Explain especially if you choose the "other" option. 

But the era I really love is Peter´s era. Like quite much also that first pop album.

Like: I listen from Nurcery to Lamb 99% of my genesis time

I'm not a Genesis fan. I have a conflicting relationship with Genesis.

I have great respect for their work, and I consider them damn serious, competent and... middle-class prog. I consider Gabriel the genius of the group, and the acoustic parts with Gabriel-Hackett the most engaging emotional. 

I consider Banks a very good instrumentalist but with a musical sensibility as a bureaucrat, and I don't remember any of his solos that made me enjoy like a hedgehog. In general, it is not a band that is characterized by solos and actually who seems to me most technically gifted and capable of spectacular games on his instrument is Phil Collins.

I consider their discography from Trespass to A Trick of a Tail very good, but his level is not one of the higher. The records I consider best are Trespass, the only one without weaknesses, and The Lamb, that is, those that deviate from their standard prog. Trespass is a little jewel, the only one I can say I got great pleasure to listen to it from the beginning to the end... Because with Trespass the pleasure touch the heart: it's the most melodic album: I feell emotions with it, instead the other albums produce more pleasure to the brain. 

Nursery Crime in my opinion is a minor work, instead Foxtrot and Selling England by the pound are ambitious operas but they dont reach the peaks of other groups because they have some weak songs.

In particular, A-side of Foxtrot is not so great and B-side of Selling England is weak.

Their best sequence are the firsts three songs of Selling (Trespass sequence is close), in particular, the first and the third: they are exceptional, a touch of genius and so, when I listened to them for the first time I was excited, but with the fourth song my humour went down... and the level quality of the second side is really modest.

Foxtrot and Close to the End, in my opinion, are ambitious works, without big falls and very well-groomed, they respect all the patterns of prog (such for which they are, how to say?, The common ground within which the various genres of the prog move) but they lack the ingenious flick, they are very elaborate and sometimes sophistication hides a scarcity of immediate melodic inspiration.

After A Trick of the Tail I consider their albums very modest.

Ok, my opinions.

My favorite era, though, is:
Trick of the Tail

Wind & Wuthering

Spot The Pigeon

And Then There Were Three

I always say I like these because this is before Conny Plank told Phil he was a soul singer.  After this era, I gravitate to the Banks songs preferably.

Also, I'm a big fan of:

Rutherford's Smallcreeps Day

Banks' A Curious Feeling

Something about that mid-late 70's era I like.  Might be the David Hentschel production.

I am a fan of Peter Gabriel. 

I consider IV and Passion and Us (and maybe Up) masterpieces, and I, III and So very very good.

Between 1977 and 2002 Gabriel have produced only great records (except II), if we dont consider Birdy and Ovo soundtracks. Better than Genesis from 1969 to 1977.

I consider Phil Collins a very good pop-melodic singer songwriter. No Jacked Required and expecially But Seriously are very good albums.

I like Hackett's Alcolyte... the other works are quite good or so and so (I dont know his complete discography).

 

I have listened to some Phillips' Lps, quite good, but I dont remember well.

Never listened to Banks or Rutherford solo albums.

I can easily spin SEBtP and then spin Invisible Touch.

Never cared for their later stuff.

Other:

Genesis (1983)

I don't reach for them too often now. Been a while.

No, that's like ordering a pizza but eating the cardboard box.

I guess I gotta go with 'other' in that I only listen to solo Collins.

No, I chose the fanboy option. I'm not wild about the last two studio albums(and Abacab isn't great), but really I pretty much enjoy them all(I even like the very first album). 

I disagree. You can't get your pizza delivered without the box. Pineapple is utterly superfluous to a true pizza experience. 

Suppers ready is brilliant --major work of prog

The Lamb is one of the best concept records ever 

there are few bands with 5 amazingly talented guys in one band--(a few classic Yes lineups)--and no band I can think of that can replace its lead singer within the band-- and go on to greater success---

that's why I put the "other" option in the poll.  For other opinions. 

I drop off after Invisible Touch, otherwise I love it all.

Other

Everything from Trespass up to and including Duke is fair game and then its mainly songs. I do own Abacrap but after that the only other Genesis albums I own is The Way We Walk - The Longs and the Ray Wilson album which barely counts as Genesis .

To be honest I haven't played any Genesis lp all the way through in probably months....and I am a fan of the Gabriel years.....go figure.

Huge fan.  Don't love the first album or the last.  Not much time for CAS either.  My sweet spot is ATTOT, W&W, ATTW3 where Banks is really running the show.  I usually listen to the live albums, all of them, instead of pulling out the studio albums.  Looking back, I like that PG left as some of his solo work is stunning and I also really like the 4 and then 3 man Genesis.  

tdfloyd wrote: Huge fan.  Don't love the first album or the last.  Not much time for CAS either.  My sweet spot is ATTOT, W&W, ATTW3 where Banks is really running the show.  I usually listen to the live albums, all of them, instead of pulling out the studio albums.  Looking back, I like that PG left as some of his solo work is stunning and I also really like the 4 and then 3 man Genesis.

 

...ATTWT... is phenomenal. I'm always surprised to see it written off as a "lesser" Genesis album. Tony's synths sound HUGE and the songs are crisp. "Down and Out" is one of their best songs.

yep that was recorded 67-68 when prog was not really a thing. They got 'with the program' on Trespass.

M27Barney wrote: Pineapple on pizza? I'd eat that if I was starving, but lets face it, mighty meaty pizza or a doner calzone (both with hot chillies) are both 1970-1977 genesis....anything with pineapple on would be 1978 onwards genesis....completely unappealing to the pizza/prog cogniscenti.....😎

 

70-77 were the symphonic prog years but Duke and ATTWT are still favourites of mine albeit they would probably fit under Crossover if were trying to use modern classifications. I still remember the feeling of depression of first hearing Abacab and that never goes away! The only other time I felt that bad was when ELP released In The Hot Seat 

btw I also think that Trick was the precursor of Neo Prog 

Voted "I don't listen to Genesis" and it's almost true. Never been a fan.

Same here.

When Gabriel left, they lost their brain. When Hackett left, they lost their heart.

Update (2023): I sometimes eat the cardboard box.

I first got into Genesis in the 80s and as such don't have the disdain for that period that many fans of their earlier stuff do. That explains my vote of, "I'm picky when it comes to the trio years albums songs"

In more recent years I have come to love a lot of their earlier stuff (except for From Genesis to Revelation) and I'm at the point now where I will only listen to bits and pieces of anything that comes after Wind & Wuthering. And Then There Were Three and Duke certainly have some good stuff that attempts to harken back to previous albums but after that, I find their poppier music, other than a handful of songs, to be of little interest. 

From time to time I like to hear the old Genesis stuff, but only the Gabriel albums beginning with Trespass, with the best one being Foxtrott (9/10).

The first album From Genesis to Revelation is forgettable in that form, but could maybe be better if remixed with only the band's instruments left in. I already don't care much for A Trick of the Tail (6710), which is ok, and even less for the next 2 Wind and Wuthering (5/10) and And Then There Were Three (4/10). From the later stuff I only know a few songs, which are nor bad, but overall their music seems then to be often boring, but at least Mama is a strong one.

And I always liked that vid for Land of Confusion, a nice but not great song.

I think that many people can't get passed Follow You Follow Me was a hit single and reject the album because of it.  You can hear the cries of "Sellout, sellout. This is not MY Genesis!"  Check the older albums music fans, they tried hit singles before, they just never had one.   There is a plenty to love on this album.  You mentioned Down and Out and that song is great.  My favs are Undertow  and The Lady Lies.  There is nothing here that I skip except Say Its Alright Joe and that's not because its a bad song, its because it doesn't fit the mood I'm in.  Monster keys all over this album.  Stellar drumming when necessary.  Rutherford still manning the bass.  The only negative is, yes, not having Hackett hurts.  Still an excellent album.

Nobody rejects W&W because of YOSW 

Anyway, I've always loved ATTW3 

Also, one reason could be I heard W&W already in the eighties when started to listen prog, but TTW3 in the end of nineties, when prog wasn´t "the new thing" to me anymore.

I actually like Ballad Of Big. It has one killer line 'Big John was scared' . In the context of the song that's  always enough to get me. 

My favourite track on the album is Deep In The Motherlode. but the ones you mention are also great. I think they cleverly mixed the ballads in with the heavier tracks so you get some contrast , a bit of light and shade. Unlike any other album they did ,it also heavily revolves around the drums and keyboards , which makes sense with Hackett now out of the picture. I know people would never compare it to ELP but it does a bit of that bombastic vibe going through it imo. 

I like the debut as well. Gabriel saves the album for me. 

Update: I'd say that I don't go beyond ATTWT, nowadays.

In the last years, I've had a fair bit of sympathy for that album, though I do think the flipside's ending is weaker (the boring Say It's Allright, Joe and the awful FYFM), but it's not like I spin it more than previous albums.

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I like somewhat FGTR. 

Having the lyrics and illustrations (already present in the original pressing, but very often absent in different releases afterwards) help understand the album's story.

I only listen to Trespass, Foxtrot, NC, SEbtP and The Lamb.

To be honest with the exception of 'Nursery Crime', 'Foxtrot' and 'SEBTP' Genesis have never quite pressed all my buttons when it comes to prog.

[I know that makes me not a proper prog fan before anyone says it.]

There is no such thing as "proper prog" or "proper prog fan". 

 I do miss his wisecracks.

Gordy wrote: Up to '77 only, and I'm one of those weirdos who thinks From Genesis to Revelation is severely underrated.

Same here I suppose. I'm quite indifferent to all of Genesis' post-1977 albums (but I can enjoy the odd song, and actually love all their three big hits from their self titled 1983-album) and find From Genesis to Revelation enchanting. I've listened to it just as much as Trick and Wind... actually - and more than anything that came after. But the a lot of the charm and beauty to me lies in the ambitious yet unfinished, youthful and dead serious, wide eyed, heart on the sleeve naivety of Gabriels vocal delivery. Something that can only occur once, very early in the lifetime of a prodigious teenager such as him (and his pals). There's a promise of what to come next on their debut album, that adds to my enjoyment. But do I actually think it's underrated... I don't know. I rate it as highly as the previously mentioned Trick... and Wind..., which is "probably too high" - if I try to look at those three albums with a little more distance/objectively. I can easily understand how someone else listen to their debut and only hear a college band that share similarities with The Bee Gees, Moody Blues and Donovan... but are not fully there - or have become themselves - just yet.

I don't hear any real connection from the the debut to Trespass. Genesis were never innovators, they saw what was happening in music and jumped on the bandwagon. (of course many did inc Gentle Giant, Yes etc). 

I do not. Very glad to not see his comments anymore haha.