Genesis members: negative poll!

Progatron wrote: friso wrote: Ah.. In Dutch we call untouchable things 'holy houses', and this is definitely one of them! I voted for Collins. His drumming was between mediocre and awful and his influences into pushing Genesis to pop-music was a pity. Ahhhh, the good ol' "They Should Have Kept Making Foxtrot-type Albums Even Though They Would Have Crashed And Burned" opinion - but this time it comes with a side dish of "WTF are you smoking" for that drumming comment. One wonders if you can possibly be serious, or are just trying to get a rise out of people. But, hey, everyone's entitled to their opinion. Yours is about 180 degrees from mine, though.

I haven't been smoking at all. Compared to, let's say; Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, Magma, King Crimson and even Yes, Genesis has by far the worst sounding drums. They completely destroy the sound of their recordings. This is due to the bad recording for which I blame Collins, since his predecessor had a fine recording on Trespass. Luckily the music of Genesis is strong enough to save it's momentum, but with a better drum-sound they would perhaps have been one of my favorite bands.

I happen to play in bands myself, and I know enough about recording music. The drum-sounds of Collins with super high mid, the lack of bass and treble interfere with all the other instrument that should fall in the mid-domain of the music. Furthermore the sound lacks depth, nor does it have a realistic sound.

On this website some bands have become a religion, you should read your own comment! As if I criticized your baby.

I hate Gabriel's singing.

Slartibartfast wrote: By the way, I could look this up but just who the hell is Chris Stewart?

Let's consult Wikipedia on the matter!

Sincerely I can't understand the meaning of this poll.  I suspect that it is trying to lead things to show that Phil Collins is the least favourite and Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel are in the other corner. Why don't you do the same with King Crimson, ELP or Yes? In my opinion this kind of things are just a cliche. 

After Duke,Phil.

Snow Dog wrote: Phil Collins is a brilliant drummer. And both Rutherford and Banks are also responsible for Genesis' direction. Fact.

Absolutely ! As much as most would 'blame' Phil for the downward spiral of the once great Genesis, he was and really is an incredible drummer.  The band's choice of direction was (I'm sure) a band decision so share the blame equally if you must. I'm not really familiar with the last two on the list since I don't see any credit for them on any of the albums. I'll abstain from participating in this poll.

My God what an awful poll! It's only propose is to bring out the tiresome Phil Collins bashers or in general just spread bad vibes around here. And I disagree with your statement that ''Life isn´t positive at all, therefore every poll cannot be always positive''. Yes life is not always positive but i come here to be uplifted and escape the negativity of ordinary life by discussing my favourite music. I don't need negative threads just because a lot of real life is negative. This place should encourage good feelings and good debate and not encourage bad feelings by declaring which member of a certain band we don't like.

Edited by Adams Bolero - September 06 2010 at 19:50

Funny, I actually thought of having this poll a few days ago, except only involving the classic quintet.

If this clarifies any, we have these best of worst of polls and if you get to know a lot of music those terms get meaningless.

I can't believe people have voted for the first five.

How can anyone hate Peter Gabriel's singing??