Your top 7 Genesis songs?

"Cinema Show" flowing into "Aisle of Plenty" off of Selling England by the Pound.

 

Fly on a Windshield/Broadway Melody of 1974
It's Gonna Get Better
Firth Of Fifth
I Know What I Like
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
Squonk
Supper's Ready

Big fan of late Gabriel/ early Collins era. Something changed after Hackett left.

 

Some deliberation necessary - dat dere's 9 songs...

 

Supper's Ready
Firth of Fifth
Watcher of the Skies
Musical Box
Eleventh Earl of Mar
It
Los Endos

 

I'm a rebel. Don't mess with me.

 

Visions of Angels
The Musical Box
Time Table
Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Squonk
A Trick of the Tail

 

Visions of Angels is receiving lots of love too.

 

Eh, no order for 5, 6 and 7. My overall faves:

1. Domino, (mainly for part 1 - In The Glow of the Night)
2. Mama
3. Twilight Alehouse
4. Small Talk, (nobody expected this one)
5. Who Dunnit
6. Squonk
7. Driving the Last Spike

As you can see, I'm more of a latter-day Genesis fan. To win back your respect, here's my top 7 Gabriel era picks. No order except for number 1 which I already spoiled for you above:

1. Twilight Alehouse
2. The Knife
3. The Battle of Epping Forest
4. Firth of Fifth
5. The Musical Box
6. Fly on a Windshield
7. Get 'Em Out by Friday

Runner-ups the for Gabriel era:
1. Supper's Ready
2. Time Table
3. Harlequin
4. The Cinema Show

Runner-ups from the Collins era:
1. That's All
2. Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers/In That Quiet Earth
3. Home By The Sea/Second Home by the Sea
4. Los Endos

 

Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea
Supper's Ready
In The Cage
Mama
Firth Of Fifth
The Musical Box
Mad Man Moon

As it's hard to just choose 7 here are few more:

Entangled,Undertow,Watcher Of The Skies,The Cinema Show,Fly On A Windshield/Broadway Melody of 1974,Domino,Afterglow,Ripples,A Trick Of The Tail,Driving The Last Spike,Duchess,Down And Out,Blood On The Rooftops,Dancing With The Moonlit Knight,Tonight Tonight Tonight,Fading Lights,Dance On A Volcano,Dodo/Lurker,The Brazilian,Dreaming While You Sleep,Congo,The Knife...

 

Duchess
Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea
Abacab
No Reply At All
Carpet Crawlers
Follow You Follow Me
Land Of Confusion
Feeding The Fire (bonus pick)

 

Follow You Follow Me
Mama
I Can't Dance
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
Land Of Confusion

(You might have gathered from the above I don't have much time for PG's arty-farty over-long incomprehensible stuff ).

 

... and if I may sneak in one more track:

Shadow Of The Hierophant

... from the long-lost Genesis album Voyage Of The Acolyte.

--Geoff

 

Quoting myself because it's a new day, after a super full moon, which I believe entitles me to an addition.
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers/In That Quiet Earth/Afterglow

 

Visions of Angels
Mad Man Moon
Blood on the Rooftops
Ripples
Can-Utility and the Coastliners
After the Ordeal
Snowbound

Very close runners up (in chronological order): Stagnation, Dusk, Fountain of Salmacis, Firth of Fifth, Entangled, Unquiet Slumbers, Down and Out, Burning Rope, Heathaze, Evidence of Autumn, You Might Recall.

 

Twilight Alehouse and Cinema Show would definitely be in my top ten. I'm kind of torn on if it would be Mad Man Moon or Blood on the Rooftops that would fill in the remaining spot.

 

I don't think I can name my favorites, but here are my *least* favorite:

Hold On My Heart
In Too Deep
Never a Time
Who Dunnit?
Throwing It All Away
Illegal Alien
That's All

I strongly dislike the above songs. Anything on Congo is better than any of these.

 

The Knife
Twilight Alehouse
Cuckoo Cocoon
Anyway
Entangled
Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
The Musical Box (though perhaps I've heard it a bit too much by now)

The OP probably knows that choosing 10 would have been a little easier.

 

Right now (because this list changes all the time)

The Cinema Show
The Chamber of 32 Doors
You Might Recall
Supper's Ready
Entangled
Duke's Travels/Duke's End
Fading Lights

 

It's a really sad tune when you hear the back story...Ant Phillips had the hots for the woman who eventually became Peter Gabriel's wife.
There was a bit of a tussle over it and Ant came off second best. Heartbreak ahoy for Ant.

Great song though. I love 'Trespass'. Not a weak track on it.

 

Wow had no idea that was the back story to the song.
How awkward it must be for them to create and record that song together.

 

Trespass has long been one of my favorite Genesis albums--to me, if there is a weak track, it may actually "The Knife," which comes across as kind of juvenile after the dark atmospherics of what precedes it on the album. I didn't know this back story about "Visions of Angels," but that track may be my single favorite Genesis song ever. There is something that moves me in its evocation of both ecstatic beauty and shattering loneliness, all cloaked within a musical and lyrical structure that invites us to read it as a hymn (and possibly, particularly for those of us who are not religious, to re-read traditional hymns from this intensely personal perspective). This was one of those "love at first listens" songs, and my fondness for it has never diminished over time.

 

Off the top of my head and in no particular order except:

1 - Cinema Show/Aisle Of Plenty

The rest:

Entangled
Fountain Of Salmacis
Musical Box
Supper's Ready

Must cheat a bit:

Unquiet Slumbers/In That Quiet Earth/Afterglow (hey they all run together like one song)

Must cheat a lot:

The Lamb album - hey if Supper's Ready counts (a story spread over one entire side of an album, then why not The Lamb which is a story spread over four sides of vinyl?)

If I can only have one side, then side one of the Lamb

If I cant do that either, then I don't wanna play anymore

 

Gabriel Era
Cinema Show
White mountain
Watcher Of The Skies
In The Cage
Visions Of Angels
Firth Of Fifth
Fly On A Windshield

Collins Era
Ripples
Mad Man Moon
Afterglow
Heathaze
Fading Lights
Driving The Last Spike
Dreaming While You Sleep

Of course subject to change with the wind ! But these are always go-to tracks