Battle of Epping Forest or I Know What I like
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Topic: Battle of Epping Forest or I Know What I like
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Subject: Battle of Epping Forest or I Know What I like
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 08:53
| My Yes poll from yesterday got me thinking about similar matchups and this one came to mind. |
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 10:09
| 27 views and none of you have heard or have an opinion on these songs? Really? |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 11:37
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Nice one. Epping Forest. Both are quite a bit behind the best material on SEBTP, but Epping Forest is fine. IKWIL is OK but not great. ------------- I make typos so you see I'm not a machine, but I may be a machine pretending to not be a machine. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 11:49
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) 
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 11:57
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Both. Different tunes for different moods. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 12:29
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Neither - I never could get into Genesis - there goes my prog credentials. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 13:00
| Battle of Epping Forest. One of my top 5 all-time favorite tracks from Genesis off of my favorite album from them. |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 13:01
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In spite of its silly middle section, "Battle of Epping Forest" should not be thought of as a joke/goofball song. When Peter intones: "There's no one left alive - must be a draw." ...we know this is about a lot more than everyday London gang fights, and this song receives my vote in this poll. I do love "I Know What I Like", but it was obviously conceived as a Beatle pastiche/hit single attempt. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 13:04
Love the lyrics to Epping Forest. |
Steve Wyzard wrote:Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 14:15
| I Like I Know What I like... but I'd rather pull a wisdom tooth than listen through Battle of Epping Forest ever again. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 14:38
Top 5, not sure but top 3 of SEBTP (ahead of Firth), for sure
Are there no "silly passages" on Supper's Ready? Although maybe a little too wordy (thus not giving enough space for instrumental interplay), this is a mammothntrack in terms od songwriting (both lyrics and music) ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 15:28
| This match sounds a bit like "expansion vs concision" to me. Right now I feel expansive, so I vote Epping Forest. |
Posted By: Moonshake
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 15:54
| Epping Forest |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 16:26
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Epping. ------------- ---------- 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: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 16:39
Only if it's only the PG era you don't like.  
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Posted By: Hector Enrique
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 18:07
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1. Battle of Epping Forest . . . 2. I Know What I Like ------------- Héctor Enrique |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 18:17
 As a matter of fact, these two are my least favorite tracks on SEbtB, along with More Fool Me. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 18:54
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Neither. I dislike both. ------------- ...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: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 19:01
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"The Battle of Epping Forest" is the most fun Genesis song in existence. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 19:30
| Definitely I know what I like. It's a great quirky pop song, while long stretches of Epping forest drive me crazy in all the worst ways |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 20:00
On both polls I have voted for the song that is losing by a lot.  ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 21:04
No, that would be Supper's Ready. You can't get more fun than "Mum diddly washing" and "Dad diddly office." ;) |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 06 2025 at 01:34
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I Know What I Like in My Wardrobe (hangers full of Hawaiian shirts)
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: August 06 2025 at 04:45
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IKWIL(IYW) >>> TBOEF It’s very hard to pick a favourite Genesis album (from about 5 albums), but if it wasn’t for Epping Forest it would EASILY be SEBTP…. ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Wounded_Land
Date Posted: August 06 2025 at 08:13
Agreed. Epping always came off to me as a very engaging piece of music, very wordy, but in a good way; the rest of the album is fairly lyrically sparse, so Epping seemed like a balance to all that. Always really loved that song. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: August 06 2025 at 10:08
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Not a mistery: I'm not a Genesis fan. Anyway if I'm forced to listen to SEBTP I prefer Epping Forest ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: August 06 2025 at 10:49
Well I do recognise that Genesis (especially the Gabriel-Hackett era) are one of the greatest prog bands of all time, and well deserving of their place in the 'Big Six' but there's something overall about their sound (which I cannot put my finger on) that just doesn't quite click with me. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 06 2025 at 15:03
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Epping Forest.... fab lyrics! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 06 2025 at 23:47
there are some odd sonic/studio production choices throughout the Gabe years. Some tracks feel/sound weird  , compared to ELP, Crimson, Tull, Yes's classic albums of the same years . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: August 07 2025 at 00:06
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Agree, A murky muffled sort of sound. Not on PGs solo albums I don’t think. Trick of the tail sounds fine. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: August 07 2025 at 01:49
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I cannot separate the two - they both come from 'that' album I first heard as a 12 year old and I entered a new world... |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: August 07 2025 at 03:03
I'd not considered that. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 07 2025 at 04:52
this |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 07 2025 at 10:25
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Epping Forest by a noselength. ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 07 2025 at 10:56
hi Pinocchio ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |