Genital Giant wrote:
richardh wrote:
Genital Giant wrote:
richardh wrote:
Genital Giant wrote:
Such a tough choice between these two, the two best Genesis albums imo. Well, I look at this way, Foxtrot has 30 and 1/2 minutes of absolutely essential material with Supper's Ready and Watcher of the Skies. Selling England has 24 minutes of absolutely essential material with Cinema Show, Firth of Fifth, and I Know What I Like.
So Foxtrot wins by just a little. |
If you take out I Know What I Like and add Dancing With The Moonlit Knight then what would be the score I wonder? |
I Know What I Like IS an essential Genesis track, that one has been played by the band live probably more than any other from the Gabriel era. It's a great song with a great chorus. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight is a wonderful song but it was never played again live (other than the opening vocal bit) after the Selling England tour. That clearly makes it a non-essential Genesis tune to me.
"Essential" songs, to me, are ones that the band played on multiple tours and that stood the test of time. Songs that just got played on one tour are not as significant. |
I don't agree. I know what I like was just a bit of a singalong and so suited the band playing live. It does have a nice groove but it will never be 'essential' in my view.
If you follow this argument then ELP - Trilogy is 'non essential' yet many consider it to be one of their best tracks. |
Incorrect, Trilogy has been played on more than one tour.
Also..... ELP...... please. |
Trying to understand your line of 'reasoning' but struggling. The choice of tracks that bands play live as very little to do with them being essential or not.
ELP only played Trilogy live a small handfull of times (maybe 2 or 3 at most). They dropped it for technical reasons and in fact most of the Trilogy album was only played on the tour that followed its release and then dropped. Hoedown, From The Beginning and The Sheriff were the only tracks that survived the cull. They were easy to play live and a lot of fun which brings me back to Genesis and why they played I Know What I Like.
Putting that aside I think your ranking of albums on how much essential material is on them is perfectly reasonable. The great tracks are what matters. If I get 30 minutes or thereabouts of essential music on an album then that is good enough. Even over 50% is good enough imo.
Edited by richardh - February 26 2014 at 01:54