From Genesis To Revelation

There's actually some versions of the album that have tracks that were recorded before the proper album("that's me" and "one eyed hound" among others). These "bonus" tracks are actually less poppy and more prog sounding than what was on the proper album. 

Trespass is the first proper Genesis album, FGTR is a "Jonathon King" creation and he is a loathsome human being by all accounts, it's not got much to it and compare it to Trespass - ATTWT and Duke are far better examples of Genesis though by that time they were sliding inexorably into the eighties pop-dirge that they were going to serve up - Me and Sarah Jane....

And The Final Cut is not Roger's first solo album.

FGTR was far from the best Genesis album but it’s like apples and oranges, since they changed so drastically afterwards. Peter used a more conventional vocal style but on some tracks, especially In the Wilderness, you can hear traces of his more familiar style emerging. The singles tracks added to later versions brought up the overall quality, especially A Winter’s Tale and One Eyed Hound.

A bit of trivia: The short instrumental intros were a great touch, and the one preceding The Serpent was later rewritten and expanded upon and eventually became Twilight Alehouse.


Edited by AreYouHuman - November 25 2013 at 21:40

Trespass was the first Genesis I bought in college. When it first came out I saw it at  local record store and thought it had an interesting cover. I didn't even know there was an LP before that. I bought Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme before I knew there was an even earlier one. At any rate.....FGTR has some nice tracks on it but the band really came into their own on those later albums.

Dean wrote: I like it a lot, certainly more than anything after Wind and Wuthering, but I cannot say it is better than any of them because it is not, thanks mainly to the perfunctory string arrangements that King put all over it. I prefer the earlier versions of the songs that appear on the Genesis Archive 1967-75.

Agreed on every point.

Metalmarsh89 wrote: Now I need to go buy Trespass.

What on Earth are you waiting for ???

Dayvenkirq wrote: Metalmarsh89 wrote: I was listening to the Deep Tracks station on Satellite radio the other day, and The Knife came on. What a great song, I can't believe I had never gotten around to hearing it before. Now I need to go buy Trespass. This is a bit redundant, but ... you haven't heard Trespass ?! What else?

I'm sure there are plenty of others, but such is the life of being a full-time student and part-time worker. I can't buy all the albums I want. Luckily, I do have time to listen to the music I do have.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 28 2014 at 22:44