Saturday, September 6, 2014

this is the most interesting thing on the disc. bit of a garagey doors or floyd feel. genesis weren't the only prog band to come out of a more punk rock background (floyd, the nice, the who - or the beatles), but they held to it longer and better in a thematic sense. sort of a paradox - genesis were both the most musically complex and the most thematically punk rock of the classic prog acts. they were always less "classical/jazz rock" in the crimson or elp sense and more "elaborate garage rock" in the floyd-goes-to-art-school-and-hangs-out-with-bowie sense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCtaHldn34