Five Songs by Genesis - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Regarding the art of melody, Genesis are up there with The Beatles. As the very last poll that is posted by myself, here are my five faves by Genesis, of course from their "symphonic" phase. I will go with "Entangled".

Which song you prefer?

Edited by Boboulo - September 02 2020 at 23:16

Entangled

The Cinema Show. The other songs here are good choices, but they just don't have the complexity of Cinema Show, which was originally part of a 20-minute suite with DWtMK and Aisle of Plenty.

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp
"I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten

Tough choice between the last two but I think Cinema Show just edges it.

The Cinema Show just pips Watchers and Stagnation. But they're all fantastic.

Edited by Hercules - September 03 2020 at 02:56

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thief wrote:

FatherChristmas wrote:

The Cinema Show. The other songs here are good choices, but they just don't have the complexity of Cinema Show, which was originally part of a 20-minute suite with DWtMK and Aisle of Plenty.

Was it?

I mean, I've heard The Cinema Show was conceived as a ~20 minute epic piece, but they ultimately decided against it in order to fit After the Ordeal and appease Hackett. If it was meant to be played with Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, it's already 20 minutes, so why was it cut & split in the first place? Just wondering what's the real story behind it.

To avoid comparisons to Supper's Ready. That was, I think the main reason. It was the same reason they cancelled the Duke suite, and a few others too. I ran a thread on the subject a while ago:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123788

I actually think it was a more strategic idea to have one, uncontested masterpiece, than what for example Yes and Rush did (make loads of possible masterpieces), so people argue about which was the best one all the time.

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp
"I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten

Cinema Show, just ahead of Entangled (and that awesome outro).

Welcome to the middle of the film.

Stagnation. Absolutely fascinating song.

The Cinema show is a masterpiece and any song with a long Banks solo is usually a great song---also love Entangled. The band doesn't talk about this being part of an epic long piece like they do with Duke so not sure why people are always talking about it so much. Either way for me SEBTP has always been a concept album about England in the 70's. So it doesn't matter what order the songs are in.

twosteves wrote:

The Cinema show is a masterpiece and any song with a long Banks solo is usually a great song---also love Entangled. The band doesn't talk about this being part of an epic long piece like they do with Duke so not sure why people are always talking about it so much. Either way for me SEBTP has always been a concept album about England in the 70's. So it doesn't matter what order the songs are in.

Point one - people talk about it so much here now probably because of my thread I posted in response to thief's posted. I don't know the band and the music press don't talk about it and the Lamb and Dodo suites so much.

Point two - I agree, SEBTP, Duke, Foxtrot, and a few other Genesis albums could be concept albums.

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp
"I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten

Poll Question: Which song you prefer
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Stagnation	6	[8.22%]
Seven Stones	5	[6.85%]
Watcher of the Skies	24	[32.88%]
The Cinema Show	28	[38.36%]
Entangled	10	[13.70%]
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