Top Genesis Albums of All Time

1) Trick of the Tail
2) Wind and Wuthering
3) ATTWT
4) Lamb
5) Selling England
6) Foxtrot
7) trespass
8) Nursery Cryme
9) Duke
10) IT
11) Abacab
12) WCD
13) calling all stations
14) From here to Rev

Genesis is a hard group to play this game with. If you are a fan of the PG and PC led Genesis, the first 10 are from very good to excellent. I tend to play the 3 albums where TB was the leader the most out of the studio albums.

Edit- crap, forgot Genesis put it after Duke


Edited by tdfloyd - March 19 2018 at 03:21

Cristi wrote: ReactioninG wrote: 1. Lamb Lies Down 2. Selling England 3. Foxtrot 4. Invisible Touch 5. Duke 6. We Can't Dance 7. Abacab 8. Genesis 9. A Trick Of A Tail 10. Wind and Wuthering this is a headache inducing list.  Invisible Touch, Abacab and WCD ahead of Trick and Wind and Wuthering? Where are Trespass and Nursery Cryme? And Then There Were Three?  I'm not picking on you, i just do not understand...

Some people appreciate pop-prog. The poorer classic prog albums in their catalogue don't measure up to pop-prog masterpieces like Invisible Touch.

ReactioninG wrote: Cristi wrote: ReactioninG wrote: 1. Lamb Lies Down 2. Selling England 3. Foxtrot 4. Invisible Touch 5. Duke 6. We Can't Dance 7. Abacab 8. Genesis 9. A Trick Of A Tail 10. Wind and Wuthering this is a headache inducing list.  Invisible Touch, Abacab and WCD ahead of Trick and Wind and Wuthering? Where are Trespass and Nursery Cryme? And Then There Were Three?  I'm not picking on you, i just do not understand... Some people appreciate pop-prog. The poorer classic prog albums in their catalogue don't measure up to pop-prog masterpieces like Invisible Touch.

Cristi wrote: ATotT and W&W are "poorer classic prog"? OMG, you are not kidding.

Nope. I'd rather have Invisible Touch on a Desert Island than those two albums. And I listen to Invisible Touch more.

As for ATotT and W&W being "poorer classic prog," in my opinion they are poorer than the three great Genesis albums and the best contemporary albums from other artists. I frequently listen to those two albums in particular along with ATTWT as a bedtime albums for when I go to sleep, not for close listening. They aren't exactly masterpieces. They have their moments, but I'm not greatly moved by the music. The lyrics, themes and (lack) of an emotional edge are often terrible. By Invisible Touch, the band settled on their smoldering anger and depression and (Phil Collins) troubles with women thing. The first three albums after Gabriel are like tossing one to the faires or trying to copy Gabriel without any substance. In short, the music is boring. Not to say they aren't good albums, but I'm ranking them against great albums.

ReactioninG wrote: Cristi wrote: ATotT and W&W are "poorer classic prog"? OMG, you are not kidding.  Nope. I'd rather have Invisible Touch on a Desert Island than those two albums. And I listen to Invisible Touch more. As for ATotT and W&W being "poorer classic prog," in my opinion they are poorer than the three great Genesis albums and the best contemporary albums from other artists. I frequently listen to those two albums in particular along with ATTWT as a bedtime albums for when I go to sleep, not for close listening. They aren't exactly masterpieces. They have their moments, but I'm not greatly moved by the music. The lyrics, themes and (lack) of an emotional edge are often terrible. By Invisible Touch, the band settled on their smoldering anger and depression and (Phil Collins) troubles with women thing. The first three albums after Gabriel are like tossing one to the faires or trying to copy Gabriel without any substance. In short, the music is boring. Not to say they aren't good albums, but I'm ranking them against great albums.

I kind of understand you. ATotT & W&W haven´t ever been my big favourites, I think they´re on the same level as Duke, but really I think all those three are better than Invisible (it has some great moments, but also some ugly like the tittle song). More I wonder like Cristi, why Nursery & Trespass are not on your list at all?

Edited by Mortte - March 20 2018 at 23:42

Studio Albums:

1) Foxtrot
2) Selling England by the Pound
3) Nursery Cryme
4) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
5) A Trick of the Tail
6) Trespass
7) Wind and Wuthering
8) From Genesis to Revelation
9) And Then There Were Three
10) Duke
...then the rest, with ABACAB probably leading the peloton a few miles down the road.

ReactioninG wrote: Mortte wrote: More I wonder like Cristi, why Nursery & Trespass are not on your list at all? I really hope you don´t say them poor classic prog albums. Nursery and Trespass are albums I don't listen to anymore aside perhaps from the track "The Return of the Giant Hogweed." I had an opinion about Nursery Cryme once but I haven't listened to it all the way through for years so I no longer have an opinion. My tastes have changed since my youth and I don't even listen to Foxtrot or Selling England by the Pound very often. I'm kind of on the look out for new bands these days, without much luck. My last big obsession was with Frank Zappa who I discovered (when he was finally available for streaming)  in 2013. I'm real tired of some of the older prog stuff I used to listen to. I come back time and again for a few of the exceptional albums. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is important to me, for instance.

It´s very rare also I listen my old favourites today. Still my opinion of them hasn´t changed and all the time I listen them (maybe one time in a ten years) they sound just awesome!

Interesting! This play for claiming Genesis "pop-prog" albums as prog masterpieces is as perplexing to me as the fairly recent phenomenon of pushing for the same lofty status for Trespass and From Genesis to Revelation. I just don't get it! It's like elevating Yes and Time and A Word or Supertramp and Indelibly Stamped to equal status with Fragile, CTTE and Relayer and Crime of the Century, respectively. The potential may be showing but the mastery is nowhere near where it will be. Sometimes I think we confuse the tadpole with the frog, the shadow of the athlete at its peak with the raw talent of its youthful, exuberant self in training. They may be one and the same creatures but they are not producing the same results/products. 

I have said before ( ... Barbu will say I'm repeating myself....;)) I don't listen to any Genesis past Wind& Wuthering....and I mostly listen to the 3 classics...Cryme, Foxtrot, SEBTP.