail I was hooked. ------------- -- Robert Pearson Regenerative Music http://www.regenerativemusic.net Telical Books http://www.telicalbooks.com ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net |
Posted By: Sargasso
Date Posted: February 13 2011 at 17:12
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Invisible Touch followed by We Can't Dance. Seriously. I found both of them in my dad's collection while I was raiding it for Styx and ELO albums. I loved on those two for six months before I picked up Selling England by the Pound. I still think We Can't Dance has several superb songs. |
Posted By: Nov
Date Posted: February 13 2011 at 18:41
Ha ha! Yeah, I know just what you mean. Likewise, I heard Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (by The Beatles, yeah) on the radio once and thought it was pretty crap so that closes the book on them for me. Can't see what all the fuss is about.  |
Posted By: Nov
Date Posted: February 13 2011 at 18:42
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The first Genesis album I ever heard was "Second's Out". It literally changed my life. |
Posted By: SpoiledMilk666
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 21:30
| I remember a friend of my mother's having brought over a box of these CD's that this lady had apparently lent to him. In it were two Genesis albums: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and Invisible Touch. I picked the The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway simply because it was the one I had spotted first. At the time, I had been listening to bands like Phish, and people like Tom Waits and Beck. Needless to say, it it still one of my favorite Genesis records. As is Invisible Touch, surprisingly enough. I love the title track, and the production is to die for. I was nine then. I am fourteen now. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 22:18
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I heard Trick of the Tail several times over at a friend's house, then about a month later we went and saw Genesis (while Steve Hackett was still in the band). Needless to say, I was amazed. Then Winds and Wuthering came out, and that was actually the first Genesis album I bought, followed by Trick of the Tail and then The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Humorously, I actually listened to Peter Gabriel solo before I heard him at any length with Genesis. Or at least that I can remember. The 70s are very hazy in recollection, and anyone who was there will know what I mean. Or not know what I mean, because they can't remember either. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: spacface
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 14:52
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Genesis from 1983 was the first for me. I was 12 and liked "That's All." What did I know? I actually owned Invisible Touch as well before my prog transformation. Now those are my two of my least favorites. |
Posted By: BrainStillLife
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 15:51
| Foxtrot |
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 17:40
| Selling England By the Pound. |
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 17:42
I listened to all their so acclaimed "classics" and they also did nothing for me.
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Posted By: TheLastBaron
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 19:40
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The first Genesis album I heard was selling england by the pound back in my senior year of high school. I'd have to say that though I really enjoy Trick of the Tail, foxtrot, nursery cryme, and the lamb lies down on broadway. SEBTP remains my favorite.
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 20:18
| Thankfully it was SEBTP. |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 21:12
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Selling England by The Pound (it was around 2006-2007).... I was already into prog but it wasn't love at first sight I must admit... I had it for a while but never paid much attention to it until I heard Dancing with the Moonlit Night being played at Delicious Agony Prog Rock Radio, I was really impressed and decided to give the album and Genesis another try... I've been a Genesis fan ever since! and SEBTP is one of my all time favorite albums.... ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com) 
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Posted By: Blood Wake
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 14:12
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First Genesis album I heard was Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and I took my speakers to put them on opposite sides of my bed then I laid there and absorbed the awesomeness. Good memory.
Still listen to that album often
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Posted By: Schindleria Praematu
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 14:25
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The first song I heard by Genisis was "That's All', I think that was on either Duke, Abacab, or Invisible Touch, not sure? |
Posted By: JakeMM626
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 14:44
it was on Genesis, the self-titled from 1983 actually. pretty good song, the other three albums are better. (well, maybe not invisible touch)
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 16:45
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 17:17
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I was totally stunned when I first heard SEBTP in 1973. It was the first time I had heard music that seemed made for me. The Englishness of the album really struck a chord with me and there was a resonance with some of the literature I was studying at the time.
Still as good now as it wax then! A 99/100 kind if album. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 17:46
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Foxtrot. I got it from Borders with a gift card based off Mike Portnoy saying he liked it. I was shocked because I only knew of Genesis as a lackluster pop band, besides some vague memories of them as 'psychedelic' from a Behind the Music I saw as a child. It really blew me away. I connected with Gabriel immediately. I was a Genesis fan fifteen seconds into Watcher of the Skies. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Blue Effect
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 21:34
I've been a "musically opinionated" poster on a political forum for a few years now and oftentimes younger people will send me clips of bands that they refer to as "fill-in-the-blank"-prog and while some of the music is good I just don't see any connection to bands that I think of when I think of the term progressive rock: Genesis, King Crimson, ELP, etc. Maybe it's just an unconscious attempt on my part to keep that term in the 1970's?
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Posted By: Blue Effect
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 21:40
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Posted By: JakeMM626
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 21:42
GAHHH!!! SO MUCH!! that would have been absolutely amazing -------------
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