GENESIS

Guilty! I like this album a lot. This is good pop music with some prog overtones here and there. Besides, Home By the Sea is a very powerful song that would fit in any of their more progressive CDs. By the time it was released I was ready to accept this trio as a whole new band. Genesis always had a knack for writing good, pop oriented music, no matter how complex they were. The band never missed the melodic sense during their entire career, which I found to be a good thing after all. If they´re going to turn into a pop band, at least they did produce good pop songs. The same cannot be said of many other prog acts during the 80´s (Camel´s output of the period comes to mind, but there were many others who also failed miserably at that time).

Anyway, this is not for the hardcore proghead. But if you like simple, melodic songs, with some inventive arrangments and done by skillful players, go for it. Phill Collins singing is at his best. Although not all the songs here really work, the majority does. And, to me, Home By The Sea is worth the price of the album alone