Posted on 12/29/2015 5:08:48 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Tracklist:
1. Mama 0:00
2. That's All 6:52
3. Home By The Sea 11:18
4. Second Home By The Sea 16:26
5. Illegal Alien 22:33
6. Taking It All Too Hard 27:48
7. Just A Job To Do 31:46
8. Silver Rainbow 36:33
9. It's Gonna Get Better 41:04
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Genesis are an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967. The most commercially successful line-up includes keyboardist Tony Banks, guitarist Mike Rutherford and drummer/singer Phil Collins. Other important members were singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett. The band underwent many changes in musical style over its career, from folk music to progressive rock in the 1970s, before moving towards pop at the end of the decade. They have sold 21.5 million RIAA-certified albums in the US and their worldwide sales are estimated to be between 100 million and 130 million.
Formed by five Charterhouse pupils including Banks, Rutherford, Gabriel, and Anthony Phillips, Genesis was named by former pupil Jonathan King who arranged them to record several unsuccessful singles and an album. After splitting with King, the group began touring professionally, signing with Charisma Records. Following the departure of Phillips, Genesis recruited Collins and Hackett and recorded several progressive rock style albums, with live shows centred around Gabriel's theatrical costumes and performances. The group were initially commercially successful in Europe, before entering the UK charts with Foxtrot (1972). They followed this with Selling England by the Pound (1973) and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) before Gabriel decided to leave the group.
After an unsuccessful search for a replacement, Collins took over as lead singer, while the group gained popularity in the UK and the US. Following A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering (both 1976), Hackett left the band, reducing it to a core of Banks, Rutherford, and Collins. Genesis had their first UK top ten and US top 30 single in 1978 with "Follow You Follow Me" and the group continued to gain commercial success with Duke (1980), Abacab (1981), and Genesis (1983), reaching a peak with Invisible Touch (1986), which featured five US top five singles. Its title track reached number one in the US. After the follow up, We Can't Dance (1991) and related tour, Collins left Genesis in 1996 to focus on his solo career. Banks and Rutherford recruited Ray Wilson for Calling All Stations (1997), but a lack of success in the US led to a group hiatus. Banks, Rutherford and Collins reunited for the Turn It On Again Tour in 2007, and together with Gabriel and Hackett were interviewed for the BBC documentary Genesis: Together and Apart in 2014.
Their discography includes fifteen studio and six live albums, six of which topped the UK chart. They have won numerous awards and nominations, including a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video with "Land of Confusion", and inspired a number of tribute bands recreating Genesis shows from various stages of the band's career. In 2010, Genesis were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Genesis (Genesis album)
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Genesis is the twelfth studio album from the English rock band Genesis, released in October 1983 on Charisma Records. The band decided on its title as each of the album's nine tracks were written as a group. The album cover depicts the shapes from a Shape-O, a children's toy made by Tupperware. Mike Rutherford referred to this album as his favorite Genesis album.[2] According to AllMusic, the album established that Genesis were "now primarily a pop band", although "art rock functions as coloring to the pop songs".[1]
Genesis was a commercial success upon its release. The album reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 9 in the U.S., where it sold over 4 million copies. Five singles were released between 1983 and 1984, with "Mama" being the band's highest-charting single in the UK at number 4. In 2007, Genesis was reissued with a new stereo and 5.1 surround sound mix as part of the band's box set, Genesis 1983–1998.
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Thanks for posting. Always good, but they never recovered from Gabriel’s exit, IMHO. They needed him and he needed them. Bad event all around.
I think Trick of the Tail was one of their better albums. I think the downfall came, not so much as a result of Gabriel leaving, but of the departure of Steve Hackett (who was still around contributing to the songwriting on “Trick”. )
I’ll agree with that; Gabriel and Hackett was a double whammy.
A Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering are two of my favorite Genesis albums. Ripples is still my all-time favorite Genesis song, and I don’t think Gabriel could have pulled that one off as well as Phil did.
The change in the band really occurred because Tony and Mike wanted to get away from writing the kind of songs they did before, it’s not all on Phil Collins for the change in their sound.
Duke is still a fine album, with Between the Lines/Duchess/Guide Vocal/Duke’s Travels/Duke’s End, still being one of Genesis’ finest moments.
As far as this album goes, “That’s All” is a great song, as poppy as it may have been, and at least Tony’s keyboards sound something like old Genesis on it.
You could definitely hear ironically a lot of influence on this album rhythmically from Peter Gabriel’s solo work, especially with Phil’s work with Peter on his solo album (drumming on ‘Intruder’ and ‘No Self Control’)
It wasn’t just Phil, heck, listen to Mike and the Mechanics, it was all three going the Pop-Rock route, they just wanted to be done with the long epic proggish stuff. Heck, Yes, did the same thing with 90125. It was the 80s, if you wanted to stay relevant you had to change with the times.
Seems to me that Pete went pretty “Pop-Rock” in the 80s as well. Sledgehammer, anyone?
This is my favorite band.
Thanks to Youtube, we get gems like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBcz3tBH74
I will say that the band started to decline once Phil lost the beard.
That’s where you see what a fantastic drummer Phil really was.
It’s a real raunchy series, but there’s an episode of “You’re The Worst” where the argument between the male and female lead was about who was better, Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins.
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