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Title: Genesis Survivor 2012 - Selling England By The Pound (FINAL ROUND!!!)
Post by: The Letter M on April 09, 2012, 01:55:36 PM

Selling England By The Pound
Firth Of Fifth
The Cinema Show

Round 6's Results:
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight 9 (69.2%)
Firth Of Fifth 3 (23.1%)
The Cinema Show 1 (7.7%)

1.
2.
3. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
4. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
5. The Battle Of Epping Forest
6. After The Ordeal
7. More Fool Me
8. Aisle Of Plenty

-Marc.

Title: Re: Genesis Survivor 2012 - Selling England By The Pound (FINAL ROUND!!!)
Post by: Metro on April 09, 2012, 02:07:38 PM

Firth of Fifth


BRB, gonna go kick a small animal now that DWTMK is gone..

Title: Re: Genesis Survivor 2012 - Selling England By The Pound (FINAL ROUND!!!)
Post by: LieLowTheWantedMan on April 09, 2012, 02:12:49 PM

Firth of Fifth. I must be the only person who thinks it's a good song, but nothing more.

Title: Re: Genesis Survivor 2012 - Selling England By The Pound (FINAL ROUND!!!)
Post by: Orbert on April 09, 2012, 06:06:40 PM

Both are amazing, my favorite two songs from this album.  I prefer "Firth of Fifth" just a bit more because of the awesome piano intro.

Title: Re: Genesis Survivor 2012 - Selling England By The Pound (FINAL ROUND!!!)
Post by: Zydar on April 10, 2012, 12:47:02 AM

Quote from: Orbert on April 09, 2012, 06:06:40 PM

Both are amazing, my favorite two songs from this album.  I prefer "Firth of Fifth" just a bit more because of the awesome piano intro.

Pretty much this. Plus the awesome guitar solo.

Title: Re: Genesis Survivor 2012 - Selling England By The Pound (FINAL ROUND!!!)
Post by: Mladen on April 10, 2012, 05:03:40 AM

Firth Of Fifth

Title: Re: Genesis Survivor 2012 - Selling England By The Pound (FINAL ROUND!!!)
Post by: Eldomm on April 10, 2012, 05:18:11 AM

I prefer Firth of Fifth.

Title: Re: Genesis Survivor 2012 - Selling England By The Pound (FINAL ROUND!!!)
Post by: Orbert on April 10, 2012, 07:14:51 AM

My ranking used to be reversed, since the first Genesis album I owned was Seconds Out, which has live versions of both songs.  The piano intro to "Firth of Fifth" was only played live a few times and is not present here.  Meanwhile, "The Cinema Show" has that awesome instrumental with Collins and Bruford on drums, and it builds up to a big climax.  Pretty mind-blowing stuff right there.

Then I picked up Selling England by the Pound and discovered that "Firth" has that piano intro, plus the first E minor solo is played on the flute.  Meanwhile, "The Cinema Show" doesn't build at the end, but rather fizzles down into a segue back to the album opener, which is well done but disappointing in general after knowing the live version first.