GENESIS

Just because "Genesis" was slightly better than "Abacab" many rushed to pronounce the "come back" of GENESIS to their prog roots. But let's face the truth! Even if not so obviously a pop song, "Mama" is basically a recycling of the rhythm patterns from the Collins' solo singl "In the Air Tonight", which for that matter borrowed the drum sound from the phenomenal Peter Gabriel's third album of 1980. "That's All" is a nice, unpretentious song and for me probably the best pop song GENESIS ever produced and that's all! "Home by the Sea" indeed carries certain long instrumental passages reminiscent of the "good old" GENESIS, but is highly overrated especially the second part and becomes boring.

The real horror begins with "Illegal Alien" and stays till the end. Not only this song is musically awful with those terrible synthetic sounds, it is thematically quite annoying and even "politically uncorrect" if you wish. And they even dared to produce a video (where the trio acted like Mexicans in a failed "humorous" set) and hit the charts with this garbage! Like the title of one song says, the whole post-1980 GENESIS career was nothing else but "just a job to do", making easy money by producing worthless music.

Had this album stopped with "Second Home by the Sea" I would rate it 2,5 stars, alas the remaining staff urges me to caution anyone wondering what to do with "Genesis": STAY AWAY for your own mental sanity!

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