GENESIS

A great POP album, but (of course) the reasons to buy it are the prog tracks: especially "Home By The Sea" and "Second Home By The Sea". The 2nd one reprises the first one in the end. As many above me mentioned, it sounds like a soundtrack for a horror movie... "Mama" is pretty good, but a bit too long. It's very dark, sometimes you think this mother has to be a monster :-)

"That's All" is the ditty style, but a lot better than other songs on this album.... I mean the stupid "Illegal Alien". Why did they put such crap on an album they self-titled?

"Taking It All Too Hard" and "It's Gonna Get Better" are good ballads. In Genesis songs from this period ("Abacab", "Genesis") the song introes often sound a lot better than the main themes (listen to "Another Record" from the previous one, for example. It's a silly pop filler, but the intro sounds like the intro to a progressive song.)

This and 1981's Abacab are their worst albums, but they're both not so bad. Genesis didn't do anything really bad, but if they did, those two were the worst ones.....

They died a few years before the so-called "Mama" album, not with this one but with Duke or Abacab.

Sorry for my English mistakes

the Sorcerer