I think all the albums from Trespass up until Genesis are worth getting. Invisible Touch is the first real clunker, not including the uninspired debut.
That being said I do like Land of Confusion, I think it's the only good song on Invisible Touch and the last good song the band ever did, yeah the lyrics are preachy and obvious but the melody and hooks are great. And the video was awesome.
Genesis (Shapes) has That's All which I still consider the finest song of the Phil era, and Mama is great too. HA HA HEH. The only sh*tbomb on that album is Illegal Alien. At least that song is amusing in it's awfulness though.
Abacab is pretty underrated too. Who Dunnit? is absolutely terrible but everything else works. Progarchives has that album rated lower than Calling All Stations and that's just insulting.
Duke is awesome, it's the best Hackettless album and has some of Phil's best drum work too.
...And Then There Were Three is a perfectly fine album as well, even without Gabriel and Hackett there's still traces of the Genesis of old, though I'm glad they reinvented themselves with Duke, this is a career crossroads album, but a good one. Gabriel and Hackett are great but they went on to do great solo material so I don't really think their departure was a bad thing, being in Genesis would have just held them back, and personally I felt Banks and Rutherford were always the true core of the band, they were the main songwriters after all.
Last edited by boo boo; 06-18-2010 at 05:19 PM.
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