From Genesis To Revelation and Beyond

Jacob Schoolcraft wrote: Certain members of Genesis and Jonathan King have stated in the past that From Genesis To Revelation had similarities to the Bee Gees. Are there Genesis fans who agree with that I wonder?

And are there Bee Gees fans that agree with that? I'm into music by both.

I like early Bee Gees and it does have similarities with the Genesis album. They both do the psychedelic/ baroque pop/ pop-rock 60s thing.

Just to cover faves rather than highlight the most similarities: My favourite song off Genesis debut (1969), "The Serpent":



And this is Bee Gees' "Deeply, Deeply Me" off 1968's Horizontal.



Edited by Logan - October 13 2024 at 12:01

Logan wrote: Jacob Schoolcraft wrote: Certain members of Genesis and Jonathan King have stated in the past that From Genesis To Revelation had similarities to the Bee Gees. Are there Genesis fans who agree with that I wonder? And are there Bee Gees fans that agree with that? I'm into music by both. I like early Bee Gees and it does have similarities with the Genesis album. They both do the psychedelic/ baroque pop/ pop-rock 60s thing. Just to cover faves rather than highlight the most similarities: My favourite song off Genesis debut (1969), "The Serpent": And this is Bee Gees' "Deeply, Deeply Me" off 1968's Horizontal.

There is an influence of Bee Gees but I never observed that until recently. Jonathan King had stated that if artists covered some of the songs from their first album that they could be hit records. I never gave it much thought but it's interesting to think that Genesis started that way...then went more in the direction of Prog...then by 1978 began writing more mainstream oriented music again with Follow You Follow Me... I was totally oblivious to that...but I believe Phil Collins once stated that originally they were trying to write more of a Pop style..which stopped but continued almost a decade later. Sorry to jabberbox everyone to death...but I was in the dark with all that and realize now that it's possibly a reality

Edited by kirk782 - October 13 2024 at 22:33

Genesis have been the classic prog band that I have paid the least attention too, so about 50 years after discovering them, I'm suddenly bingeing on them. I only just just got fGtR well actually my copy was reissued as "And the Word Was..." which has the two singles both a and b sides at the start and end of the album. I had heard that it was pretty terrible, so I didn't have great expectations, although I liked the idea of it sounding like the Bee Gees First, which is a cool album, I also quite liked the idea of it being awash with strings. On my first listen I really liked it, I thought it was supposed to be a boring pop album, but it is anything but. It's as weird as anything they've ever done. Gabriel does seem to be channeling Robin Gibb and they have some out there lyrics, there is some nice use of phasing, lush strings giving a glorious decadence, (making me think a bit of Scott Walker) then this big echoey piano sound keeps emerging. 

Also how could you not want to get to know the very first album and see the Genesis of Genesis. 

I've only just got to know it but I could see myself really getting to love this album and from there it's all good to at least Wind and Wuthering. I'm also exploring the bypasses of the solo careers. 

^ I just changed the thread title to hopefully avoid any further confusion.