****ing Christ that’s miserable

Yeah not one of my favourites off The Lamb.
You mean it's miserable that I chose it, or that it's a miserable song? Which it is.

Miserable song.

I can’t believe you said that about CC.

Occult Genesis Top Ten
Number Two: Back in NYC



The best Who song by Genesis.

Too lazy for top tens but the best Genesis song is obviously:

Occult Genesis Top Ten

Number One: Fly on a Windsheild/Broadway Melody of 1974



The ****ing best

You’re a Chula-wannabe

Yeah "Another Record" is just one of the many many reasons I don't rate that album. AND it's the closing track, so that's what you're left hearing in your head. Jesus.

I don't hate Cuckoo Cocoon, I just know there are far better tracks on the album. OTTOMH: Title track, The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging, In the Cage, The Lamia, Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats, The Colony of Slippermen, Hairless Heart, Riding the Scree, It....
Very very close to the top of mine, yes.

HOW could you make such a ROOKIE MISTAKE? That's going to cost you votes!
:laughing:

Because there are better songs or dispute about which track that actually is?

In what way?

He’s mentioned that song several times.

Your video code was ****ed up.

Trollheart's Genesis Top Ten
Number Nine

"Cul-de-sac" - Duke (1980)

Lol what are you smoking. Anything Now has a killer hook and melodic progression. Best song out of the Calling All Stations sessions other than The Dividing Line.

Post it. :D

All right, that sounds like a reject from the 1983 album. Can't say I think much of it. Where's the Genesis identity in it? Anyone could have recorded that, and if I heard it on the radio - especially as it's not Collins singing - I doubt I'd know it was Genesis.

On we go:
Trollheart's Genesis Top Ten
Number Eight

"Fading Lights" - We Can't Dance (1991)
If only for the incredible Banks keyboard solo that takes up about half of this ten-minute closer that should have brought the curtain down on their career in fine style.

Purple kush

Troll,

Just admit that my list rules. I out Genesised you and Chula.

Nah. Wait till you see mine before you make a statement like that.
Also, don't be a pussy: pick out your worst tracks, you know they're there.

Their 8th best song? **** outta here.

**** you. I’m not scouring through the worst of Genesis.

Then you're a pussy. It's easy. Surely you know the songs you don't like? Ah do what you like, but I know mine.

And here's another one:
Trollheart's Genesis Bottom Ten
Number Nine

"Congo" - Calling All Stations (1997)
So many I could have chosen off that album, but this one really sucks, especially coming after the title and between that and the excellent "Shipwrecked".

Eh, that piano improvisation is pure Banks bruh. And Ray has a great voice, though he doesn't resemble Collins all that much.

I didn't say Ray hadn't a good voice; I just said that listening to it on the radio I wouldn't recognise it as Genesis. I think I'd have understood the title track to be Genesis, even though I would have wondered who was doing the vocals, but not that. Piano improv whatever, the melody owes nothing to the Genesis I know.

Trollheart's Genesis Top Ten
Number Seven

"Burning Rope" - ... And Then There Were Three (1978)

Trollheart's Genesis Bottom Ten
Number Eight

"Tell Me Why" - We Can't Dance (1991)

Trollheart's Genesis Top Ten
Number Six

"The Lamia" - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1975)

Trollheart's Genesis Bottom Ten
Number Seven

"Anything She Does" - Invisible Touch (1986)

Beautiful song.

It is. Pair it with "Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats" and you have one of the most beautiful Genesis compositions ever really.

The best Eno song by Genesis. You could loop that for an hour and it would be a top ambient recording for 2018.

:beer:

#Buildthesee-throughsolarpoweredwall

#Racist

I'm pretty sure Phil Collins is part Spaniard. ;)

Spanish can be racist too. Seriously though, listen to the lyric: it's almost Trumpesque in its racism. And it's a **** song. Speaking of which, time to go back to

Trollheart's Genesis Bottom Ten
Number Six


"Keep it Dark" - Abacab (1981)

Okay let's go: now we're getting to the serious ****.
Trollheart's Genesis Top Ten
Number Five


"Firth of Fifth" - Selling England by the Pound (1973)
Unassailable, indubitably unassailable.

The best ELP song by Genesis.

Anteater's Real Genesis Top Ten

Number Ten


Who needs Selling England By The Pound when you can be this brilliant. It takes a true prog mindset to incorporate Prince influences into heavy progressive synth-rock, and this song shows how Genesis really was the leader of the prog pack in the 80's as they left their commercial 70's era behind. And there's a deep meaning behind the song too: sussudio is actually a lost Gaelic prayer that refers to a forgotten fertility goddess of the Irish plains, relating to the changing of the seasons and the sacrifice of virgins to bless the growth of crops for the coming spring. It is said that during this songwriting period that Collins, Rutherford and Banks were inspired by a drive-through screening of The Wicker Man (sans Nicholas Cage).

Please refer to the OP: no solo ****. And how can you have a Phil Collins song in your Genesis top ten, huh? Also, that song? That was the one that started me hating him. Up to then, the first two albums were great, then he pulls this pop crap? GTFO Phil.

Right. This is a wind-up, innit?

Stop feeding the troll, troll

But he's SO cute! Can we keep him, huh? Can we, can we?

I can't participate in farce of a thread, which btw was started by an Anti-Abacaber. It's MusicBanter amateur hour at its worst. :(

I am fan of ELP. I always thought they great musicians. Keith Emerson was known for some crazy onstage antics. He would pull out knives (he had two) and stab at his organ, to sustain a note. When he was done he would through them into his Leslie cabinet. The blades would dull pretty quick and if they weren't sharpen they would bounce off the cabinet. There was one time Keith threw the knife and it ricocheted off the cabinet and the knife went directly into his roadie's leg. Ouch! That's gotta hurt.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Knife Edge / Rondo / Drum Solo - Live 1970 - Remastered


In the early days of Genesis they would go to see [the Nice] in concert. They saw Kieth do onstage did what I just described. In fact they actually named the The Knife after the knife in Kieth's knife act. Believe it or not the person who gave those two knives to Keith Emerson was Lemmy Kilmister. So whenever I hear The Knife I feel Lemmy somehow lives on in spirit in that song, because it was his knife originally.

So if you are going to get serious about the best "Genesis a la ELP via The Nice" song it would have to be The Knife.

Genesis - The Knife