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06-01-2017, 06:05 AM | #13821 (permalink) | |||
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... and just like that, the thread becomes the Genesis Discussion Thread!
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06-01-2017, 07:57 AM | #13822 (permalink) |
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In order, best to worst:
Wind and Wuthering A Trick of the Tail Trespass Nursery Cryme Duke Foxtrot And Then There Were Three Selling England by the Pound The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Genesis We Can't Dance Invisible Touch Calling All Stations Abacab From Genesis to Revelation
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06-01-2017, 08:53 AM | #13823 (permalink) |
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It wasn't like a landmark debut or anything but Genesis to Revelation isn't their worst record. Also Abacab is better than We Can't Dance and Invisible Touch. Lamb is my favorite and Calling All Stations is easily the worst (and that's saying something).
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06-01-2017, 09:50 AM | #13824 (permalink) | |
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The debut was really totally different to the style they ended up embracing and becoming famous for; more a folk record than a prog one. It's very whimsical. No it's not terrible but if they had continued the way King had wanted them to it's doubtful they would ever have made a mark on the world. I really consider Trespass their proper debut. It's more what they're about. Abacab still rates really low on my scale. I know Nea likes it, but I was so disappointed with it, especially after Duke. It's just so poppy and there are few if any proggy tracks - maybe "Dodo/Lurker", and that's about it really. Invisible Touch is a step too far in poppiness, though "Domino" does a little to save it from being absolutely mediocre. I quite like We Can't Dance; some great stuff on it. I love The Lamb too; there are just Genesis albums better than it, or that I at least rate higher. It can be a little of a slog though, especially for non-fans, and it's hard to really figure out what it's all about. Kind of Gabriel's The Wall I guess in ways. They more or less just left him to it. Calling All Stations was a big disappointment, but then it was expected to be. Really, they should have left it at We Can't Dance: the final words of "Fading lights", the closing song - "Remember...." Would have been perfect. As you can see, I'm also one of those rare few who don't consider Selling England to be the greatest ever Genesis album, not by a long shot. For the purposes of this thread, that is then a very unpopular music opinion.
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These are indeed opinions about unpopular music.
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06-01-2017, 12:05 PM | #13828 (permalink) |
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All right, let's do this.
Abacab Abacab 6/10 No reply at all 3/10 Me and Sarah Jane 7/10 Keep it dark 3/10 Dodo/Lurker 8/10 Whodunnit 1/10 Man on the corner 4/10 Like it or not 8/10 Another record 2/10 Calling All Stations Calling All Stations 8/10 Congo 2/10 Shipwrecked 8/10 Alien afternoon 6/10 Not about us 8/10 If that's what you need 6/10 The dividing line 5/10 Uncertain weather 6/10 Small talk 3/10 There must be some other way 6/10 One man's fool 4/10 Over to you...
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07-04-2017, 06:50 PM | #13829 (permalink) |
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Not sure how unpopular this may be, but I wish EL-P and Aesop Rock never stopped working together and would have become a duo at some point. Fuck Run the Jewels and any good they brought to music, I wanna see those guys on the same tracks.
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