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Poll Question: Best lyric for you?
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    Posted: February 10 2014 at 13:44
Originally posted by Gandalff Gandalff wrote:

I voted for the gentle opener, so currently leading song ("Giant Hogweed") has too much words for my taste and generally seems too theatrical to me.
 
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1. Correct name of the album is "Nursery Cryme", that's actually pun with "nursery rhyme".
2. Did you miss the Genesis debut?

Here my answers

1- You are right, was just an unconscious mental lapse. I changed the title.

2- The answer is in the poll before (Trespass). To avoid something tedious I decided to make polls of only those albums which 4 stars or more. (Except The Lamb because it is an only one lyric on its own)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2014 at 13:13
I actually usually dislike Genesis lyrics. I don't really like very much the inteded humor or whatever Gabriel tries to use, nor the images I imagine with his words. I dislike them just about as much as his singing and his theatrics.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2014 at 07:33
"...And as his heated breath brushed through the cool mist, a liquid voice called, "Son of gods, drink from my spring"..."

Fountain of Salmacis one of the best lyrics I ever heard. Musical box, Seven stones and For absent friends stunning lyrics too.

Here is the lyrics writers

Musical box (Gabriel)

For absent friends (unknown some said Phillips)

Giant Hogweed (Gabriel)

Seven Stones (Banks)

Harlequin (Probably Rutherford or Banks)

Harold the barrel (Gabriel)

Fountain of Salmacis (Rutherford)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2014 at 04:09
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

How many times do you read 'Crime' or even 'Crimes' ?? Just like Jethro Tull - "oh yeah, I have a few of his albums...."
Of course, the famous agricultural inventor Jethro Tull could own in the 18th century perhaps only pen and ink drawings, herbarium or sheet music albums.Wink
A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-díriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, sí nef aearon!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2014 at 03:46
How many times do you read 'Crime' or even 'Crimes' ?? Just like Jethro Tull - "oh yeah, I have a few of his albums...."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2014 at 03:41
I voted for the gentle opener, so currently leading song ("Giant Hogweed") has too much words for my taste and generally seems too theatrical to me.
 
Notice:
1. Correct name of the album is "Nursery Cryme", that's actually pun with "nursery rhyme".
2. Did you miss the Genesis debut?
A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-díriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, sí nef aearon!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2014 at 03:04
Musical Box...then Salmacis, what great lyrics all around. Mind you that was one of Genesis's strength always.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2014 at 02:07
Fountain........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2014 at 22:42
I'm the first to vote for Seven Stones. At some other time I would pick one of the others. I'm just really into that song right now, as it happens. The whole album is filled with great lyrics.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 04 2014 at 08:28
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 04 2014 at 00:52
The nurse will tell you lies, of kingdom beyond the skies, but I am lost within this half world, it doesn't seem to matter now..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2014 at 21:59
From a dense forest of tall dark pinewood, Mount Ida rises like an island. Within a hidden cave, nymphs had kept a child; Hermaphroditus, son of gods, so afraid of their love.
When he rides, my fears subside.
For darkness turns once more to light.
Through the skies, his white horse flies.
To find a land beyond the night.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2014 at 19:57
Hogweed.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2014 at 13:59
The Musical Box
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2014 at 13:54
Musical Box - love the first verse's lyrics ("the nurse will tell you lies, of a kingdom beyond the skies"). Sounds brilliant with that melody as well Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2014 at 11:19
Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Musical Box
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2014 at 11:09
Harold the Barrel has great lyrics and is also a good song
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2014 at 07:23
Musical Box for me . . .
Welcome to the middle of the film.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2014 at 03:15
1. The Return of the Giant Hogweed
2. Harold the Barrel
3. The Fountain of Salmacis
4. the remainder
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2014 at 01:53
Harold the Barrel isn't a great song, but the lyrics definitely make it.
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