your items are about to ship

 This really is annoying.
The items were shipped in one shipment.  And now that I've received the shipment, I can tell it's all one shipment, since everything is in the same box.  I looked again at the shipment notice email and it says there's two shipments, but they have the same tracking#.  I didn't notice that at first.  I don't know why it's divided up like that.  It just doesn't make sense.  The pkg info only needed to be inserted ONCE.  The second insertion makes it seem like they're shipping two packages.

I'm sure others have far more serious grievances against Target that they weren't able to get resolved and I'm not trying to compete with any of those, whatever they might be.  The really annoying thing is they don't make it by any means easy to get ahold of someone to constructively voice these concerns.  There's a team of people who are paid to keep bullshit like this from happening.  Yet I can't get ahold of them.  The only people I can get ahold of are "Oh, we can give you a refund?!", like that's going to change ANY thing...although the $20 refund they offered is nice, I guess it at least compensates for the mental discombobulation........

Genesis 1971-1973 & 1986-1987

I actually like TRICK OF THE TAIL through ...AND THEN THERE WERE THREE...  They don't really represent the true nature of what Genesis had been about, but more than that, there's a kind of sense of aimlessness that pervades those albums.  Those albums were appealing, IMO, but they lacked the sense of zeal that they had from NURSERY CRYME through SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND.  I don't get the sense that they were invested enough by the time  THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY was being written. It being a concept album distracts from the inconsistency and wobbliness of the overall work, but once you read into how the band was functioning at the time, and how much of the content originated, it becomes easier to notice that the center simply does not hold.

THE BEST OF GENESIS

Nursery Cryme

Foxtrot

Selling England By The Pound

Invisible Touch

Runners up:

Trick Of The Tail

Wind & Wuthering

And Then There Were Three

We Can't Dance

Honorable Mention:

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Duke

Abacab