Being a mere forty-something my Prog prefernces really only start in the 80's with Marillion, Twelfth Night, Pendragon etc, but I'm doing my best to expand my 11 year old son's appreciation of prog history and musicianship by putting early 70's Yes, Camel etc on in the car etc. I'm now looking at Gabriel era Genesis for him and was wondering what your top ten of Gabriel era stuff would be? Some less obvious tracks that get overlooked would be appreciated as well.
Carpet Crawlers.... surely not one of the less obvious ones...
The Carpet Crawlers is indeed excellent just like the rest of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. Maybe The cinema Show too. To me it's still one of Genesis' highlights though the length might be a problem. Don't know if you're looking for short or long tracks.
From Trick Of The Tail Dance it might be a good idea to listen to Dance On A Volcano.
Less obvious ones could be: More Fool Me (Selling England...), In The Cage (Again: The Lamb...) and Watcher Of The Skies (Foxtrot)
Actually as a Gabriell-era Genesis-fan i can recommend all of the albums but that would be a bit unfair. ;)
Definately Suppers Ready which is my all time favourite and Carpet Crawlers. But i like all of Gabriels stuff. I wont listen to Genesis with Phil Collins singing cos i just dont like his voice!!!
"Carpet Crawlers" and indeed "Cinema Show" which is (in my opinion) the best track on "Selling England By The Pound" which is the best album I think.
Can't think of anything else at the moment.
I honestly like all the albums of the gabriel genesis era, and still play them a lot even today, they will be with me till I die. Being in my 40's I never tire of 70's prog rock, it was by far the best era of music. And i'm glad we still have bands like arena, keeping the future going. I personally feel that genesis died when they made And Then There Were Three. It should have been called And Then There Was Phil Collins, because that is what the band became. Although I give credit were credit is due, and phil did do a good job on Trick of the Tale and Wind and Wuthering, but they did still have another major element in the band, namely Steve Hackett. I can remember watching the Genesis History Video, were it described how steve hackett departed from the band, and Mr collins saying that steve hackett was never a writer, but a good player. I wish I could have been at that interview. Because as far as i'm concerned hackett is the only soul member from that band who still writes prog music, and is albums are miles better than every genesis album after trick of the tale.
But enough of this, here is my top 10 Genesis songs with of coarse Peter Gabriel on vocals.
1. Get E'm Out By Friday.
2. Suppers ready.
3. The Musical Box.
4. Firth Of Fifth.
5. Harold The Barrel.
6. The Battle Of Epping Forrest.
7. Can Utility and the Coastliners.
8. Stagnation.
9. In The Cage.
10. Seven Stones.
Quote from: intruder on Wed, 2006-11-29, 09:08:25
I honestly like all the albums of the gabriel genesis era, and still play them a lot even today, they will be with me till I die. Being in my 40's I never tire of 70's prog rock, it was by far the best era of music. And i'm glad we still have bands like arena, keeping the future going. I personally feel that genesis died when they made And Then There Were Three. It should have been called And Then There Was Phil Collins, because that is what the band became. Although I give credit were credit is due, and phil did do a good job on Trick of the Tale and Wind and Wuthering, but they did still have another major element in the band, namely Steve Hackett. I can remember watching the Genesis History Video, were it described how steve hackett departed from the band, and Mr collins saying that steve hackett was never a writer, but a good player. I wish I could have been at that interview. Because as far as i'm concerned hackett is the only soul member from that band who still writes prog music, and is albums are miles better than every genesis album after trick of the tale.
Well said Intruder. 8)
I couldn't say it better myself. You're right when you say that the proggy stuff disappeared after Gabriell departed and definitely after Hackett departure.