Top 20 Genesis Songs. Voting #1
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Topic: Top 20 Genesis Songs. Voting #1
Posted By: thief
Subject: Top 20 Genesis Songs. Voting #1
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 07:00
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The original thread can be found http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122278" rel="nofollow - here . Let's get started with voting! Reminder: name three songs you consider the best in Genesis catalogue. Put them in order. First gets 4.5 points, second - 3 points, third - 2 points. At the end of the thread I'm going to sum it up, declare the winner and then move to the next spot (#2). All votes will be reset then! Voting is closed. No. 1 song is... Supper's Ready !!! 01. Supper's Ready. 75 pts [16;17] 02. Firth of Fifth. 39 pts [2;13] 03. The Cinema Show. 32 pts [4;9] 04. The Musical Box. 20 pts [0;8] 05. Watcher of the Skies. 11,5 pts [1;4] Number in [x ; y] = number of first place votes ; number of total votes. 29 users cast their vote. Maximum points total is 29 x 4.5 = 130.5 Supper's Ready got over 57% of total points. |
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Posted By: thief
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 07:02
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My vote: 01. Supper's Ready (4.5 points) 02. The Cinema Show (3 points) 03. Firth of Fifth (2 points) I think the first two are self-explanatory. The battle for third spot is quite fierce since I really adore a bunch of shorter pieces too. In the end, Firth of Fifth is my favorite guitar solo to exercise so I spent much more time with this one. It gets the nod! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 07:20
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My vote 1 - Suppers Ready (4.5 points) 2 - Firth of Fifth (3 points) 3 - One for the Vine (2 points) Suppers Ready is my favourite prog epic of all time, and ultimately my top Genesis choice. Firth of Fifth - From the brilliant Tony Banks piano intro to Hackett's best guitar solo, to the mind blowing live performances (with or without Gabriel) it's simply classic Genesis. One for the Vine is full of rich melody, and oozes melancholy and drama in equal measure. It's one of Banks' finest compositions, and one of the best Collins era prog epics. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 07:23
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1. Supper's Ready 2. The Musical Box 3. Carpet Crawlers
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 07:26
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The Serpent Seven Stones Snowbound
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Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 08:21
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Watcher of the Skies The Return of the Giant Hogweed Get 'em out by Friday For the first places I prefer shorter songs; it has to be perfect! (something more difficult to achieve on longer songs). 'Watcher..' has it all: dynamic, alien tempo, a rocker, an emblematic album opener, love the lyrics, and I think it has some 'magic' on it. |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 09:06
This could change but I'll go with:
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Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 09:10
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1. Blood on the Rooftops 2. Ripples 3. Eleventh Earl of Mar |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 09:50
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The Knife In the Cage The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 10:18
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Three favourite Genesis songs from three different albums:- 1. Firth of Fifth (4.5 points) 2. Watcher of the Skies (3 points) 3. The Musical Box (2 points) I wonder why 4.5 points for first place though. Why not just round it up to 5 points?
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Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 10:32
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1) Supper's Ready 2) The Musical Box 3) Firth of Fifth ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 10:52
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1. The Cinema Show 2. White Mountain 3. One for the Vine ------------- |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 11:21
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1. Burning Rope 2. Counting Out Time 3. Dancing With the Moonlit Knight ------------- http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/" rel="nofollow - Metal Music Archives https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 12:26
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1. Supper's Ready 2. The Cinema Show 3. The Musical Box ------------- 
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Posted By: thief
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 12:51
| Hah! We either place Supper's Ready on top, or not at all, so far. There are also 2 songs from And Then There Were Three considered. Interesting! Looking ahead to see other votes. Will keep this thread open until tomorrow for sure. |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 14:57
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1. Supper's Ready 2. The Colony of Slippermen 3. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 18:21
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1.Suppers Ready 2.Firth of Fifth 3.Watcher of the Skies ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 19 2020 at 20:10
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1. Can-Utility and the Coastliners 2. Squonk 3. Carpet Crawlers ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: enigma
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 00:24
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1. The Cinema Show 2. The Musical Box 3. Back in NYC |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 01:08
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1. Supper's Ready 2. Firth of Fifth 3. Watcher of the Skies ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 01:22
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1. The Cinema Show 2. Supper's Ready 3. The Musical Box ------------- 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: Mortte
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 01:24
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1. Supper´s Ready 2. Firth Of Fifth 3. Anyway
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Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 01:57
If anything it should be a straight 2,3,4. If it were 2,3,5 then every 1st placed song getting 5 would outweigh every 2nd and 3rd placed song combined and thus make having a three song ranking system pointless. E.g 5 x 2 = 10, 3 x 2 = 6. Even with one more vote that is only 9. So percentage wise, any 2nd placed song would need to be very much more popular than the most popular 1st placed song in order to get anywhere and that is illogical because in that case it would be most voters 1st placed song. With 4.5 the 2nd placed songs still have a chance if there are enough votes 4.5 x 2 = 9 3 x 2 = 6 And that difference of 3 is just one vote. 3 x 3 = 9 It's all in the magic of numbers :) |
Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: thief
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 02:10
Basically agree with your reasoning. 5, 3, 2 is too much lopsided in favor of #1s. 4, 3, 2 - I will consider it if more posters strongly vouch for this one... but in my humble opinion, 4.5 is a bit better, because two #1 votes shouldn't be outweighed by three #2 votes. Current point system, with 4.5 figure, seems like a sweet spot. But as I said, I'm open to discuss it; changing the Excel sheet takes a second or two.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 02:40
^^ Thanks for explaining your reasoning. It's your poll so I'll go along with whatever points system you think works best. 
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Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 02:50
| Exactly, I fully agree: "4.5 is a bit better, because two #1 votes shouldn't be outweighed by three #2 votes." |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 05:53
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1. Supper's Ready 2. Firth of Fifth 3. Duke's Travels/Duke's End ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 06:06
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1- Epping Forest 2- Can Utility 3- Dance On A Volcano |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 06:23
Wow! We should never disuss Genesis music again. 
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Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 07:17
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1. Supper's Ready 2. Visions of Angels 3. Mad Man Moon
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 07:50
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1. Supper's Ready 2. The Musical Box 3. Dance On A Volcano
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Posted By: thief
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 08:43
| 25 votes in. Let's get some more |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 09:18
yup, your tastes are atrocious
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Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 09:37
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Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 09:46
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1. Supper's Ready 2. Firth of Fifth 3. Carpet Crawlers #1 is #1 song in the history of music. #2 has the best piano introduction and best guitar solo in prog history, and #3 is so good, no matter if sung by Gabriel, Collins, or Ray Wilson! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 09:58
The Prog Gods forbid any of those classic Genesis songs should be sung by Ray Wilson.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 10:06
I beg to differ |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 13:00
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Posted By: thief
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 15:09
So it means you double down on this vote?
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 20:32
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Oops! I was sleeping! 1. Supper's Ready 2. The Cinema Show 3. The Musical Box ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: bender99
Date Posted: February 20 2020 at 22:22
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1. Cinema Show 2. Firth of Fifth 3. One For The Vine
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Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 04:18
That's exactly what I meant!
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Posted By: thief
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 06:03
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Voting is closed. No. 1 song is... Supper's Ready !!! 01. Supper's Ready. 75 pts [16;17] 02. Firth of Fifth. 39 pts [2;13] 03. The Cinema Show. 32 pts [4;9] 04. The Musical Box. 20 pts [0;8] 05. Watcher of the Skies. 11,5 pts [1;4] Number in [x ; y] = number of first place votes ; number of total votes. 29 users cast their vote. Maximum points total is 29 x 4.5 = 130.5 Supper's Ready got over 57% of total points. If you find this poll has ended too soon, please let me know in the comments. For better or worse, Supper's Ready dominated from the very beginning and it's unlikely the competition would catch up. Voting for #2 will start later today - look for a corresponding thread on this subforum!
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 06:49
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Crikey! That's a resounding win for Supper's Ready even though it wasn't in my Top 3, although it's nice to see the three Genesis songs I voted for in the Top 5.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 07:00
It was always going to be Supper's Ready, after all it was voted the number one prog song in Prog magazine.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 07:04
Supper's Ready does have the advantage of being a side-long prog epic at 23 minutes long.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 07:43
It's not all about length you know.
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Posted By: thief
Date Posted: February 23 2020 at 15:41
The length itself doesn't mean much - but some voters might feel it's more fitting to reward longer songs as they are usually more complex and awe-inspiring. I think the illusion of grandeur and talent is much stronger in 20+ minutes long pieces. Nevertheless, Supper's Ready is truly deserving of its praise, in my opinion.
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