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Poll Question: Which album do you prefer?
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    Posted: October 03 2018 at 16:12
Both are albums that took me a while to get into but I think both are great and among my favorites by each band. 
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I love most of W&W, but all of Three Friends so it get's my vote. 
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Three Friends is one of my least favorite GG albums, and since I saw Genesis just prior to W&W being released, I'll go with Genesis for sentimental reasons.
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No contest: W&W.
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

No contest: W&W.

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Interesting, these are two album I never would have thought to put up against each other. I voted for Three Friends because, mostly the second half, is just really kick butt. W&W is a darn good Genesis album though. I think both tend to be underrated in their respective band's discographies. 
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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Interesting, these are two album I never would have thought to put up against each other. I voted for Three Friends because, mostly the second half, is just really kick butt. W&W is a darn good Genesis album though. I think both tend to be underrated in their respective band's discographies. 
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Three Friends, no contest at all. Not a lot of tracks in Wind and Wuthering really stand out to me, to be honest. I like that they were still going for that prog sound, but the compositions aren't anywhere as well put together as their earlier albums. Blood On The Rooftops is pretty great though.
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Musically, Three Friends is spectacular but the theme of the album falls apart pretty quickly. W&W has no unifying theme yet each song holds up beautifully and the entire album works well as a whole. W&W has my vote.
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One for the Vine --Blood on the Rooftops ---Unquiet slumbers for the sleepers--In that quiet earth- afterglow-all first rate---11th earl of mar and All in a mouses night are cool too--and it does all come together as a cohesive album---Tony says its his fav ---but he also said that about Duke Big smile
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One for the Vine is enough for me to vote for Genesis.
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Originally posted by Manuel Manuel wrote:

Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Interesting, these are two album I never would have thought to put up against each other. I voted for Three Friends because, mostly the second half, is just really kick butt. W&W is a darn good Genesis album though. I think both tend to be underrated in their respective band's discographies. 
You took the words right out of my mouth.

They both seem a bit on the dense(for lack of a better term) side to me which is why I put them up against each other. Neither seem as accessible as others in their catalog(for GG octopus would be the one more accessible and for Genesis it would be ATOTT). So yeah, I can see how some would think it's an odd pairing but considering my personal history with both it makes sense(at least to me). 

Anyway, I voted for W&W. 


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Wind and Wuthering - too many musical highlights to ignore. It has a surprisingly coherent feel to it - very atmospheric and autumnal - from the first notes to the final fade out. Great memories from that time. The odd misfire doesn't lessen it, in my view - although now knowing it was Steve Hackett's last studio album, it lends the album a melancholic, end of an era, feel - emphasised so well when Steve played much of it on his previous tour.

I quite like Three Friends. It has grown on my steadily of late. A nice idea to pitch these two under-appreciated albums together in a poll it'll be interesting to see the final voting scores.
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Both equally
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love'em both :)
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To me Prologue/Schooldays represents the best qualities of early Gentle Giant. So rich on atmosphere, room or space and a kind of loose playfulness... I don't know exactly - but it seemingly left the band along with Phil Shulman. To me Phil represents the gentle part of the giant and I miss his presence whenever I try to relisten to those later albums (which are still really good). I do like Wind and Wuthering as well and more the last couple of months than ever, but not in the same way. 
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What can be better than schooldays, saperlipopette !?
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Wind & Wuthering.
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Originally posted by Squonk19 Squonk19 wrote:

Wind and Wuthering - too many musical highlights to ignore. It has a surprisingly coherent feel to it - very atmospheric and autumnal - from the first notes to the final fade out. Great memories from that time. The odd misfire doesn't lessen it, in my view - although now knowing it was Steve Hackett's last studio album, it lends the album a melancholic, end of an era, feel - emphasised so well when Steve played much of it on his previous tour.

I quite like Three Friends. It has grown on my steadily of late. A nice idea to pitch these two under-appreciated albums together in a poll it'll be interesting to see the final voting scores.
 
Well put. I like both, but I have to give the edge to Genesis. I have listened to Wind and Wuthering far more. I have heard Three Friends for the first time only a few years ago.
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