What's the best Genesis album?

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What do you like about the production, G?

I find it sounds more distinct, with better stereo separation and more treble, than their earlier work.

Musically, I prefer the best of the Gabriel era work, but I still think "Trick..." and "Wind...." are the ones that sound best.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 24 March 2006 23:01 (twelve years ago) Permalink

Hmmmm. I'll have to try it on headphones.

― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Friday, 24 March 2006 23:09 (twelve years ago) Permalink

I bought the remastered Selling England recently, buying Queen II on the same day...the former rather paled by comparison

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 24 March 2006 23:40 (twelve years ago) Permalink

This has got to be a candidate:
http://www.genesismuseum.com/vinyl/sebtptaiwan200.jpg

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Saturday, 25 March 2006 21:15 (twelve years ago) Permalink

Bah, now I'm getting a red X there... anyway, the image is at http://www.genesismuseum.com/vinyl/sebtptaiwan200.jpg

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Saturday, 25 March 2006 22:19 (twelve years ago) Permalink

"Queen II" is an excellent and very underrated album that still pales besides "Selling England..."

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 25 March 2006 23:20 (twelve years ago) Permalink

I know fer damn sure that Invisible Touch is Phil Collins' best album.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 25 March 2006 23:52 (twelve years ago) Permalink

two months pass...

I just got that greatest hits album…man, I dig the shit out of everything Collins/Banks/Rutherford (/Thompson/Sturmer) done, until Invisible Touch, which is dirediredire.

I've never heard a whole album by the quintet, but I have a hard time accepting that anything they did could be as thrilling as Queen II. Jesus, the intro to "Ogre Battle" !!

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:11 (twelve years ago) Permalink

Nursery Cryme.
Never could get into Selling England By The Pound.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:34 (twelve years ago) Permalink

I've been listening to Lamb a lot lately, trying to get my head around it, but otherwise I pick Foxtrot.

― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:39 (twelve years ago) Permalink

Veronica apparently bought the wrong Greatest Hits album. The one to own is the 3 CD one called "Platinum Collection".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:41 (twelve years ago) Permalink

I think the success of Abacab preceded Collins's massive solo success, didn't it? Face Value = only P.C. solo album pre-Abacab = 1 (minor) hit in "I Know There's Something Going On"

"Misunderstanding" hit top 20 before that, so the later success wasn't completely by surprise.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 23:24 (twelve years ago) Permalink

True "Misunderstanding" sounds like a Phil Collins solo single.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 23:27 (twelve years ago) Permalink

no, in fact I purchased the one Geir mentions. its just that I'm taken with that era. I like the gabriel era, but it hasn't grabbed me so much.

perhaps one should not presume that anyone that doesn't do backflips for the era one likes the most has not heard a particular comp. one would seem condescending if one was to do so.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:22 (twelve years ago) Permalink

no, in fact I purchased the one Geir mentions. its just that I'm taken with the first part of the trio era. I like the gabriel era, but it hasn't grabbed me so much.

perhaps one should not presume that anyone that doesn't do backflips for the artist iteration one likes the most has not heard a particular comp. one would seem condescending if one was to do so.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:23 (twelve years ago) Permalink

Is "I Know There's Something Going On" the same song that Frida did? I remember Phil Collins being on that album somewhere, but I thought maybe he played drums on it or something.

― Pangolino 2, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 04:14 (twelve years ago) Permalink

I have a hard time accepting that anything they did could be as thrilling as Queen II

"The Musical Box"?

― LC (Damian), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:54 (twelve years ago) Permalink

Phil Collins produced the Frida album, IIRC.

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:11 (twelve years ago) Permalink

"the musical box" is great. don't like it as much as "seven Seas" "ogre Battle" "Father to Son" or any number of tunes on QII.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 12:40 (twelve years ago) Permalink

"The Musical Box" is a great composition that would have sounded even better if it was on one of their better produced albums such as "Selling England By The Pound" or "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway". The production, and lack of synths, is my main problem about "Nursery Cryme".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:37 (twelve years ago) Permalink

incidentally, said platinum collection doesn't include "man on the corner" and "No Reply at all"—disappointing! the latter is where you find Gentleman Mike Rutherford tearing it up on that big bassss. his finest moment!

his worst is his crap Keef pantomime on "I Can't Dance."

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:52 (twelve years ago) Permalink

There was only room for the singles from those 80s albums. While those two are among their best simple pop moments, I miss "Home By The Sea" and "Domino" considerably more. Two rare 80s moments of 70s greatness by Genesis.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 15:32 (twelve years ago) Permalink

the remastered/remixed songs from nursery cryme that are on the platinum collection sound much better than the last remaster of that album; not sure what is going on with releasing the full album versions of those (sounds like they are indefinitely stalled)

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:20 (twelve years ago) Permalink

actually, "home by the sea" parts 1 and 2 are included on the Platinum Collection. watch them facts, Mr. "I know everything about majestic white people music" guy!

not one person on this Earth would rather hear "Calling All Stations" from '97 than those aforementioned orphaned tunes.

or are you going to defend that tune, GH?

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:52 (twelve years ago) Permalink

Harold the Barrel is the most terrifyingly chilling song I have ever heard, I think. In my mind I can *see* him leaping off the building in excrutiating slow motion, so, so distinctly. Songs never give me visions this rich, ever.

Couple that with Hogweed and Seven Stones, and The Musical Box without the self-conscious middle bit, and you've got a magic run of songs.

Foxtrot hurts my brain. Apocalypse 9/8 sounds like primary school kids learning how to play their instruments.

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 3 June 2006 01:32 (twelve years ago) Permalink

three months pass...

The middle bit is the best thing about "The Musical Box".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:44 (eleven years ago) Permalink

the best Genesis LP is Wendy & Bonnie's duh

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:56 (eleven years ago) Permalink

foxtrot

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:24 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Finally jumping on here.

The Lamb, for me. Although I should give the other albums a chance.

So, all of the post Gabriel shit: DEFEND IT! Wind & Wuthering, Trick of the Tale... I asked Genesis fans about them, and they all say they are not bad but pale in comparison to everything The Lamb and before... and one friend said that Duke was the last Genesis album he didn't want to throw against the wall.

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 04:38 (eleven years ago) Permalink

"Wind & Wuthering" and "A Trick Of The Tail" are really, really, really great albums. It's more a matter of post-Hackett than post-Gabriel really (except "And Then There Were Three" and "Duke" are both excellent pop albums, with Tony Banks still at his songwriting best)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink

The middle bit is the best thing about "The Musical Box".

I think it is so good, with the fluid running synth lead etc, how it sets up the really tender "play me my song" return, which in turn sets up the huge, monolithic closing. Probably my favorite Genesis song.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:10 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Has anyone said "Calling All Stations" yet?

(That's a joke, son.)

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:12 (eleven years ago) Permalink

"Calling All Stations" was a huge leap in the right direction from "We Can't Dance", and it might have been quite good with a decent vocalist.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:16 (eleven years ago) Permalink

>Foxtrot hurts my brain. Apocalypse 9/8 sounds like primary
>school kids learning how to play their instruments.

This sounds like praise!

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:42 (eleven years ago) Permalink

That one that Geir Hongo likes.

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Wind & Wuthering, Trick of the Tale... I asked Genesis fans about them, and they all say they are not bad but pale in comparison to everything The Lamb and before...

W&W and Trick of the Tail are both pretty badass albums with few weak spots and are more 'economic' with regards to having none of Gabriel's penchant for running amuck lyrically (at the time), no impenetrable concepts and over-elaborate costumes...just solid writing and performances. Also, dare I say, Collins does a fantastic job as both drummer and vocalist.

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:34 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Also, dare I say, Collins does a fantastic job as both drummer and vocalist.

He usually does. And Genesis would have been a lasting quality band had he stuck to that, and kept himself away from involving too much in the songwriting.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:42 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Gabriel sorely needed an editor in the early days. He got better.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 21 September 2006 03:17 (eleven years ago) Permalink

I don't know that I'm willing to call Trick of the Tail my fave Genesis LP, but "Robbery, Assault and Battery" is probably my favorite Genesis song from either of the Gabriel or Collins eras.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 21 September 2006 06:55 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Gabriel sorely needed an editor in the early days.

Ambition and indulgence should never be edited. Anyway, Tony Banks was always there, and was just as much of the musical genius Gabriel was. He sadly has lost it more than Gabriel has though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:38 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Ambition and indulgence should never be edited.

Can't...quite...find...joke...

― Everything Is Ill-Educated (noodle vague), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:41 (eleven years ago) Permalink

"Calling All Stations" was a huge leap in the right direction from "We Can't Dance", and it might have been quite good with a decent vocalist.

Uh, Geir...pretty much anything would have been a huge leap in the right direction from "We Can't Dance".

And honestly, Ray "Stiltskin" Wilson was a better singer than Phil Collins. Then again, you could select anyone off the street and nine times out of ten, they'd be better than Phil Collins.

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink

six years pass...

Can I just get a gut check here - do you people like Wind and Wuthering, and if so, why? Why do so many progheads love this incredibly boring album? Or am I just not listening close enough?

― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:10 (five years ago) Permalink

spent like a month last year getting acquainted with duke, abacab and the self-titled record all of which are AWESOME

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:15 (five years ago) Permalink

Foxtrot.

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:36 (five years ago) Permalink

wind & wuthering is (a) mostly great (b) the perfect album to play on a cold dry windy morning

― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:25 (five years ago) Permalink

Foxtrot

― Jaap and roids (NickB), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:34 (five years ago) Permalink

trespass was killer when i heard it first, selling england by the pound was even greater especially that part in teh battle of epping forest where the music takes off, where it reaches this metaphysical plateau. this moment of bliss, which should last forever. but in the end nursery cryme is the one, i think. the lyric sheet with all those drawings. so english, so strange, so cruel.

― miesepeter (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 1 February 2013 22:05 (five years ago) Permalink

Selling England by the Pound. Before that I only really love one song per album ("Stagnation," "The Musical Box," "Supper's Ready").

― jim, Friday, 1 February 2013 22:08 (five years ago) Permalink

spent like a month last year getting acquainted with duke, abacab and the self-titled record all of which are AWESOME

cosign, this was a month well-spent

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 2 February 2013 01:47 (five years ago) Permalink

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I haven't heard it in many years but there are so many great parts I forgot about, listening to it now.

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 16 July 2017 16:31 (one year ago) Permalink

The swelling mellotron on the intro to 'The Fountain of Salmacis' is one of my favourite moments in a Genesis song ever, as well as the rocking out sections in 'The Musical Box' etc. etc. As much as I find Nursery Cryme, in a way, to be a bit of a dry run for Foxtrot, it's got some stunning moments on it. With a better production job it could have even been one of their best ever.

― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Sunday, 16 July 2017 16:33 (one year ago) Permalink

The early epics rock hardest on Genesis Live. Plus that album cover is one of my favourite rock images.

― dinnerboat, Sunday, 16 July 2017 18:41 (one year ago) Permalink

The shredding guitar solo bits on "Musical Box" feel a bit proto-Maiden to me.

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 16 July 2017 20:32 (one year ago) Permalink

Are Iron Maiden the Ramones of prog?

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 16 July 2017 22:36 (one year ago) Permalink

something something two-handed tapping something

― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Monday, 17 July 2017 01:27 (one year ago) Permalink

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