IN THE BEGINNING there were five members of Charterhouse School who ONE DAY decided to form a band. That band was GENESIS. They were LOOKING FOR SOMEONE to promote and produce their first album when a WINDOW of opportunity came along in the shape of Jonathan King, a DUKE of record producers working BEHIND THE LINES at the time. The album "FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION" entered a LAND OF CONFUSION and MISUNDERSTANDING though when many record stores placed the album in their religious music sections due to the religious-sounding title. The album and first single "SILENT SUN" both flopped, and barely caused any RIPPLES in the music press either, despite Jonathan King CALLING ALL STATIONS to try and promote the album and single on the radio. GENESIS' second single "A WINTER'S TALE" was also met with about as much indifference as A FLY ON A WINDSHIELD by radio stations and barely NO REPLY AT ALL from the music press. Their record company Decca became ENTANGLED in a dispute when it was discovered there was another band in America called GENESIS, but by A TRICK OF THE TAIL, the band managed to keep their name ANYWAY by changing their name to "Revelation" in the United States.

The music business has always been as fickle as a HARLEQUIN, where THE DIVIDING LINE between success and failure depends on a combination of good luck and hard work. Every new band is sailing through UNCERTAIN WEATHER where they can easily be dragged down by the UNDERTOW and SHIPWRECKED by having THE KNIFE stuck into them by their record company or by the music press. THAT'S ALL it takes to finish a band's career. There's NEVER A TIME when it's been easy to make it in the tough music business, but LIKE IT OR NOT, that's just the WAY OF THE WORLD. No astrological WATCHER OF THE SKIES can predict who's going to make it in today's cynical music industry, where the chances of success are about as hard as climbing a WHITE MOUNTAIN of snow before the FADING LIGHTS of DUSK close in.

AFTER THE ORDEAL of seeing the commercial failure of their first album, GENESIS were IN LIMBO and left out IN THE WILDERNESS during a short period of STAGNATION when the band members returned to their studies at Charterhouse. They weren't DOWN AND OUT or TAKING IT ALL TOO HARD though, because making great music was far more than JUST A JOB TO DO for the five talented band members. Contrary to being IN HIDING, GENESIS were just COUNTING OUT TIME in THE WAITING ROOM of THE CINEMA SHOW of life before returning to the recording studio. The band members were confident of THE MUSICAL BOX of talent they had between them and their HORIZONS were positively bright with the general feeling that IT'S GONNA GET BETTER soon. GENESIS were working to a TIME TABLE and they didn't plan on LIVING FOREVER on borrowed time, or waiting around each day until SUPPER'S READY. They were IN TOO DEEP to consider THROWING IT ALL AWAY at this late stage. The band were more than ready to TURN IT ON AGAIN with an INVISIBLE TOUCH of magic with the release of their next album, "TRESPASS". It would be several albums later though before GENESIS were basking in the AFTERGLOW of a successful album release, followed by the DOMINO effect of success breeding further success in the proverbial AISLE OF PLENTY.

 

 

 

 

From Genesis to Revelation (1969)

 

Trespass (1970)

 

Nursery Cryme (1971)

 

Foxtrot (1972)

 

Selling England by the Pound (1973)

 

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)

 

A Trick of the Tail (1976)

 

Wind & Wuthering (1976)

 

And Then There Were Three (1978)

 

Duke (1980)

 

Abacab (1981)

 

Genesis (1983)

 

Invisible Touch (1986)

 

We Can't Dance (1991)

 

Calling All Stations (1997)

2. Selling England by the Pound

3. Nursery Cryme

4. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

5. Wind and Wuthering

6. A Trick of the Tail

7. Trespass

2. Selling England by the Pound

3. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

4. A Trick of the Tail

5. Nursery Cryme

6. Trespass

7. Duke

The Fox on the rocks (and the musical box)?! 

1. Selling England by the Pound

2. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

3. Foxtrot

4. Nursery Cryme

5. Trespass

6. A Trick of the Tail 

 

1. Selling England By The Pound

2. Trick of the Tail

3. The Lamb

4. W&W

5. Duke

6. Trespass

7. Foxtrot

 

1. Selling England by the Pound (52 points)

2. Foxtrot (39 votes)

3. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (26 points)

4. A Trick of the Tail (19 points)

4. Nursery Cryme (19 points)

6. Trespass (12 points)

7. Wind & Wuthering (9 points)

2. A Trick of The Tail

3. And Then There Were Three

4. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

5. Nursery Cryme

6. Duke

7. Wind and Wuthering   

2. Selling England by the Pound

3. Nursery Cryme

4. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

5. Trespass

6. A Trick of the Tail

7. Wind & Wuthering

2. SEBTP

3. ... ???

Not much of a top 7, but what I think today will have changed by tomorrow. So I don't bother with the other albums (not today, anyway).

 

 

1. Selling England by the Pound (68 points)

2. Foxtrot (63 votes)

 

The Duke album was already on six points, so a twelve point boost from you helped to ease it on its way into the Top 7.

2. Trespass

3. Foxtrot

4. Trick of the Tail

5. Lamb

6. Wind and Wuthering

7. Nursery Cryme

 

1. Selling England by the Pound (88 points)

2. Foxtrot (73 points)

3. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (43 points)

4. Nursery Cryme (41 points)

5. A Trick of the Tail (35 points)

6. Trespass (24 points)

7. Duke (18 points)

 

8. Wind & Wuthering (16 points)

2. Trick of the Tail

3. Nursery Cryme

4. Wind and Wuthering

That's all I'll give Genesis credit for, as albums like Lamb and SEbtP are half-filled with nonsensical gobbledy-gook.

2. Nursery Cryme

3. Selling England by the Pound

4. Wind & Wuthering

5. Duke

6. A Trick of the Tail

7. And Then There Were Three

 

 

1. Foxtrot (97 points)

progaardvark wrote: 1. Foxtrot 2. Nursery Cryme 3. Selling England by the Pound

The trio of Genesis albums of Merrie Olde England...

Nooo! Duke!! 

2. Selling England by the Pound

3. Nursery Cryme

4. Trespass

5.Lamb

6. Trick

7. Wind

 

 

Could've sworn I already posted mine.. oh well, here they are:

1 SEBTP

2 Foxtrot

3 Nursery Cryme

4 Wind & Wuthering

5 TLLDOB

6 Trespass

7 Duke

 

 

1. Foxtrot (129 points)

2. Selling England by the Pound (122 points)

2. Selling England by the Pound

3. Foxtrot

4. Nursery Cryme

5. Trespass

6. Wind & Wuthering

7. a Trick Of the Tail

 

Oh well... your favourite the Ladder is in 8th as well. 

2. Lamb

3. Foxtrot

4 Selling England...

5. Duke

6. Wind & Wuthering

7. Nursery Cryme

Yes, I think we can both give up on either of those two albums ever making it back into the Top 7 again.

 

1. Selling England by the Pound

2. Foxtrot

3. Trespass

4. A Trick of the Tail

5. Duke

6. Wind & Wuthering

7. Nursery Cryme

 

SEBTP

ATOTT

Nursery Cryme

Foxtrot

ATTW3

TLLDOB

W&W

like that, all great albums

 

 

The voting ain't over until the big fat lady sings.

 

 

1. Selling England by the Pound (165 points)

Nursery Crymes

Trespass

Lamb

Selling England

That's it, there are no more.

That's okay. If you only voted for one Genesis album I'd still add your points on for the album.

 

1.. Foxtrot (176 points)

Van Der Graaf Generator?

Gentle Giant?

The only musician I'm familiar with from those two bands is Peter Hammill. Anyway, it's good to know Genesis aren't the only prog band whose former and current members are all still with us.

It looks like we have a clear winner now, unless of course there are still some late votes to come in from the PA jury.

2. The Lamb

3. Trick

4. Nursery Cryme

5. Foxtrot

6. Wind

7. Trespass

8. Duke

 

 

1. Selling England by the Pound (180 points)

 

Yes, the constant battle for the #1 spot between Foxtrot & Selling England by the Pound has been almost as epic as The Battle of Epping Forest.

thief wrote: So how do we get a winner? A coin toss?

Psychedelic Paul wrote: The voting ain't over until the big fat lady sings.

The Battle of Epping Forest wrote: When the limos return for their final review, it's all thru' - all they can see is the morning goo. "There's no-one left alive - must be draw." So the Blackcap Barons toss a coin to settle the score.

That's what I meant :P

Not all. John Mayhew (drummer on Trespass) passed away in 2009.

 

VdGG has been accounted for in an earlier post. Gentle Giant? Martin Smith, the drummer on their first two albums, had died in 1997.

Yeah, I wasn't sure how long Potter was in VDGG, since he's on the third album I think that's right. I'd say Weathers is the classic era GG drummer of renown, I'm no expert though. 

1. A Trick of the Tail

2. Selling England By the Pound

3. Wind and Wuthering

4. Foxtrot

5. Nursery Cryme

6. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

7. Trespass

 

Unfortunately for Duke, the album would now need three first place votes just to make it back into the bottom end of the Top 7 again.

I don't mind A Trick of the Tail climbing up the charts, but #3, ahead of Nursery Cryme? I didn't see it coming.

In any case, I'm surprised ATOTT still didn't earn a spot in TOP 20 songs project, while W&W (lower rated according to your poll) gets votes on a regular basis. Something iffy going on there!

All of the Genesis albums in the final Top 7 are 5-star albums for me.

That's where we differ I gave Lamb a 4, it's a bit short of true masterpiece, and still leagues more interesting than wimpy W&W

The one thing I remember about Calling All Stations is all of the songs on the album are very unmemorable.

 

Foxtrot 

Lamb

SEBTP

Trespass 

A trick of the tail

Wind & wuthering

 

 2. Selling England 

 3  Nursery Crime 

 4 W&W 

 5 Foxtrot 

 6 Trespass

 7 Trick of a tail  

 

2- Foxtrot

3- Nursery Cryme 

4- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

5- A Trick of the Tail

6- And Then There Were Three

7- Genesis

2 - Foxtrot

3 - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

4 - A Trick of the Tail

5 - Nursery Cryme

6 - Wind & Wuthering

7 - Trespass

 

2. Trick

3. Foxtrot

4. Trespass 

5. Selling

6. Wind

7. Lamb

2. Foxtrot

3. Selling England by the Pound

4. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

5. Wind & Wuthering

6. And Then There Were Three

7. Nursery Cryme

2. A Trick of the Tail

3. Nursery Cryme

4. Foxtrot

5. Trespass

6. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

7. Wind & Wuthering

 

2. Selling England by the Pound

3. A Trick of the Tail

4. Duke

5. The Lamb lies down on Broadway

6. Wind and Wuthering

7. Genesis (Shapes)

Nice to see some love for Abacab....unusual for this site, but nice :)

at number 1, quite unusual, I agree. 

I will admit my choice is somewhat biased by the fact that Abacab was the first Genesis album I ever bought, and was my "gateway drug" to the band in general!