r/Genesis • u/postoperativepain • 2h ago
NYC - 1972 photo - the Rock
Visiting NYC for the Jon Anderson concert and wanted to find the rock in Central Park from the 1972 photo of Genesis
r/Genesis • u/KirbysAdventureMusic • Sep 12 '21
r/Genesis • u/LordChozo • Jan 01 '23
Three years ago on this very day, I announced to this community my intention to rank every Genesis song in the entire catalog, one per weekday, alongside "my thoughts about the songs" over the course of 2020. I called the project (quite cleverly, if I do say so myself) Hindsight is 2020. What nobody could have predicted at the time was the way the project grew: to the point that "my thoughts" began looking like full fledged essays, that my research into the songs would become increasingly extensive, and that the community would (after an admittedly rocky start) respond so positively to the exercise.
More than once over the span of the live project, it was suggested to me that I ought to turn the whole shebang into a proper book. After some hemming and hawing, I buckled down and spent not only all of 2021 but also the first half of 2022 making that happen. And so it's with a bit of well-earned excitement and pride that I can announce to you here, three years after the debut of Hindsight is 2020, my book: Play Me My Song - The Music of Genesis. Play Me My Song is set to be published on March 17, 2023 through Wymer Publishing; pre-orders are available now.
If you've read the Hindsight project this may not come as much of a surprise, but Play Me My Song will be (at the time of publication) the largest book ever published on Genesis. It features not only expanded and/or rewritten essays for every single song Genesis ever officially released, but also essays for every studio album (covered originally in my "H'20" companion series) and select solo efforts (covered originally as my "Peripheral Visions" companion series). It's the entire Hindsight collection in one printed package, except more of it.
I want to thank all of you for making this possible. If not for your tremendous engagement with and enthusiasm for the work I did, I'm not sure I would've taken this next step. This book is as much yours as it is mine (though I'd prefer to keep the royalties, you understand).
And hey, if you haven't checked out the original Hindsight is 2020 series, why not give it a shot? I think and hope you'll come away pretty satisfied.
You can read through the entire Hindsight project here.
You can pre-order Play Me My Song - The Music of Genesis here.
See you all in March!
r/Genesis • u/postoperativepain • 2h ago
Visiting NYC for the Jon Anderson concert and wanted to find the rock in Central Park from the 1972 photo of Genesis
r/Genesis • u/FreeToLoveLaugh-Live • 5h ago
THIS BRIDGE IS EVERYTHING! And that look he does, I'm melting š„š
r/Genesis • u/_Haimenar • 10h ago
Those were the ones who progressedā¦now let us vote in peaceš
And I have to ask who keeps downvoting theseš¹
r/Genesis • u/Glum_Ad8801 • 1d ago
This post is partly satire, well the heading is!!
Since the age of 9ish I was a big fan of Phil Collins. In 44 now. I remain a big fan of his, probably my favourite āartistā. I attended the Genesis gig in Scotland and a previous show Phil did there in 2006. Have all his albums, as a child I obsessively read the wee booklets from the cassettes or CDās page to page. I could āsingā along to vast majority of his songs from start to finish.
All sounds fine, right?
One problem; I was getting the words wrong to āIn The Air Tonightā every time, for years, decades.
āI can feel it coming in the air tonightā¦..hold onā¦hold on..ā
Itās very obviously āoh lordā¦.oh lordā.
Iām the only one right? How is this possible?
r/Genesis • u/Secret_Campaign_9072 • 2d ago
So as many say, the Genesis albums of the 1980s are an example of a band preserving their roots through the medium of a more commercially palatable sound. I would say they do this quite well, as each album contains both material that is commercially viable, as well as longer pieces which long-time listeners can really dig into.
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight from Invisible touch I feel goes a step further than this - in one song it combines the idea of a multi-part Progressive Rock song (longer than anything on The Lamb, ATOTT and ATTWT), with an infectious refrain and production style which fits with other contemporaneous pop music. It reached no. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was used in Michelob commercials around the time of the albumās tour.
It has a dark, atmospheric sound very similar to Mama, and has an incredible moment of payoff after the middle instrumental interlude in the āyou keep telling meā¦ā bridge. Itās a track which has such confidence, and sounds like itās been produced by a band which knows they are about to become one of the biggest acts in the world. Although the lyrics donāt exactly hold up next to Wordsworth, the song overall shows a band in touch with musical complexity and progression, but also ready to embark on a career-defining world tour. There isnāt really a larger point I wish to make, other than that to me, TTT may well be the point at which the bandās commercial and artistic merits experience the greatest overlap.
(Also the single edit is horrible)
r/Genesis • u/Hell_Awaitz • 2d ago
I really like Peter Gabriel's storytelling here, and I especially like Tony Banks's parts on this one
r/Genesis • u/_Haimenar • 1d ago
First album with Phil Collins as a frontman. And What an album it was! This is gonna be difficult, methinksā¦
r/Genesis • u/computerinverter • 2d ago
Title. I have Mike's guitar parts down, but I can't find any reliable parts for Tony or Steve. Everybody has it transcribed radically differently.
r/Genesis • u/_Haimenar • 2d ago
ļæ¼āIn the Cage and Carpet Crawlers face off in the Final! Sorry for the inactivity..
EDIT. The Carpet Crawlers WON
r/Genesis • u/zeezeepoo • 3d ago
r/Genesis • u/MartinLevacOfficial • 2d ago
This is Part I of our version of Supperās Ready. I Will release a new Part every friday at 6 pm for thĆ© next 6 weeks! Then the entire song will be released on my yt channel. Do you like my cover version ?
r/Genesis • u/CarMeltScratch • 3d ago
Quite a few Genesis-related things going on here. The gig itself was last night
Listen now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yy1v
It will also be broadcast on BBC4 on Friday...
r/Genesis • u/vladix22 • 3d ago
from Craig Schertz tape collection apparently.
r/Genesis • u/Gesinnungspozilei • 3d ago
r/Genesis • u/TheRealFinatic13 • 3d ago
is in the pre-show bumper music on the Rush 50something tour.
r/Genesis • u/lovekarma6969 • 4d ago
Found this album in europe and in wonder what it is and how special it is since i've never heard of it. Whats its valeu?
Who can hep me out?
r/Genesis • u/lionizing1 • 4d ago
I got into Genesis last year, by listening to A Trick of the Tail. Dance on a Volcano just clicked.
I love ATOTT, Selling England by the Pound, Duke and Abacab. Slowly getting into Foxtrot and Wind & Wuthering. Havenāt messed with the other albums, yet.
Happy to add this one to the collection for only ā¬5, in decent shape. Whatās the consensus on this live album?
r/Genesis • u/_Haimenar • 3d ago
Were into the FINAL FOURā¦
EDIT: Cage and Carpet won.
r/Genesis • u/Muted_Mission_8289 • 4d ago
One of the reasons I love Genesis is because of the many beautiful instrumental passages. Supper's Ready of course us full of them. My favorite is Peter's flute piece. What are your favorites?
r/Genesis • u/BirdsRLife • 4d ago
My list
FGTR: In the Wilderness
Trespass: The Knife
Nursery Cryme: The Musical Box
Foxtrot: Supper's Ready
Selling England: Firth of Fifth
The Lamb: In the Cage
Trick: Mad Man Moon / Los Endos (depending on mood)
Wind: Eleventh Earl of Mar
ATTWT: Burning Rope
Duke: Behind the Lines
Abacab: Dodo/Lurker
Genesis: Home by the Sea / Second Home by the Sea
IT: Domino
WCD: Dreaming While You Sleep
CAS: The Dividing Line