I love Foxtrot so much that I bought a vinyl copy of it and I don’t even own a record player.

"I can't dance is a song that I don't ever need to hear again..." Lol. Agreed.

The Lamb has some of the most beautiful and haunting pieces of music, rock has ever given.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is my favorite. Great album with amazing Peter Gabriel vocals. Never get tired of listening to it.

In 1980 a friend and I got to interview Steve Hackett at his flat in Holland Park for our Genesis fanzine. After the interview he asked if there was anything else and we asked if he would play something, and he played 'Horizons' for us - a wonderful experience I'll never forget (Foxtrot was always my favourite, and this just adds to it). We all know that Steve is a true gentleman, and he certainly was for us that day.

I love Foxtrot, but would have had Selling England By The Pound as my number one.

selling england by the pound, my desert island disc.

THE SOIL THE SOIL THE SOIL THE SOIL!!!!

Since I was a teen, Wind And Wuthering has always been my "rainy day" album. The mood of the music, like the cover art, just seems to fit a gray and cloudy, rainy day. That being said, I agree with your pick of Foxtrot as number one. My introduction to the band, and still my favorite.

I could argue that selling England by he pound is the greatest album of all time.

Selling England by the Pound was the first progressive rock album that I purchased back in '01. It remains my favorite album by Genesis.

Trick of the Tail & Wind and Wuthering are my 2 favorites

I was very pleasantly surprised by "Trespass". Since it is rarely mentioned I thought it be like "early album" which mostly are diehard-fans.. The kind of album that mostly just "sits" in a collection and never plays. Boy was I wrong. A really good album that deserves to be mention a lot more!

Ironically, the most played Genesis track in our home remains "Dance On A Volcano". At least it's one that won't cause our dinner guests to leave early.

Selling England by the pound - #1 for me! Period!

Trick of the Tail is my all-time favorite album & one of the best 51 minutes ever commited to vinyl.... The pressure the band were under losing Gabriel was immense & they delivered a classic with Phil singing that just knocked everyone out!!

Love this ranking of Genesis albums. I would say that the Gabriel/Rutherford/Hackett/Banks/Collins lineup is one of my all time fave prog rock groups-I definitely rank them up there with King Crimson, Moody Blues and Pink Floyd (never got too much into ELP or Yes, but that's another discussion). I pretty much agree with your ranking however, I would switch the order of your top 3 for my personal faves, with Nursery Crime at number 1, Foxtrot at 2 and Selling England...at 3. Here's my reasoning: Nursery Crime was the first Gen album I bought and listened to all the way through and it dropped my jaw to the floor, so it will always have that impact on me. I remember back in the early nineties and I Can't Dance was a huge hit on the radio, so too at the time were Peter Gabriel's songs Digging in the Dirt and Steam. Then my dad told me about how he remembered when Gabriel was in Genesis and he saw then for the first time on Midnight Special and he was reminiscing about PG singing these weird fantasy songs, wearing equally strange costumes and makeup. At the time I thought, "Wait a minute? PETER GABRIEL? In Genesis!?!" Again, at the time I was only aware of the hits Genesis had during the eighties and early nineties. Growing up during the eighties, the Phil Collins era hits were the ones given the most exposure. If you remember, songs like That's All, Mama, Tonight Tonight Tonight, Invisible Touch, Land of Confusion, No Son of Mine were just as big and played on the radio just as much as anything else at the same time as fill-in-the-blank with whatever songs you can think of from the same period by Prince, Madonna, U2 or Michael Jackson. Anyway, a short time later, I heard a college radio station playing songs like Time Table and Carpet Crawlers, then some months later a friend of mine gave me a cassette of 1973's Genesis Live and I was floored. Anyway, love Genesis, love Peter Gabriel; not that I don't like Phil Collins, great singer, I think he was an even better drummer, though. But, I love their run of albums from Trespass to Wind and Wuthering (by the way, do you notice how A Trick of the Tail and W&W have quite a fusion rock type flair to them?). But from And Then There Were Three onwards, I don't know, I am just not able to listen to those albums all the way through. I enjoy the Collins era hits, some of them are undeniable, but the Collins era albums, especially throughout the eighties, don't hold my interest as much as their prog material.

Wind & Wuthering top of my list .

it depends on my mood which is the best , love them all

THANK you for covering one of the best bands of ALL TIME!

A famous Peter’s quote is that “Phil maybe a better singer but he can’t sing like me”

The Lamb and Selling England By The Pound are my top 2 Genesis albums.

Great video and ranking the albums is difficult indeed. My top 5 for what it's worth. 1- The lamb lies down on Broadway 2 - Foxtrot 3 - Selling England by the pound 4 - Trespass 5 - Nursery Crime As you can see, I love the early stuff and am a huge fan on Anthony Phillips as well. The geese and the ghost, Wise after the event and Slow Dance are classics.

You should do a Frank Zappa rate the albums, that might be a 2 hour episode though

Really great channel. Simple concept but well executed. Genesis is an amazing band.

Love Genesis, thanks for posting this video Pete. Next up Ranking the Studio Albums: Yes

Genesis is one of my favorite bands of all time. I am also big into the early 70’s albums as well. I like the 80’s pop, because that’s what I grew up on first and was never aware of their earlier work until I got older and found out that Peter Gabriel was their first singer, so of course I delve deeper and found I love that decade better. Here goes my rankings for Genesis: 1. Nursery Crime 2. Trespass 3. Foxtrot 4. Selling England By The Pound 5. Invisible Touch 6. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 7. Abacab 8. A Trick of the Tail 9. Wind & Wuthering 10. Duke 11. Genesis 12. And Then There Were Three 13. From Genesis to Revelation 14. We Can’t Dance 15. Calling All Stations

Selling England has always been my fav. One of my top prog albums. Firth of Fifth gives me chills and Cinema Show has sections of pure beauty. Such a unique sounding album with brilliant performances.

I'm just getting into them, so this is super useful, thanks!

Thank you for ranking the Genesis cd's.🎤🎸🎵🥁

Hey, Pete. I discovered your channel and i love it. I'm also a colector of music (i have now over 3.000 titles) and you vive me something that i lost over the years - someone to talk about music, albuns, songs. Really cool. Thanks.

Calling All Stations is a terribly underrated album. I have listened almost since release as a teenager. Many memories. My second full Genesis album I heard. It still impresses me today

I was right there with you until you put "Selling England by the Pound" as number two, but it's hard to choose between it and "Foxtrot". Nice analysis!

Trick of the Tail is my favorite.

Another perfect vid!! Thanks Pete always for your vids. The first 6 albums for my $$

Enjoyed your video.It's great since I Know every Genesis album.Thanks

Turn It On Again: Only Genesis can produce a poppy 'radio track' in 13/8.

I'm glad to see this. "Selling England By The Pound" seems to be the #1 favorite of most Genesis fans (or Gabriel-led Genesis fans, at least) and I agree it's a terrific album, but I've always preferred "Foxtrot". My #1 Genesis album as well.

Thank you for providing your honest assessments, it gives my students a great intro to the band and a guide on where to start their listening.

Thanks for that Mr Pardo, Genesis were the first band I got into, at the age of 12 back in the 80's. I still listen to them from time to time. It was nostalgic for me to hear you talk about them on this video, many thanks. I've subscribed to hear you speak about other great Rock Bands too. Cheers.

I've seen Steve Hackett and his current band play Genesis stuff live four times now and its honestly incredible. Hes obviously doing to it to put food on the table but he genuinely seems to enjoy revisiting this material and it's a joy to watch. Watching and hearing him play the solo from Firth of Fith is simply amazing

Once I figured my way around the Battle of Epping Forest, Selling England became my favourite album. It all hangs together, and its flow is much more concise than Lamb. There's some better individual tracks on other albums, but as a whole album little out there stands up to it.

Thank you so much, Sea of Tranquility! Wonderful job, I would agree to most of it! Thank you again.

Another excellent installment from Sea of Tranquility. Many of us prog rock listeners gain much from your videos. Keep up the fantastic work. (Totally shocked you don't have the last Genesis release! LOL)

Selling England by the Pound was definitely their pinnacle album...the synth solo in Cinema Show is probably one of the best keyboard solo of all times and always sent shivers up my spine! My introduction to Genesis was Genesis Live and was completely entranced and hooked by Watcher of The skies and every song on it! My next favourite was Foxtrot...love Get Em out by Friday and Can Utility and the coast liners besides the Epic Suppers Ready...toss up between Lamb and Nursery Crymes...A Trick of the Tail was brilliant followed by Wind And Wuthering..And Then There were Three was well done but starting to get commercial...Duke was pretty good but I pretty much checked out by Grab A Cab and just listened to hits on the radio...Hackett is the only one who has held true to the early Genesis sound and has brilliantly revived that classic beauty...A water fall is madrigal , an inland sea is symphony...but there is in fact more Earth than sea.

Nice breakdown Pete of some classic Genesis albums. Lamb has always been number 1 for me. I think it's such an outstanding album. Never tire of listening to it.

Cool stuff... Enjoying all these a bunch... 🍺✌️🔥🎶

Excellent ranking - I agree with your approach and analysis. There would be some slight movement, and honestly two of these albums I haven't heard. You do a great job on these rankings - I have watched 3 or 4 of bands I like, and you are pretty much spot on with my thoughts. Keep up the good job at what you do - you push a lot of videos out, and it's a shame some are pressuring you to do even more. Shows how successful you are.

Even though I wasn't born at the time that the classic albums came out, I always knew who they were as I remember growing up with the three piece lineup but had no idea at the time that Steve Hackett used to be a member of Genesis because I only knew him for his solo work until I heard his 'Genesis Revisited' album then I checked out the earlier stuff of the band. I would definitely say that the best music they made was in the 70s by the classic lineup with Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel, for me 'Lamb Lies Down In Broadway' is their masterpiece that captured them at their musical creative peak.

I personally think the band has never released a bad album

I love your channel Pete, it's superb and your reviews are very honest and correct

I've only watched a few of these "Genesis Album ranking "type shows and your has been by far the best.You obviously know the material very well,and I actually agree with some of your rankings. Thank you!I enjoyed your video.

Hey man, I'm having a blast every day checking out your lists, and even if I disagree, i love it, because we are dissecting music and great musicianship which is sorely needed in this American Idol/plastic pop mentality world that we are currently in. I'm close to you on this one. I love Selling England by the Pound, and that Gabriel era is tremendous to me. It went downhill in my opinion when Hackett left, so to me Wind & Wuthering is the last great Genesis work. They didn't get a dynamic guitarist to replace him, so an element of their dynamic suffered greatly. Keep up the great work. I'm curious to know if you will do any Soul albums such as Stevie Wonder, EWF, or Curtis Mayfield. I'm not sure if you're into those folks or not, but I would love to see your take if you have those albums. Great job man. Keep up the excellent work. Peace friend!

...And Then There Were Three was the first Genesis album that I ever bought and then I got Winds and Wuthering. I still have a huge attachment to both of those. Good list!

Thanks for acknowledging my favorite band from the 70's. To me, the most underrated band in the history of R &R. I'm a little bummed out as I have tickets to see Steve Hackett do his SEBTP session this coming weekend. However, corona virus has told me to go pound sand. No rescheduled date yet. I have the same tee shirt!👍🏻. Great channel.

I find your ranking albums by various groups very cool. Your lists and mine are very similar...I am sure part of the reason is our similar ages: I am 53 last November, so we listened to similar stuff at similar times. This is why I am buying "new" music and finding you are a good sounding board. Thank you. Keep it up.

In seeing the shirt you're wearing, I had to comment. The band photo was taken in '73, in Central Park South (Back in NYC....arf, arf... ) This is a stone's throw from The Plaza Hotel. Anyway, using the Essex House Hotel in the photo's backround as a gauge, I found that rock they'd posed on & had my photo taken on it as well, after taking the ex-wife on a buggy ride through the park. I still refer to it as the Genesis rock. It is now in a section that is either chained off or fenced off; I can't remember now. I found the Genesis rock & had my photo taken there in the mid-90s.... By the way, Essex House is the same placed that Donny Hathaway jumped from & killed himself in '79, I think it was '79 anyway.... I don't do NYC as much as I used to- the closing of some iconic deli locations like The Stage & Carnegie took away half of the reason I used to go up there. I also saw The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway at the Tribeca Theatre as performed by The Musical Box, back when they featured their dead-ringer for Phil's playing & singing. (2005, I believe) Dead-ringer named Martin LeVac. He played & sang JUST LIKE PHIL. He lead the band behind the kit, just like Phil used to, with the same exact kit that Phil employed during The Lamb era. To see Rael's story performed in Rael's backyard ? That significance was not lost on me. That I was wasted on pain killers (yes, I was addicted at the time...) during the show was not lost on me, either...😎

The Duke and the self titled 80s album are probably my two favorite.

Congratulations Pete for the excellent show!! Greetings from Greece! 🇬🇷

Thanks for doing that so soon Pete! I'm always amazed how your top 3 or 4's are the same as mine ...my only niggle would have been Trick of the Tail over the Lamb but nonetheless all good over the pond here!

Agreed with Foxtrot being their best. Trespass has also become one of my favorites. Didn't blow me away first listen, but it's probably in my top 10 albums of all time now.

I agree wholeheartedly with your list...but I would rank "Selling England by the Pound" over "Foxtrot"

I have so many memories attached to each of these albums. I love all of them.

Just amazing you memory to read the titles and actually remember the songs from this massive music collection...I am impressed. I have never been good remembering song titles in association to the music.My younger sister favorite band.

Personally,Trick of the Tail is my favorite of all their records. Genesis has quite a few filler tracks on amazing albums, the Lamb Lies Down and its interludes, Nursery Cryme especially, Wind and Wuthering has one, Trespass, even Selling England has some more forgettable stuff. I can put on any song from Trick of the Tail and absolutely love it, each tune has so much substance.

I love we can't dance, fading lights and driving the last spike are the bomb.

I haven’t watched the video yet, but foxtrot is my favorite album of all time. My favorite band, excited to give this a watch later!

You sure know your prog music my man...love your show.glad im not the only one that loves and shares this great band....and of course many....many others..

The Best album is the Live "Seconds Out" withe the bombastic interpretation of "Firth of Fifth". Definitively !

Nice, I had never heard of From Genesis to Revelation. I started listening to Genesis in the Duke & ABACAB era, then backtracked to Trespass ... never knew there was an album before it!

My first Genesis album that I listened to was Foxtrot and I couldn't stop playing it over and over again. No group had ever been so creative before in my opinion and the quality of the instrumentation and vocals was incredible. After that album I would be excited to hear the next newest album. I still play tracks from that album 50 years later! In my opinion 70s Genesis music is by far better than anything they released after that time.

Pete, thanks for highlighting some of my favourite albums of all time. I too started when Duke was released in my second last year of high school. My order below. Depending on the time of year, any of the first five could be being spun the most and at the top of the list. The Gabriel Albums plus first two Phil Collins led albums could only have been made by British artists. They have that ineffable British air that the Kinks have.I also listen to Seconds Out. A lot. I rank it as one of THE great live albums. Cheers from Melbourne, Australia. 1 Selling England by the Pound 2 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 3 Foxtrot 4 Wind & Wuthering 5 A Trick of the Tail 6 Nursery Cryme 7 Duke 8 Trespass 9 ...And Then There Were Three... 10 Genesis 11 Calling All Stations 12 Invisible Touch 13 Abacab 14 We Can't Dance 15 From Genesis to Revelation

1. Wind and Wuthering (as the most atmospheric album with an explicit instrumental work) 2. Nursery Crime (with the outstanding starting and finishing tracks) 3. Selling England by the Pound (as Gabriel's peak)

‘Keep It Dark’ is one of the best things they ever recorded.

I agree with all except Selling at #1 and Foxtrot at #2. All very fine albums. My favorite band of all time. I'm 60 and just missed seeing Peter with the band. First album I bought was Selling. Then I bought them all!

Long time Genesis fan and Calling all stations grows on you. It's a great album!

Do you have Anthony Phillips 'The geese and the ghost'? Brilliant album.

well timed, Pete! It's Phil Collins' birthday today. Say what you want about the "pop" period of the band. His drumming (with exception of the last album) was influential to many drummers.

Love your top 5 alot man

Wow Pete, you matched my list almost to the letter!

1. A Trick Of The Tail 2. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 3. Selling England By The Pound 4. Duke 5. Wind And Wuthering 6. Nursery Cryme 7. Foxtrot 8. Trespass 9. And Then There Where Three 10. Invisible Touch 11. Genesis 12. We Can't Dance 13. Abacab 14. From Genesis To Revelation Haven't heard Calling All Stations

Your positioning is amazingly close to mine. On all of them you are spot on with my list or perhaps one slot different. I do despise the We Can't Dance disc. The "pop" Genesis is just unpalatable to me. I know it's pretty good pop, but I never go back and listen to those tunes. From a long time Genesis fan...thanks for the list!

These would have been my exact rankings, too. Well done

One of the very few rankings with Trespass higher than A Trick, which is absolutely correct of course. Well done!

Calling All Stations gets a bad rap. Very underrated album. I like all 3 eras of Genesis. There really isnt a bad one. Peter and Steve need to get with Tony, Mike and Phil and do a reunion tour. Mix some of the 70's with the 80's 1. Foxtrot (Supper's Ready enough said) 2. We Can't Dance (Fading Lights is Genesis best song, just an amazing song) 3. Wind And Wuthering (Amazing album, top to bottom) 4. Selling England By the Pound (Top notch prog) 5. Calling All Stations (Only a few bad ones) 6. Genesis (Killer album) 7. Invisible Touch (Tonight Tonight and the title track are amazing) 8. Abacab (Keep It Dark and Dodo are a great duo) 9. Duke (Man Of Our Times is classic) 10. Nursery Cryme (Such an amazing classic with the Musical Box) 11. Trick Of The Tail (Maybe the best opening song of all Genesis albums with Dance On A Volcano) 12. And Then There Were Three (Great album lack though in some spots) 13. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Really like the album but there is some filler there) 14. Trespass (The Knife is a classic) 15. From Genesis To Revelation (Interesting beginning)

Seeing The Musical Box tomorrow in Swansea...20 minutes from my home...setlist is fucking awesome can't wait..saw them on their last tour here.

That’s a badass shirt Pete! I got a few Genesis shirts, but I’ve never seen that one

My Top 15 Genesis Albums. 15. We Can't Dance 14. Calling all stations 13. Invisible Touch 12. Abacab 11. Genesis 10. ...And Then There Was 3 9. Duke 8. Genesis to Revelation 7. Wind and Wuthering 6. Trick of the tail 5. Lamb lies down on Broadway 4. Nursery Cryme 3. Trespass 2. Selling England by the Pound 1. Foxtrot My top 10 are my favorite Genesis Albums. Abacab and Genesis has some Great Songs.

I was ok after Gabriel left, I thought Phil did a great job But when Hackett left That was the final nail for me.

My Premier League Genesis: 1. Selling England by the Pound 2. Foxtrot 3. Trespass 4. Nursery Cryme 5. The Lamb 6. Trick of the Tail 7. Wind and Wuthering 8. And then there were Three Due for promotion: 9. Duke 10. From Genesis to Revelation Always second flight: 11. Abacab 12. Genesis 13. Calling all Stations 14. Invisible Touch Never left the wardrobe: We Can't Dance I think the very first album shows an enormous potential for good songwriting. It's very badly recorded and all that, but to me has something very special and promising. Trespass was my gateway to the earlier of the bands material, me growing up with Abacab and Mama being the current hits in my teens. And I still love it in all it's quirkiness.

Undertow is probably my favorite Genesis song. And I am a HUGE fan of both eras

Congrats to a late Genesis fan from a longtime fan 1969 on your ranking and your analysis is so on point it’s frankly surprising! Congrats

Cualquier disco desde Nursery hasta Wuthering podría ser elegido como el mejor. Mi top: 5) Wuthering 4) Lamb 3) A trick 2) Foxtrot 1) Selling

Could not have ranked this any differently. The early stuff was epic right on through “Wind and Wuthering”. The rest of it was a change, almost sounding like a different band.

Love the t-shirt Pete!

1st: The Lamb, 2nd: Selling England, 3rd:Foxtrot, 4th:Nursery, 5th: Trespass, THAT'S ALL

One of the first bands I ever saw back in 1971, Sunny Manchester UK Charisma did 30p (6/-) tours and you got to see 3 bands, first time I got to see Van der Graf Generator, Lindisfarne and of course Genesis..to put it into perspective an LP cost £2.00, even caught them at Friars at Aylesbury for me Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot are just sublime, cant split them, Caught the Lamb Lies down tour, Gabriel left and so did I

Foxtrot is their best album in my opinion. Both of their eras had great stuff.

oh oh ooohhhh, so i am wondering where this will let us to be find, or not... where will my, my, my favourites LPs be, in your ranking... I am so excited and will now watch this video...

A pleasure to listen to your comments about this fantastic band!