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12-23-2022, 02:18 PM | #31 (permalink) | ||
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So do I, I just prefer when they were an actual progressive rock band, not a pop one. Their last album was really quite dire. Which is a pity as it really was their last one.
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12-28-2022, 07:48 PM | #33 (permalink) |
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Depends on what you want. For older, classic prog you can't go wrong with Gabriel. I'm not a massive fan of Selling England (I see a lot of flaws in it) and would recommend Trespass or Foxtrot or maybe Nursery Cryme. If you want to be bamboozled by a hard-to-understand concept album, Gabriel's last hurrah on the double The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is required listening.
Collins era I prefer to remain in the mid-seventies, with Wind and Wuthering and Trick of the Tail my favourites, followed by Duke (by which time they were turning in a more pop direction: think "Turn it On Again" or "Misunderstanding") or ... And Then There Were Three.
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12-30-2022, 08:31 PM | #36 (permalink) |
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I think I'd go with Foxtrot just for the wondrous Supper's Ready track, with Selling England as a v close second place.
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12-30-2022, 08:38 PM | #37 (permalink) |
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Yeah, if I want to hear a 12-minute song about East End gangsters fighting, I sure don't want it from Genesis. And they can stick the instrumental that follows it, too. That's half the damn second side.
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I didn't know what to make of Battle of Epping Forest at first but it grows one me every single time I listen to it, it's kinda like if every part of Supper's Ready was as goofy as the Willow's Farm section, it's just too bonkers for me to not get a kick out of it, it's "pleb filter" as the kids these days like to say.
I like After the Ordeal too, it probably is my least favorite track on the album but as an interlude (or "breather track" as I like to call them) it does it's job splendidly. I agree that side A is stronger overall but side B has The Cinema Show which is my favorite Genesis song bar none.
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12-31-2022, 06:16 AM | #39 (permalink) |
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Without those two I would rate SEBTP much higher. Side one has no filler. At all. Side two has, as you say, "Cinema Show" and I even like "Aisle of Plenty" with its clever wordplay and link back to the opener, but no, "Epping Forest" will never grow on me (pun not intended!) and "After the Ordeal" is both so apt a title and also inextricably linked to it that I can't like it.
Then again, remember, I'm the guy who doesn't rate Close to the Edge!!!!!!! But I know my Genesis, and this for me was their nadir (not the album, the track) before, say, "Ballad of Big", which I also hate, and then of course we have Abacab coming on the scene like the Grim Reaper bringing the slow death, slight recovery, good recovery, last gasp, and final ignominious passing of one of the greatest prog rock bands on Earth.
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I always skip Epping Forest when I can, but I'm ok with After The Ordeal.
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Rather in the way that people reduce the White Album to a more satisfying single album, I wish Genesis had recorded Selling Foxtrots By The Pound:- Spoiler for tracklist:
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