WIND & WUTHERING

From far, this is the best Genesis album. All periods included. And also my personal favorite, from the first to the last second. With its cold and sad cover art, Wind & Wuthering is one of the best prog-rock albums of all times. 9 songs. I don't want to say if one of these tracks is better or weaker than the others. For me, they all deserve 5 stars, and so the album.

Elevent Earl Of Mar is a nice song about a daddy telling a story to his boy in order to make him sleep well - 'daddy, you promised !'.

One For The Vine last exactly 10 minutes, and is probably the most important song of the album.

Your Own Special Way is a slow, maybe the first Genesis song to be totally slow and mellow - but it's magnificent.

Wot Gorilla ? is an instrumental, completely wonderful.

All In A Mouse's Night is very close to the songs of the first Genesis era, it could have been sang bu Peter Gabriel on an album like Nusery Cryme. Splendid. Funny, too.

Blood On The Rooftops is purely magnificent, maybe my favorite here. Poignant.

And then, the last three songs, which are sealed together in a triptycal suite : Unquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers.../...In That Quiet Earth/Afterglow. The two first are instrumental, the last is sung. The first seems to be the perfect illustration for the cover art, the second is groovy and run fast, the last is a perfect closing song.

In its globality, a masterpiece.