I think you'll have lots of company

Oops wrong band. Being a bit older they were my favourite band (along with Yes and Pavlov's Dog) from Selling England until post-Duke. You'll almost certainly like Trick Of The Tail and Wind & Wuthering too, and going back, Trespass.

I like just about all of their work and have bought all of the reissues with the DVDs and surround sound 5.1 mixes which I csn recommend for the DVD extras alone.

My personal favourite album is Trick of the Tail and from the 1980s the self titled Genesis album - marvellous stuff.

and worked my way back after hearing them live at Wembley Stadium on Radio 1 (particularly the In The Cage/In That Quiet Earth/Afterglow medley - I didn't realise anything could sound like that!).

I have great affection for the jacket sleeves rolled up years, but it's the early albums that I listen to all the time now, flutes, facepaint and a none more English mixture of whimsy and histrionics. And I have more bootlegs than I can shake a double necked twelve string/bass guitar at.

Only today I learned that "progressive rock supergroup" Transatlatic are back with a new album in October, featuring a cover of Return of the Giant Hogweed, and it made my week.

... many of us went into hiding, biding our time for when this music would once again rise up to take its rightful place in the pantheon of English music!

er ...I've had a glass of wine ...

or three.

The first live LP. I'm on that I am. Well cheering in the audience at Manchester's Free Trade Hall.

You will be ready for this then...

and I hate 80s Genesis (apart from The Last Domino, natch).

Love Gabriel's 70's/80s solo stuff, and adore Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme. Can't get into The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - I know it's just me, but it seems so... stodgy. Indigestible.

Get 'Em Out By Friday and Supper's Ready are the business, though. Like many an 80s kid I got into Marillion first then learned where they got it from.

I have all the Gabriel era studio albums in their original mixes on vinyl (all bought very cheap used) and the Peter Gabriel years boxed set with the dvds and the first volume of Archives on cd.

I can get into most of the stuff from Tail through Duke except And Then There Were Three which I think is mostly weak. I only like The Lady Lies and Many Too Many off it. The early 80's is where it ends for me, from the 1981 onward period I only like Me and Sarah Jane off Abacab which I think was the last gasp of Genesis' prog sound. The tries at prog on subsequent albums sound bland and lifeless to me.

It's very early, released as a single in NZ in about 1969, has gentle rhythmic piano chords, I've had it in my head that long although strangely I was never a fan. Did see them live in 73 in the white sheet period.

Anyway if anyone can suggest what the song I'm remembering is I'd appreciate it

is my favourite, although they are all good. Battle Of Epping and For Absent Friends are the only tracks that I can't be doing with. I think the Lamb is the apex of Peter Gabriel, who as a solo artist, apart from the Passion soundtrack, I find extremely dull and po-faced, unfortunatley. The thing is, I rarely play them these days. If I want to wave my codpiece or levitate, I tend to go for Yes, Caravan or Soft Machine.

that really got me submerged in music. As a consequence, I love them utterly, uncritically and unconditionally in all their manifestations, as the groaning weight of about 500 bootlegs on my shelves will testify. Sad really, but there it is.

I find untenable about prog. A lovely little melody, a funky interlude - and just as you're thinking this is good - they're off into some endless noodlesome nonsense or wiggly wizardry.

That's why my favourite Genesis track is "More Fool Me" which is just a lovely little song.

And short.

I am more of a fan of Gabriel-era Genesis, but when PG left, no-one (at least not in the music press) thought Genesis could survive. It was akin to Jagger leaving the Stones, or Bob Marley leaving the Wailers. However, carry on they did, and until Phil suggested to the others in the early 80s that they should "sell out" (his words not mine) they continued in the fine tradition of the PG period.

Anyway, my favourite Genesis album happens to be Seconds Out, a live album recorded (I think) on the first tour they did after Gabriel's departure. Featuring some "new" tracks from the excellent Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering, the versions of the "old" stuff are also outstanding, and far better in my view than the original studio versions. The versions of Suppers Ready, Cinema Show and Firth of Fifth are just outstanding. And the next time you hear someone have a go at Phil Collins, play them Dance on a Volcano/Los Endos. At the age of 13 in 1977, I truly believed that this was the most exciting record I had ever heard, and it remains a firm favourite to this day.

So there! I'll get me anorak.....

my obsession/addiction to early Genesis is well documented here.
That opening blast of Mellotron at the start of Watcher of the Skies from Genesis Live was my life changing moment in rock. I stuck with them through TotT and WaW even on to 3, but it just wasn't the same. For some odd reason I rather like Duke but Abacab was where I really decided to bail. They haven't done anything for me since Duke. I'm no big PG fan but albums 1,3 and Passion are very, very good. I even have a few Steve Hacket albums and although not quite right I feel he has more of the Genesis 'vibe' about him. Shame that PC may not be able to drum anymore, it was the thing he was best at along with backing vocals. ;D
Ach well, the VdGG are still going (very) strong! :D

From around the Ripples era I think. Great vocal from PC.

Can anyone recommend any Anthony Philips acoustic albums?

The Geese and the Ghost is wonderful. I've never liked Sides much personally, although it often pops up as a 'key' recording. Aside from TGAG, the 'live' albums Radio Clyde 1978 and Living Room Concert are excellent career summaries - and not really live at all - he suffers from stage fright I believe - they're recorded live in the studio. The Archive Collection Vol 1 is great - I must find time to check out the other volumes one day.

It has a demo called 'F sharp' which is basically the musical underpinnings of The Musical Box, plus lots of demos from Geese and Ghost - that must be why I bought it!