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    Posted: March 22 2014 at 15:53
Hey, just wanted to see everyone's favourite to least favourite Genesis (studio) albums. It's probably been done on PA some time but can't find it, so I'd like to what yours are! Big smile If you haven't heard all of them, just list the ones you have. Anyway, mine are:

1. Trespass (10/10)
2. Foxtrot (10/10)
3. Selling England By The Pound (10/10)
4. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (10/10)
5. From Genesis To Revelation (10/10 - yes really!)
6. Nursery Cryme (9/10)
7. Duke (9/10)
8. A Trick Of The Tail (8/10)
9. Wind And Wuthering (8/10)
10. And Then There Were Three (8/10)
11. Invisible Touch (7/10)
12. We Can't Dance (6/10)
13. Genesis (6/10)
14. Abacab (6/10)
15. Calling All Stations (4/10)

Once again, thanks for any feedback Tongue


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2014 at 16:40
Well, this has been done something like a whole load of times (the search thing is crap!), but a Genesis list is always worth responding toSmile

1. Nursery Cryme. The archetypal English prog album
2. Duke. The archetypal prog pop rock album
3. Foxtrot. The realisation of a musical dream and genius on record. Stratton Smith adored it, for good reason.
4. Selling England. The achingly gorgeous paeon to a soon to be lost England.
5. Trick of the Tail. Finest recovery from disaster of all time,
6. Trespass. They were kids, for f**ks sake. just kids. Incredible, really.
7. Wind & Wuthering. That wall of sound. It moves me enormously to this day.
8. Abacab. There are some deliciously dark moments on this. 
9. The Lamb. Flawed genius, but genius nonetheless.
10. ATTWT. That wall of sound. Expanded, with one person removed. Far better than most people state.
11. We Can't Dance. Fading Lights, No Son of Mine, need I say more? Some exceptional music on this.
12.  Invisible Touch. Domino and Brazilian especially, with some very clever pop rock.
13.  Calling All Stations. I really wish Banks and Rutherford had stuck with this. Far better than merely a one album lineup.
14. Genesis. Great first side. Probably the worst second side in prog history.
15. To Revelation. It shows its age and immaturity. Bags of potential, thoughLOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2014 at 17:31
Genesis' albums? From best to worst? ...okay, I think I can do this!

1: Genesis (Surprised?)
2: Selling England By The Pound (Genesis (album) just beats this album by a super-tiny margin)
3: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Peter Gabriel leaves Genesis with a bang and gives us the best concept album ever)
4: Foxtrot (Best opening song and ending song by Genesis is on this album)
5: A Trick Of The Tail (Gabriel or no Gabriel, this album is still a masterpiece)
6: Nursery Cryme (The Musical Box, The Return Of The Giant Hogsweed AND The Fountain Of Salmacis all on one album?! I'm sold)
7: Abacab (Experimental synthpop mixed with pseudoprog elements? I can go with this. And the result is amazing)
8: And Then There Were Three (Very underrated. Deserves much better. So much better than that nauseating synthfest that was the previous album and we get to that album later)
9: Invisible Touch (Excellent songs mixed in with some crap)
10: Duke (And suddenly Genesis turns into pseudoprog. And it's okay. Very close to being great)
11: From Genesis To Revelation (Terrible production but the songs? Pop perfection)
12: We Can't Dance (First four songs are excellent. The others are utter garbage)
13: Trespass (For the most part, boring as all hell. The Knife saves the album, though)
14: Wind & Wuthering (50 minutes of nauseating Banksynths and terrible, terrible songs)
15: Calling All Stations (What the hell is THIS sh*t? Cosmic rock lullabys? Is this even supposed to be music?)



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2014 at 17:49
1.  The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (wore that one out in the 70's)
2.  Foxtrot (greatest song ever, Supper's Ready)
3.  Nursery Cryme
4.  Selling England By The Pound
5.  Trespass
6.  Wind & Wuthering
7.  A Trick of the Tale
8.  And Then There Were Three
9.  The rest...

Last two
From Genesis to Revelation
Calling All Stations






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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2014 at 19:10
1: Nursery Cryme
2: THe Lamb
3: Foxtrot
4: Trespass
5: Selling England
6: And then there were three...
7: A Trick
8: W & W
9: Abacab
10: Duke

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2014 at 19:13
Foxtrot
A Trick Of The Tail
The Lamb
SEBTP
Nursery Cryme
Wind & Wuthering
Trespass
Duke
Abacab
Invisible Touch
...And Then There Were Three
s/t
Calling All Stations
We Can't Dance
From Genesis To Revelation
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2014 at 12:50
I can't do this, they all occupy tiers.  LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2014 at 13:32
Foxtrot
Selling England by the Pound
Trespass
A Trick of the Tail
Wind and Wuthering
Nursery Cryme
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Invisible Touch
Genesis
Abacab

I'm not familiar enough with any of their other albums.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2014 at 15:50
Five stars:
Foxtrot > Nursery Cryme > Trespass > The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway > Duke > A Trick of the Tail > Genesis > Wind and Wuthering > ...And Then There Were Three...

Four and a half stars:
Selling England by the Pound > Abacab

Four stars:
Invisible Touch

Three stars:
From Genesis to Revelations

Two and a half stars:
We Can't Dance

Haven't heard all the way thru but heard enough to know it's among their worst:
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2014 at 19:18
For Me:
Trick
The Lamb
Selling England
Nursery
Foxtrot
Wind
Duke
Trespass
Calling
Genesis
Invisible
We Can't Dance
Abacab
And Then There Were Three


I can say for my list I think Trick through Foxtrot, those lp's are flawless. Wind is pretty close to flawless, maybe a little lyrical weakness on Mouses night but the music is great. Duke is really superb. As for the rest I like them all but they have their weaker moments but great upsides as well, The Knife, Domino, Home by the Sea, Driving the Last Spike, Dividing Line, Fading Lights... IMHO they really only have two awful songs, I Can't Dance and Who Dunnit. I put Abacab and Then Then There Were Three at the bottom because they missed that one thing that made Genesis great, a proggy song of length. I omitted Revelations because I have not heard it in years, having said that I know I liked it and it was certainly different from the sound they eventually came up with!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2014 at 22:30
I didn't care for Genesis once Tony, Phil, and Mike gave into commercialism, so I don't count their endeavors as part of the progressive rock continuum. This said, I love Nursery Cryme through Wind & Wuthering and it would be foolish of me to even try and put them in any kind of favorite order.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2014 at 22:58
Trick
Nursery
Trespass
Foxtrot
Selling England
Lamb
Wind
And Then...
Duke
Genesis
FGTR
We Can't Dance
Abacab
Invisible Touch
Calling........


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2014 at 06:49
Originally posted by Stardust Stardust wrote:


1: Genesis (Surprised?)


It was my favorite Genesis album when it came out. 
I still think it's a decent album, but  it's not in my top 10 anymore.

Here is my list:

1.  Selling England By The Pound
2.  And Then There Were Three
3.  The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
4.  Duke
5.  Nursery Cryme
6.  Trespass
7.  Foxtrot
8.  A Trick Of The Tail
9.  Wind And Wuthering
10. Abacab
11. Genesis
12. Invisible Touch
13. We Can't Dance
14. From Genesis To Revelation
15. Calling All Stations


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2014 at 11:10
Selling England
Foxtrot
Nursery Cryme
Trespass
Trick of the Tail
Wind and Wuthering
Lamb
 
after that it really doesn't matter to me...........
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2014 at 04:43
A trick of the tail
Foxtrot
The Lamb
Wind & Wuthering
ATTWT
SEBTP
Trespass
Duke
Nursery Cryme
Genesis
Abacab
Invisible Touch
We Can't dance
Calling stations
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2014 at 06:18
Selling England
Foxtrot
Trespass
Nursery Cryme
Trick of the Tail
Wind and Wuthering
Lamb
Duke
 
after that it really doesn't matter to me...........
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2014 at 06:46
I mean yer limited to what you own?

Foxtrot
Live (1973)
Selling England By the Pound
A Trick of the Tail
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Nursery Cryme
Trespass
And Then There Were Three

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2014 at 09:41
Too easy...they all fall in the Best category
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2014 at 22:45
1. Foxtrot
2. A Trick of the Tail
3. Nursery Cryme
4. Selling England by the Pound
5. Wind and Wuthering
6. Seconds Out
7. Live (1973)
8. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
9. Trespass
10. And Then There Were Three
11. Duke

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2014 at 22:49
Here are the albums I do like by Genesis:

EVERYTHING from Nursery Cryme through Wind & Wuthering. Now the tricky part of all of this is trying to get these albums into some kind of order...

This may take me awhile. Big smile


Edited by Mirror Image - April 14 2014 at 22:50
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