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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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stevecham
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Tough one for me simply because I saw them in 1974 at the Music Hall in Boston for the Lamb tour. I had only heard Selling and Musical Box by that concert. I too have all the Classic reissues having worn out all my original pressings. I gues in the final analysis for me it's a tie for first between Lamb and Selling:
1. Lamb/Selling
2.
3. Foxtrot
4. Trespass (I wish they would remaster this one on high quality vinyl)
5. Musical Box
stevecham
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Sorry I meant Nursery Cryme; always felt that MB deinfed the album...
foxtrot
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Genesis is one of my all time favorite bands, just look at my nick name here, If I would have to choose 3 albums, in no order:

-Foxtrot
-The lamb lies down on broadway
-Selling england by the pound
stevecham
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BTW if anyone ever gets a chance to see Montreal-based "Musical Box" (more-than-just-a-tribute band), run do not walk for tix. They play it album perfect note for note with the original equipment, sets (approved by the boys), lighting, sound and mannerisms. From the tenth row, you cannot tell that is isn't the real thing. They only do Gabriel era Genesis.
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rooze OP
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Steve, do 'Musical Box' ever tour in the US?...that would be a lot of fun.
Has anyone heard Steve Hackett's 'Genesis Revisited'?...it's not a bad album for those that liked the Gabriel era better. It doesn't have Gabriels voice, but has some of the classics like Watcher of the Skies, Firth of Fith, I know what I like etc....all done with some unique twists. It's not great but it's worth a listen.

Rooze
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