INVISIBLE TOUCH

There can be no excuse for this!!! Genesis were bad enough after Duke which was the last "listenable" album by them, but I both hate and resent Phil Collins and here is where his suffocating influence takes full control of the non music formula garbage here. When I delved into early Genesis this was the first album I learned to hate, but there is more than just Collins to blame for it. Take a look at what Banks and Rutherford did after The Gabe left. After Wind And Wuthering, which was pretty good for what it was, they grew more and more money hungry and political. From Abacab, but especiallly Mama onwards Genesis were no longer a band they were an oil company and a travelling comedy show with no fun in it for anybody in their right mind. There isn't a trace of good music here, the odious videos drove home the point that we could no longer expect anything even remotely decent from Genesis anymore. I will go so far as to say that this, We Can't Dance, and Mama are 3 of the worst records ever recorded by any group and I have lost all respect for them very shortly after Gabriel's departure. The music isn't there, it sounds like any bad 80s AM/FM rock and I love a lot of 80s AOR, but with more of an edge- PLEASE!!! Genesis, to be fair to them, had to change with the musical climate and nobody was successfully playing prog rock at this point in time, but they could have at least done something a little more adventurous than what they turned into! I used to blame all of this on Phil, but Mike and Tony are to be blamed too. It was no longer "make music" it was "make money" and the real shame is it MADE money, and a ton of it. Genesis also trashed all of their early period, said that it was no good compared to this, and here is where the anger at them boils over into a tirade I shall not go into. I simply have had enough of great bands who don't know when to stop and become terrible bands. One of my favourite bands of all time is the melodic rock/hard pomp rock group Shy. After recording the album of their lives (Excess All Areas) they were forced into making a horrible album (Misspent Youth) that infuriates them to this day. Many groups will come out and admit they were forced into doing something musically awful and unworthy, and what did Genesis do? They made their music horrible, they created all their problems, and they had the nerve to disown every good note they had recorded. Meanwhile, MR. or shall I say Sir Peter Gabriel soldiered on undefeated and never sold out. Guess who the real artist and real person with a great heart was after the split. PETER GABRIEL!