Try it this way: please click on this post's title, with your speaker volume up, then read the post. Wind & Wuthering is the 8th Genesis studio album. I found this yesterday in a two dollar bin at the Chicagoland Record Collectors show. http://chicagorecordcollectors.com/ I think it was never NOT on Dale's (Puppy) turntable in college in Walker Hall. Down the hall Greg and Mark cranked Kansas as a nice counterpoint. But it's nice to know that our college-era musical tastes are now verified, retroacticely. We can read now that this, record, from late 1976, is what Tony Banks has said to be one of his two favourite Genesis albums. I wonder what the other is? Steve Hackett has stated that he is also "very fond" of this album. Very fond - how Brittish. Perhaps his view is nostalgic, as this was the last time he played on a Genesis studio record. As for the music: is there a more powerful first song on a Genesis record than Eleventh Earl of Mar? It would be what is rendered down to the condensed essence of Genesis, if they produced only one song ever. Blood on the Rooftops is erie and great to hear this time of year with darkness falling early and leave-less trees "wuthering." Your Own Special Way (unfortunately) is the precursor to their empending pop choral FM formula. Listening to the closing song, Afterglow, is odd to me now as just a stand alone studio cut. As we all found out later - it became their go-to choral and epic coda to all of the great live Genesis medlies.
With your posts of Wind & Wuthering and recently of Selling England by the Pound, you've given me incentive to get these Genesis albums out and play 'em (moderately loud) during a family activity. These kids gotta experience real music with deep feeling compared to the bouncy, beaty fluff of today. (They do like Green Day, so they have some inclination toward meaningful music!)
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Hmmm - what would be a good Genesis "starter" album? Certainly not anything pre-SEBTP. But to introduce newcomers to the band you should pick one Peter and one non-Peter. Duke might be good for non-Peter. With Peter - you might as well dive into the deep end: The Lamb. Great idea!
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