Best Genesis Album?

And I would add SEBTP. Waiting Room isn’t considered a stinker by people? Waaaayyyy too long for me, it’s like “Genesis does King Crimson, in the most polite way possible”.

 

Like i say, it's interesting how varied opinions are on a band like Genesis

 

When i have asked folks why they don't let us, they have said it's so folks can't pick the winners to agree with everyone else or some such thing. If that's really a problem all the polls are bogus anyhow lol

 

So because I allow it, my polls ar okay?

 

No, your polls are bad for different reasons.

I'm just kidding.

 

This ^ . The closest they got to an all out masterpiece was Wind & Withering but they still had to throw in a turkey
or two. Things could have been so much different if they had listened to Hackett and incorporated Please Don't Touch.

 

I think Time Table is pretty bad.

 

From Genesis to revelations has 4 votes. Wow.

I voted what I think is the great Genesis triumvirate: nursery, foxtrot and selling England.

 

I voted The Lamb, but everything from Trespass through Duke is essential.

Abacab trails off badly on side 2, Genesis, has a brilliant side 1. Invisible Touch, is an excellent 80s pop album.

We Can’t Dance has some nice moments and Calling All Stations? Well, it’s just poor.

 

Idk mate
If folks can't have a mind of their own, there's no hope anyway lol

 

I love all of the Lamb. I usually listen to it late at night. I just turn the lights off and go for the ride I kind of look at it as a single long piece of music.

I also love SEBTP, but IMHO More Fool Me is pretty bad, its just fluff. IMHO its the first bad Genesis song from Trespass on, and I go back and forth with Epping Forest. The rest of the album is pure gold though. Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty is probably my favorite Genesis tune

 

Peter in Genesis....Phil the lead vocalist in Genesis....Steve in the band compared to without..........

It just dawned on me.

The era of Genesis I enjoy the most, (while I still like ALL of their albums), is the era of the Mellotron and Hammond organ.

I like some of the synth sounds Tony used from Abacab on, but the power and grand crescendos had disappeared with those 2 keyboard instruments. Feels like they lost some power. Maybe that's half the reason the had more of a "pop" sound. They did have 3-4 minute songs before, and even "I Know What I Like", doesn't sound, to me, as "poppy" as what came later.

IMO.

 

Ah see I quite enjoy More Fool Me, very well done imo.

 

Enjoy:

Duke
Abacab
Genesis

...But the stuff before and after never had much appeal to me

 

Yeah, though I can't say that I love every song on Abacab, there's a lot to enjoy about it. The band fully embraced a more modern sound here--the breaks from the past are obvious in everything from the artwork to the horn section--but there are still some credible progressive moments, presented with a more streamlined approach. I actually think that the title track is a convincing example of prog/pop/rock, and the multi-segmented "Me And Sarah Jane" is a triumph too. This thread inspired me to play my expanded play list, which reconstructs the full Submarine/Dodo/Lurk/Naminanu suite, as well as tracks like "You Might Recall" and "Paperlate".

 

Well, I don’t love every song. Who Dunnit is stupid. But most is great. And I wasn’t aware that Submarine and Naminanu were part of the Dodo/Lurker suite.

 

That was my understanding, though it seems like they decided to trim things back a bit at this point. Extended song suites were no longer the thing in the 80s.

 

I like every song on Abacab and most of the s/t followup, but hate nearly every song on Invisible Touch. I tried to like that album, I really did. But apart from the coda, there's nothing there for me to connect with. The worst part is the ten minute Michelob commercial Tonight Tonight Tonight. Ugh. You didn't make it right tonight, today, or yesterday, guys.

 

In order:

Lamb
Foxtrot
Nursery Cryme
Trespass
Selling England
TOTT
Wind and Wuthering
Duke
Abacab
Three Sides Live
From Genesis to Revelation
Genesis Live
Seconds Out
...And Then There...
s/t 1983
Invisible Touch
We Can't Dance
Calling All Stations

NB: Haven't heard the 1990s and 2000s live albums.

 

I am not familiar with all these albums, but I wanted to see the results, so I just picked five at random. I hate these polls where you have to vote to see the results. But now I can see how folks who may actually be familiar with these albums voted, assuming they didn’t do the same as me to see the results.

 

for me a rough and ever changing (in a small way) order would be

Nursery cryme
Lamb lies down
Duke
And then there were three
Genesis
Foxtrot
Selling England
seconds out/genesis live/three sides live/live at the rainbow
Abacab
trespass
Wind and wuthering
Trick of the tail
invisible touch
from genesis to revelation
we can't dance/calling all stations

and that would pretty much reflect my go to order over the years

 

You get a like for that one. Of course if you had said 'sick' it would have been down with da kids and actually meant 'good'.

 

The variety of opinions here proves that Genesis would never have pleased everyone. And in a strange sort of way, that's a good thing. If nothing else, they were a very diverse band.

Personally, I've never really got The Lamb. It seems to me to spend an awful lot of time saying not a tremendous amount (I'm talking musically here).

There's enough to enjoy for it to score close to 3/5 but it's never risen above bottom tier Genesis in my estimation. And yet there are, at the time of posting, 165 people who would tell me that I am a cloth-eared git who wouldn't recognize a classic album if it came with a letter of introduction.

Good on 'em too for being passionate about the music they love!

 

I'm here!

 

Nursery Cryme
Foxtrot
Selling England By The Pound
Abacab
Genesis