Once again, prog lovers are (too often) stuck in this kind of thinking: "Man, 1975 was the best! Wish it never ended!" Perhaps, but time's passing. But it doesn't mean in any way that Invisible Touch is crappy because it's Pop (even with a capital P). It's good, because they do what they like and I respect that. How many people make their family live with an income of underground-du-jour music? Not much or very very few. But the market is not made for progressive rock and today, read the papers, people don't want others to know that they love prog (Jack Black for instance). Often, underground stuff is less to have a long life. Prog is an underground movement loved by college students (at first) just like ambient, acid, drum n' bass or jungle (90's electronic frenzyness). ![]() Girls just wanna have fun, right? I'm not possessing the answer but one thing is sure: Genesis had to grow to survive.and progressive rock died with the end of the 70's anyway.Too bad? Not really. More people means more boys but also lots of girls. Wonder why? Maybe because the 80's brouhgt MTV. (Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, BTO, Sex Pistols, Moody Blues). Could these guys survive the 80's by doing all over again Supper's Ready or The Knife? No, and the bands who do it are targets for laughs and yawns. Social review comments | Review Posted Friday, Febru| Review this album | Report (Review #10543)ģ DESERVED stars. We have here Genesis reaching the complete pop realm and obviously having turned away completely the progressive page a long time ago, even if they had given us a slight hope with the first side of their previous album.īut really, we are really lower than the Marianna Trench here. But the rest is much worse than dreadful although there are some interesting rythmic patterns, and there were many different dance versions of some of these tracks. I think this album is much worse than Abacab but somehow hate this less because I was not expecting anything from Genesis anymore,Īgain I am exagerating a bit but this is to drive a point home, because Land Of Confusion and its amusing Spitting Image video did make me smile and I never zapped when I heard it. I propose that we start a petition for a -1 star rating and that this one is the first one to become the rock bottom of all albums reviewed on this site. Social review comments | Review Posted Saturday, Janu| Review this album | Report (Review #10531) Thus, I don't write this album off I believe that the aforementioned last three tracks are reason enough to add INVISIBLE TOUCH to your Genesis collection. I was fortunate enough to catch a concert from this tour, and let me tell you, "Domino" was one of the absolute standouts of the evening - perhaps even the highpoint of that memorable show! This one must be played loudly, with the lights low. It is in this latter category that I think the band has been most successful: for my ears, "The Brazilian" is a strong instrumental that can hold its own with forerunners like "Los Endos" and "Wot Gorilla," while "Domino," with its over ten-minute, two-part structure, is as good a piece of progressive as anything the band did after the departure of P.G. There are radio-friendly pop songs ("Invisible Touch," - yuck! - "Anything She Does" and "Throwing it all Away" - which I think is a FINE song in a sad vein the fact that it's by Genesis perhaps makes many deaf to its strengths), some that strike a middle-ground (the undistinguished "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight," and the very good "Land of Confusion"), and two attempts to recapture the old prog sound. ![]() No, it's not classic Genesis, but neither is it absolute "pop rubbish" or "crap."Īs with most of the band's output from the post-Gabriel and Hackett era, there is no overall sound to this recording. I rate this 80s Genesis album higher than some reviewers have, but below others, because I feel it's a middling effort from one of my erstwhile favourite bands.
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