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British rock band Genesis have confirmed they are reforming for a 2020 tour -- their first in 13 years.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/04/entertainment/genesis-reunion-intl-scli-gbr/index.html
ov. 23 - M&S Bank Arena - Liverpool, UK
Nov. 26 - Utilita Arena - Newcastle, UK
Nov. 29 - O2 Arena - London, UK
Nov. 30 - O2 Arena - London, UK
Dec. 02 - First Direct Arena - Leeds, UK
Dec. 05 - Arena Birmingham - Birmingham, UK
Dec. 08 - Manchester Arena - Manchester, UK
Dec. 11 - SSE Hydro - Glasgow, UK
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JOPE OF STEELE Steelemeister
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Listening the debut album after a few years away from it. An essential album to me because some of the songs are rather good but in overall the album is forgettable. Still, it is always an interesting listen due to the lack of progginess of their later albums. My favorites are: The Serpent, Am I Very Wrong?, In The Wilderness and The Conqueror -- that's four great songs in a row. Recommended for those who can see past the low reviews.
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JoHn Doe
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Written by JOPE OF STEELE on 28.09.2021 at 12:48
Listening the debut album after a few years away from it. An essential album to me because some of the songs are rather good but in overall the album is forgettable. Still, it is always an interesting listen due to the lack of progginess of their later albums. My favorites are: The Serpent, Am I Very Wrong?, In The Wilderness and The Conqueror -- that's four great songs in a row. Recommended for those who can see past the low reviews.
nice to see FGTR getting some love, even a little bit.
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JOPE OF STEELE Steelemeister
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Written by JoHn Doe on 28.09.2021 at 14:09
nice to see FGTR getting some love, even a little bit.
Maybe I downplayed it on the comment, I do enjoy this music quite a lot and to me it's much better album than Trespass is. Also music such as this plays a part on the comment I made earlier about 69-72 being the greatest era musically Re-listening to it right now and i think I'm gonna skip Trespass this time as I only enjoy The Knife from its songs.
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JOPE OF STEELE Steelemeister
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I did end up listening to Trespass again, now I need to update my journal not to do it again, because I have been in this situation before where I forget about this album and its shortcomings. I see where they were trying to go with the longer song lengths and with prog getting big in this era, but it's an awkward record, it's not good or interesting until The Knife, it's a practise for their later albums.
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JoHn Doe
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Written by [user id=329624] on 06.04.2023 at 15:39
Trespass is super underrated and top 3-4 Genesis album for me. Side A is great and The Knife is tremendously tight for a symphonic prog song from 1970.
I agree, i wouldn't put Trespass that high though, but it is a great album.
Also there was plenty of tight symph-prog (and not only) even in 1970 (Yes, Cressida, ELP, also Caravan and Gentle Giant, VDGG and so on).
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JoHn Doe
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Written by [user id=329624] on 06.04.2023 at 15:57
Written by JoHn Doe on 06.04.2023 at 15:47
Also there was plenty of tight symph-prog (and not only) even in 1970 (Yes, Cressida, ELP, also Caravan and Gentle Giant, VDGG and so on).
I meant specifically year 1970. ELP's Barbarian song and Gentle Giant's debut are heavier and more hard rock oriented, but the rest bands you mentioned not so much. And in Gentle Giant case, those harder songs were actually progressive rock/heavy psych blend rather than full-blown symphonic prog.
ELP and Emerson's previous band The Nice and even early Procol Harum and the Moody Blues and even King Crimson's debut helped shape symphonic prog back then. Personally I love early Yes, those two albums with Peter Banks on guitar are great IMO.
Tight playing is essential in any kind of prog. That's the beauty of it I guess.
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JoHn Doe
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Written by [user id=329624] on 06.04.2023 at 16:13
Written by JoHn Doe on 06.04.2023 at 16:02
ELP and Emerson's previous band The Nice and even early Procol Harum and the Moody Blues and even King Crimson's debut helped shape symphonic prog back then. Personally I love early Yes, those two albums with Peter Banks on guitar are great IMO.
Tight playing is essential in any kind of prog. That's the beauty of it I guess.
I'm not sure If I know how the first part of your message is related to what I said, but tight playing is not essential in all kinds of prog. Perhaps our definition of "tight" in terms of music is different, but many bands can be progressive through more conceptual songwritting and willingness to experiment and extend the boundaries of rock music, and not necessarily through technicality in itself. King Crimson's Epitaph is symphonic prog, but you are not gonna tell me it's "tight".
Maybe you're right, by "tight" i mean musicians complement each other, no sloppiness, the music has a great flow, never forced. Also never technical for the simple sake of it. I'm not good with words here...
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JoHn Doe
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Written by [user id=329624] on 06.04.2023 at 16:24
Written by JoHn Doe on 06.04.2023 at 16:19
Maybe you're right, by "tight" i mean musicians complement each other, no sloppiness, the music has a great flow, never forced. Also never technical for the simple sake of it. I'm not good with words here...
Perhaps it's my fault by using term that is actually very broad and might mean many different things depending on who you ask and what is the matter of subject.
Mind sharing your Genesis ranking from their golden era(70'-76', unless you would like to include some other albums)?
well, let's see...
Selling England by the Pound and A Trick of the Tail - a tie these days
Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme - another tie I dare say.
Wind & Wuthering
The Lamb...
Trespass
And Then there were Three
Duke
From Genesis to Revelation
The albums from 1981 to 1997 have some good occasional moments. That's another story.
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