What was the first Genesis album you heard?

I didn't like Peter Gabriel's voice at first.  It seemed really weird to me.  Now, he is favorite singer.  I always get goosebumps when he screams Jerusalem in the live rendition of Supper's Ready. 

Earthsmoke wrote: More than anything, I can't stand Gabriel's vocals.  The vocals and the lyrics often seem very silly to me.

Foxtrot, and I will NEVER forget it.  (Foxtrot was the first I listened to; I might have heard my brother's 8-track of Genesis Live before.) 

It had to be the seventies because I know I was in grade school.  I had made a new friend in my neighborhood, and his father had am immense record collection.  I was already into a music I didn't know was called prog; I listened to Yes, ELP and Tull all day, Led Zeppelin too.  I can't remember what prompted it but one day my friend pulled out this lovely painted-cover album called Foxtrot.  "Watcher" began the mind blowing, continued with each of the following tracks.  I think I remember us talking excitedly about this and that.  But when we flipped the album over and sat through the gentle "Horizons" and heard the opening strains and following sequences of, shall we say, the next track, we just about lost our little minds.  Two friends having a seriously profound listening experience (he wasn't even a prog-and-classic-rock-head like me, he was more eclectic), young and sincere, no substances in sight, just love of records.

juandhaltrich wrote: i dont like his opinion.. i dont agree with his opinion. and he's not wrong.  the main point of my argument was that, either if he CANT appreciate this music ('cause he doesnt GET IT), or if he just has a very different taste in music, in either case i dont understand WHAT he's doing writing in this forum, spending time in this website. 'cause it's clearly that he doesnt like this, whatever the reason might be.

Why yes it is. I'm not trying to critique anything, just show some hatred. Is every human supposed to adore Fotrot like some messianic masterwork?

lazland wrote: Alitare wrote: Why yes it is. I'm not trying to critique anything, just show some hatred. Is every human supposed to adore Fotrot like some messianic masterwork? No, only those with a deep appreciation of great music.

Alitare wrote: lazland wrote: Alitare wrote: Why yes it is. I'm not trying to critique anything, just show some hatred. Is every human supposed to adore Fotrot like some messianic masterwork? No, only those with a deep appreciation of great music. What makes Foxtrot scientifically, intrinsically, and universally brilliant? You got any qualifying proof of that?

Because it wasn't been done "scientifically: with the support of a market research, marketing managers, and what else is necessary in order to create a marketing move.

Because is a work of art produced by the alchemy of some brilliant human mind, or rather artist; instead of a product from someone with a building of "expert at  his back, ready to tell what's better to do or to say.

And last but not least because is simply a brilliant, deep and sensitive work, but I don't aspect that all the minds are able to understand this last pointt... by the way, this is among the reasons why I joined this site....

Alitare seems helpless, and without a leg to stand on.  You got any proof that you exist?

^ Why can't you stand Christgau?  After all, he's just trying to show some hatred like you.  (Seriously, what the hell do you mean coming in here "not trying to critique anything, just show some hatred"?  It doesn't sound at all intelligent, but maybe I'm missing something.)

You still haven't proven you exist.  The proof would consist of something that does not work just for me ("What to you would be proof of my existence?)", but for any observer. 

Alitare wrote: American Khatru wrote: ^ Why can't you stand Christgau?  After all, he's just trying to show some hatred like you.  (Seriously, what the hell do you mean coming in here "not trying to critique anything, just show some hatred"?  It doesn't sound at all intelligent, but maybe I'm missing something.) You still haven't proven you exist.  The proof would consist of something that does not work just for me ("What to you would be proof of my existence?)", but for any observer.  You do know that I only came in here with that to enrage the one individual who basically attacked the other guy for not liking Foxtrot, right? That was the sole purpose for this engagement. I don't /hate/ Foxtrot. I'm more just slightly bored by it.  You can assume I'm an idiot for that if you want to judge a man's intellect by his musical taste. I suppose if Steven Hawking likes Lady Gaga he must be a cretinous slouch with no vision. Like with God, the sun, yourself, and Mars, I don't need to prove my existence. If God exists, believing or not believing in him doesn't change that fact. If I exist, it doesn't make a difference whether or not you believe in me, it offers no direct alteration to the physical matter that constitutes the being of 'me'.  People are so f**king touchy that it's rather pitiful to me. Damn, aren't you perceptive enough to know a troll when you see one? You seem to think so highly of your mental capacity, what's become of that? "Oh, he hates my favorite album, he must be an unlearned heathen - some imbecilic oaf with no perception, no taste, no deeply-felt inner thought, no culture, no artistic love, and most certainly no comprehension. He traverses this land as an unenlightened, deviant reprobate. I sure am superior to his monkey ass, a-hyuck." My favorite part is how everyone says I must not "get" the album, as if it contains some vast universal supersecret and I'm missing out on the meaning of life. If it ain't the most pretentious slice of c**ksuckery I ever did gaze upon.

Aren't you perceptive enough to know when you're being drawn out?