Genesis

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IMHO Duke is one of the great albums of our time, recorded in ABBA's Polar Studios at a similar time to Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door but with the success of Collins solo album Face Value using Hugh Padgham and his love of all that nasty 80s technology six years after the release of Duke they made their worse album, Invisible Touch.
It was due to this period in the 80s Genesis and Phil Collins in particular got a bad rep, they sold their soul for the £/$ and the title track to Invisible Touch sounds as nasty as any mid 80s song could but lets not forget that six years earlier they made one of the greatest albums ever.
Heathaze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6L4a_Rj190

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 18th August 07:10

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C0ffin D0dger said:

Nah, it was all down hill after The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Beat me to it

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Nah, they were finished at foxtrot

Ok maybe not, but that's always been my fave, maybe because it's the first I ever bought

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There was a great b-side to the Misunderstanding 45 called Evidence Of Autumn which I'm guessing was recorded at a similar time.

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miniman said:

Abacab is a great album.

Yeah Me And Sarah Jane is a great song.

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Evangelion said:

I was always of the opinion that Genesis improved a little when Gabriel left, .

TBH I thought they improved greatly when Gabriel left, he threw his hat in the ring with 80s technology, when that track Sledgehammer comes on the radio now it really grates on me.
Met him in the lift at AES in 1987.

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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....

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Unbusy said:

There is a lot of vitriol against Collins over the direction he took the band.

Imho
They 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.

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Evangelion said:

Raygun said:

Unbusy said:

There is a lot of vitriol against Collins over the direction he took the band.

Imho
They had to give that whacky Gabriel era the elbow, etc ...

Absolutely, would agree with all that.

Also not forgetting standing in the rain on a damp October saturday in 1982 at Milton Keynes to help get some money for Gabriel's WOMAD after he previously put on a WOMAD festival that was a flop.

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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.