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  • La pureza y el verdadero sentido del Rock Progresivo

  • questo affascinante disco è un mio bel ricordo

  • It's weird...I first got this album on cassette with the third through fifth songs listed here in a different sequence (More Fool Me, THEN Battle, THEN Firth). Sounds foreign listening to those songs in this order when playing the album on the reissued CD!! But still a joy...

  • Is Genesis' Selling England By The Pound an idyllic dream or an english nightmare? Either way the music is magical! :D

  • Wow, this sounds beyond great. I hate rebuying albums, but this sounds too good to not to. I'll have to check out Nursery Cryme after this.

  • @Vistico93 This is the single best prog rock album in human history, my opinion ofc :) However i would encourage you to buy it, it's beautiful

  • @shwaaank : I've had this album on CD for fifteen years. It's just...do I wanna buy it again for the even-better bit depth? I did it before for George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" so I'll probably do it again for the progressive rock years of Genesis because the songs of those years have far too rich a sound to not want to hear it all :-)

  • A wave of joy overcomes me at 50:40 everytime. That is prog. at it's most masterfully accomplished.

  • Great album! Check out our discussion on the homepage!

  • It is the most telling Prog lyric

    Tess cooperrates

    Tesco operates

    Tess ( co-op) erates

    Really, Genesis must have been time travellers!

  • @teddingtontcu What could this comment possibly mean?

  • Little did the know when they wrote this that we have sold England for a pound.

    Fantastic album Genesis at there very best.

  • headphones

  • astounding production love this

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  • BRILLIANT

  • C'est le meilleur album a vie de Genesis.Black.

  • This is Musical Brilliance at it's Best!!!

    

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  • this is the real music

  • ...e tra la musica inarrivabilmente geniale e raffinata spiccano testi che mutuano dai classici attraverso il simbolismo di T.S. Eliot. Dopo la loro Progressive, il vuoto.

  • "Can you tell me where my country lies!!!"

  • Indeed brilliant quality!

    I bought this LP around '75 and still love it, even after listening to it about a "thousand" times! Thanks for uploading it!

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  • To Martin Gilbert-a beautiful man-found 2 years ago at the bottom of a welsh waterfall

    wrists cut-and returning to nature in his allgiving way-i will always love you-till the worlds

    end-i wish i had been kinder to you-my happiest memory is of walking with you around scorriebreck-singing this!-and the birds all coming to your gentle call-ahh -memories..-

    it is because of you i think of an afterlife-i have to see you again -i just know it

  • @TheYellowellies "Truth is poetry. and when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry." -Ray Bradbury

  • @TheYellowellies Sorry to hear of your loss. The power of music to stay connected to lost ones is wonderful.

  • Hey python, this sounds great, even on crappy speakers! I can hear things on it that I have never heard before. Thanks for posting this masterpiece!

  • its still pure joy listening to this fantastic album:-)

  • I remember being at Listening Booth on a Saturday night in 1974 and my friend Jeff Martin told me this was the greatest album he ever heard. He covinced me to buy it, 8 track lol and we partied all night long yeah!

  • ...una obra maestra!!!...un concepto del refinamiento instrumental, como

    poquísimos grupos lo han hecho(Yes, King Crimson), muy elavorado, aca

    démico y prolijo. Si hubiesen aparecido en el período Romántico, estarían

    tocando en la fosa, y sobre el escenario P.Gabriel danzando con un ballet

    .....bellísima la estética de T.Banks and S. Hackett!!!!

  • Chewing through your wimpy dreams, they eat without a sound. Digesting England by the pound.

  • The Knights of The Green Shield Stamp and Shout...Indeed.

  • This was one of the first albums I ever bought.

    Still one of the greatest.

  • Amazingly clearer than the original master. A lot more compression used, and definately louder.

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  • Quite simply - their best ever album.

    No question.

  • 5 CRAZY JUSTIN BIEBER FUN!!! MOTHER OF GOD

  • Why!!?? WHY!!?? my wife doesn't like early Genesis?? (trust me I have tried for years...)

    I truly envy "that" Genesis' fan that can enjoy Cinema Show while taking a shower with his significant other or a love making session with "Visions of Angels". . It's really getting boring shower sex with the Brazilian or Dodo or any of those other progmantico (Prog romantico) Collins' songs

    What can I do Abby? I don't think conversion is an option for neither one of us.

  • @vivelavidarocka

    Shower sex is boring?? Strewth!

  • intramontabili Genesis !!! Cinzia '62

  • 18:38 - 20:14 --> I can see God

  • was so stoned wen first heard this in 73 :) m still stoned :) listing 2 this.............. classic

  • The Battle Of Epping Forest is so underestimated. In the sense, it's everything that was Gabriel's era in Genesis. Not the best piece of their music, but full of richness and artistic style.

  • amazing album

  • This album was uploaded in my 36th birthday!

    Thank you uploader!

  • God. I played this album on vinyl when i was 16yrs old.........a great prog masterpiece,-

    i was a long blonde haired young man back then with a lonely acceptance of having a soul.....in particular the track ''a firth of fifth'' carried me away to dimensions that i loved but never completely understood......i then moved to punk & alternative music , but still love this album as much as ''king crimzon'' ''red album'' (in particular the song ''starless'' rock on !! -mark :)

  • "....And Then They Were Gene$i$"

    What a shame!

  • Miticiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! :-)

  • The best of Genesis !!!!!!!

  • 36:48

    beautiful.........

  • From the days before anyone ever heard of Peter Gabrial or Phill Collins.

    What a great show they did at the Felt Forum in NYC in the early '70's.

  • "There´s no-one left alive - Must be draw" So the Blackcap Barons toss a coin to settle the score...

  • So amazing, every second

  • Questa è musica che sicuramente sarebbe piaciuta a W.A.Mozart e a L.v.Beethoven...perchè dello stesso livello!

  • genial gracias por subir esta joya

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  • Quando la Musica era davvero emozione allo stato puro dovuto alla qualità superiore dell'estro creativo e del talento di Peter, Tony, Phil, Mike, Steve...Altri tempi. Straordinari, insieme a loro, insieme e Pink Floyd, Jethro, Elp, Crimson, Yes, Gentle Giant, i nostri Area, Van der Graaf, ci hanno regalato davvero mille e intense emozioni.

  • This sounds NICE! I need to get this remastered version!!!

  • musica di una volta la piu bella .... qualcosa ora ce vero però però

  • I never bought that mantra "Punk killed Prog" .

    IMO, Prog induced itself into a coma for a few years in order to survive the rest of the 70's, which it did, and we see later the re-surging of the genre in the 80's, now without the stigmatization it got in the prior decade. It became cool to like and play Prog. Don't know if it has ever been like that.

    Btw, does anybody know what happened with its alleged murderer? (probably killed itself, the fucker)

  • Thank god for the sex pistols

  • @lawswlaw what do you mean ill admit i like punk but the sex pistols suck bands like ALL Black Flag and Descendents incorperate prog into there songs

  • totalmente godibile

  • God, I love that first song!!!

  • Cant get enough of Pete Gabriel era Genesis. Lived it in my teens, then kinda left prog rock behind for punk, indie, techno, dance, electro, dubstep etc. then recently - right back here! Like finding an old friend you lost touch with. If your lucky enough to get this stuff in your teens it's indelibly there in your psyche for ever. Tingling as I listen to FirthofFifth right now... ahhhhhhhhhh. These guys just KNEW! Shame what happened to Phil Collins though :\

  • I've just been absolutely addicted to early, Gabriel era Genesis lately......brilliant stuff, this album might be the best of the bunch........

  • Genesis downgraded from being a priest o musicology to a lapdog of the priest. It is a fairy tale about a magician who chose to be a hampster in a golden cage instead of an eagle on a snow-capped tree. Sad and dramatic collapse of the genius behind the group that vanished by 1978. In the same way a toothless hag looks at her teen portrait with a smile of an imecile. "That was you, Dorris, and look at what became of you..." Unlike Dorris, they did it to themselves. Age had nothing to do with it.

  • Una obra maestra.

  • For all this Phil Collins haters

    go listen to a trick of the tail album or just check blood on the rooftops song

  • COLLIN$ $OLD GENE$I$ BY THE POUND....

  • Cont.

    Oh! and you hear Steve laughing his ass off in a corner.

    End of scene.

  • nao ha melhor k isto!!!

  • Life Complete!!

  • firth of fifth!

  • ok since you put it that way u have a point, and i admitt he did cheapen him/themselves in the 80s with the comercialism, , but as far as talent goes phil is rite up there also peter gabrial, fantastic, i even liked some of his newer stuff, sledgehammer, dont hate me i love peters voice in that song and the way he sings it more than the actual lyrics, thanks bud good

  • sao excelentes musicos so

  • Wurruk every week!

  • not only that but my kitty likes phil :o)

  • this was one of my first albums when i was 16 that was 40 years ago and it still gives me listening enjoyment, how ever you guys are running down phil collins and i wont have it, no one who knows talent would ever slam phil, hes a fucken musical geneius, sure some of his stuff was a bit on the edge but he has a great voice and is a fantastic drummer, any music is someones cup a tea somewhere so dont diss music u dont like, like its no good, to some it may be the shit, think about it bone heads.

  • @1budgood No one is saying he's not a musical genius (when he wanted) and one of the best drummers ever. And yes, any music is someone's cup of tea, but not ALL music is good or equally composed to challenge our perceptiveness, as an art form. And only a few of us can see it that way That's why we're here listening to this album and not in a Gaga video right?

    What we discuss here, is the waste of talent this band became when they decided to do what they did half way into their careers

  • Gabriel era + Collins first three albums as lead singer = GENESIS

    "That" other band Collins started in the 80's = GENESHITS

    It could be I meant shits or hits. I take the fifth amendment on that.

  • @vivelavidarocka Phil Collins is an OK drummer...beyond that , he's a hack , he's never had an original thought in his life !

  • @ThePrestige4u An "OK" drummer? Listen to Firth of Fifth again.

  • @andreseh87 Funny how all that talent seemed to evaporate post GABRIEL !

  • @ThePrestige4u that's cuz peter gabriel is BOSS!!!

  • geniale

  • Genesis are my favourite group. Thank you ever so much for this gift!

  • this is one of the greatest song ever made, this is a masterpiece!

  • OH....This music is forever....

  • SEBTP is the best thing in the world! let alone best album. No doubt about it as far as I'm concerned.

    After years of listening to a burned CD I decided it's time to by my own copy.

    Getting to the point: I was disappointed by the "2008 digital remaster and stereo mix" version (that's what I found). I usually don't even notice minor editing nuances but here I was really itched by the way this "remastering" kind of messed it up.

    I dunno, Maybe I didn't give it a chance. For your consideration.

  • so boring

  • @gablen23 get the fuck out!

  • @gablen23 guess u haven't got a clue - learn some english

  • @TheWavemaster204 yeah, I know I gotta learn more...Would you teach me? I teach you hungarian in exchange!

  • @gablen23 Boring, right? Pretty sure the "Hungarian Idol" bull shit you listen to is way more interesting....

  • @vivelavidarocka Wow, how do you know what I Iisten to? :o) I must admit now, that I like Genesis(and this song too), I was just joking, funny how you all jumped on me :)

  • @gablen23

    get the fuck out and come back when you get some taste.

  • great days when we were hip.

  • This album is an EXPERIENCE.

  • Its very exciting to search music created before your birth

  • @MrAnchell I agree, but it's also sad that we can't experience these bands in our own time.

  • a masterpiece, and one of my first LP

  • Love it!

  • There is not even a word to describe the awesomeness of this record... it's such a shame we cant find this music in 2011...

  • @ThecookiemonsterTV i found this song in 2011 ;D

  • @joshua1ba I was actually stating that it is a shame that OTHER ARTISTS in 2011 don't make music like this anymore... but it's just a misunderstanding i guess ;) :D

  • Epic...I learned english listening to this album again and again when I was a little girl. Thanx dad!

  • Przeminęło wiele lat, od momentu jak ich poznałem i dalej wprowadzają mnie w dziwną zadumę.

    Jeżeli ich nie znasz, posłuchaj a ta muzyka Cię oczaruje. Marek M.

  • this shit is addictted

  • I do like "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" better with Gabriel singing. Saw them when they came to Verizon center, in Wash. DC and the Collins rendition was not as good in my opinion.

  • I guess I am in the minority, but I like Genesis with both Gabriel and Collins. The later stuff of Genesis with Phil was not as good (everything after the Genesis album in 1984), but some of the songs were ok. Most of the albums after Genesis weren't that bad except the one they did not release in the US released in the late nineties,that one was pretty terrible, but Collins was not part of that one.

  • cazzo! my dreamn album.

  • Genuisis. 

  • @MrPlTA Good one!!!

  • @MrPlTA This has probably been pointed out before, but it's Geniusis. :P

  • How could possible a band go from composing this sublime MASTERPIECE to record a major MASTERSHIT like "Invisible Bullshit".

  • @vivelavidarocka I agree. Phil Collins sucks for what he did to Genesis

  • @vivelavidarocka ., once brilliance has been met., the sublime decline must follow.

  • @lammterra Not necessarily.... I know what you mean. How come didn't happened with Zappa, Davis, Ponty, Corea, Mozart and others. They were committed for life to excellence and uniqueness ( not to the dollar)

    Maybe (just maybe) they ran out of ideas to offer between each other. But then you split from the group, and keep doing "your thing"

  • @vivelavidarocka I know their best work is from 1970-1977 after that its bunch of wtf's

  • @vivelavidarocka Peter Gabriel , dipshit !

  • @vivelavidarocka Two words: Peter Gabriel

  • @GeoJoe2000 Imagine this:

    Year 1986. Peter's still in the band

    "Hey guys: I've got an idea for a song: starts like this: TA ra ra ra ra TA ra ra ra ra ra TA TA (Invisible Bullshit's beginning chords)

    Peter interrupts: "I'm not singing this crap. Keep that shit for your solo albums, Phil. We do REAL MUSIC in this band." (throws the paper he was handed by Collins)

    Oh, sorry Peter.... (retrieves the paper from the trash can, walks away in shame and quietly sits behind the drums)

  • @vivelavidarocka Phil should have stuck to drums.

  • @vivelavidarocka Duke was the last Genesis album I could stomach, and even then it was touch and go

  • Time, diminished mental faculties and a wife with credit cards

  • the SOUND (!) feels wonderful. thank you!

  • 3 dislikes! ... He grabbed his AK-47 and went on a quest to hunt them down and suggest to them a second opinion!

  • @dynmohum ...but Patrick Bateman, Collins and Gaga refused to renounce to their first one, and he had to pull the trigger....the world was a better place since then....and Gabriel could make that movie he wanted, and the idea of a musical perished with Collins.

  • vorrei conoscerli solo per potergli ridere in faccia

  • vorrei conoscere i tre pirla a cui non piace questo disco!!

  • @lupo57ful invece io non li voglio proprio conoscere

    

  • E' tutto, e mi pare che basti. Da quando avevo 10 anni...

    That's all and enough. Since I was 10...

  • no puedo dejar de escucharlo, lo amo

  • Fun fact: While I was playing around with my guitar I noticed that the riff at 0:50 is actually based on the Locrian scale, played on 3 different octaves. The Locrian scale was, traditionally a garbage scale, and many classical composers wanted to get rid of it, it was that hard to make anything of it. It is use alot in heavy metal music.

    My point? whoever wrote that riff is very gifted.

  • @glaxko2 I dont think its actually in Locrian. Most of the song sounds very natural, its a standard major mode from what I can tell it's just that the second and third chord in the verse have augmented intervals in them. if we knew what key it was in and what the chords are, we could tell if it was originally written in Locrian, or simply (as I suspect) Ionic that doesn't start on "do." Of course I could always be wrong.

  • I find Genesis music beautiful, though deeply melancholic.

  • @Artemissa1965 Genesis isnt really melancholic, maybe this song, but listen to The Knife, Watcher of the Skies, Get em out by Friday, maybe a few more.

  • 3 people are totally deaf

  • @baldus63 come again?lol.

  • Tony Banks is just the Man!

  • They found their "sound" of the Battle Epping Forrest" Collins on that amazing aggressive dramatic!!

  • Sounds wonderful takes me back....Firth of Fifth wow the power and intelligent lyric

    goldenthug thumbs up!!

  • MI SEGUNDO GRUPO FAVORITO DESPUES DE PINK FLOYD

  • The Cinema Show is the greatest keyboard performance of all time.

  • Hermoso

    

  • i listened to the first song 5 times in a row, then i remembered i hadn't listened to the rest of the album.

    Its going to be a while before I stop listening to this album

  • excelent, beautiful, unique, one of the best recordings in the history. thank you very much!! please, check my videos of my band Marania if you can, and let me know your opinnion. once again thanks.

  • One of the best albums ever, masterpiece!

  • SUENA INCREIBLE!!!!!!!! GRACIAS

  • i dont like the second song 

  • einfach nur geil ....gamato

  • Damn, this is good! If I close my eyes I'm right back in 1973 - Lights off, laying face up on the floor inches from a pair of bass-reflexes, trying to follow Phil in the Epping Forest! Hell, those were the days - you're tellin' me!

  • este album seria la maxima obra del rock progresivo sino fuera por More fool me , yo no se que les paso ahi esa cancion es una porqueria , malogro la perfeccion del album .Genesis es uno de mis grupos favoritos , me gustaba cuando cantaba Gabriel.

  • @lamiratv a mi me gusta incluso esa canción que tú dices, aunque para mi la canción que define el rock progresivo es echoes de pink floyd, si tuviera que explicar a alguien qué es el rock progresivo le pondría esa canción ;)

  • speeed ?

  • Incredible! I've got my headphones on like in the past...of course the headphones in the past where more like plastic earmuffs, none of this bud shit

  • One of the best albums of its time. One of the few where every song was good from cover to cover. Was very popular in the music stores. I bought one when it came out. Still one of my favorites after all these years.

  • One of the best albums of its time. One of the few where ever song was good from cover to cover. Sold like hot cakes. I bought one, I was there!

  • I remember how many times I passed up buying some of this early Genesis. What a fool I have been. I mean the earliest album I had was wind and wuthering. But wow....great stuff on these early albums!!

  • @period187 Same here. Graduated high school in 1980 in NJ. All we knew was Bruce Springsteen then. Luckily the juniors and seniors of my college fraternity in Philadelphia exposed me to new music like Genesis. Studied endlessly to Trick of Tail and Wind & Wuthering with headphones. However never explored the Gabriel years of Genesis even though I bought Gabriel solo albums. Catching up later in life. Easier with postings like this on YouTube.

  • Najlepszy album Genesis i jedna z najlepszych płyt w historii muzyki rockowej,dla mnie płyta numer 3,wyprzedza ją tylko genialny "Red" King Crimson,oraz zespół i płyta mojego życia "Wish You Were Here" Pink Floyd

  • always amazing. thanks a lot, great quality :)

  • Le meilleur album de Genesis période Peter Gabriel avec "the lamb lies down on Broadway" ! Tout simplement magnifique !

  • best prog/rock ever ....i love it ever and ever

  • The best ever...... I love it!

  • vraiment un des meilleurs albums de Genesis !! dans le top 3