until Phil starts singing.
At the time this came out, we thought Genesis had sunk as low as they could get.
Little did we know.
Did people really think this was a pop sellout? I think it's a touch snoozy but hardly offensive.
As opposed to the Floyd, whom I find *really* snoozy.
Folks who were big Genesis fans thought it was travesty. In the space of three years, they went from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway to this, and lost two major contributors along the way (Gabriel and Steve Hackett.) While Hackett was primarily an instrumentalist, only occasionally a writer and never a vocalist, his guitar gave serious guts to the Genesis sound, and this record, recorded as a three-piece with Mike Rutherford having to fill in all the lead parts, just didn't measure up, even to the preceding record, Wind and Wuthering.