Their first album was weak. The follow-up Trespass does not yet have Phil Collins or Steve Hackett but is one of my favourite Genesis albums. I think it's excellent, though a bit darker than the next few albums.
The other early albums had the classic Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford/Banks/Collins line-up:
Nursery Cryme
Foxtrot
Selling England by the Pound
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (this album is "Enossified" so it sounds quite a bit different to the previous three, it's an anomaly in their discography)
After Gabriel left the band took on the similar-sounding Phil Collins on vocals, toured with a different drummer and at first kept going as if The Lamb never happened. Song-writing in Genesis was a collaborative effort and the transition into dance muzak (going from A Trick of a Tail to the self-titled album) was very gradual.
Yeah, I have the first album "from geneis to revelation", I thought some of the songs sound alright. But yeah, I will end up trying to collect all their best albums!
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Yeah, I have the first album "from geneis to revelation", I thought some of the songs sound alright. But yeah, I will end up trying to collect all their best albums!
There are a few good songs on that one but the production is still rubbish. I particularly like "In the Wilderness" but that was cut short before the band could cut loose and jam a bit like they did on Trespass.
Yeah, I have the first album "from geneis to revelation", I thought some of the songs sound alright. But yeah, I will end up trying to collect all their best albums!
There are a few good songs on that one but the production is still rubbish. I particularly like "In the Wilderness" but that was cut short before the band could cut loose and jam a bit like they did on Trespass.
Is Trespass the second album?
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