Favourite of the first 10 Genesis albums
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Topic: Favourite of the first 10 Genesis albums
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Subject: Favourite of the first 10 Genesis albums
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 14:01
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My favourite Genesis album is Foxtrot, by a mile/kilometre. If I had to select just one album to illustrate progressive rock to a visitor from Ulan Bator then this would be the one. Which is your favourite? I'm limiting the poll to the first ten albums but, in the (unlikely |
) event that your favourite is a later one, just post!Replies:
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 14:05
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Selling England. I felt it was the best effort. Every member in top form. |
Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 14:39
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"Nursery Cryme" undoubtedly Genesis at its best! ------------- break the circle reset my head wake the sleepwalker and i'll wake the dead |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 14:53
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Looks like a four horse race, but I suspect Trespass will run out of steam quite quickly, great album, but its up against superiors! I went for "Nursery Cryme", it has that naive brilliance of a band suddenly finding they have immense talent. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 15:07
| Trick Of The Tail because I play it the most of any Genesis album.Not one bad track.You can find 'fillers' on every other Genesis album but not on this one! |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 16:06
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Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh! You made me choose between Foxtrot and Selling England...!!! Now I've changed my mind. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 16:18
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I have to choose between Lamb and trick... ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 16:38
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It's OK!! I changed my mind back again! It IS FOXTROT!!!
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Posted By: Hammar
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 18:09
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I'm in love with Selling....
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Posted By: The Analog Kid
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 18:51
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Foxtrot / Nursery Cryme / Selling England My big three, I voted for Selling England, but tomorrow could be one of the others. |
Posted By: bityear
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 20:08
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The Lamb got my vote - not all tracks are that good ("The Waiting Room", for instance, is QUITE boring) but it has some of their best tracks, and arguably the best concept ever for an album. And, besides of "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight" and "Supper's Ready", all my fave Genesis tracks are on here. ------------- www.geocities.com/joelbitars |
Posted By: moonchild
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 20:13
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Difficult to pick one. I voted for Selling England By the Pound because it is solid from beginning to end. ------------- In the Wake of Poseidon |
Posted By: diddy
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 20:46
Hmmm I think Foxtrot is my favorite...but it's difficult, Selling England follows right after, very close but Foxtrot made it because of Supper's ready and the funny cover  ------------- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... George Orwell |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 21:56
Certif1ed said:
Exactly the same feeling but fot Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme. Well, I'll vote for Nursery Cryme. Iván |
Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!
Posted By: ummagumma08
Date Posted: June 05 2004 at 19:46
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Foxtrot was my first Genesis album and one of my first prog experiences. Even though I consider Nursery Cryme & Selling England by the Pound, great albums, Nursery Cryme indicates that a little (very little) maturing is needed before the absolute perfection is achieved, Selling England by the Pound unfortunately has the weak track "More Fool Me" with vocal work by Collins. For some strange reason I have never learned to appreciate Trick Of the Tail & Wind and Wuthering, I just feel that I truly can hear something is missing, and I'm NOT a fan of Collins' singing. Hackett is a smal comfort though. My vote therefore goes to: FOXTROT Second would be The Lamb... Third: Nursery.. |
The Lamb is a bit different from earlier records, due to the strange "noise" experimets performed by gabriel, but in it's own way just as good. Posted By: Marcelo
Date Posted: June 05 2004 at 20:14
| Foxtrot and Selling England, both are the greatest among the great! |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: June 05 2004 at 20:53
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HI, THIS IS CÉSAR INCA. I've just voted on 'Selling England...', the classic line-up's top achievemnt. The musicianship is more confiedent than ever, the arrangements are filled with exquisite finesse, the instrumental ensemble feels more cohesive and tighter, and the diversity of musical ideas is well integrated (except for fiasco 'More Fool Me' - I wish the song 'Deja-vu' would have been there, instead). Nevermind Banks' and Collins' moderate reservations about this album, I agree with maestro extraordinaire Hackett on this - it's Genesis' top masterpiece. Regards. |
Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: June 06 2004 at 06:27
Very well put. I voted SEBT£, but NC was my introduction to Genesis, It's a tough one to call. (Shouldn't that be SEBTlb? I don't know, the free Gabriel pound note that came with the original LP confuses the issue.) ------------- Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: June 06 2004 at 08:13
| I voted for the lamb. Although it is long I can lose myself in this record. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 06 2004 at 14:17
Interesting to see that "Wind and Wuthering" has nil points so far, yet I'm sure almost all Genesis fans would agree it's among their finest. Maybe we should have a poll for their second or third best, I'm sure it would then rate quite highly.
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Posted By: CrimsonKing
Date Posted: June 06 2004 at 14:18
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A TRICK OF THE TAIL ------------- RED EYE |
Posted By: Focussed
Date Posted: June 07 2004 at 05:16
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In my teens it would have been 'The Lamb..' and I still love it, but my fave now is 'Trick of the tail' It's always a good thing when a band slaps the critics in the face with a killer album. The obituries were being written, in all the music mags when Gabriel left, but Trick, the fist album with Phil singing, revealed great strengths within the Genesis machine, regarding both songwriting and musicianship. I'll never forget the first time I heard 'Dance on a volcano' !! I had been listerning to Gabriels Genesis for about a year, but had ignored anything the band done after he left. 'Dance on a volcano' went on to be one of my favourite Genesis songs of all time. ------------- 'You cant have two killers living on the same patch!' |
Posted By: arqwave
Date Posted: June 07 2004 at 13:19
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To me Nursery Cryme is a very solid album with a lot of concept and with a lot of freshness, i enjoy every sigle time i hear it.is a masterpiece for me peace |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: June 07 2004 at 17:10
| Well, it looks like - for once - I'm actually in tune with the majority. Wonders will never cease. I am a little surprised, though, as I expected Selling England or Nursery Cryme to be the most popular. |
Posted By: Olympus
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:07
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I absolutly love foxtrot. ------------- "Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day" |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:13
I bought Nursery cryme some days ago, and have been lisening to it many times and at the moment its my favorite Album ------------- 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:14
 FoxtrotI'm surprised Live is equal with From Genesis To Revelation,doesn't deserve that,it is a very good album... ------------- 
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 08:01
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1. Selling England by the pound ***** 2. A trick of the tail ***** 3. The lamb lies down on broadway ***** 4. Foxtrot ****1/2 5. Nursery cryme **** 6. Trespass **** 7. Wind and wuthering **** 8. Live *** 9. FGTR * Not rated, the only one lacking in my collection: Seconds out. ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 12:54
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not a bad (or even medicore) album there sans FGTR ------------- 
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Posted By: Evan1211
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 13:18
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I love all of them (except Trick which I only "really like alot" haha and From Genesis to Rev. which I havent ever heard and dont really intend on hearing). I had to choose Selling England though since it has two of my favorite songs on it - Firth of Fifth and the Cinema Show. Nursery Cryme and Trespass were close seconds. ------------- 
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Posted By: Fearless
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 13:45
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They're all great. I'll rate them coz it's fun
My vote goes to Selling England, it just has something that the others do not, and is the first one with synthesizers. IMO, this is the greatest rock album of all-time (in fact, it pushes the boundary so much that it may not even be rock). ------------- If you don't stand up You don't stand a chance! |
)Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 14:24
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Foxtrot ------------- 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: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 14:27
i really cannot decide between NC, Foxtrot, ans SEBTP.  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 14:28
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I like "Waiting Room". From complete free-form to rocky but still
weird. Never again was Genesis as experimental as on "The Lamb Lies
Down on Broadway" (which is why that album is my favourite of Genesis).
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 16:06
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Foxtrot. Perfect. SEBTP has weak points like I know What I like aon More Fool Me ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 18:02
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Well, they are all brilliant except the debut, but one record represents absolute perfection to me: Selling England By The Pound. There are the 2 first poppier Genesis songs "I Know What I Like" and "More Fool Me" but they can't really pull down the sheer brilliance of the masterpiece, because they fit somehow to the character of the album and are also really good IMHO. The album got a perfect production, the sound problems of earlier records were maked out and the record shines with some of prog's all-time best pieces (Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, Firth of Fifth, Cinema Show, After The Ordeal, The Cinema Show). No matter, SEBTP is THE symphonic prog masterpiece beside Close To The Edge, symphonic prog ain't get better than that. Foxtrot is musicianal and progressively as a whole maybe a bit more attractive to progheads, but SEBTP got the better production and you really can hear any single instrument perfectly. For my taste the best produced prog record of the 70's together with CTTE and DSotM. |