WIND & WUTHERING

The best Phil Collins performance as Genesis vocalist but the weakest Steve Hackett guitar performance on Genesis. Not as good as Trick of the Tail but far better than the later Genesis releases.

Really proggy, W&W starts with the beautiful and powerful Eleventh Earl of Mar, one of those songs that you love since the first notes. Great keyboard work by Tony Banks and a really good spacy middle section. Second song is the legendary One for the Vine, maybe one of the best songs of the Genesis-Collins era: great lyrics, nice rhythmical sections and a awsome proggy middle section a la Banks. Then, the mellow You Have Your Own Special Way, a shy announce of what Genesis will do in their later productions. Side A closes with Wot Gorilla?, a galloping instrumental with a great drums work.

Side B open with another great song, All in a Mouse's Night another proggy song leaded by Tony Banks keyboards. Second songs is Blood on the Rooftops, another Collins-Genesis era classic! A beutiful ballad where Phil's voice sounds really good. Then we have the long instrumental formed by Unquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers... and ...In That Quiet Earth, the only two songs which has some notorious Hackett inffluence. Great rhythmical sections, awsome keyboards, constant changes... The album deserves to end at this point cos Afterglow sounds totally out of place after listening the previuos songs.

3.5*