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I can't believe i'm the only one that gives this rating. I can clearly see people's problem with the pop rock instead of progressive rock which is fine to an extent. But not everyone can like just one sub genre of music, which is prog rock. If you don't like pop music than fair enough, but I don't have problems with Genesis changing there music to a pop sound.

Phil Collins has directed the sound changes and lyric changes from early Genesis, they aren't as complex or theatrical, they are more friendly for a wider audience to understand what they are about which is equally as good as writing intelligent lyrics. The topics in the music are still as good as any Genesis music, for example how beauty over brains is valued more in western societ and pointless killing of animals in Dodo/Lurker, also in Man On The Corner, a song about homeless people, and how others ignore them and so on. Fine song from Phil Collins.

There is a love or "relationship song" with No Reply At All, with the help of Earth Wind and Fire horns section. It's a song about how a person fails to communicate to the opposite sex, c'mon weve all been there. I like this song even though it isn't Genesis at all, but if Rutherford and Banks were ok with Phil doing that, then it's fine.

Who Dunnit is a funny song to me, I think it's about how people have the tendency to blame everyone else for bad things that happen, when it is that contributes to the bad things as well like everyone else. Keep It Dark is a great song, with a depressing, somber mood on the world outlook- "It seems strange to have to lie about a world so bright, and tell instead a made up story from the world of night". Meaning he has to tell a dream to describe the world to put everyone at ease. It shows that there is great meaning in all parts of this album. It's all to easy to discrimiante the album just for the sound and surface meaning. I think this is there last great album- Invisible touch and We Can't Dance are average compared to this.