TRESPASS

At some point in the future, "experts," historians, etc. will come around to see that this album, Trespass, was one of the most significant things to come out of the entire English rock scene. Consider how pathetic a birth "rock" had in England. The parents were all foreigners: Americans with names like Blues, Rock and Roll, Scholck-pop-folk, etc., but the intrepid Brits picked up the pieces and started producing amazingly English music. I rate this album, along with Fairport Convention's "Liege and Lief" as the two top albums to come out of England. Genesis never matched this feat, only pastiching this sound more shallowly each ensuing album. (Same old story: production and musicianship got better, but the vision and power fell off.) Everyone raves on about how the Velvet Underground gave birth to Punk, New Wave, etc., but just this one album should have given rise to a whole genre. It didn't because no one with enough vision and talent has come along yet. Only now have I begun to hear this and that make feeble attempts to recreate this sort of Northwest Euro (as Tolkien would have called it) vibe.