NURSERY CRYME

This the 400th review here! :-) I dont know if they've said everything about the crime in the nursery, but I won't read them all! :-) First af all, if you are to start with Genesis now, don't start with this. Its a really hard-to-swallow easy-to-vomit album. I was 19 when I first heard it and still remember the shock when heard Gabriel singing on three-four different voices in one song, when I heard him shouting Why dont you touch me NOW, NOW, NOW? and realized that Genesis actually not produces music but mini rock operas with dramatic stories, horror and blood. I remember when I saw the first photo of PG wearing the masks of a fox, old man, bubbles (not Jacko's ape!!!) for Lamb and I thought c'mon, this guy is mad, deranged. But of course he was not. He was just an actor and the bandmates just served the purpose. Maybe that's why they split years later when the Genesis theater reached its mad peak with the Lamb... Unbelievable, how matured these guys were at the age of 20. They must have become some celestial help. These songs are complete small dramas loaded with tons of honest passion and true emotion, silent sorrow and malignous humour. Just listen when PG keeps long the word running juuuuuuuuuuump at the end of Harold the Barrel expressing that poor Harry jumped down. Even the raw sounding fits the rough guitar phrases. (The Musical Box and the Hogweed goes heavy metal sometimes.) Not any other music can touch these songs in prog history. So go ahead, this is gonna be one of your greatest musical experience.

I found some interesting facts about the album on the net, I wanna share them with you. Of course, I dont know if they are true or false... - A guitarist guy, Mick Barnard wrote most of guitar parts. Hackett arrived too late to change it so he just studied and played the already prepared tunes. - The Musical Box was originally wrote partly by Ant Phillips much before. Interesting that he was not credited on the sleeves. - Giant hogweed is a REAL poisonous plant omitting its poison only when the leaves are illuminated. - The band purchased a mellotron for Banks from King Crimson to help creating the new sounding.

And finally, it was the greatest idea to hire Phil Collins. He is one of the biggest drummers, he can express whatever he wants with so few phrases used in the right time and right place. He will change much more afterwards...