What Are You Listening To?


RIP Geordie Walker. One of the most unique sounding guitarist from the 80s post punk/proto industrial era. You can tell his early grinding sound was also a influence to metal and grunge/alternative. Safe Travels.
 

From their third album released in ‘73, and their last on the Decca label before they switched to Vertigo Records and grew in popularity. Their hard rock sound started to take shape here, and the LP art looks pretty cool as well (this art is for the deluxe edition; the original art is different but in the same style).
 

This one from Genesis is interesting. Only released as the last track on an EP titled “Spot the Pigeon” in 1977, it was the final Genesis song to feature Steve Hackett on guitar before he left the band. The first half of the song features Phil Collins singing about a violent guy in jail who persuades the governor to get pardoned, only to immediately repeat the actions that caused him to get arrested in the first place. It’s all-acoustic like, before it suddenly picks up and turns into a prog rock frenzy for the second half.

While the band did maintain a style like this for their songs up until at least Genesis (1983), you could say that this song is the exact halfway point that the Phil Collins-led Genesis starting to shift their style from prog rock to more pop-oriented. The previous album (Wind & Wuthering) was more prog-oriented, while the next album (…And Then There Were Three…) featured more pop-oriented tracks. You could tell between those two albums that Steve Hackett played a rather big role for Genesis’ prog style of play. After leaving the band, his absence started to become more clear with the band’s shift to a pop direction later on.

I like both the Collins and Peter Gabriel eras personally, regardless of opinions.
 
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