GENESIS

After GABRIEL's departure,we had two great cds("A Trick of The Tail" and "Wind&Wuthering"),two good ones("...And Then There Were Three..." and "Duke") and a bad one("Abacab"),and then we come to this album.

This 1983's album is not bad and alson not good.To get a fair rating for it,I divided the 5 possible points into the 9 songs(0.55 per each): Mama-0.35-Good one,this song made me want to know who Genesis were,as I listened to ANGRA's cover on album "Hunters And Prey" and enjoyed.Despite the QUEEN's "We Will Rock You"-like boring intro,it's an enjoyable and listenable pop song. That's All-0.35-also a good song,in which COLLINS shows well his romantism,and which has also good, adorable piano chords. Home By The Sea-0.5-this song might have given hope to many prog fans(they hoped that GENESIS came back to its prog roots),as it's not that boring pop,it's a solid prog song, one of the best sung by COLLINS in the band. Second Home By The Sea-0.5-it's a Home By The Sea-part 2,as good as its predecessor. Illegal Alien-0.0-nothing to talk about this one... Taking It All Too Hard-0.0-pop,bad,boring. Just A Job To Do-0.0-also as bad and pop as the two above. Silver Rainbow-0.3-a song between the pop and the prog,with prog mellody and pop lyrics,enjoyable.Good. It's Gonna Get Better-0.0-simply awful.Did this song's title give any hope to the prog fans who wanted Genesis to go to its prog roots?If gave to some,they had a great deception three years after... In general,we have a good side A and an awful side B,with just one good song(Silver Rainbow).The rating,after all,was 2.Low to what once Genesis was...