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Duke is considered by Rutherford, Banks, and Collins as their favourite album, and it’s mine as well, although I can find things to enjoy on Abacab and Genesis, although only a couple on the former, and. only Home By The Sea 1&2 on the latter.
The only album of the “classic era” I’ve never got is Lamb Lie Down. Give me Selling England By The Pound all day long. Regarding that album, I find it remarkable that Peter Gabriel wanted to veto the extended 7/8 instrumental section in The Cinema Show....
The only album of the “classic era” I’ve never got is Lamb Lie Down. Give me Selling England By The Pound all day long. Regarding that album, I find it remarkable that Peter Gabriel wanted to veto the extended 7/8 instrumental section in The Cinema Show....
Simonium said:
... The only album of the “classic era” I’ve never got is Lamb Lie Down. Give me Selling England By The Pound all day long. Regarding that album, I find it remarkable that Peter Gabriel wanted to veto the extended 7/8 instrumental section in The Cinema Show....
Really? What an idiot! It's probably my favourite part of any album, anytime, ever - with the possible exception of the one in Firth Of Fifth.For me, they got better and better and the high point was Trick Of The Tail/Wind And Wuthering, although And Then There Were Three and Duke were also pretty good. Then they went down from there. Although having said that, Genesis' worst is till better than anybody else's best.
(PS - I've never managed to get into Lamb Lies Down either.)
cherryowen said:
keirik said:
Nah, they were finished at foxtrot when Steve Hackett left
IMVHOThere is a lot of vitriol against Collins over the direction he took the band. Certainly commercially successful but each album got worse with 80% being total pish. At times the genius of Banks could still shine through enough and give us old dinosaurs a pleasurable moment.
Unbusy said:
There is a lot of vitriol against Collins over the direction he took the band.
ImhoThey had to give that whacky Gabriel era the elbow, to me it sounded dated, they carried it on when he left with Trick Of The Tail although the music was great, Wind And Wuthering was a fantastic album, And Then There Were Three was a good album too perhaps not as good as Wind And Wuthering and then came Duke, the culmination, the Gabriel elfs and goblins era had gone, they hadn't sold out to nasty 80s production yet, just a classy album.
Perhaps Duke was the last album Phil Collins was still humble.
Unbusy said:
cherryowen said:
keirik said:
Nah, they were finished at foxtrot when Steve Hackett left
IMVHOThere is a lot of vitriol against Collins over the direction he took the band. Certainly commercially successful but each album got worse with 80% being total pish. At times the genius of Banks could still shine through enough and give us old dinosaurs a pleasurable moment.
Evangelion said:
Raygun said:
Unbusy said:
There is a lot of vitriol against Collins over the direction he took the band.
ImhoThey had to give that whacky Gabriel era the elbow, etc ...
I must be whacky then through and through. 
I adore the PG era and know many guys of the same opinion. Well, 4.
Sadly I know all the words and have done for decades. Not a week goes by without one of the classic era CDs being played in chez moi. Once a dinosaur ...
Hackett is touring at the moment with SEBT£ and Spectral Mornings coming to a city near you quite soon. The music is of a time, no doubt, long may it continue to float my boat.
I appreciate why the later music gained a strong following and I sometime dip into it selectively.
Making a living playing the whacky era is a Canadian group called The Musical Box. A quite exquisite experience. They even use the original slides from the Lamb tour. No puppets in sight.
I adore the PG era and know many guys of the same opinion. Well, 4.
Sadly I know all the words and have done for decades. Not a week goes by without one of the classic era CDs being played in chez moi. Once a dinosaur ...
Hackett is touring at the moment with SEBT£ and Spectral Mornings coming to a city near you quite soon. The music is of a time, no doubt, long may it continue to float my boat.
I appreciate why the later music gained a strong following and I sometime dip into it selectively.
Making a living playing the whacky era is a Canadian group called The Musical Box. A quite exquisite experience. They even use the original slides from the Lamb tour. No puppets in sight.
Unbusy said:
I must be whacky then through and through.
I adore the PG era and know many guys of the same opinion. Well, 4.
Sadly I know all the words and have done for decades. Not a week goes by without one of the classic era CDs being played in chez moi. Once a dinosaur ...
Hackett is touring at the moment with SEBT£ and Spectral Mornings coming to a city near you quite soon. The music is of a time, no doubt, long may it continue to float my boat.
I appreciate why the later music gained a strong following and I sometime dip into it selectively.
Making a living playing the whacky era is a Canadian group called The Musical Box. A quite exquisite experience. They even use the original slides from the Lamb tour. No puppets in sight.
I've got that album Genesis Revisited by Steve Hackett where he has Paul Carrick singing Your Own Special Way on it, fantastic.I adore the PG era and know many guys of the same opinion. Well, 4.
Sadly I know all the words and have done for decades. Not a week goes by without one of the classic era CDs being played in chez moi. Once a dinosaur ...
Hackett is touring at the moment with SEBT£ and Spectral Mornings coming to a city near you quite soon. The music is of a time, no doubt, long may it continue to float my boat.
I appreciate why the later music gained a strong following and I sometime dip into it selectively.
Making a living playing the whacky era is a Canadian group called The Musical Box. A quite exquisite experience. They even use the original slides from the Lamb tour. No puppets in sight.
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