Genesis just hit me

The Doctor wrote: The T wrote: You should sue them.  Damn. Beat me to it.

Captain, your response is both unnecessary and illogical.

Dayvenkirq wrote: Let's see (just for the fun of it) how long it will take for it to hit Rednight.

It took me several days (hit me just now), so...

Dellinger wrote: I would think using the word overrated for a band most people here love is a bit trollish. It's been discussed before, though I think I've not seen the argument for a while now. If he had said he didn't like Genesis as much as most people here, surely he wouldn't have received such harch responses. However, sayin they are overrated implies that everyone who love the band are wrong, which is a very pretentious thing to do.

The first Genesis album I heard was Foxtrot and it blew me away, mostly side B (side A would as well in time, but it took longer), then the next was Selling England and oh my god, just that vocal intro to Dancing With The Moonlight Knight... this was heaven, this could not be real... then after the great Dancing and the rather insipid I Know What I Like Firth, wtf?? and Battle Of Epping Forest, After The Ordeal, Cinema Show... ??? whow, this was an album as good or better as anything I had heard at the time. 35 years later I still think the same 

Mirror Image wrote: Welcome to the magical world of Genesis! Isn't it a wonderful feeling when this band 'clicks' with you? Genesis are my absolute favorite band of all-time. From Trespass up to Wind & Wuthering is, for me, some of the greatest rock music ever recorded. There's just something incredible when Gabriel, Banks, Hackett, Rutherford, and Collins create music. I would highly suggest trying Foxtrot or Nursery Cryme next. I don't think you're 'ready' yet for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, but don't ignore this masterpiece. It's simply amazing from start to finish. A lot of people prefer disc one to disc two, but I love them both equally. Happy listening!

Do you have a "mirror image" into my mind?  You have said absolutely everything I feel about Genesis as well...

Horizons wrote: Now, Mars Volta until the same feeling hits you.

Mirror Image wrote: richardh wrote: Nice band but a little overrated Complete BS IMHO. How are they overrated? I think they deserve all the accolades that can be given to them.

The pop version or prog version of the band? Let's not forget that their output can be split into at least two groups with one being predominantly prog and the other predominantly pop. I actually like much of the pop output but realize they were in a sense two different bands. That said there was a transitional period from about 78-82 where they played music that sort of straddled the line between both genres. After that it was predominantly pop imo.

Genesis it me with Seconds Out. After that, they just started to run away. Slowly at first before picking up speed. Cowards. 

^ Assuming you were stone cold sober when you typed same, what possible mitigating factors can you cite that would assuage the spurious bollocks that appears to have informed your appraisal of the subsequent development of Prog from say, 1979 onwards? Tony Banks father clearly did not monopolise the propogation of 'merchant bankers'

taken quite out of context as usual....Sigh...
Despite the fact that Genesis were exposed to the classical music when at their public school - I reckon that they (as teenagers) were far more interested in the disallowed - pop music they were exposed to in the mid sixties - and that would have been The Beatles and the Rolling Stones....Animals (all main-stream pop in the mid sixties) - Fortunately for us all - They chose to strike out in a singularly new way (1970-75) - producing some of the best Symphonic Prog that has ever been recorded - it was carried forwards a bit after Gabriel left (1976-77) and then Hackett did one and Collins got his way with Banks/Rutherford very much on his side and produced a pop-oriented album...followed by more and more commercially viable output.....
The fact is that they still could have produced the calibre of Selling England again - but never chose to...in fact once a bit minted - they could have produced whatever they chose....and still they churned out garbage...A Geezer I worked with in East Anglia Bumped into Rutherford on a shoot somewhere in Norfolk who told him that he preferred the later stuff and was somewhat embarrassed by their earlier output...That disappoints me but does not surprise me...