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Best Genesis Album - your opinions please.

OK, after consuming eleventeen beers last night, I spun a couple of albums I haven't played in ages - Duke, followed by Wind and Wuthering. Duke, despite the poor recording quality, is one of the bands most underated albums....sure it's a little glimpse of things to come as far as Phil Collins' dominating influence, but it's still an incredible album, and probably the last 'real' Genesis work before they became too commercial.
What are your top 3 Genesis albums and when was the last time you played one of them?....

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bdgregory
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My top 3 would be Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound. Though Tresspass and Nursery Cryme are also hard to beat.
I'm less fond of the post-Gabriel recordings, but it's still among my favorite bands. I would pick Wind and Wuthering, Trick of the Tail, And Then There Were Three . . . Duke is ok, but I find a few of the tracks on it pretty weak (or too pop?).
I have all of them and still play them all frequently.
mr_hosehead
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Top 3? Selling England By The Pound takes #s 1, 2, & 3 on my list. I've listened to it fairly regularly since I first bought the album, later the CD, and now on vinyl again. Lamb, Trick, and whatever else could be used to fill out the list, but over the years they have all dropped off in listening time but Selling England is still one of the all-time favorites (and not just from Genesis albums) and one that I still listen to kinda regularly.
tfkaudio
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"Foxtrot" gets my vote as the best one. I like "Duke" the best from the PC era. The "Lamb" used to be my favorite, but you definitely have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to that one. If in the wrong frame of mind, you might not hear the music on account of all the laughing you are doing.
I still like "Abacab", too. Not too many mentions of that one on the thread. I still have to pull that one out every now and again to listen to "Me and Sarah Jane". Great song.
audiomax
166 posts
 
Another vote for Labm Lies Down on Broadway then Selling England By The Pound. I like Gabriel-era Genesis bettwer than Collins-era Genesis. But then some recent Gabriel solo was not that great.
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cuke
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Seconds Out. Just for the fact that Bill Bruford and Phil Collins share drum duties on one tune.
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