The Last Great Genesis Album
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Topic: The Last Great Genesis Album
Posted By: Xonty
Subject: The Last Great Genesis Album
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 15:37
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Same as the last poll, but which of these is the last great Genesis album in your opinion? Mine personally is Duke. Always loved it, and just about gets a 5-star rating from me  (the only Post-Gabriel album to get one).As always, thanks for any feedback
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Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 15:46
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Woops I meant to put ABACAB oh well. I think Genesis is pretty good but a lackluster B side keeping it from being great.
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 15:47
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last great one would be s/t, last good one would be Invisible Touch
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 16:18
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Posted By: I-Juca Pirama
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 16:39
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Trick. Just can't stand Wuthering and duke entirely. ------------- Without charity, there is no salvation |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 16:47
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hellogoodbye wrote:Posted By: I-Juca Pirama
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 16:50
 So cute... ------------- Without charity, there is no salvation |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 17:37
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A Trick... (though W&W and Duke are worthy albums in their own right) ------------- 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: twosteves
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 17:57
| Tough because I liked half of Genesis shapes --but only half. After that....... |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 19:20
| Relayer |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 20:31
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...And Then There Were Three... It seems like after this album Genesis left their classic-era melodism, so it was the last their LP I found enjoyable. Since 'Duke' they took a completely different approach and it sounds plainly boring to me. ------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 20:51
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Foxtrot. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 22:58
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Abacab for me, although I quite liked Calling All Stations. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 23:12
 Foxtrot was their last great album? What about Selling England or The Lamb? For me its We Can't Dance------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: January 31 2014 at 23:50
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 00:36
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 01:22
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Duke. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 02:20
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Duke, though I doubted about Abacab. I like Abacab, but maybe "great" is too big a word.
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 02:26
What a band......................we can't even agree on their worst
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 02:30
I would almost go with this, as s/t is solid, but I'm a bit pickier and will say it's the last good album. Invisible Touch is ok with good moments. The last great one is A Trick of the Tail.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 02:56
| Last great one was Duke. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 03:01
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From Genesis to Revelation. Jokes apart, The Lamb ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 03:29
If you're going to apply the standard of greatness, it has to be Wind and Wuthering for me. After Hackett left all hope was lost. Not that I don't like Three or Duke or even Abacab for that matter. I think they are good albums but not great albums. The remainders just make me sad....
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 04:16
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The Lamb was the last GREAT album ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 05:15
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Their last really great one was Wind and Wuthering. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 08:06
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For me A Trick Of The Tale was the last great one, but the self titled one was the last really good one. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Meurglys
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 08:33
| A Trick. Duke and Wind is good but not great. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 09:09
yeah I know what you mean--I mean great has meaning---but many after were near great and got lot's of listens...
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Posted By: TerLJack
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 13:03
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It has to be Duke. They kept the prog aspect with a whole new sound that just clicked. The Self-titled album could have been it for me if not for one or two songs.
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 14:26
Calling All Stations  ------------- |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 01:54
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And then there were three. I think this album qualifies as great, in fact burning rope might be my favorite Genesis song apart from Firth and Supper.
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Posted By: snowsnow
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 02:48
| Duke - despite a couple of dodgy moments. |
Posted By: peter parisius
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 05:16
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The greatest Genesis albums of all times are Foxtrot, Selling England..., The Lamb Lies on Broadway. The LAST greatest album are Wind & Whutering and ... And thEN tHERE wERE tHREE. Outside prog rock, speaking of "plain" pop-rock, a very good album by Genesis is We Can'T Dance. Callig All Stations is too dark, not very digestible, very near to industrial rock... Genesis were ALWAYS great during Peter Gabriel's era, and they stayed accettable till Hackett left the group. Afterwards, you can talk no more about "a progressive rock band", they became in fact poppy. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 06:33
what's industrial about it?
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 07:29
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Trick +1 ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 08:14
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Self Titled thingy. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 08:18
I don't know how you do it, Pierre...  ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 08:23
 ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 08:35
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He somehow always finds a picture with a duck in it, that's relevant to the thread at hand.. It's like a special talent he has. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 12:59
This is a very good reflexion, and I agree completely. For me is We can't dance. I like CAS, and Banks and Rutherford always were the Genesis musical engine, but without the arrengers masters, simply they couldn't do it. And Collins really knows how to take some Banks or Rutherford creation and transforms it in something completely superior. When the guy was gone...
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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 17:09
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Very well applied that photo posted by hellogoodbye! For me the duck represents the success of Collins as the new leader of the band (Genesis last phase), somewhat like an actor that got famous for his performance at Broadway at the time "the lamb lies down on Broadway"(the lamb being the Genesis first phase), but soon after "the lamb dies down on Broadway" and "the duck goes to Hollywood"... -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: February 02 2014 at 17:11
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Wind & Wuthering is my vote. ------------- "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: February 03 2014 at 02:18
| Wind & Wuthering |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: February 03 2014 at 07:07
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if great = 5 star then the last great one for me is Selling England ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 04 2014 at 01:55
| I like Duke but it has too many weak moments so I voted Trick. |
Posted By: iamathousandapples
Date Posted: February 04 2014 at 14:49
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I'm not sure if I wanna call We Can't Dance great(it is a pretty superb album to be sure), but I can definitely say Duke ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/thamazingbender" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: February 06 2014 at 22:32
| I like trick and I like W&W quite a lot, but when it comes to the last "great", that has to be the Lamb. |
Posted By: LakeGlade12
Date Posted: February 11 2014 at 04:36
| They never stopped producing great albums. But if you want the last great PROG album then that would be Wind & Wuthering hands down. |
Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: February 11 2014 at 18:35
 The last great Genesis album.....but not the last good Genesis album.
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