Your Top 5 Genesis Songs

Easy peasy; not many greats to choose from!
Match of the Day
Calling all Stations
Congo
Illegal Alien
More Fool Me

 

March 27 : today is Tony Banks' 69th birthday....

 

Supper's Ready
Cinema Show from Seconds Out
Carpet Crawlers
Afterglow from Seconds Out
Dance On A Volcano

These are not counting my other 20 favorites!

 

Another possible list (in no particular order):

Duchess
Ripples
One for the Vine
Land of Confusion
Home by the Sea/Second Home by the Sea

This time around I opted out of choosing anything from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway as it would be too difficult for me right now. Of course, a person could make so many different lists and still not be fully satisfied hence why I posted this second list.

My original list:

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

 

Suppers Ready
Firth of Fifth
Ripples
Robbery Assault and Battery
Home By The Sea

 

Invisible Touch
Man on the Corner
Misunderstanding
No Son of Mine
Tonight Tonight Tonight

 

Their catalog from 1970-1981 is an embarrassment of riches.

Off the top of my head

Suppers Ready
Roberry, Assault and Battery
Undertow
Back in NYC
The Cinema Show

 

Afterglow (live 1981)
In the Cage medley (live 1981)
Fading Lights
Inside and Out
On the Shoreline

 

The Musical Box
Firth of Fifth
The Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty
The Carpet Crawlers
Blood on the Rooftops

 

If I think about this it will be next Wednesday before I decide so here's the gut choices.

Cinema Show
Ripples
Supper's Ready
The Knife
Fifth of Fifth - for superlative guitar and keyboard work

 

Studio:

Invisible Touch (Phil's vocal is amazing. What a hard song to sing.)
Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea
Supper's Ready
The Musical Box
Dodo/Lurker

Live:

In The Cage Medley (Three Sides Out)
Supper's Ready (Second's Out)
The Musical Box (Genesis Live)
Duke's Travels (Live Over Europe)
No Son Of Mine (The Way We Walk: The Shorts)

 

Firth of Fifth
Supper's Ready
The Cinema Show
Carpet Crawlers
Behind the lines

 

Can't recall what I listed last year but today it's:

Entangled
Dusk
Musical Box
Dodo/Lurker
Duchess

It will be different next time as well...

 

As others have said previously, this is ridiculously hard. Tonight I'll go for:

Supper's Ready - the Gabriel group's finest moment. They take us on a compelling journey, with the highlight being Apocalypse in 9/8. It would be perfect if the guitar solo at the end was allowed to continue for a bit longer.

Dance on a Volcano - insanely good and full of exciting time signature changes. This is probably my favourite Genesis song and provides a stunning opening to my favourite Genesis album. The four-man group demonstrate resoundingly that they can produce true greatness without Peter!

In That Quiet Earth - love the sound and driving melody here. This is my favourite track on my second favourite Genesis album. I'd love to have instrumental versions of the 70s albums.

Duchess - The transition from Behind The Lines is simple but brilliant and it's followed by one of Phil's most passionate vocal deliveries. The three-man group prove that there's life after Steve!

Home By The Sea/Second Home By the Sea - an evocative first half followed by some barnstorming instrumental playing in the second, which proves that they could still achieve within an 80s soundscape and setting.

 

Not sure if this is a new topic or I have contributed before, anyway here goes:

1. Ripples
2. Deep In The Motherlode
3. Alone Tonight
4. Paperlate
5. Invisible Touch

 

Supper's Ready
The Musical Box
Back in NYC
The Lamia
You Might Recall

I'll probably change my mind in five minutes... and again in another five.

 

Follow You Follow Me
Home By The Sea (1&2)
Throwing It All Away
Abacab (Wembley Stadium 1987)
In The Cage Medley (Rome 2007)

 

The Carpet Crawlers (1999 version)
Mama
Tonight Tonight Tonight
Domino
Throwing It All Away

 

1. Supper's Ready
2. Back in NYC
3. Abacab
4. Burning Rope
5. Dancing With the Moonlight Knight

 

Supper's Ready
The Musical Box
The Cinema Show
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
Carpet Crawl

 

Domino pt.1 (In The Glow of the Night)
Land of Confusion
Follow You Follow Me
In Too Deep
That's All

 

One of the best songs ever.

 

Definitely, those early songs benefited from their expensive education and study of Greek Myths.

 

Supper's Ready
Can-utility and the Coastliners
Carpet Crawlers
Fifth of Firth
The Musical Box

 

1. Supper‘s Ready
2. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
3. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
4. Watcher Of The Skies
5. The Cage