Genesis - curios enquiry

Posted by: fathings cat on 27 June 2009

Growing up in the 80's put me right of Phil Collins, however out of curiosity was any of his Genesis stuff any good and if so where would be a good place to start?

Regards

Posted on: 13 July 2009 by pcstockton

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Originally posted by Pete Lewthwaite:
Sorry about this folks but I think that to a large extent I agree with ROTF. I thought the Gabriel albums were in a different league to the Collins ones. Trespass, Foxtrot, Selling England and Lamb lies down are all albums I can still listen to and enjoy almost any time. However I think all the Collins albums are dull and boring.

Collins came on after Trespass and was there ever since. Just to be clear.

It isn't his fault they started sucking. Blame it on MTV and the 80s in general.

The three remaining Gabriel-less albums of the 70s were great. So i would say that it wasn't so much Phil Collins that is to blame, nor Gabriel's departure. Times change, bands move on, commercial success etc....

BTW, "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging" gets my personal vote.

Posted on: 31 July 2009 by Basically Sound

Hi Gary,

Have any of these posts helped to answer your original question?

For my penny's worth, I would suggest giving Seconds Out a try and see what you think. It gives a taster of every album from Nursery Cryme to Wind & Wuthering and the drum performances from Chester Thompson & Bill Bruford (with occasional input from PC) are excellent IMHO. It is also Steve Hackett's last Genesis album before he went solo. Looking forward to seeing him at the UEA in November.

Cheers,
Tony @ Basically S&V