Genesis - From Genesis to RevelationBloody 'ell!
OK, I guess everyone's seen the images of Peter Gabriel dressed up as a sunflower, or daisy or whatever, but I hadn't ever realised just how much of a hippie band Genesis started out as.
This album comes at you direct from the Age of Aquarius, summer of love, commune living days of the 60's and a bigger slice of real honest to goodness hippie groove you could not hope to find.
I was shocked - truly shocked, but then my recent overexposure to Pink Floyd can probably account for some of this: imagine wading through tar, traversing still-smoking battlefields, then falling headlong into a field grown high with wild flowers, bathed in late summer sunshine and dancing naked with the beautiful people. Culture shock?! Heavy, man...
Where's the radio friendly bland pop meanderings of the 80's? It's fair to say that when you're talking about complete and total 180 degree turnarounds, Genesis is there at the top of the heap.
If you're not quite sure of my opinion of this record yet, let's just say that as an old hippie myself, I loved it.
Next up: Nursery Cryme
