Artist Survey #12: Genesis

[Dawn]

Thanks to Adam for suggesting today's survey subject!

Genesis



Favorite group member: Phil Collins

Most underrated group member: Tony Banks

Favorite Genesis songs:
1. Misunderstanding
2. Follow You, Follow Me
3. Silver Rainbow
4. Turn It On Again
5. No Reply At All
6. That’s All!
7. Taking It All Too Hard
8. Just A Job To Do
9. Paperlate
10. Home By the Sea
11. Abacab
12. Keep It Dark
13. A Trick of the Tail
14. Land of Confusion
15. Illegal Alien

Most underrated song: A Trick of the Tail

Any songs you feel are overrated? I Can’t Dance

Best vocals: Follow You, Follow Me

Best instrumentation: No Reply At All

First Genesis song you can remember hearing: Follow You, Follow Me

Favorite album: Genesis (love it!!)

Favorite album cover: Genesis

First 45 you owned: No Reply At All
First LP: Genesis
First cassette: Genesis
First CD: Genesis

Favorite Phil Collins solo efforts: I Missed Again, In the Air Tonight, Easy Lover w/Philip Bailey

Favorite Peter Gabriel solo efforts: Sledgehammer, Steam

Favorite Mike & the Mechanics solo effort(s): Silent Running, Taken In

[SAT-I need more room!!]

Thanks Dawn! I shoulda suggested it sooner so it would've coincided with the tourney!

Fave member-Phil

Underrated-Tony Banks (very talented)

25. Anything She Does
24. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
23. Throwing it All Away
22. Misunderstanding
21. Your Own Special Way
20. Driving the Last Spike
19. Abacab
18. No Reply it All
17. Who Dunnit?
16. Man on the Corner
15. Turn it On Again
14. Behind the Lines (Live)
13. Home By the Sea
12. Dodo-Lurker
11. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
10. Mama
9. Another Record
8. Eleventh Earl of Mar
7. Just a Job to Do
6. Follow You, Follow Me
5. Paperlate
4. Keep it Dark
3. Illegal Alien
2. Like it or Not
1. Taking it All Too Hard

Underrated-Eleventh Earl of Mar (of the singles, Paperlate)

Overrated-I Can't Dance & No Son of Mine

Vocals-Taking it All Too Hard

Instrumentation-Like it or Not

First heard-Probably No Reply at All

Fave album-Genesis (Abacab is a close second)

Fave cover-Seconds Out

First 45-No Reply at All
LP-Three Sides Live
Cassette-Genesis
CD-Abacab
Phil solo-Find a Way to My Heart, Inside Out, Like China (love the No Jacket & Hello albums)

Gabriel solo-Games Without Frontiers

Mike & Mechanics-Living Years

[Ken]

Favorite group member: Phil Collins

Most underrated group member: Tony Banks

Favorite Genesis songs:
1.Turn It On Again
2.Misunderstanding
3.Follow You, Follow Me
4.That's All
5.Squonk
6.Abacab
7.No Reply At All
8.Paperlate
9.Anything She Does
10.The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
11.In Too Deep
12.No Son Of Mine
13.Throwing It All Away
14.Hold On Your Heart
15. Land Of Confusion

Most underrated song: Squonk

Any songs you feel are overrated? I Can't Dance although I still kind of like it.

Best vocals: Turn It On Again

Best instrumentation: No Reply At All

First Genesis song you can remember hearing:It was either Follow You, Follow Me or Turn It On Again

Favorite album: Genesis

Favorite album cover:Nursery Cryme - It's included in a book I have of LP cover art.

First 45 you owned: One More Night - Phil Collins
First LP: None
First cassette:I have alot of their songs on different mix tapes
First CD:We Can't Dance

Favorite Phil Collins solo efforts:Take Me Home,In The Air Tonight , One More Night , Sussudio, I Missed Again , Easy Lover(with Philip Bailey), It's In Your Eyes

Favorite Peter Gabriel solo efforts:Solsbury Hill , Sledgehammer , Big Time

Favorite Mike & the Mechanics solo effort(s): All I Need Is a Miracle , Silent Running, I Get The Feeling, Taken In

[SAT-I need more room!!]

Ken said:

First 45 you owned: Just One Night - Phil Collins

Favorite Phil Collins solo efforts:Take Me Home,In The Air Tonight , Just One Night , Sussudio,I Missed Again ,Easy Lover(with Philip Bailey), It's In Your Eyes

Ken, is that One More Night, or is it a different song I missed?

[Ken]

SAT-Laney's said:

Ken, is that One More Night, or is it a different song I missed?

Yikes! no you're right it is One More Night - what was I thinking?? LOL - I better go and fix it.

[Pete70s]

I'm hardly a Genesis fan, I pretty much sat out their tourney. Not big on Phil Collins solo either..

Favorite group member: I guess I could say Peter Gabriel, but more as a solo artist.

Most underrated group member: none

Favorite Genesis songs:
Misunderstanding
That’s All!
Abacab
Land of Confusion
No Reply At All
Paperlate

Any songs you feel are overrated? I Can’t Dance

Best vocals:

Best instrumentation: (no answer for either of these)

First Genesis song you can remember hearing: Misunderstanding

Favorite album: None

Favorite album cover: None

First 45 you owned: That's All
First LP: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Didn't like it much, though)
First cassette: None
First CD: None

Favorite Phil Collins solo efforts: I Missed Again, Easy Lover

Favorite Peter Gabriel solo efforts: Third album, Fourth album (Security), So album

Favorite Mike & the Mechanics solo effort: Silent Running (That one was pretty good), All I Need Is A Miracle

[djdave]

Woo hoo!!!

Favorite group member: Tony Banks

Most underrated group member: Tony Banks, EASILY! SUPER keyboardist.

Favorite Genesis songs:
1. Misunderstanding
2. Taking It All Too Hard
3. Land of Confusion
4. Follow You, Follow Me
5. Invisible Touch
6. In Too Deep
7. Just A Job To Do
8. Paperlate
9. Hold on my Heart
10. No Reply At All
11. Silver Rainbow
12. Mama
13. Turn It On Again
14. Home By the Sea
15. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
16. I Can't Dance
17. Abacab
18. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
19. Illegal Alien
20. Jesus He Knows Me
21. That’s All!
22. No Son of Mine
23. Man On the Corner
24. Anything She Does
25. Behind the Lines
26. Congo
27. Dodo/Lurker
28. Me and Sarah Jane
29. Your Own Special Way
30. Supper's Ready
31. Who Dunnit
32. Carpet Crawlers
33. Driving The Last Spike
34. Squonk
35. Like it or Not

Most underrated songs: Taking it all too hard, Paperlate

Any songs you feel are overrated? Throwing it all away

Best vocals: Taking it all too hard, Hold on my heart

Best instrumentation: Misunderstanding

First Genesis song you can remember hearing: Follow You, Follow Me (when current)

Favorite album: Genesis (perhaps in my all-time top 10)

Favorite album cover: Genesis; Invisble Touch, a close second

First 45 you owned: none
First LP: none
First cassette: Genesis (copied from my roommate in '88)
First CD: got FIVE! at once in June '99: Then there were three, Duke, Abacab, Genesis (play the bejesus outta it!), Invisible Touch.
Turn It On Again, the Hits, came later the same year.

Favorite Phil Collins solo efforts:
1. Sussudio
2. I missed again
3. Trashin' the camp (from Tarzan)
4. In the air tonight
5. Easy Lover (w/Philip Bailey)
6. You can't hurry love
7. You'll be in my heart
8. Something happened on the way to heaven (though it's been overrated for the most part)
9. Like China
10. One more night
11. Don't lose my number
12. Hang in long enough
13. Take me home
14. I don't care anymore
15. Separate lives (w/Marilyn Martin)

Favorite Peter Gabriel solo efforts:
1. Sledgehammer (I still love it)
2. Games without frontiers (Jeuxes sans frontierres)
3. Big time
4. Shock the monkey
5. Solsbury hill
6. In your eyes
7. Biko
8. Steam
9. Family snapshot
10. D.I.Y.
11. Red rain
12. I don't remember
13. San Jacinto
14. Digging in the dirt
15. No self control

Favorite Mike & the Mechanics solo efforts:
1. All I need is a miracle
2. Taken in
3. The living years
4. Silent running
5. Nobody's perfect
6. Everybody gets a second chance
7. Hanging by a thread
8. Seeing is believing
9. Word of mouth
10. Par avion

[Triple J]

I have to lean towards Phil's era with this band. Though I LOVE Peter Gabriel's solo material, I don't know any of his songs with the group, save "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway."

Favorite group member: Tie between Peter Gabriel & Phil Collins

Most underrated group member: Tony Banks

Favorite Genesis songs:
1. No Son Of Mine
2. Mama
3. Invisible Touch
4. Hold On My Heart
5. Illegal Alien
6. That’s All!
7. No Reply At All
8. Turn It On Again
9. Jesus He Knows Me
10. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
11. Throwing It All Away
12. I Can't Dance
13. In Too Deep
14. Paperlate
15. Misunderstanding
16. Abacab
17. Land of Confusion
18. Just A Job To Do
19. Follow You, Follow Me
20. Anything She Does
21. Man On The Corner
22. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Most underrated song: A pair: "Illegal Alien" - great fun! And "Hold On My Heart" - so pretty

Any songs you feel are overrated? Probably the long version of "Abacab"

Best vocals: Mama

Best instrumentation: Turn It On Again

First Genesis song you can remember hearing: I think "That's All!"

Favorite album: Invisible Touch

Favorite album cover: Genesis (shapes)

First 45 you owned: none
First LP: none
First cassette: none
First CD: Invisible Touch

Favorite Phil Collins solo efforts:
1. Easy Lover (with Philip Bailey)
2. Sussudio
3. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven
4. Dance Into The Light
5. You Can't Hurry Love
6. Another Day In Paradise
7. Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
8. One More Night
9. In the Air Tonight
10. I Wish It Would Rain Down
11. Wear My Hat
12. That's What You Said
13. I Don't Care Anymore
14. I Missed Again
15. Do You Remember?
16. Take Me Home
17. Groovy Kind Of Love
18. Two Hearts
19. Don't Lose My Number
20. Separate Lives (with Marilyn Martin)

Favorite Peter Gabriel solo efforts:
1. Sledgehammer
2. Biko
3. Don't Give Up (with Kate Bush)
4. Shock The Monkey
5. In Your Eyes
6. Solsbury Hill
7. Red Rain
8. Shaking The Tree
9. Here Comes The Flood
10. Steam
11. Games Without Frontiers
12. Big Time
13. San Jacinto
14. The Barry Williams Show
15. Digging In The Dirt
16. Come Talk To Me
17. I Don't Remember
18. Signal To Noise
19. Growing Up
20. Darkness

Favorite Mike & the Mechanics solo effort(s):
The Living Years
Silent Running
All I Need Is A Miracle
Everybody Gets A Second Chance
Taken In

I was saving this for a surprise... I'm going to see Phil in concert at Cleveland on Saturday the 11th! Look for a review here at the click under "concerts" very soon!

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TripleJ said:

I have to lean towards Phil's era with this band. Though I LOVE Peter Gabriel's solo material, I don't know any his songs with the group, save "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway."

Favorite group member: Tie between Peter Gabriel & Phil Collins

Most underrated group member: Tony Banks

Favorite Genesis songs:
1. No Son Of Mine
2. Mama
3. Invisible Touch
4. Hold On My Heart
5. Illegal Alien
6. That’s All!
7. No Reply At All
8. Turn It On Again
9. Jesus He Knows Me
10. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
11. Throwing It All Away
12. I Can't Dance
13. In Too Deep
14. Paperlate
15. Misunderstanding
16. Abacab
17. Land of Confusion
18. Just A Job To Do
19. Follow You, Follow Me
20. Anything She Does
21. Man On The Corner
22. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Most underrated song: A pair: "Illegal Alien" - great fun! And "Hold On My Heart" - so pretty

Any songs you feel are overrated? Probably the long version of "Abacab"

Best vocals: Mama

Best instrumentation: Turn It On Again

First Genesis song you can remember hearing: I think "That's All!"

Favorite album: Invisible Touch

Favorite album cover: Genesis (shapes)

First 45 you owned: none
First LP: none
First cassette: none
First CD: Invisible Touch

Favorite Phil Collins solo efforts:
1. Easy Lover (with Philip Bailey)
2. Sussudio
3. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven
4. Dance Into The Light
5. You Can't Hurry Love
6. Another Day In Paradise
7. Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
8. One More Night
9. In the Air Tonight
10. I Wish It Would Rain Down
11. Wear My Hat
12. I Don't Care Anymore
13. I Missed Again
14. Do You Remember?
15. Take Me Home
16. Groovy Kind Of Love
17. Two Hearts
18. Don't Lose My Number
19. That's What You Said
20. Separate Lives (with Marilyn Martin)

Favorite Peter Gabriel solo efforts:
1. Sledgehammer
2. Biko
3. Don't Give Up (with Kate Bush)
4. Shock The Monkey
5. In Your Eyes
6. Solsbury Hill
7. Red Rain
8. Shaking The Tree
9. Here Comes The Flood
10. Steam
11. Games Without Frontiers
12. Big Time
13. San Jacinto
14. The Barry Williams Show
15. Digging In The Dirt
16. Come Talk To Me
17. I Don't Remember
18. Signal To Noise
19. Growing Up
20. Darkness

Favorite Mike & the Mechanics solo effort(s):
The Living Years
Silent Running
All I Need Is A Miracle
Everybody Gets A Second Chance
Taken In

I was saving this for a surprise... I'm going to see Phil in concert at Cleveland on Saturday the 11th! Look for a review here at the click under "concerts" very soon!

Trip, you shoulda joined us when we had the Genesis tournament! They're lots of fun!

[Dawn]

SAT-Laney's said:

Thanks Dawn! I shoulda suggested it sooner so it would've coincided with the tourney!

3. Illegal Alien
1. Taking it All Too Hard

Fave album-Genesis (Abacab is a close second)

Phil solo-Find a Way to My Heart, Inside Out, Like China (love the No Jacket & Hello albums)

You're welcome - glad to do it!

I remember one of the AOR stations here played a lot of the Genesis album cuts like Illegal Alien and Taking It All Too Hard back in early '84. Both of those always bring back great memories.

I'd also rank Abacab as a close second to Genesis - they were really at the top of their game during that time.

Those two Phil solo albums do have a lot of very good tracks, I agree. Face Value is a good one also - there's a cover of the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows that's pretty interesting!

[Dawn]

Ken said:

Most underrated song: Squonk

Favorite album cover:Nursery Cryme - It's included in a book I have of LP cover art.

I agree with you about Squonk being underrated. I'm not as familiar with their '70s material as their '80s material overall, but most of what I've heard is very good. I need to check out more of those early album cuts!

That sounds like a very cool book!

[Dawn]

Pete70s said:

Favorite group member: I guess I could say Peter Gabriel, but more as a solo artist.

Any songs you feel are overrated? I Can’t Dance

Favorite Phil Collins solo efforts: I Missed Again, Easy Lover

I should look into Peter's solo material in more depth sometime.

I was disappointed with I Can't Dance. It seemed as if the group started to lose some momentum with Invisible Touch, and they never quite got back on track after that.

I Missed Again and Easy Lover - I remember taping both of those songs off the radio back when they were current (I think I still have the I Missed Again cassette!).

[Dawn]

DJ said:

Woo hoo!!!

First Genesis song you can remember hearing: Follow You, Follow Me (when current)

Favorite album: Genesis (perhaps in my all-time top 10)

Thanks Dave!

I remember hearing Follow You, Follow Me on the car radio back in summer '78, and loving it right away.

I think I'd rank Genesis in my top 10 albums also. Every track on there is so solid - love it!

[Dawn]

TripleJ said:

I have to lean towards Phil's era with this band. Though I LOVE Peter Gabriel's solo material, I don't know any of his songs with the group, save "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway."

I was saving this for a surprise... I'm going to see Phil in concert at Cleveland on Saturday the 11th! Look for a review here at the click under "concerts" very soon!

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - good track! As I mentioned to Ken, I'm not quite as familiar with the Gabriel era as the Collins period, but have heard some very good songs from those years.

Very cool! I'll be looking forward to reading your review!

[Ken]

Dawn said:

I agree with you about Squonk being underrated. I'm not as familiar with their '70s material as their '80s material overall, but most of what I've heard is very good. I need to check out more of those early album cuts!

That sounds like a very cool book!

Hey Dawn:)

It's a very cool book!

I only know a few of their 70's tunes myself - Squonk , The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway , and I think I've heard Supper's Ready once . My classic rock station plays their 70's tunes every so often.