Genesis

Genesis 1983

★★★★☆☆☆¹⁴ Cold Symph English Non-Prog Rock/Pop

added by Bj-1

"The second half of this album is among the worst of anything attributed to Genesis - its not even good pop. That's All and the two Home By the Sea tracks are reasonable enough but just hark back to when they got it sort of right on Duke." (bartyMJ, ★★★★☆☆☆, )

"Underappreciated follow up to Abacab, Solid 80's Genesis sound." (atticthought, ★★★★★★☆, )

Review by Time_Signature published

★★★★★☆☆ Non-Prog Pop

"This is, in my book at least, the first really poppy album from Genesis, "Duke" being generally proggish and "Abacab" being in many ways too minimalistically weird to be considered pop proper. "Genesis" contains a lot of tunes that don't appeal much to me, which doesn't mean that they are objectively bad tunes of course. There are, nonetheless, four really great tunes on this one, "Mama" with its dark athmosphere and slow build-up being the most iconic one. While not super comple, "Home by the Sea - Second Home by the Sea" is nonetheless a long tune, which contains lots of interesting musical elements, really weird lyrics and quite catchy vocals. Lastly, there's the forgotten gem "Silver Rainbow" which is almost fairy-tale-like musically. I'd say these four songs are worth buying the whole album for."

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