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Genesis

Symphonic Prog

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mazzaurg

Prior to buying this album, I thought that it would be the greatest album I would ever own.

However, I was disappointed. It has some highlights, but too few. These include The Colony of Slippermen, Supernatural anaesthetist, Counting out Time, In the Cage, Riding the Scree. But they are by far too few.

What I feel this album lacks most is an instrumental focus. At least on the 1994(?) CD-remaster, I feel that the vocals, at all times they are heard, obscure the instruments that on this album I feel have taken the role of back-up rather than show off(?) like I experience is the case for example on SEbtP, which will always for me be a more interesting and simply better album than this.

I think that this album foreshadowed the more pop-oriented years to come, it is too much pop and too much prog, with mostly short, rather flat songs.

When this and Foxtrot were the only albums by Genesis I had heard, I thought that this album suffered from the fact that the members of the band (or maybe just Gabriel?) seemed to have such a flood of creativity that they forced themselves to stuff it all onto one album. Now this has lead to the fact that they do not explore any of the ideas fully. This was, and is, disturbing me. Now when I listened to SEbtP, I found that that that album exists of similar ideas as those on tLLDoB, but they are explored much further and are essentially fewer.

What if Genesis then would have split this one up into several single albums? This for example split up into 4, all released in one year, exploring the best ideas on this in detail. This is just wishful thinking, but I think that they would have been unique in doing so, and it would, done properly, have been a huge success.

But as it is now, it is simply too uninteresting for me. Spoilt genious.

mazzaurg | 3/5 | 2008-1-5

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