WIND & WUTHERING

Gabriel has long gone but Hackett is still hanging in there. Although much of the music here is awesome, I still cringe at the opening track "Eleventh Earl of Mar" (sorry) and have always thought that "Wot Gorilla" had a silly title. I hold onto the album because of stand out tracks like "One for the Vine" and "Unquiet Slumbers" , but the disk has never had the playability of "Selling England by the Pound " or "Trick of the Tail". If you want definitive early Genesis you'll need to dig deeper than this one.