Top 7 Genesis Albums - Progressive Rock Music Forum

David_D wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Here's my Top 7 to get the poll underway:-

1. Selling England by the Pound (12 points)

2. Foxtrot (8 points)

3. Nursery Cryme (6 points)

4. Trespass (4 points)

5. A Trick of the Tail (3 points)

6. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (2 points)

7. Wind & Wuthering (1 point)

I'm not really able to rank the Genesis albums I'm fond of, but I can tell that yours first four are the only four I surely like. Smile

Before I went online in 2010 I'd never even listened to a Genesis album. Embarrassed

I see I had The Lamb at number six on my list when I did this two years ago. However, I think the craziness of it fits in better with the world these days (especially over the past two years) so I would probably bump it up a few spots if I were to do it again. Tongue

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 06 2022 at 21:15

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

David_D wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Before I went online in 2010 I'd never even listened to a Genesis album. Embarrassed

That sounds quite incredible, knowing that you were fond of some Prog already in the 70's. Big smile

The only prog bands I remember listening to in the 1970's were Barclay James Harvest, Camel and Renaissance. I didn't buy my first Pink Floyd album until The Turn of the Century and I only had one YES album on vinyl: 90210. Embarrassed

Wow that’s a stunning revelation. I’d didn’t see that coming. But I have to say that I didn’t listen or have any Camel in the 70’s came to them about the mid 80’s.

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David_D wrote:

I've given it a new try with listening to the whole Lamb, and I can say that I now like it enough to consider

it as one of the albums I'm fond of. Tongue

Btw, I find it amazing how different this album is from the earlier ones.

Side 1 is The Lamb with added mint sauce, whereas Side 2 of The Lamb sounds rather plain by comparison with no additional flavourings, although it still sounds better than any of Genesis' 1980's albums. Smile

1.Selling England by the £
2.Foxtrot/Nursery Cryme
4.TLLDOB/ATOFT/W&W/ Trespass

1 Foxtrot

2 Selling England

3 Nursery Crime

4 A trick of the tail

the rest is average, mish mash to me

Top 7 update with Shantidas & Geekfreak's votes added:-

1. Selling England by the Pound (339 points)

2. Foxtrot (294 points)

3. Nursery Cryme (210 points)

4. A Trick of the Tail (203 points)

5. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (191 points)

6. Trespass (99 points)

7. Wind & Wuthering (83 points)

David_D wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

David_D wrote:

I've given it a new try with listening to the whole Lamb, and I can say that I now like it enough to consider

it as one of the albums I'm fond of. Tongue

Btw, I find it amazing how different this album is from the earlier ones.

Side 1 is The Lamb with added mint sauce, whereas Side 2 of The Lamb sounds rather plain by comparison with no additional flavourings, although it still sounds better than any of Genesis' 1980's albums. Smile

I guess, influenced by Glam Rock, and even more on Trick.

Funny, I've always considered Sides 3 & 4 of The Lamb as examples of that oh-so-rare feat: a "near-perfect" side of music. There have been many many occasions on which I'll only play them--as much as I love "Fly on a Windshield" through "Cuckoo Cocoon" and "Counting Out Time". "The Waiting Room" through "Silent Sorrows" (with my all-time favorite Genesis song, "The Lamia") and "Ravine" through "It" are among my favorite Genesis passages of all-Time!

P.S. The Lamb also just happens to be my favorite album of all-time.

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David_D wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

David_D wrote:

I've given it a new try with listening to the whole Lamb, and I can say that I now like it enough to consider

it as one of the albums I'm fond of. Tongue

Btw, I find it amazing how different this album is from the earlier ones.

Side 1 is The Lamb with added mint sauce, whereas Side 2 of The Lamb sounds rather plain by comparison with no additional flavourings, although it still sounds better than any of Genesis' 1980's albums. Smile

I guess, influenced by Glam Rock, and even more on Trick.

How do you figure about Trick?? Confused

I can easily see it with Lamb and the storyline of a NY punk and the presence of Eno, but Trick is back where Selling England left off.

I'd have to find my edited version track list to make The Lamb a single album, but nothing from side 4 would fselected for it.

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Sean Trane wrote:

David_D wrote:

I guess, influenced by Glam Rock, and even more on Trick.

How do you figure about Trick?? Confused

It seems to me less complex, more light mooded, more rythmic, shorter songs, more hard-edged and yet more Pop-influenced than the earlier albums.

Edited by David_D - October 08 2022 at 14:31

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond