Best Genesis Album - your opinions please.

Oops. My apologies. I misread your post and didn't understand the actual context of your question.

My top 3 recordings are Tresspass, Selling England and Trick of the Tail. I've listened to all of them within the past 2 months, and Tresspass just this past week.

My comments on the later works still stand however ;-).

The best album by far and away is "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Nothing comes even close to this milestone recording.

The best Phil Collins Genesis album is "Trick of the Tail".

The magic of Genesis left after the departure of Steve Hackett. His last album with the band was "Wind and Wuthering". Genesis was never quite the same after this very important contributor left the band. I seldom ever play any of the post-Steve Hackett era lps.

I tend to think with bands with big back catalogues it depends on when exactly you discovered them that how well you react to the later periods of their career.

I like Genesis a lot and saw them live on the Duke tour in 1980-arguably their last great album as Phil Collins solo success drove the band in a different direction and despite the odd subsequent interesting track (Home By The Sea,Mama)the Genesis sound of old was gone forever.

My own personal favourites are Selling England By The Pound,The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and it's a toss up between Wind & Wuthering and A Trick Of The Tail.

I once read that in the UK up until their final album Calling All Stations which was the exception that each subsequent album outsold it's predecessor which is quite an unusual feat.

I still listen to them a lot although I need to pick up Duke and Genesis on CD.

Finally on a related Progressive Rock theme just to say that the whole series of Rhino Yes remasters will be reviewed and presented very shortly on the "Audiogon" reviews-that's 11 albums with umpteen bonus tracks and opinions to argue over.

I really enjoy parts of The Wind and The Wuthering, but my favorite has been (since the late 70's) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

After not listening to this for a long time I got it again a couple of years ago. Try as I might, too much of it unlistenable. TLLDOB from side one is really good, and most of side two is really good, but I'm not sure I could force myself to sit through sides 3 & 4 again. This would have made a good single LP, or even EP. Some of the stuff is really good, and it is my fave, but the rest it...