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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2012 at 21:28
In order of "favoriteness":

1) Musical Box
2) For Absent Friends
3) Harlequin (oh, yeah!)
4) The Return of the Giant Hogweed
5) Seven Stones
6) Fireside Song (or Looking for Someone = Visions of Angels, if you beg for prog)
7) In Hiding (or The Fountain of Salmacis, again, if you beg for prog)
(6 & 7 are from the debut, huh? Sick.)
8) Cinema Show
9) Supper's Ready (surprise to me)
10) The Serpent

What the heck? First five are all from "Nursery Cryme?" And I think those Trespass songs are equal in power and work for me in the same way. Go ahead and flick me. Plus, I don't think it's fair to rate all of Genesis' tracks because, you know, it's apples and oranges.




Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 12 2012 at 21:45
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2012 at 21:41
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

A while back on another forum I listed my top 50 Genesis tracks, in order.  Thought I'd share them here.  Just consider #11 - #50 to be "off topic" if you're a stickler for adhering to thread topics.  I figured it would be much more annoying to start a new thread (Top 50 Genesis Tracks) when the basic topic's been raised several times already.

1. Watcher of the Skies
2. Looking for Someone
3. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
4. Down and Out
5. Turn it On Again
6. Supper's Ready
7. Firth of Fifth
8. The Cinema Show
9. Return of the Giant Hogweed (Genesis Live)
10. Eleventh Earl of Mar
11. Keep it Dark
12. Deep in the Motherlode
13. Behind the Lines
14. Dodo
15. In the Wilderness
16. Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers...In That Quiet Earth
17. The Carpet Crawlers
18. Visions of Angels
19. Second Home By the Sea
20. Hairless Heart
21. Undertow
22. Abacab
23. Afterglow
24. Entangled
25. Dance on a Volcano
26. Stagnation
27. Musical Box
28. Burning Rope
29. In the Cage
30. Dusk
31. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
32. One for the Vine
33. In the Beginning
34. Mama
35. Counting Out Time
36. Duchess
37. Man of Our Times
38. Los Endos
39. It
40. Ballad of Big
41. Duke's Travels
42. Fountain of Salmacis
43. Squonk
44. The Lady Lies
45. Can-Utility and the Coastliners
46. Misunderstanding
47. No Reply at All
48. Land of Confusion
49. In Too Deep
50. Tonight Tonight Tonight

Quite a controversial list you got there. 

Hairless Heart beating Stagnation, Musical Box, In the Cage, One for the Vine, Fountain, and Coastliners. Impressive......LOL

I'm actually not a massive fan of Watcher of the Skies. Sure it's great - but i prefer Get 'Em Out By Friday to it. 

I might make my top 25 of something. I just think i'd bore others and myself by filling it with Gabriel material.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2012 at 22:13
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:


Quite a controversial list you got there. 

Hairless Heart beating Stagnation, Musical Box, In the Cage, One for the Vine, Fountain, and Coastliners. Impressive......LOL

I'm actually not a massive fan of Watcher of the Skies. Sure it's great - but i prefer Get 'Em Out By Friday to it. 

I might make my top 25 of something. I just think i'd bore others and myself by filling it with Gabriel material.


Yeah, it might seem strange, but I still think it represents honestly what are my favorite songs to listen to.  I REALLY love Hairless Heart, always have.  And Musical Box just doesn't thrill me as much as it did 25 years ago.  Hey! Where's the Knife?  Gee whiz, I left that one off altogether....Embarrassed  I may need to re-think that actually, I'm not really sure I like "Land of Confusion" more than The Knife... or do I?

I actually first listened to Genesis in the early 80s, when "Abacab" was all over the radio.  They were one of the coolest, smartest, most reliably good pop bands around.  I didn't even get into the Gabriel era until several years later, though I was dimly aware of it (I think my dad had the Foxtrot LP), so I've always had a soft spot for the Phil years.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2012 at 23:56
Man, this is hard as always. Ermm
1. Supper's Ready
2. The Musical Box
3. Watcher Of The Skies
4. The Cinema Show
5. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
6. Can-Utility And The Coastliners
7. The Fountain Of Salmacis
8. Stagnation
9. Firth Of Fifth
10. Mad Man Moon



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2012 at 00:02
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

In order of "favoriteness":

1) Musical Box
2) For Absent Friends
3) Harlequin (oh, yeah!)
4) The Return of the Giant Hogweed
5) Seven Stones
6) Fireside Song (or Looking for Someone = Visions of Angels, if you beg for prog)
7) In Hiding (or The Fountain of Salmacis, again, if you beg for prog)
(6 & 7 are from the debut, huh? Sick.)
8) Cinema Show
9) Supper's Ready (surprise to me)
10) The Serpent

What the heck? First five are all from "Nursery Cryme?" And I think those Trespass songs are equal in power and work for me in the same way. Go ahead and flick me. Plus, I don't think it's fair to rate all of Genesis' tracks because, you know, it's apples and oranges.



Genesis To Revelation songs over Supper's Ready! ShockedStern Smile Heresy!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2012 at 01:13
Originally posted by Fox On The Rocks Fox On The Rocks wrote:

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

In order of "favoriteness":

1) Musical Box
2) For Absent Friends
3) Harlequin (oh, yeah!)
4) The Return of the Giant Hogweed
5) Seven Stones
6) Fireside Song (or Looking for Someone = Visions of Angels, if you beg for prog)
7) In Hiding (or The Fountain of Salmacis, again, if you beg for prog)
(6 & 7 are from the debut, huh? Sick.)
8) Cinema Show
9) Supper's Ready (surprise to me)
10) The Serpent

What the heck? First five are all from "Nursery Cryme?" And I think those Trespass songs are equal in power and work for me in the same way. Go ahead and flick me. Plus, I don't think it's fair to rate all of Genesis' tracks because, you know, it's apples and oranges.



Genesis To Revelation songs over Supper's Ready! ShockedStern Smile Heresy! 



Define heresy in this context. There is just quite an amount of stuff I don't like in Supper. Read my review if you wish.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2012 at 23:19
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by Fox On The Rocks Fox On The Rocks wrote:

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

In order of "favoriteness":

1) Musical Box
2) For Absent Friends
3) Harlequin (oh, yeah!)
4) The Return of the Giant Hogweed
5) Seven Stones
6) Fireside Song (or Looking for Someone = Visions of Angels, if you beg for prog)
7) In Hiding (or The Fountain of Salmacis, again, if you beg for prog)
(6 & 7 are from the debut, huh? Sick.)
8) Cinema Show
9) Supper's Ready (surprise to me)
10) The Serpent

What the heck? First five are all from "Nursery Cryme?" And I think those Trespass songs are equal in power and work for me in the same way. Go ahead and flick me. Plus, I don't think it's fair to rate all of Genesis' tracks because, you know, it's apples and oranges.



Genesis To Revelation songs over Supper's Ready! ShockedStern Smile Heresy! 



Define heresy in this context. There is just quite an amount of stuff I don't like in Supper. Read my review if you wish.

Of course your entitled to your own opinion and personal preference, I was just sort of surprised that you would pick those songs over a song of such legendary status and acclaim from Genesis fans and the Prog community. Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 00:14
Originally posted by Fox On The Rocks Fox On The Rocks wrote:

 
Of course your entitled to your own opinion and personal preference, I was just sort of surprised that you would pick those songs over a song of such legendary status and acclaim from Genesis fans and the Prog community. Big smile

I know Big smile . I bet this happens to lots of people. You might have already seen someone pick Hairless Heart over all other classics ... or something like that. It's just that to me Supper's Ready sounds a bit better than Atom Heart Mother, the track. 

I believe someone said that if all people had the same opinion, the world would be very boring ... or something like that.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2012 at 08:22
Originally posted by Heathcliffe Heathcliffe wrote:

In chronological order -
Musical Box.
Timetable.
Dancing out with the Monnlit Knight.
I know what I like in your wardrobe.
Carpet Crawlers.
Entangled.
Mad Man Moon.
Ripples.
One for the Vine.
Many too Many.
 
Glad to see Mad Mad Moon here, simply unbeleivable compositional genius from T. Banks on this. one could study
his chord progressions here for years, a true masterpiece of music.
 
Ok, my answer is:
 
Everything Genesis did from Nursery Crime to Duke, but to stay on topic I will provide 10 songs in no particular order:
 
Suppers Ready (Seconds Out version)
The Cinema Show
Firth of Fifth
Dance On A Volcano
Squonk
Mad Mad Moon
Eleventh Earl of Mar
The Fountain of Salmacis
One For The Vine
and for number 10: 
The entire Lamb Lies Down album Wink
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2012 at 23:50

1. Supper's Ready

2. Colony of Slippermen

3. The Fountain of Salmacis

4. The Battle of Epping Forest

5. The Knife

6. It

7. The Musical Box

8. The Cinema Show

9. In the Cage

10. Lilywhite Lilith

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2012 at 01:03
^ Interesting list. You have 'Epping Forest' at #4. Nice Big smile . 'Colony' at #2 ? ... you will surprise a lot of people.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2012 at 01:06
Originally posted by dennismoore dennismoore wrote:


Glad to see Mad Mad Moon here, simply unbeleivable compositional genius from T. Banks on this. one could study his chord progressions here for years, a true masterpiece of music.

Oo-ooh. I like nice and fresh chord progressions. Maybe I'll hear it shortly.

Originally posted by dennismoore dennismoore wrote:


and for number 10: 
The entire Lamb Lies Down album Wink

I suppose that's totally valid.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2012 at 02:51
1) Dancing with the moonlit knight
2) Carpet Crawlers
3) Supper's ready
4) Firth of Fifth
5) The lamb
6) Eleventh earl of Mar
7) Inside and out
8) Ripples
9) The lamia
10) Anyway
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2012 at 12:42
 
 
 Stagnation
 The Musical Box
 Seven Stones
 Watcher Of The Skies
 After The Ordeal
 The Cinema Show
 One For The Vine
 Blood On The Rooftops
 Entangled
 Mad Man Moon
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2012 at 17:54
 Top Ten ? ...thats alot to chose from!!!
 Deep in the Motherload
 Get em out by Friday
 Squonk
 Suppers Ready
 Home by the Sea
 Land of Confusion
 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
 ...yes the entire Album,since its virtually one song or story in itself!
 that should take care of the rest!  ....um? ..is that fair?Approve
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2012 at 18:07
^ Three more.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2012 at 19:09
Ah  ...K
The Knife
Rippels
Los Endos
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2012 at 03:54
In chronological order:

The Musical Box
Watcher of the Skies
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
Firth of Fifth
The Cinema Show
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Fly on a Windshield/Broadway Melody of 1974
Dance on a Volcano
Squonk
Mama


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2012 at 17:18
Here goes:

Supper's Ready
The Musical Box
Firth of Fifth
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
Watcher of the Skies
The Knife
The Fountain of Salmacis
In the Cage
The Cinema Show
Dance on a Vocano
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 17:45
  ...anyone heard of Match of The Day?
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