FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION

Touche' Mcgraster. When I first heard this GEnesis album under the name of 'Rock Roots: Genesis" on Decca in 1978, after having already been enraptured by the Genesis prog classiscs for several years, I said "Wow! This is really different but really good!" PEter Gabriel's haunting vocal delivery on this album provides a connection to later, more fully developed efforts. But this is a great listen from start to finish, assuming you are able to handle some melodramic strings misxed in along the way. But even these are done to unique effect in my mind. Not a classic (these come later with GEnesis), but I think essential for a prog fan. So I have to give it the essential rating ( I wan't going to originally but the more I think about it the more I think I must).