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Flight123

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Posted: August 31 2015 at 09:13

1. Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford
2. Banks/Gabriel/Mayhew/Phillips/Rutherford
3. Banks/Collins/Hackett/Rutherford
4. Banks/Collins/Rutherford
5. Banks/Rutherford/Wilson

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Posted: September 08 2015 at 15:14

Xonty wrote:

Hey, just wanted to see everyone's favourite to least favourite Genesis (studio) albums

This is always so much fun, but I will only list my favorite masterpieces.

1. Selling England By The Pound - I used to fantasize being in The Battle Of Epping Forest!
2. Foxtrot - Watcher Of The Skies & Supper's Ready! Need I say more.
3. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Profound and mesmerizing musical odyssey-Drama, conflict, & resolve.
4. Nursery Cryme - Victoriana
5. A Trick of the Tail - Survived & recovered.
6. Wind and Wuthering - Wot Gorilla?!
7. From Genesis To Revelation - The birth of Genesis! For god's sake they were public school kids when they wrote and recorded this!
8. We Can't Dance- The end ---Fading Lights says it all.

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Posted: September 08 2015 at 15:54

Foxtrot.

Nursery Crime.

Selling England...

Trick of the Tail.

Wind And Weathering.

The Lamb...

ATTWT

ABACAB

Duke.

Invisible Touch.

Genesis. (s/t)

We Can't Prog.

Genesis to Revelation.

All Collin's solo albums.

All Mike+Mechanics albums.

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Posted: September 08 2015 at 16:06

SteveG wrote:

Foxtrot.

Nursery Crime.

Selling England...

Trick of the Tail.

Wind And Weathering.

The Lamb...

ATTWT

ABACAB

Duke.

Invisible Touch.

Genesis. (s/t)

We Can't Prog.

Genesis to Revelation.

All Collin's solo albums.

All Mike+Mechanics albums.

Wind and Weathering? Then it's Thompson's WaterSeal to the rescue!

"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno

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Posted: September 08 2015 at 16:18

^Sorry, but I meant to put WAW at the top of the list.

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Posted: September 08 2015 at 16:22

Foxtrot works for me.

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Posted: September 08 2015 at 16:27

Does anyone really consider Calling All Stations to be a Genesis album? If so, it gets the Gary Charone VH award.

Edited by SteveG - September 08 2015 at 16:35

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Posted: September 08 2015 at 18:18

For me impossible to rate 1 - 15 but generally speaking .....

Essential - some of my all time favourite albums.
Foxtrot (Simply gorgeous)
Selling England By The Pound (First Genesis album I heard. Went back and bought Foxtrot and Trespass the following week. Very few albums are as important to me.)
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (As everyone says a flawed masterpiece. Would probably have made a stunner of a single CD. Still effing wonderful.)
A Trick Of The Tail (Who'd have thunk it possible ?)
Wind And Wuthering (Peter who ?)
Duke (There is hope after the disappointing ATTWT, alas it was nowt but hope. )

Non essential but but but .....
Nursery Cryme (very nearly made the cut, someone had to lose out, for the time some great stuff)
And Then There Were Three (like it but for mine, absolutely ruined by Follow You Follow Me which on the original LP sounds like an unloved orphan looking for a home .... and not really succeeding.)

Of historical interest only .....
From Genesis To Revelation
Trespass

Irrelevent (They all have the odd highlight but long term a yawn fest)
Abacab (nice enough, liked it when first released but it hasn't stood the test of time, prog very vaguely related at best.)
Genesis (nothing that hadn't been said before, overall drear. )
Invisible Touch (By this stage Domino comes as something of a surprise, that's about it.)
We Can't Dance (Oh please.)

Jury still out but bordering on irrelevence.
Calling All Stations (Like a lot of Genesis late era, I'm not at all sure it belongs in Prog at all but it's a more interesting album that I first gave it it credit for.)

Edited by t d wombat - September 09 2015 at 18:11

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Posted: September 09 2015 at 12:17

SteveG wrote:

Foxtrot.

Nursery Crime.

Selling England...

Trick of the Tail.

Wind And Weathering.

The Lamb...

ATTWT

ABACAB

Duke.

Invisible Touch.

Genesis. (s/t)

We Can't Prog.

Genesis to Revelation.

All Collin's solo albums.

All Mike+Mechanics albums.

And Trespass... ?!

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Posted: September 09 2015 at 13:42

1. Calling All Stations (never heard it though)

2. Abacab (first heard, most loved)

3. Wind and Wuthering

4. Selling England by the Pound

5. Trespass

6. We Can't Dance

7. Invisible Touch

8. Mama

9. Duke

10. ...And Then There Were Three...

11. From Genesis to Revelation

12. A Trick of the Tail

13. Nursery Crime

14. Foxtrot

15. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

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Posted: September 09 2015 at 18:36

SteveG wrote:

Does anyone really consider Calling All Stations to be a Genesis album? If so, it gets the Gary Charone VH award.

Hard to say really. By that stage Genesis only had two of its original members though that is at least more than some groups can claim.

I only gave CAS a couple of listens when it first came out then filed it under irrelevent. Wilson didn't do much for me I confess, indeed I've long been a big admirer of Paul Carrack and wondered why they didn't go for him as Collins replacement. That said I did give CAS another listen recently and was reasonably impressed. Maybe they should have given it one more shot even though it would never have been as big as any Collins era album.So what I say. Not as if the buggers need the loot even though one suspects that is the only reason they are/were still in the game.

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Posted: September 09 2015 at 18:58

Just giving CAS another hearing. OK, so its a quite good pop/rock album with some nice keyboards and vocals but that's about it. Might as well be a Mike and the Mechanics album. Which is not necessarily a bad thing but it's not Genesis.

One must also wonder why after losing Collins, Banks and Rutherford didn't make Stuermer and Thompson permanent members. At least it might have given the band a bit more continuity. It all smacks of control freakiness and/or money obsession.

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Posted: September 09 2015 at 19:05

1. A Trick Of The Tail (10/10)

2. Genesis (9/10)

3. Selling England By The Pound (9/10)

4. Wind and Wuthering (9/10)

5. Calling All Stations (7/10)

6. And Then There Were Three (7/10)

7. Trespass (6/10)

8. Foxtrot (6/10)

9. Nursery Crime (5/10)

10. Duke (5/10)

11. We Can't Dance (5/10)

12. From Genesis to Revelation (4/10)

13. Acabab (4/10)

14. Invisible Touch (4/10)

15. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (3/10)

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Posted: September 10 2015 at 22:19

I really can't pick between Foxtrot and SEBTP. The first has Supper's Ready, but the second one feels more solid overall. Very hard.

1-Foxtrot 10/10. Has one of my favorite pieces of music of all time that I absolutely love.

2-Selling England by the Pound 10/10. Perfect album.

3-Nursery Crime 9/10. Some gems but there's "something" missing for it to be perfect.

4-A Trick of the Taill 9/10. Their last true amazing album.

5-The Lamb Lies down on Broadway 9/10. Some fillers but some magic in it too.

6-Trespass 8/10. Where it all really started Clap

7-And Then There Were Three 8/10. Really like this one. Very underrated

8-Genesis 7/10. Their best in the pop era.

9-Invisible Touch 7/10. Pretty close to Genesis

10 Wind & Wuthering 7/10. Their least interesting of the prog era.

11-From Genesis to Revelation 6/10. Some catchy songs.

12-Duke 6/10. Ok album but nothing that stands out.

13-Abacab 6/10. Same.

14-We Can't Dance 6/10. And same

15-Calling All Stations 5/10. Aside from Congo and Shipwrecked it's poor

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Posted: September 11 2015 at 07:32

Respect your opinion, Lion', but don't hold with all of it. To put Wind and Wuthering, a bravura epic (sans Your Own Special Way) and Hackett's swan song, so far down the list (edged out by Invisible Touch?) before relegating Duke and Abacab to the status of "Ok" with both sitting just above (gasp) We Can't Dance kind of negates your deft critique of the first six items on the list.

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Posted: September 11 2015 at 08:55

O666 wrote:

SteveG wrote:

Foxtrot.

Nursery Crime.

Selling England...

Trick of the Tail.

Wind And Weathering.

The Lamb...

ATTWT

ABACAB

Duke.

Invisible Touch.

Genesis. (s/t)

We Can't Prog.

Genesis to Revelation.

All Collin's solo albums.

All Mike+Mechanics albums.

And Trespass... ?!

I couldn't decide to put Trespass as

. Too much pressure.

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Posted: September 12 2015 at 09:04

SteveG wrote:

O666 wrote:

SteveG wrote:

Foxtrot.

Nursery Crime.

Selling England...

Trick of the Tail.

Wind And Weathering.

The Lamb...

ATTWT

ABACAB

Duke.

Invisible Touch.

Genesis. (s/t)

We Can't Prog.

Genesis to Revelation.

All Collin's solo albums.

All Mike+Mechanics albums.

And Trespass... ?!

I couldn't decide to put Trespass as

. Too much pressure.

Hi Steve. I know you and I'm sure about "this very very small mistake (I can't find better word). I think you put Trespass as

. Prdone me .

Your list is very similar to mine and I don't repeat (With this Quote I repeat that 2 times

) this list. Your list is enough .

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Posted: September 13 2015 at 12:41

1. Selling England By The Pound

2. Foxtrot

3. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

4. Trespass (just because of "The Knife)

5. Nursery Cryme

6. A Trick Of The Tail

7. Wind And Wuthering

8. We Can´t Dance

Didn´t listen to the other ones, i think i missed nothing

Edited by Wilson1991 - September 13 2015 at 12:46

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Posted: September 13 2015 at 13:27

Wilson1991 wrote:

1. Selling England By The Pound

2. Foxtrot

3. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

4. Trespass (just because of "The Knife)

5. Nursery Cryme

6. A Trick Of The Tail

7. Wind And Wuthering

8. We Can´t Dance

Didn´t listen to the other ones, i think i missed nothing

DUKE DUKE DUKE DUKE DUKE DUKE

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Posted: September 13 2015 at 13:50

sublime220 wrote:

Wilson1991 wrote:

1. Selling England By The Pound

2. Foxtrot

3. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

4. Trespass (just because of "The Knife)

5. Nursery Cryme

6. A Trick Of The Tail

7. Wind And Wuthering

8. We Can´t Dance

Didn´t listen to the other ones, i think i missed nothing

DUKE DUKE DUKE DUKE DUKE DUKE

I will give it a try ;)