Hammill's Generator Vs Collin's Genesis. - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Both albums was made in 1976 and both have an orange cover artwork. Seems like a fair poll to me.

Trick of the Tail is actually my favorite Genesis album, along with Foxtrot. I simply cannot stand Peter Hammill's absurd vocal inflections.

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Still Life, of course. Trick is kind of a low division effort for me ...

Two great albums for me, but Trick slightly ahead.

Loved Trick... when I was younger (late 70's, early 80's). Then got into VdGG and never looked back. Heard parts of Trick for the fist time in years round about '05. Man... I couldn't believe how horribly it had aged. Just the aged synth sounds that Tony Banks uses on his Robbery Assault & Battery solo, the so-sounding-like-70's fusion-y ending to Dance on a Volcano, etc. There are definitely some beautiful moments on the album (Ripples, Squonk), but it just sounds like a 1976 album to me.

The main difference between the albums (or, at least, one of the main differences) is Hugh Banton vs. Tony Banks. Banton plays a straight-ahead Hammond organ on the Still Life album, and he frickin' rocks on it. When the band kicks in on the title tune, the tone of those Hammond crunch chords is evil and rocks like nobody's business. The Hammond will never age. No ARP synths, etc. Those mega-keyboards (and Banks' style) just traps the Genesis album in '76. Banton, on the other hand, is just a genius on the whole VdGG album, and his playing sounds fresh today.

Still Life has real fire and drive, and It just rocks in a way that Trick doesn't. La Rossa sounds like the Sex Pistols if they didn't have bass guitar and six string guitar, but rather Hammond w/bass pedals and saxophone.

Edited by bucka001 - April 11 2011 at 09:49

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bucka001 wrote:

Loved Trick... when I was younger (late 70's, early 80's). Then got into VdGG and never looked back. Heard parts of Trick for the fist time in years round about '05. Man... I couldn't believe how horribly it had aged. Just the aged synth sounds that Tony Banks uses on his Robbery Assault & Battery solo, the so-sounding-like-70's fusion-y ending to Dance on a Volcano, etc. There are definitely some beautiful moments on the album (Ripples, Squonk), but it just sounds like a 1976 album to me.

The main difference between the albums (or, at least, one of the main differences) is Hugh Banton vs. Tony Banks. Banton plays a straight-ahead Hammond organ on the Still Life album, and he frickin' rocks on it. When the band kicks in on the title tune, the tone of those Hammond crunch chords is evil and rocks like nobody's business. The Hammond will never age. No ARP synths, etc. Those mega-keyboards (and Banks' style) just traps the Genesis album in '76. Banton, on the other hand, is just a genius on the whole VdGG album, and his playing sounds fresh today.

Still Life has real fire and drive, and It just rocks in a way that Trick doesn't. La Rossa sounds like the Sex Pistols if they didn't have bass guitar and six string guitar, but rather Hammond w/bass pedals and saxophone.

Intresting you mention that, i dont have a problem with the synth sound on TOTT realy, but the next album W&W have a real horrible dated synth sound, and that and the much poorer songwriting is a reason i dont like that one very much.

Love both, but Still Life for me. The best parts of ATotT are five stars in my book (Dance, Mad Man, Ripples and Los Endos, the rest is four stars) while the whole of Still Life deserves five stars.

He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)

Poll Question: I have taken 2 of my favorit albums from each band, now shoose!
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Still Life	49	[62.82%]
A Trick of the Tail	29	[37.18%]
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