Log #72 - Genesis Chapter One and a Half

I like a bit of honky tonk (we're talking Exile on Main Street or Little Feat here) so thought I'd try some Chicago hearing they were a rock band with a brass section. It is a bit too easy listening for me, but there are plenty of famous tunes on this compilation that I hadn't realised were Chicago.

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1. Chicago - The Heart of Chicago

2. Genesis - Nursery Cryme

3. Genesis - And Then There Were Three

4. Genesis - Wind and Wuthering

5. Camel - The Snow Goose

6. Camel - Moonmadness

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The meat of the magazine this week is Genesis again. What a late blossoming of interest I've enjoyed this last month culminating in the procurement of two of the three Genesis (what I call) Mark 1.5 (post Gabriel, pre Duke) albums. The music is sumptuous, and, get this, the Collins singing ain't too shabby either.  Bigger fans than me tell me that Gabriel had the greater emotion (and I'd say the stage presence as a band leader) but Collins the greater vocal range. In actual fact they both have very similar voices.

The music is sumptuous, and, get this, the Collins singing ain't too shabby either.

The albums And Then There Were Three and Wind and Wuthering are a little more focused and succinct than the sprawl of Nursery Cryme or Foxtrot but hardly less progressive. Perhaps just the final track on And Then There Were Three, Follow You Follow Me, signposts towards the pop to come.

Missing from the trilogy is Trick of The Tail which I will probably review in a later retrospective together with these two again, once I've obtained the album which many consider their best.

Plenty more charity purchases this week too which will be featured in coming weeks. I have a new contender for Most Frequently Found Album In The Charity Bins, along with Texas White on Blonde: It's this one from Catatonia: