GENESIS

This album was released in 1983, the year of my birth, and it again finds Genesis trying to expand their new found 1980s bop. While I didn't find this album as interesting as "Abacab", the untitled album is still very good, and I liked a lot of the things done on it. The album is very dark, minus the closing track and the throwaway "Illegal Alien". This album also feels a bit bi-polar, but doesn't quite pull off the freshness that "Abacab" had running throughout it, but then again, it's hard to follow an album like that. I believe this is the last album where Genesis actually is trying to be innovative, hitting the mark most of the time. "Silver Rainbow" might just be one of their most underrated songs. The album cover is also interesting, leading a lot of people to refer to this album as "Shapes". 1983 was a good year.