what do genesis lyrics talk about?
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Topic: what do genesis lyrics talk about?
Posted By: scumtotheleader
Subject: what do genesis lyrics talk about?
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 14:53
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Well im a genesis fan of the gabriel era and the three first albums with collins singing. Musically al is near to perfection, but the lyrics? can you tell me what are they about? religious? can yo put me some examples please? Y like Pink Floyd lyrically becouse the criticize human being behaviours? what do genesis talk about? Thanks to all af you in the forum. |
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Posted By: Doktor Dyper
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 15:12
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From the stuff i've heard, no one thing in particular...... different ideas in most albums but the thing common 2 most is a whimsical & artistic writing style ( due to Gabe )....... & a British sort of humor, if u know what i mean. In a few cases the lyrics remind me of Ian Anderson |
Posted By: Poxx
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 15:23
| Nothing in particular? 3 albums full of victorian age based lyrics. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 15:34
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He mixes together references to classics, contemporary (at the time) Britain, Victorian Britain and the Bible. Probably the best example is Supper's Ready with the man turning into a flower (Greek, I think?) mentions of social security, and Jerusalem... just the sort of things a public school instils in one, I guess |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 15:44
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Narcissus is an old Greek legend about a young man who falls in love with his own mirror-image when he drinks from a lake and is turned into a flower (the narcissus, of course). there is a rather famos painting of Dali about it (see below)
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Duncan
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 16:12
A lot of the concepts - especially those related to British culture and
tradition - are used pretty subversively ("Nursery Cryme", anyone?) if
not just with a taste for the absurd. Some are straight retellings of
other stories, like Can-Utility and the Coastliners (doesn't escape an
awful pun in the title, though  ).A lot of Selling England... focuses on the various cultural dilemma of contemporary Britain. Or rather, Dancing With... does, which frames the rest of the album quite nicely. This track is pretty sober lyrically compared to some others. |
Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 17:30
| Another great example of really cool Genesis lyrics would be "Get 'em out by Friday." They explain how people are abused and exploited in the workforce. I love this style of Gabriel's writing when he mentions how the humanoid height has been restricted to 4 ft which would lead to double the amount of people fitting in the building site, exploiting two times as much. Great concept for a song. |
Posted By: Cluster One
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 18:39
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They primarily discuss Giant Hogweeds...
------------- Marmalade...I like marmalade. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 18:42
The typical prog stuff: Life, Love, Humor, Joy....basically Tales from Topographic Oceans spread across a 20 year career. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Hibou
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 19:44
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I often think of early Genesis lyrics as perverse nursery rhymes for big kids, what with Peter Gabriel’s innocent, child-like voice and the songs' often harmeless themes (sweet smiling Cynthia of the nursery, Romeo and his chocolate surprise, etc.). That is, until you get hit over the head with a Knife, a mallet or some other blunt object, just to see if you were paying attention. ------------- [IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b311/Progueuse/Album.jpg"> Gene Police: You!! Out of the pool! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 01:24
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Sex ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 01:42
i have that poster in my room such a prog head ------------- 
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BaldJean wrote:Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 03:40
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Genesis lyrics are about almost everything: Politics - Revolutions: The Knife Mythology: Fountain of Salmacis (The story of Hermaphroditus). Sarcasm - Black humour: Harold The Barrell Violence - Fantasy - Sex - Terror: Musical Box History: Can-Utility and the Coastliners Religion - Good vs Evil - Sarcasm -English tradition - Love: Supper's Ready I could go for hours, ussualy Genesis lyrics are very deep and well informed. something hard to believe in guys so young as they were during Gabriel era. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 16:13
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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is an acid
drenched adventure into the Fall of Man(probably Peters experience revisited). Its only Knock and Knowall! Bedazzling 
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Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 16:14
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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is an acid
drenched adventure into the Fall of Man(probably Peters experience revisited). Its only Knock and Knowall! Bedazzling
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 19:30
Good choice, it really struck me when I looked at even this small copy here (Thanks, BaldJean! |
)... I'm sadly uninformed on art though 
. Maybe I should spend a few days after the summer teaching myself something.