Any Genesis Fans....what are your favorite albums?

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I know that most people think of Genesis as that 80's group, but a long time ago they were a top prog-rock group featuring Peter Gabriel on vocals. They created some of the best Prog-rock albums of all time and I was wondering what albums my fellow bluelighters like?

My favorite albums: 1. Selling England By the Pound--Simply amazing, Firth of fifth is my all time favorite Genesis song

2. Trick of the Tail--a transitional album but "Los Endos" is prog rock at its greatest

3. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway- very long album but still a masterpiece

Honorable mention: Nursery Cryms, Tresspass, Foxtrot
 
I love Genesis. My favorites are
1. Selling England by the Pound
2. Nursery Cryme
3. Foxtrot
4. Trick of the tail
5. Tresspass
6. The Lamb Lies Down on Braodway
7. Wind and Wuthering
8. From Genesis to revelation
The rest are gay... since Steve Hackett is not in them nor Gabriel .

I am a big fan of the song Carpet Crawlers, but the rest of the album is allright.
I like Steve Hacketts stuff as well. Please Dont Touch has some awesome songs.
The voyage of the Acolyte is another good one.
 
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theotherside26 said:
^^Nice to see there is at least one other fan :)
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I love love love Progressive Rock. Not so much a big fan of the more modern stuff because of the metal sound they tend to have. But Genesis is classic but Dumb ass Phil Collins totally ruined the sound, and made Genesis into something that was just stupid and not worth listening to at all.

Steve Hackett was the only thing keeping the band progressive, and when he left, that was it. They were a pop group.

Seriously though, you should check out Steve Hacketts solo stuff. The first few are really good.
Do you like any other prog rock?
 
i bought lamb lies down because it is considered to be one of the top prog albums. i hated it. actually i hate all double albums, Husker Du's Zen Arcade being the exception. that being said, it's selling england by the pound. i actually played the song 'Horizons' at my guitar recital!! prog ftw!
 
Hell yeah beenhead I'm a prog rock freak...at least from 69-76 :) My favorite is of course Yes, and my favorite yes album is Fragile. I also love a group called Camel with their 2 part song called Mirage....great early 70's prog. Another good early prog group is Gentle Giant...listen to the Octopus record....great stuff.
 
The snowgoose is the best from Camel, and I have a hard time pickinga favorite Gentle Giant album.

I really did not like The lamb lies down very much, except from a few songs. It is nothing at all like the previous albums, nor the next two.
 
axl blaze said:
boo. why do black people like Phil Collins so much?
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No idea, particularly since he plays some of the stiffest, whitest R&B ever.

Rankings:

  1. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
  2. Wind & Wuthering
  3. Selling England By The Pound
  4. A Trick Of The Tail
  5. Nursery Cryme
  6. Trespass
  7. Foxtrot
  8. Duke
  9. ...And Then There Were Three
  10. Abacab
  11. Invisible Touch
  12. Genesis
  13. We Can't Dance
  14. Calling All Stations

Thoughts:
  • Genesis hit their writing peak from 74-77, but their performance peak was 76-77, as evidenced by the Seconds Out live album. Working with another live drummer (first Bill Bruford, then Chester Thompson) make them tight as hell (for a brief time - that tightness vanished when Steve Hackett left following the 77 tour).
  • Seconds Out, by the way, sounds like the best thing ever in 5.1. The whole catalog got the 5.1 box set treatment, and the live albums in particular (pre-1980) sound orgasmically good.
  • I will never understand the decision not to replace Steve Hackett. Daryl Steurmer doesn't count - he only played live, and was a total hack. For a first-call session man, he's terribly sloppy, playing all his parts like he casually glanced over them in the hotel room the night before.
  • Duke and Abacab are both half-great albums. But the bad parts are pretty bad.
  • The difference between We Can't Dance (the last Phil album) and Calling All Stations (the one after Phil left) is a truly a game of pick your poison. Where We Can't Dance was embarrassingly, memorably bad, Calling All Stations was dull as dishwater. I've listened to it a handful of times (courtesy of an ex-boss who was a late-period Genesis fanatic) and I can't remember a single thing about it.
  • The really hilarious thing about We Can't Dance is that it was clearly Phil's attempt to be "taken seriously" in the Peter Gabriel mold. The album's stunning failure (on those grounds) pretty much ensured that he'd be working for Disney for the rest of his career.
  • The Gabriel-era albums all benefited a hell of a lot from the recent remixes. The drums, in particular, have been opened up a lot, and the basslines aren't muddy. For a long time, I couldn't listen to the studio versions of certain songs (like Watcher of the Skies) because of how thin and boxy they sounded.
  • Lamb is the best lyrical album ever. The overall concept makes no sense on a linear level, taking place mostly in a dream-state. It's way too wacky for an easy interpretation (though I think Jungian dream analysis works pretty well), but the words are all so delicious that none of it matters. It's just a hell of a lot of fun to study the lyrics, which are every bit as dense as anything Keats or Milton or Eliot ever wrote. I hope future generations will study them as part of a British Lit Survey course (seriously). The short story that accompanies them in the liner notes is equally awesome.
 
^^I agree about the remasters making a HUGE difference in the early albums. Nursery Cryme in particular sounds fantastic now as the drums and bass are actually audible in the mixes more so than the overwhelming keyboards.
 
theotherside26 said:
^^I agree about the remasters making a HUGE difference in the early albums. Nursery Cryme in particular sounds fantastic now as the drums and bass are actually audible in the mixes more so than the overwhelming keyboards.
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Yeah, Tony always made sure that his parts were the loudest in the mix.

The Trespass remaster is damn good, too. It helps that they fixed the production errors (in a few instances, you could hear the split-second gap where they spliced the acoustic and electric sections).

I also love how the guitars are beefier across the board. I've noticed a lot of parts (particularly from Hackett) that I had never realized were there.
 
Well. You guys are making me want to get the remasters right now! Too amazon I go!

Also, Khan, Space Shanty is a classic. Steve Hillage is a genius. If you like Space Shanty, check out Fish RIsing. Much better in my opinion
 
The remasters we're referring to are the most recent ones that came out 2007-2008. Each album is a 2-disc set with the remastered cd and a DVD in 5.1 that also contains interviews and a shitload of old video footage. They're available individually, but the box set will be a much cheaper way to go.

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These go a lot further than the 94 remasters. It's really more of a remixing than a remaster - normally I object to this, but in this case, I'm all for it mainly because of how crappy some of these originally sounded. For the earliest stuff, it's miracle work.

I also love how they structured the box sets. They go 1970-1975, 1976-1982, and 1983-1998, which means you can get the first two and jump ship at precisely the right time. :)
 
^^^I had never really heard Wind and wuthering....sounds pretty good but Phil was alread getting too "mushy" if you ask me. It would rank 5 on my list, just above Trespass. One thing I'll say is that the production on Wind.. is probably the best I've ever heard from a genesis album.
 
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