Your Top 5 Genesis Songs

YOUR TOP 5 ​

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SONGS​

 

I’ll have to think about this one...

 

1. Ripples
2. Deep In The Motherlode
3. Looking For Someone
4. Alone Tonight
5. Paperlate

 

No Son Of Mine
Invisible Touch
Tbrowing It All Away
I Can't Dance
Land Of Confusion

None of that boring early stuff.

 

Deep in the Motherlode, eh? Yeah, I like this one a lot. I especially love the middle section.

 

Off the top of my head....

Squonk
Watcher of the Skies
Los Endos
Afterglow
Mama

Tomorrow, I'd probably give 5 different ones.

 

The Knife
Suppers Ready
The Battle Of Epping Forest
Fly On A Windshield
The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging

 

And then the bridge when the song bursty into the final refrain. Magnificent. Perhaps best track on ATTWT. I was about to do a Genesis Singles Cup on the Genesis fan forum but left there over an argument about The Beatles. Also, I have learned that vs. threads and polls are frowned upon / against the law so I doubt I will be staying here much longer either.

 

Abacab, Misunderstanding, Follow You, Follow Me, Turn It On Again, Paperlate

 

That will be contentuous among the proggers who will say that the best era was before the boring later stuff you refer to!

 

Another shout for Paperlate! I'm usually maligned for picking this and Alone Tonight in a top five.

 

In The Air Tonight
I Don't Care Anymore
Against All Odds
Another Day In Paradise
Sussudio

 

I concur with these.

 

Oh I know. The era of Collins on the mike is blasphemous around these parts.

 

Okay, I’ve given this a good bit of thought...

(In no particular order) -

The Lamia
The Cinema Show
Eleventh Earl of Mar
One for the Vine
Blood On The Rooftops

My own list is quite heavy with Wind & Wuthering pieces because I really do feel this is one of the best albums they ever made. For me, it’s a dead heat between this album and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. I simply couldn’t choose.

 

Harlequin, Los Endos, In The Wilderness, Keep It Dark, Taking It All Too Hard

 

Gosh... Only five?

Off the top of my head, in no particular order:

Return of the Giant Hogweed
Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty
One for the Vine
Duke's Travels
Duke's End

 

So interesting you chose Harlequin. I really believe this is a fantastic piece. Quite underrated, too.

 

As someone who grew up knowing Genesis as a 3 member band (actually Phil Collins and 2 other guys, no offense Rutherford and Banks), I’ll go with:

• Land of Confusion (love the video)
• In Too Deep (thanks American Psycho)
• Man On The Corner
• Misunderstanding
• That’s All

And I like the laugh in Mama. It’s no The Message, but still a great song.

 

Supper's Ready
Entangled
Carpet Crawlers
Stagnation
Back in NYC

 

Home By The Sea (both parts)
Invisible Touch
Turn It On Again
Light Goes Out On Broadway
Suppers' Ready

 

1 - Cinema Show/Aisle Of Plenty
2 - Entangled/Squonk
3 - Unquiet Slumbers/In That Quiet Earth/Afterglow
4 - Fly On A Windshield/Broadway Melody Of 1974
5 - Supper's Ready

 

Nice list. Personally, I never could stomach The Battle of Epping Forest but this is a list of YOUR favorites of course. Fly On A Windshield is bloody brilliant!

 

Gabriel Era:

Get 'Em Out By Friday
Supper's Ready
Watcher of the Skies
The Knife
Cinema Show

Post-Gabriel:

Squonk
A Trick of the Tail
One for the Vine
Misunderstanding
Taking It All Too Hard

 

Fantastic list. I love all of these pieces. Stagnation is really something else. What a great piece!