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Music CD Cover Artist: Genesis Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2007-11-20 Music Label: Rhino / Wea Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Genesis Album
Free Music Review: Genesis' classic follow-up to Abacab gets a deluxe makeover
Hit: 5 Stars
English art rockers Genesis released their self-titled 15th album in October of 1983.
The album was the band's first new studio effort since the monster selling 1981 album Abacab and first all around relase since 1982's Three Sides Live album.
Singer/drummer Phil Collins, guitarist/bass player Mike Rutherford and keyboard player Tony Banks in the interim between Abacab and Genesis released their second solo albums Hello I Must Be Going, Acting Very Strange and The Fugitive respectively. In the spring of 1983, Banks, Rutherford and Collins went back to their own studio dubbed The Farm in Surrey, England with co-producer Hugh Padgham to work on another album. Would the final result be another winner or a loser, read on and find out (as I did in September of 1997 when I first bought the album on cassette and then on CD two months later).
We begin the album with the album's biggest hit in the UK and a rock radio staple here in the US called "Mama". The music is haunting and revolved around a drum machine and the lyrics tell of one's desire for a prostitute or a mother-like figure. The guitars and keyboards are haunting but superb. Also, the maniacal laugh is amazing and it was inspired by Grandmaster Flash's The Message where it had a maniacal laugh so rap did influence Genesis. great number. Next is the album's biggest hit here in the US called "That's All" which reached #6. This piano-driven number is a great song and its video was humorous depicting the lads as homeless hobos was a lighthearted look at the homeless problem. The lyrics are quite superb and the melody is very catchy. We end the album's first half with the two part epic "Home By The Sea" and "Second Home By The Sea". The former is a ghost story with a great melody and then segues into the latter which is keyboard and guitar soloing with electronic drums that manages to not get boring. The drama of the piece increases towards the end as Phil repeats the final lines of 'Home By The Sea' in an extremely emotive way.
The album's second half starts with "Illegal Alien" which is a light hearted poke at illegal immigration! This song (and its video) is extremely fun especially with Phil's failed attempt at a Mexican accent. The three Genesis men looking like Mexicans was hysterical, especially when Phil took his fake wig off in the video while getting his green card (LOL!). Nest is the ballad "Taking It All Too Hard" which is a great number. Next is the rocker "Just A Job To Do" which is a great rocker. The song was used as a theme song to a short live US ABC series and is a cop-and-robber chase song but a great one. "Silver Rainbow" follows and musically sounds like The Beatles circa 1967-1968 psychedelia only with synthesizers and electric drums replacing orchestras and regular drums. While it sounds dated today to many, it's a great song! We end the album with "It's Gonna Get Better" which is a great piece of music with lyrics providing optimism to maybe a disheartened listener after being alone and/or in despair.
The self-titled Genesis album reached #9 on the Billboard album chart and has sold 4 million copies to date in the US.
In 2007, the album was re-released in a re-mixed/re-mastered version with a bonus DVD. The DVD contains videos for the album's first five tracks plus interviews with the members of the band and also unearthed rehearsal footage of the band running through songs that the band would play on The Mama Tour. Also, it includes the tour program that was sold at shows on the 1983/84 tour.
Recommended!