top 5 Genesis songs (or 10)

aginor wrote: ProgMetaller2112 wrote: I can't choose my favorite songs are you kidding me The 5 things I love about Genesis are to your left <<<<<<<<< their hair style, their fashion icon status or their mustaches

I wrote that comment when I had Genesis as my avatar

White Mountain
The Musical Box
Get 'Em out by Friday
Supper's Ready
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
After the Ordeal
Hairless Heart
Entangled
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers
In the Quiet Earth

There's not much I really like after Hackett left, but "Guide Vocal" is a wonderful piece.

In no particular order:

1. The Musical Box

Steven Brodziak wrote: I just re-read the 5 things about Genesis. I see Hacket Hacket Hacket, but my IMMORTAL is   1. Anthony Phillips - wrote "The Musical Box and Fountain of Salmacis" as well as All of "Trespass" an album which I hold dear.   2. Peter Gabriel. His vocals on Stagnation and the Musical Box were the most impressive I had ever heard. His emotional and vocal tones were unique, TWILIGHT ALE HOUSE   3. Banks Banks Banks, his keyboard wizardry especially Supper's Apocolypse in 9/8..........   4. Collins - Supper's Ready....short drum roll at end? Though Second's Out version IS great by all means "Chester Thompson couldn't do the drum roll (one of the most difficult drumming techniques there is). And Phil's pounding out of Musical Box and doing the alto Supper sections behind Gabriel.   5. Hacket/Rutherford - Rutherford does a magnificent job of bass notes throughout, but have you heard them lately on "Please Don't Ask?" Follow Michael on that one, just beautiful.  Besides, his peddles on Firth of Fifth and Can-Utility. Hacket? What a hack lol. I'm still pissed at him for leaving.   I had never heard prog before Genesis, I started late, I heard Carpet Crawl then delved in and back-tracked. OK it WAS 32 years ago Lol

What are your sources for the claims of Phillips writing all of that? No way, it's impossible!

Edited by humor4u1959 - May 13 2013 at 23:47

This is a difficult task. I'm more into their albums than singling out particular songs. I'll give it a try.

1-Los Endos
2-Afterglow
3-The Knife
4-Musical Box (Closing section.)
5-Watcher of the Skies (Single version.)
6-Blood On The Rooftops
7-Entangled
8-Squonk
9-Carpet Crawlers (1999 version)
10-Looking For Someone

It's an odd list, I know. As much as I adored Genesis years ago, I don't think time has been kind to much of their material.

Edited by humor4u1959 - May 21 2013 at 00:34

I never heard them until they were a pop band. Then I discovered 'Lamb' and it blew my mind.

10. Mama
9. Turn It On Again  (Their pop songs are great too...for pop songs.)
8. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Love the keyboards.)
7. In the Cage (Favorite first line of any song... "I got sunshine in my stomach...")
6. Anyway  (Vastly underrated)
5. The Carpet Crawlers (Awesome lyrics)
4. Fly On the Windshield ( Kind of like The Lamb meets Can-Utility)
3. Dancing With the Moonlit Knight  (Incredible musical journey in a more compact song)
2. Firth of Fifth  ( Supreme musicianship...especially the guitar solo)
1. Silent Sorrow On Empty Boats  (Even though it looks like a bogus pick...it feels lika a breath of magic to me)

Honorable mention: Watcher of the Skies, The Lamia, The Colony of Slippermen, Wot Gorilla, Musical Box

I know my picks are too Lamb heavy to be taken seriously, but I really dig the explosion of creativity that occurred on their last joint effort with Gabriel. I'm still trying to digest 'Supper's Ready'.

GENESIS TOP 10 SONGS