Favourite Genesis Opener
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Topic: Favourite Genesis Opener
Posted By: British Tradition
Subject: Favourite Genesis Opener
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 01:29
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Which is your favourite? Trespass - Wind And Wuthering |
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 01:35
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Ok it's a threeway tie
Looking for Someone, Musical Box and Eleventh Earl of Mar. I sent Looking for Someone some love, as it's unlikely to be much appreciated.
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Posted By: iguana
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 01:37
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none of these. nothing beats the grand fanfares of “behind the lines“. ------------- progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false? |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 02:22
| Its a tie between "Eleventh Earl of Mar" and "Watcher of the Skies" but I voted for the latter. |
Posted By: Luke. J
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 03:01
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Looking for someone.. I guess.. Yes, although all of them are great, my vote goes to this one. But really, this is a hard choice for me.. |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 03:53
| It's got to be Dancing With the Moonlit Knight, an amazing opener from the best album Genesis made. Hackett has never played better than on this one. The best tribute I can pay is that it's right up there with Firth of Fifth and Cinema Show, and that is the ultimate compliment. |
Posted By: Libor10
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 05:07
| My vote goes for Dancing With the Moonlit Knight. Great song on the best Genesis album (for me, of course). Remember my first listening to Peter's singing: "Can you tell me where my country lies..." - it's a lot of years, but that feeling stays with me till these days. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 06:11
| Dancing With the Moonlit Knight out of those choices, but I think that Behind The Lines is the best opener they ever did. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 06:16
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Watcher of the Skies - I love the mellotron intro, just ahead of The Musical Box with its sense of menace. Dancing with the Moonlit Night is also excellent! In fact, every track on the list s excellent.
------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 08:00
| Musical Box by a mile. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 08:22
Dance on a Volcano & Eleventh Earl of Mar  I think the other openers are kind of weak, EXCEPT MUSICAL BOX!.  |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 08:37
amazing... the differences in people's tastes NEVER fails to amaze me hahhaha  Dancing with the Moonlit Knight... nothing weak about it.. in fact... rather a muscular album opener to a group who have the toughness of soggy pasta..... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Abstrakt wrote:Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 09:59
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All of these songs are good album openers, five of them are even great on their own. As an opening song, I vote for Watcher of the Skies. |
Posted By: elpprogster
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 11:40
| Eleventh Earl of Mar |
Posted By: Roundabot
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 12:51
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Musical Box, one of the best openers ever.
Just EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -------------  The Start of Something Beautiful... |
Posted By: 33rpm
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 13:57
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"Dancing with the Moonlit" Knight by far over the others. ------------- Vinyl just sounds better!! |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 14:10
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Probably The musical box, but Dancing ... is not far behind! Amazing songs!
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 15:27
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Dancing with The Moonlight Knight... espectacular opener by prog''s greatest band... Hey! Where's Invisible Touch?! ------------- 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 15:38
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I just realised Genesis has one of the BEST openers on any Prog albums. -Looking for Someone is as great as the album gets. -Musical Box is not THE opener, but as a song itself it's a masterpiece. -Watcher of the Skies is one of the best openers, though sometimes I feel as an opener the mellotron intro is too long. -Dancing with the Moonlit Knight is almost the same as Looking for Someone(not reffering to composition), with Peter's voice opening the album, and the song being one of the best of the entire album. -The Lamb is a very good opener, but it's just that. It has the very up-lifting chorus, that is great for an Intro to the album, but the song isn't that great. -Dance on a Volcano is powerful up to some point. -Eleventh Earl of Mar is as up-lifting you can get, though the guitar intro with Tony's keys is quite darky and somber which gives the whole album a special atmosphere, though it isn't the typical Genesis intro. I'll go with Looking for Someone. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 23:42
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Well as an album opener I chose Dancing with The Moonlit Knight , twasn't easy mind ya . But live, Watcher of the Skies is the all-time "entree" for vintage Genesis , almost like a call to arms , when that "epiphanic" mellotron kicks in . What goose bumps......I guess you had to live it to comprehend . ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 23:52
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Can you tell me where my country lies?
'nuff said. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! http://www.last.fm/music/Exerior" rel="nofollow - EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 05 2008 at 00:51
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Looking For Someone
Followed closely by Dancing With and Dance On A. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: August 05 2008 at 01:36
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The musical box, no doubt! ------------- 
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: August 05 2008 at 03:07
| Watcher of the Skies, c'mon; best mellotron part EVER. |
Posted By: Rando
Date Posted: August 05 2008 at 03:15
"Watcher Of The skies" - (But almost a tie with The Lamb).
The impact of the "in yer face" mellotron/organ intro opener of Watcher Of The Skies was so strong for me, it is unlike any other Prog music I've ever heard. Actually I could easily pick any of your selections listed, "The Lamb" or even "Firth Of Fifth" for that matter, but this non-vocal opener gets my vote,
I mean, Keith Emerson & Rick Wakeman are great technical keyboardists and grandiose pianists , which I dearly love, but I still believe Tony Banks beats them on creativity and originality.
 ------------- - Music is Life, that's why our hearts have beats - |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 05 2008 at 13:27
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Genesis have always opened albums with songs that grab your attention and reel you in straight away, with the obvious exception of Invisible Touch, where the opener makes you want to place the CD back in its case, place the case on the shelf and pretened it never happened... Sory, I had to get that in..for old times sake..  Now, from this list of classic opening songs, I'm going to go for Dance on a Volcano. Yes, it's one of my top Genesis songs, and it's the song that got me hooked on this band, but it also makes a strong statement of where the band were at the time; defying the critics who were writing the obituaries, after Peter left, and proving that Genesis were not just still a force in prog rock, but had matured as musicians to an enormous extent. Dave Henstchells production was also a breath of fresh air after the previous efforts. After Volcano, I would say 'Dancing with the Moonlit Knight' comes next, although honourale mentions should go to some post WAW openers, such as 'Down and Out' and 'Behind the Lines' |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: August 05 2008 at 23:39
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Even though the Musical box is Genesis greatest song, Dancing with the moonlight knight is a better opener! One of the best ever if I may be so bold
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: August 05 2008 at 23:41
I can´t believe someone with King Crimson in his nick said something like that!  ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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