GENESIS

Mama is good. It's dark, it's a little edgy, and Phil's voice is great here. Best song on the album actually. That's All is a catchy pop song, but a good one. You've heard it before, trust me. Home By The Sea isn't bad, and it's second part makes it better, although the keyboard solo is a bit too long and energetic enough to be very interesting. It's clear that they were starting to run out of that energy by this point, and their days of hard driving prog rock were pretty much over. They would continue to attempt it, and came close with Domino on their next album, but never were really able to get it back.

The second side of this album is rather awful. You get sappy love ballads, an annoying joke song called Illegal Alien, and one not so awful song called Silver Rainbow. But by the time you get to Silver Rainbow you're already tired of Tony's dated sounding synths and Phil's whispy voice.

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