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Poll Question: Which Genesis track do you prefer?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
27 [57.45%]
11 [23.40%]
4 [8.51%]
3 [6.38%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [4.26%]
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    Posted: August 05 2025 at 08:53
My Yes poll from yesterday got me thinking about similar matchups and this one came to mind.
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27 views and none of you have heard or have an opinion on these songs? Really?
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Nice one. Epping Forest. Both are quite a bit behind the best material on SEBTP, but Epping Forest is fine. IKWIL is OK but not great.
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I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
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Both.
Different tunes for different moods.
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Neither - I never could get into Genesis - there goes my prog credentials.
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Battle of Epping Forest. One of my top 5 all-time favorite tracks from Genesis off of my favorite album from them.
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In spite of its silly middle section, "Battle of Epping Forest" should not be thought of as a joke/goofball song. When Peter intones:

"There's no one left alive - must be a draw."

...we know this is about a lot more than everyday London gang fights, and this song receives my vote in this poll.

I do love "I Know What I Like", but it was obviously conceived as a Beatle pastiche/hit single attempt.
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Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

In spite of its silly middle section, "Battle of Epping Forest" should not be thought of as a joke/goofball song. When Peter intones:

"There's no one left alive - must be a draw."

...we know this is about a lot more than everyday London gang fights, and this song receives my vote in this poll.

I do love "I Know What I Like", but it was obviously conceived as a Beatle pastiche/hit single attempt.


Love the lyrics to Epping Forest.
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I Like I Know What I like... but I'd rather pull a wisdom tooth than listen through Battle of Epping Forest ever again.
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Originally posted by Big Sky Big Sky wrote:

Battle of Epping Forest. One of my top 5 all-time favorite tracks from Genesis off of my favorite album from them.


Top 5, not sure but top 3 of SEBTP (ahead of Firth), for sure

Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

In spite of its silly middle section, "Battle of Epping Forest" should not be thought of as a joke/goofball song. When Peter intones:

"There's no one left alive - must be a draw."

...we know this is about a lot more than everyday London gang fights, and this song receives my vote in this poll.

I do love "I Know What I Like", but it was obviously conceived as a Beatle pastiche/hit single attempt.


Are there no "silly passages" on Supper's Ready?

Although maybe a little too wordy (thus not giving enough space for instrumental interplay), this is a mammothntrack in terms od songwriting (both lyrics and music)
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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This match sounds a bit like "expansion vs concision" to me. Right now I feel expansive, so I vote Epping Forest.
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Epping Forest
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Epping.
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Originally posted by Floydoid Floydoid wrote:

Neither - I never could get into Genesis - there goes my prog credentials.



Only if it's only the PG era you don't like.
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1. Battle of Epping Forest
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2. I Know What I Like
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As a matter of fact, these two are my least favorite tracks on SEbtB, along with More Fool Me.
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Neither. I dislike both.
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"The Battle of Epping Forest" is the most fun Genesis song in existence.
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Definitely I know what I like. It's a great quirky pop song, while long stretches of Epping forest drive me crazy in all the worst ways
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