Trollheart's Album Discography Reviews: Genesis

Trollheart · 04-21-2022, 07:05 PM

Absolutely. If you read through the reviews here you'll see they started out as a real prog band - heavy on the mythological lyrics, long piano passages, epic songs, twelve-string guitars, flutes etc - and sort of metamorphosed near the end of the 1970s into a more poppy form of prog before succumbing totally to the pop bug around 1981 or so. Gabriel's solo stuff bears no real resemblance to his work with Genesis: for his best in my opinion see 1975's classic The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

You may also be interested in Marillion, the sort of heirs to Genesis's prog crown in the 1980s, who I've begun covering here too.

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Absolutely. If you read through the reviews here you'll see they started out as a real prog band - heavy on the mythological lyrics, long piano passages, epic songs, twelve-string guitars, flutes etc - and sort of metamorphosed near the end of the 1970s into a more poppy form of prog before succumbing totally to the pop bug around 1981 or so. Gabriel's solo stuff bears no real resemblance to his work with Genesis: for his best in my opinion see 1975's classic The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. You may also be interested in Marillion, the sort of heirs to Genesis's prog crown in the 1980s, who I've begun covering here too. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018