The Voice Of Gabriel or Collins in Genesis Songs

Great Ivan! I prefer always Peter Gabriel! for the prog Genesis era he was the best!! instead of Phil Collins was a drummer ,very very good , but only a good pop singer for the"pop" Genesis era!

I like them both. I even like the later 80's pop songs like "No Reply" and "Jesus He Knows Me". Phil Collins is personally my favorite vocalist of all time, but I really like Peter's voice too. From a solo point of view, I like Phil's solo material much better than Peter's. But it's really impossible to compare. They are two completely different types of voices and styles. You can't compare Supper's Ready to Misunderstanding.

Chris S wrote: Collins by a mile, notwithsatnding as Ivan says PG's pure menace and passion for voice. PG left 7 years after Genesis began, PC remained for almost 25 years, speaks volumes really if you are a true Genesis fan across timelines....

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - December 22 2010 at 19:06

Phil did a good job of taking over - a very good job - but a copy isn't an original. Gabriel wasn't necessarily the better singer, but he had character and depth and a voice of his own. It's not really fair to expect Phil to do the early Gabriel songs and yet transcend what was there before; generally, that doesn't work, and I don't think you can say that Phil outdid Gabriel in that respect, though he too had a voice of his own when it came to the 'new' Genesis songs. 

both great but gabriel is beyond great!!

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: I believe that the only Gabriel song that Collins sung better than Peter was I know what I Like. The rest...Gabriel by light years. Iván

Phil made it great as soon as Gabriel left.

Gabriel has a nice voice, and I've grown to love it, but at the start I sort of hated it.
Collins, on the other hand, has a more refined voice, which I don't like quite as much. It's still fairly good, though.

I have always loved Genesis.  Musically I like the PG years more, but for music AND voice, I would say my favorite era of Genesis is 1976-78.   The hackett/collins years (including andthentherewere3).

Collins was a good singer then.  I heard he didn't start his bombastic shouting until Conny Plank told him he was "a soul singer" in 79-80.  I don't know if there is any truth to that, but I think that's when his voice drifted away from my liking.  After 79, it seemed like he did more screaming and shouting then singing.   I think his ego took over.  

Thank god Banks and Rutherford were still writing or Genesis, I think, would have totally gone down the tubes.  I personally still lean to the Banks written stuff anyways.

Collins was, in the early years after he took over, a perfectly competent vocalist, especially considering what he had to follow.

But he isn't Peter Gabriel by a very long way. But few, if any people, are fit to compare with this most charismatic of all 70s vocalists..