Genesis - Duke

Ahhh....Yesshows for the vinyl cover alone, beautiful album too!

Heathaze is a great song, often maligned for Bank's lyrics but I like it a lot. A softer similarity to another side one closer Mad Man Moon

When I was younger - around 1985, my family and I embarked on a journey to Bali, which extended over the years to many of the other exotic islands Indonesia has to offer (Java, Lombok, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi etc.) - to cut a long story short, I was only into Split Enz and The Beach Boys at the time.  I loved the 'We don't need no education' song by some 'mainstream' band.  I bought The Wall on cassette (in Bali - cheap as chips....) - it knocked my 13 year old head off its block.  Following year, I bought up a series of tapes of Pink Floyd, volumes 1 - 10.  I fell in love with Piper, Saucerful etc.  My sister bought Genesis' volumes 14 & a15 (S/T and Invisible Touch).  I was curious, gave them both a listen and was thoroughly impressed with the S/T album, but not so much I.T.  Then I visited the local 2nd-hand record shop - I selected A Trick Of The Tail -.........................................my obsession began.  

Here I am, more than a quarter century later, and still appreciating more and more some things I assumed were only mediocre................hence, my newly found fascination with DUKE.  I think the album is a direct link between impressively creative Prog of the 70's, into a more accessible proto 'Neo' Prog styling.  Although subsequant albums featured only glimpses of Prog, they still have much value.  For me, the weakest is still Invisible Touch, and that's perhaps because of the multi-platinum amount of radio songs that were (and still) thrashed out over the airwaves. 

.............and so it can be said that I'm on a bit of a Genesis bender at the moment.