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Poll Question: What is your favorite track off the album?
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    Posted: November 19 2014 at 18:06
a day too late, i know, but yesterday marks the actual 40th anniversary of this much-beloved album (one that i need to listen to all of again one of these days). That's why i decided to make this poll: to see which of these tracks is the best of the bunch in this weird concept album (and one i still don't get too, nor understand what's going on in it; i would like some insight on that please). So, which one's the one to go to for you? for me, it's the title track (the first Gabriel-Era Genesis song i have ever heard actually) followed by The Carpet Crawlers and then Counting Out Time.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 18:16
My favorite Genesis song: In the Cage. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 18:28
Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats, followed by Riding the Scree and third The Lamia.
 
Having this said, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is maybe the best opener for a Genesis album, along with Down And Out for ATTWT and Watcher Of The Skies for Fotrot, it would be tough to decide a best if there was a poll like this.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 19:24
Love this masterpiece---Fly, Lamia, It, Back in NYC, Chamber, Riding the Scree ---all have a special place in my heart---but the album as a whole is amazing art. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 19:28
This is my favorite Genesis album, finally beating out Selling England a few years ago after I got to see The Musical Box perform it in totality.  So the highlights are many, but my absolute favorite that I return to again and again is...
Hairless Heart
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 19:37
Lilith today.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 20:17

For me personally, there are only 2 tracks on this album that reach the heights of their previous albums: The Carpet Crawlers and Anyway. I went with Anyway, but could've gone with the other one just as well.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 20:28
Most of these could take the title.
 
But The Lamia for now.
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 21:05
I think the Lamia. It's such an enchanting, gorgeous track; very engrossing atmosphere.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 21:52
This is rather difficult for me... but this time rather because this is my least favourite album from the classic era, and I can think of no song that really reaches the heights of the best songs from the previous 3 albums. The Cage must be the one that gets closer, though. As for The Lamia, which is winning at the time, I very much prefer Hackett's version on Genesis Revisited 2, with more pleasant vocals and added instrumental passages... he really fixed that song for me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 23:43
No love for Slippermen ?? Well I guess there's some now
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2014 at 23:57
I would have voted for "The Lamia", but "The Carpet Crawlers" needs a vote too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2014 at 01:37
A number of great songs but I always pick Carpet Crawlers. Love the imagery and atmosphere which is a feature of the whole album. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2014 at 02:19
OK what's it all about. A surreal fantasy of a Puerto Rican male breaking through a fantasy world in New York that is paralleled by male fears (losing the cherished member to a bird) and the endless choices (almost all bad) that he has to make to get though the other side. In the end it's rock and roll that saves the day (clearly not a contemporary release). It's only knock and know all with it's ironic reference to the Stones. It's a bizarre comedy well illustrated lyrically and soundtracked musically.

It got my vote. Love it.

Now I'm going back to Seconds Out. Afterglow's on and that is....


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2014 at 02:36
Broadway Melody of 1974
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2014 at 03:02
1. Riding the Scree
2. In the Cage
3. The Colony of Slippermen
4. Fly on a Windshield
5. Back in N.Y.C.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2014 at 05:42
In the cage
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2014 at 05:55
The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2014 at 07:27
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

A number of great songs but I always pick Carpet Crawlers. Love the imagery and atmosphere which is a feature of the whole album. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2014 at 07:38
Fly on a windshield.
Always.
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

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