Best Genesis Album - your opinions please.

Rackon, that's a great period in their history you were able to be involved in. You mentioned their farewell tour at McCormick, there was actually one other show at Milton Keynes in 1982. Gabriel had run into serious money problems promoting his WOMAD project, and the boys rallied for a one-night show in front of about 100,000 wet and muddy Genesis fans. Hackett and Philips were there and it was actually on Mike Rutherfords birthday, Oct 2nd I think.
There were a lot of technical problems but it was an incredible show nevertheless. I wish I could find a video somewhere....

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Rooze

Yup, it was fun to there, a very interesting time.

Couldn't get to ole Blighty for the reunion, but was very glad to see the WOMAD and Gabriel tours.

I also saw Roxy Music's first US tour in Chicago same year - I met a future boyfriend at the gig and we got to hang out with Brian Eno a bit (not as glamourous as it sounds, Brian mainly wanted to do laundry...and did). I stayed friends with some of RM members for a time - Andy helped me with a music theory paper one time.

I believe Brian Ferry is in a movie coming out soon -

Anything with Collins fronting the band is marshmallow fluff and virtually unlistenable.

Well, that would definately be a matter of opinion, I happen to like later genesis very much, i haven't heard much of the peter gabriel era genesis, but i am going to check it out, a lot of people on here, speak highly of it.

Seconds Out also gets my vote: the dynamics on Squonk are killer and Dance On A Volcano seems almost surreal as they're finishing up. Their Chicago-Rosemount show ran almost 3 hours; the energy level in the hall was absolutely incredible as the whole place was abuzz. The only show I've ever seen that evoked the audience to even greater involvement was Jean Luc Ponty at the Arie Crown; we had 2nd row seats & he was right in front of us only about 20 feet away. Both of those shows remain unforgettable even today.

The Lamb. That's a tour I wish I could have seen. I think the most interesting post-Pete album is Wind and Wuthering.