hate it

Love it!

 DoctorHooey wrote: 

Me 2

 Sasha2001 wrote: 
I'm with you that there was some "Peter Gabriel hangover" during which the four remaining did some nice prog-pop work. Things seemed to go downhill over time and horribly wrong once Steve Hackett left. This was a super album and showed a lot of promise for the future. Nice to hear it - I give it an 8.

I 10'd it.

 jgirl63 wrote: 
and then falling into a coma . . . 
 

Beautifully textured, visually evocative. Dream induced.  
Roaming to unexpected rooms and landscapes.

 bytheway wrote: 
That's true for a lot of prog, but doesn't really apply to Genesis except for on "The Lamb Lies Down" or, to a much lesser extent, "Selling England" and Duke.  What Genesis specialized in more than concept albums was "concept songs" that stretched out a bit and told a self-contained story.

My dirty little secret is that I actually like Genesis sans Gabriel but before the horrible "Invisible Touch." I know, I know, that's heresy around here. But "Three Sides Live represents a fertile period." People seem to forget (or ignore) that most of the best Genesis music with Gabriel, like "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway," was written by the other band members and not Gabriel.

I discovered this during the summer of '79...a friend's older sister was tossing out her old 8-tracks, and I still had a decent player in my car and at home, so he gave the box to me...this was one of them, and soon, it became a fave.  I'd come home from working my summer mowing-crew job, slide this in, lie back on the bed and wait for dinner.  Fantastic blast from the past; days when visions often came in sonic form, to be deciphered at leisure; languorous pleasure from a time a lot less worried and far less hurried...

 bytheway wrote: 

Or else it is just potty break time for the dj

What wonderful memories this brings back. To bad the band didn't advance as is or was at that point.

I think a lot of these prog rock songs from the 70s were really meant to be heard in the context of the entire record, whether or not they were really thought of as "concept albums."  Still, good to hear.

 LordBaltimore wrote: 

Pretty excited about a show tonight. There is a Genesis tribute band called Musical Box and they even got permission from Gabe and the gang to recreate the Lamb from start to finish, old costumes and slides and all. My first concert was Trick o the tail (killer btw) but i've always wished I could have seen the last work of them all together. I hope i'm not too disappointed...

 johnjconn wrote: 

True - but not in comparison with Gabriel times!

 1wolfy wrote: 

Yep. Far, far, far from ordinary.

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
Bruford has certainly the biggest set of lips behind the drum kit! Remarkable for a white drummer-boy!

as long as they had Hackett and Gabriel they defined this genre...

after that  - not so much...

 johnjconn wrote: 

I used to play "Ripples" at sunrise when I was juggling turntables at the college station in Columbia MO. It's a glorious song.

GENESIS on RP?
Can that be...?

 1wolfy wrote: 

 MinMan wrote:  
I'm not sure PG has "soured"; it's more like he's sweetened - not always in a good way.

Differnent, unique, a musical adventure.  I graduated High School in 76..Genesis was my escape from 'the ordinary' then.  It still is.

 MinMan wrote: 
Point taken.  I'd add The Lamb to that pantheon (despite its flaws). 

Still will argue that Trick is a more coherent and focused album than the Lamb though.  But the Lamb does have that intensity that Trick lacks.  Phil really wasn't able to match Peter's intensity until around the Duke album.  But I do like his folkier, less bombastic, gnome-like vocals in the 70s...the dude sounded and looked like Gandalf back then.

For "intensity," Genesis' self-titled album is pretty good, especially the first side.  Phil sings his ass off on the songs Mama, Home by the Sea, and Just a Job to Do.  Hard to believe it's actually the same guy screaming on a creepy song like Mama that sings a literate, intricate tale like Mad Man Moon (of course Tony Banks wrote the lyrics).

 LordBaltimore wrote:  Yes, it's all good except it misses out on the gut wrenching, soul clenching intensity contributed by PG on "The Lamb". Then again, Mr. G has soured in the most recent decade or two... so it goes.

If there is any justice in the world, Trick of the Tail would be right up there in the classic rock pantheon with Who's Next, Led Zeppelin IV, Sticky Fingers, Dark Side of the Moon, etc.  It's easily Genesis' most coherent, accessible time-tested album of their entire career, and it showcases all the things that make them a great band.

Great album, fun to hear it again. My fav is Ripples.

Funny how badly Genesis fell apart after this album.
Everything after "And then there were three" was pop flavor, top 40 hit stuff.
Sad they lost their musical sense and went only for the money

But this album remains strong.

Does not sound like Slayer.

First G-tunes album without PG, and still heavily influenced by Steve Hackett's sensibilities.

Unbelievably great listening album.  This song only touches on the true genius better displayed in "Squonk," "Entangled," and "Ripples."

Yeah, I'm an unabashed fan of this record.