Sunday Best-Genesis

Invisible Pedestrian · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 26169

This week...Genesis. Why? Because I love them and listen to them almost every week, so what the hell? This will, as always be a tough one!

My Top 5:
1. Dance On A Volcano
2. Mama
3. Watcher Of The Skies
4. One For The Vine
5. Carpet Crawlers

and, 10 bonus picks:
1. Man On The Corner
2. In The Glow Of The Night/The Last Domino
3. Afterglow
4. Undertow
5. Abacab
6. Eleventh Earl Of Mar
7. The Musical Box
8. Behind The Lines
9. No Son Of Mine
10. Ripples

Glenn S. · 30 Oct 2006

1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2. Watcher of the Skies
3. Land of Confusion
4. I Know What I Like (in your Wardrobe)
5. Misunderstanding

Jim Yingst · 11 Feb 2006

My top five:

1. Supper's Ready
2. Cinema Show
3. The Musical Box
4. Firth of Fifth
5. Los Endos

And ten bonus picks:

1. Watcher of the Skies
2. Squonk
3. Dance on a Volcano
4. The Return of the Giant Hogweed
5. The Knife
6. Duke's Travels / Duke's End
7. Home by the Sea / Second Home by the Sea
8. Get 'Em Out By Friday
9. Land of Confusion
10. Fading Lights

Yes, 6 and 7 are each one tune. Regardless of how they're labeled on the discs.

David Baker · 31 Oct 2006

Land of Confusion
No Reply At All
Abacab
That's All
Turn It On Again

Starz Rider · **Joined:** 03 Jun 2007 **Posts:** 372

Invisible Pedestrian wrote:

This week...Genesis. Why? Because I love them and listen to them almost every week, so what the hell? This will, as always be a tough one!

My Top 5:
1. Dance On A Volcano
2. Mama
3. Watcher Of The Skies
4. One For The Vine
5. Carpet Crawlers

and, 10 bonus picks:
1. Man On The Corner
2. In The Glow Of The Night/The Last Domino
3. Afterglow
4. Undertow

The song abacab derives its title from the cord progression of the song 8-)

5. Abacab
6. Eleventh Earl Of Mar
7. The Musical Box
8. Behind The Lines
9. No Son Of Mine
10. Ripples

Hank · 01 Dec 2004

No Reply At All
Misunderstanding
Tell Me Why
Throwing It All Away
Turn It On Again

(Sorry, I just haven't listened to much of the PG stuff.)

Jim Yingst · 11 Feb 2006

Hank wrote:

(Sorry, I just haven't listened to much of the PG stuff.)

Eh, you'd probably just pick the least-interesting PG stuff, anyway.

DanO · 30 Jul 2006

Follow You Follow Me
Carpet Crawlers
Keep It Dark
Paperlate
Abacab

JohnG · 03 Aug 2006

The Knife
Watcher Of The Skies
The Musical Box
Suppers Ready
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

I'm 80% with John above, but replace Lamb Lies Down (which I do like very much) with Selling England By The Pound.

The Knife
Watcher Of The Skies
The Musical Box
Suppers Ready
Selling England By The Pound

Phil Collins Honorable Mention:
Trick Of The Tail

To be honest, in my world Genesis seized to exist after Trick Of The Tail & were replaced by a mediocre radio friendly arena band. I love everything from Trespass through Trick, (+ the PG era box set) though.

Jim Yingst · 11 Feb 2006

All right, I was wondering where the rest of my tribe was.

(Other than IP I suppose.)

Hank · 01 Dec 2004

DanO wrote:

Follow You Follow Me
Carpet Crawlers
Keep It Dark
Paperlate
Abacab

I can't believe I left Paperlate off my list. That was just silly of me.

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

This thread motivated me to play the Selling England cd for the first time in (likely) years, thanks! (Though I did play Trespass the other day..)

Pip · **Joined:** 16 Aug 2004 **Posts:** 2921

Carpet Crawlers
Eleventh Earl of Mar
Follow You Follow Me
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Squonk

I do like a lot of the trio Genesis, too. Just not as much.

JohnG · 03 Aug 2006

You really need to have a Gabriel/ Collins list when it comes to Genesis. Each era is so unique.

My Collins era would be heavy with Trick and the Wuthering albums:

All In A Mouse's Night (love that one).
Ripples
Mad Man Moon
Afterglow
Snowbound

classicyesfan · 18 Oct 2006

Entangled - no one's mentioned this one yet, but what a gorgeous haunting treatment of "treatment"! ")
Afterglow
Squonk
Selling England by the Pound
Carpet Crawlers

Invisible Pedestrian · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 26169

classicyesfan wrote:

Entangled - no one's mentioned this one yet, but what a gorgeous haunting treatment of "treatment"! ")
Afterglow
Squonk
Selling England by the Pound
Carpet Crawlers

I love "Entangled"-absolutely gorgeous song. Should've been in my next ten picks, but I forgot! Incredible harmonies too. That's one of the songs Tony Banks plaued guitar with Rutherford and Hackett on. An absolute masterpiece.

Steve G · **Joined:** 29 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 473

turn it on again
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
Squonk
abacab
it

I would have liked to list 15

Steve G · **Joined:** 29 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 473

Geff R. wrote:

I'm 80% with John above, but replace Lamb Lies Down (which I do like very much) with Selling England By The Pound.

.

do you mean Dancing With the Moonlit Knight? I don't think there's an individual track called Selling England by the pound

classicyesfan · 18 Oct 2006

Steve G wrote:

Geff R. wrote:

I'm 80% with John above, but replace Lamb Lies Down (which I do like very much) with Selling England By The Pound.

.

do you mean Dancing With the Moonlit Knight? I don't think there's an individual track called Selling England by the pound

Steve G., I meant "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight", the first track of "Selling England by the Pound" although I would definitely include that LP as one of the top 5 from Genesis a well.

Someone mentioned liking them through "Trick", but I would extend that through "Wind & Wuthering" if just for the "Afterglow" (and the title has great fascination for the Anglophile as well)

Invisible Pedestrian · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 26169

The Top 5:

1. Watcher Of The Skies (4 votes)
Carpet Crawlers (4 votes)
2. Abacab (3)
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (3)
Turn It On Again (3)
Supper's Ready (3)
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (3)
Squonk (3)
Turn It On Again (3)
There were so many different songs it's pointless to go further.
A total of 34 songs from just 12 voters.

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