I was listening to Selling England by The Pound and starting to realise with the scathing satire of England (parallels The Queen Is Dead ) and with a warped English aesthetic there are some thematic though it has to be said not many obvious musical parallels with The Smiths (12-string Rickenbackers might be one of them )

In my experience many but not all Smiths fans take great pleasure in shouting down prog rock or anything not up to the purity of their favoured band (love them as I do their diehard fans can be hard to stomach at times )

Do any Genesis fans here like or have time for The Smiths, or feel free to have a hate fest if that’s where you’re at with the band

Visiting NYC for the Jon Anderson concert and wanted to find the rock in Central Park from the 1972 photo of Genesis

THIS BRIDGE IS EVERYTHING! And that look he does, I'm melting 🔥😁

Those were the ones who progressed…now let us vote in peace🙈

And I have to ask who keeps downvoting these👹

This post is partly satire, well the heading is!!

Since the age of 9ish I was a big fan of Phil Collins. In 44 now. I remain a big fan of his, probably my favourite “artist”. I attended the Genesis gig in Scotland and a previous show Phil did there in 2006. Have all his albums, as a child I obsessively read the wee booklets from the cassettes or CD’s page to page. I could “sing” along to vast majority of his songs from start to finish.
All sounds fine, right?

One problem; I was getting the words wrong to “In The Air Tonight” every time, for years, decades.

“I can feel it coming in the air tonight…..hold on…hold on..”

It’s very obviously “oh lord….oh lord”.

I’m the only one right? How is this possible?

First album with Phil Collins as a frontman. And What an album it was! This is gonna be difficult, methinks…

So as many say, the Genesis albums of the 1980s are an example of a band preserving their roots through the medium of a more commercially palatable sound. I would say they do this quite well, as each album contains both material that is commercially viable, as well as longer pieces which long-time listeners can really dig into.

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight from Invisible touch I feel goes a step further than this - in one song it combines the idea of a multi-part Progressive Rock song (longer than anything on The Lamb, ATOTT and ATTWT), with an infectious refrain and production style which fits with other contemporaneous pop music. It reached no. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was used in Michelob commercials around the time of the album’s tour.

It has a dark, atmospheric sound very similar to Mama, and has an incredible moment of payoff after the middle instrumental interlude in the ‘you keep telling me…’ bridge. It’s a track which has such confidence, and sounds like it’s been produced by a band which knows they are about to become one of the biggest acts in the world. Although the lyrics don’t exactly hold up next to Wordsworth, the song overall shows a band in touch with musical complexity and progression, but also ready to embark on a career-defining world tour. There isn’t really a larger point I wish to make, other than that to me, TTT may well be the point at which the band’s commercial and artistic merits experience the greatest overlap.

(Also the single edit is horrible)

​In the Cage and Carpet Crawlers face off in the Final! Sorry for the inactivity..

EDIT. The Carpet Crawlers WON

I really like Peter Gabriel's storytelling here, and I especially like Tony Banks's parts on this one

This is Part I of our version of Supper’s Ready. I Will release a new Part every friday at 6 pm for thé next 6 weeks! Then the entire song will be released on my yt channel. Do you like my cover version ?

Quite a few Genesis-related things going on here. The gig itself was last night

Listen now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yy1v

It will also be broadcast on BBC4 on Friday...

from Craig Schertz tape collection apparently.

is in the pre-show bumper music on the Rush 50something tour.

Were into the FINAL FOUR…

EDIT: Cage and Carpet won.

My list

FGTR: In the Wilderness

Trespass: The Knife

Nursery Cryme: The Musical Box

Foxtrot: Supper's Ready

Selling England: Firth of Fifth

The Lamb: In the Cage

Trick: Mad Man Moon / Los Endos (depending on mood)

Wind: Eleventh Earl of Mar

ATTWT: Burning Rope

Duke: Behind the Lines

Abacab: Dodo/Lurker

Genesis: Home by the Sea / Second Home by the Sea

IT: Domino

WCD: Dreaming While You Sleep

CAS: The Dividing Line

Found this album in europe and in wonder what it is and how special it is since i've never heard of it. Whats its valeu?

Who can hep me out?

One of the reasons I love Genesis is because of the many beautiful instrumental passages. Supper's Ready of course us full of them. My favorite is Peter's flute piece. What are your favorites?

I got into Genesis last year, by listening to A Trick of the Tail. Dance on a Volcano just clicked.

I love ATOTT, Selling England by the Pound, Duke and Abacab. Slowly getting into Foxtrot and Wind & Wuthering. Haven’t messed with the other albums, yet.

Happy to add this one to the collection for only €5, in decent shape. What’s the consensus on this live album?