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Tony Banks met Peter Gabriel; Mike Rutherford met Anthony Phillips. Out of these teenage friendships and songwriting partnerships a band called Genesis emerged. In 1967, at the height of the psychedelic boom, they began recording together with the man who thought up their name, producer and pop star in waiting Jonathan King. In pursuit of success, Genesis took the scenic route. It was ten years before they scored their first hit single. Long, radio-unfriendly epics such as 'Supper's Ready', a 26-minute controlled freak-out from the 'Foxtrot' album, were their original stock in trade. Band members subsisted on a retainer of £10 per week. Hotels proving sadly unaffordable, the group would drive home to London and Surrey after every gig. Their live show looked More... (Submit New Genesis Lyrics) (Submit New Genesis Lyrics) Very early memory. | Reviewer: Zeryx ------ About the song That's All performed by Genesis I first saw this song on tv when it came out. It is the first music video I can remember seeing... and I was blown away. I was all of two or something (born in '83) , but I was obsessed with it. I kept watching the same channel each day hoping it would come on again, and being rewarded. I think I learned how to use a remote because I wanted so badly to hear it again. I STILL love this song. I was way too young to remember things like band names, but when I heard it on the classic rock station here it got me into Genesis, I fell in love all over again. Call it imprinting if you want, but this song has withstood the test of time and Genesis has been my favourite band for the past couple of years and probably will forever always be. One of Genesis' stronger albums. | Reviewer: Zeryx ------ About the album Duke performed by Genesis Duke has a lot of solid songs. Interesting base-lines and melodies, though there is some recycling to transition between songs and sampling to tie the album together. Sounds a lot like one long song, in the best of prog-rock tradition. The synth is a bit uneven, varying between flavour (Duchess, Misunderstanding) and over-powering (Man of our Times, Duke's End). Strongest songs are radio-friendly hits "Misunderstanding" and "Turn it on Again." However, most of the songs are very strong and deserve more notice, especially Heathaze, which has a great melody, Cul-De-Sac which invokes generation X, and Please Don't ask which is a bit melodramatic but really tight. The downside is that the rest of the songs tend to be weighed down by overbearing obnoxious synth. The title track, Duke, vacillates between the two, having both really rockin' and really obnoxious bits. In summation, suffer through the occasional brassy over-synthesized song or section of a song and have a solid trip back to when classic rock started to merge into 80s pop. Three and a half stars. love this song | Reviewer: matthew ------ About the song I Can't Dance performed by Genesis Yo dis song is da shit!!! I was standing in da mall today and I was looking at the tvs and they had genises concert playing on all of em and I just love da way he sings this song the way he dances and everything! I gives it a 1000/1000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...There's an angel standing in the sun... | Reviewer: Madman007 ------ About the song Supper's Ready performed by Genesis I was introduced to the Genesis in '83 when I was a fan of the song Mama. Who would introduce me to the REAL Genesis but a 60 year old friend of my grandmothers. Her name was Gaby and she was a huge fan of Phil Collins and early Genesis. She went to see them live several times. I listened to Supper's Ready and thought it to be the most original piece of music (too long to be called a song) I had ever heard. And the artistry of not just the lyrics, but the music. Tony Banks was THE keyboardist of the 70's who, in my opinion, could play circles around Keith Emerson (of ELP). The last section had always brought a tear to my eyes because the music and the lyrics are so powerful. It brings an extra tear now because Gaby died 3 years ago. It was no accident that her name was Gabrielle, and that line, "There's an angel standing in the sun" followed with Rutherford's haunting guitar always makes me remember her. Great song by a great songwriter. | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Evidence Of Autumn performed by Genesis This is a great song. For another instrumental piano version (the first time I heard it) look at "Genesis for Two Grand Pianos". It's awesome and even more haunting than the Phil Collins vocal version. HELICOIDAL LEVELS | Reviewer: Miguel Maldonado ------ About the song One For The Vine performed by Genesis The whole song is obviously all about Jesus, his way of spreading his teachings, his point of view about his own fate, a reminding of his own moment of weakness, awareness of what people expected from him (be honest, that influences almost everyone's decisions). But the loops are what I'm intrigued about, I have imagined that Jesus was a follower of other even greater than he was, 'till something made him quit and flee back up the muntain side, he probably realised that his leader's teachings were all just common sense matter; thus reaching the same wisdom, and making him able to appear to and lead others at a lower existence level (as probably his former leader did), suggesting this all could be a succesion of existence leves, both upwards and downwards to infinty. read them again | Reviewer: Alocke ------ About the song Mama performed by Genesis "But I can hardly wait oh To touch and to feel you, mama Oh, I just can't keep away": he's feeling her up, mmmm and can't keep away. "So get down, down here beside me.": hardly open for interpretation. It's not "lie down" as a mother would do... "But it's getting so hard, ooh": Are you really still wondering what the "it" stands for? You must be too young to know about the facts of life. It continues into: "My eyes, they're burning, mama And I can feel my body shake Don't stop! Don't stop me, mama": And I think Mr Collins had made a pretty correct description of an orgasm if you ask me. Thank you Anonymous for sharing the fact that Collins apologized for the lyrics. He has reason to :-) By the way, I like the song even more now I know how racy it really is! Inspiration | Reviewer: Bryan ------ About the song You Might Recall performed by Genesis I'm 38 and I first bought Duke on cassette in the early 80's. In my early 20's, I was into Peter Gabriel and Genesis, as well as Phil Collins. Silly me. I had no idea they were in a band together until soon after that. I think Peter was much more artistic lyrically than Phil in my opinion, but Phil has a way of singing about many of the events and emotions that we all deal with in every day life. It's just cut and dry and to the point, and I think that makes it very powerful. Phil has been a huge inspiration to me in both my drumming and my song writing for years. I'd love to meet him and thank him for all of his creativity and the years of inspiration he's given me. So quintessentially English... | Reviewer: Dave Gray ------ About the song Evidence Of Autumn performed by Genesis Everything about this song evokes the essence of England...a lost love, melancholia, green and brown autumns, "Gray's Elegy in a Churchyard," nostalgia and pensivesness. I love it. Strangely, it never received much exposure in England and only appeared on the North American version of 3 Sides Live. Great Song | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Turn It On Again performed by Genesis ill have to disagree with the person above of it bieng the best genesis song , that will always be for me "supper's ready" but if i had to pick one when collins took over from gabriel then yeah i would agree that this is one of the best they have done. The reason I became an artist | Reviewer: Dorian Gray ------ About the song You Might Recall performed by Genesis My artist name is Dorian Gray, I've just released my 1st solo album and also wrote for the female singer Duffy; I was discovered by ex-MTV host Ray Cokes on Facebook! The reason I became a drummer, pianist, singer and composer is Genesis and the most beautiful song ever, "You Might Recall" an Abacab leftover song......... I still cry when I listen to this song 26 years after it has been released, for some unspeakable harmonic reasons... Although my Genesis hero is Tony Banks, I think that Mike Rutherford wrote the basic lines of that particular song. I'd be nothing and no one without Genesis music...You might recall... Dorian Gray www.myspace.com/doriangraysongs Masterpiece | Reviewer: Snake ------ About the song If That's What You Need performed by Genesis a Truly magnificent and touching song. My mother ans step-father actually played during their wedding, and i dont really wonder. If only all couples could be truly so brave and loyal to each other as this song tells it, many lives would be much happier, at least thats what i think. This song also inspired me, as a writer, to wrote about romantic, although quite tragic story about lovers. The last matey was nearly right. | Reviewer: JimB ------ About the song One For The Vine performed by Genesis I think that the man before said that the story is all a loop, that is pretty obvious. However our theory is that after some refreshing water he moves onto the Vine, which is a metaphor for Wine and gets totally and utterly pissed. All then becomes clear and he just can't be arsed to lead anyone in a hangover and just disapears and so the loop continues. Who Dunnit comments | Reviewer: shelly tumbleson ------ About the song Who Dunnit? performed by Genesis By most people's accounting, Who Dunnit isn't a great song. It's obtuse, obscure, disjointed and it could be argued that it's a novelty song. But the effectiveness of this song isn't in the song itself. The cacophony created by the off time syncopation of Phil's drums and Tony's keyboard work creates a feeling of slightly organized chaos. Granted, it's not chaotic like Pat Metheny's Zero Tolerance for Silence and it's not Ornate Coleman, but it is arrhythmic at best. The strength in this song is once it comes crashing down at the end, you're greeted by a song that could not be any more different than Who Dunnit. Lonely Man On the Corner is a sad, tear rendering piece that was crafted with all the compassion and brilliance that Tony, Mike and Phil have ever made. Unlike Driving the Last Spike, Lonely Man On the Corner is about the plight of the individual (as opposed to a group), but is no less profound and simultaneously both melancholy in content and uplifting in its beauty. functionality without form | Reviewer: shelly tumbleson ------ About the song Who Dunnit? performed by Genesis By most people's accounting, Who Dunnit isn't a great song. It is obtuse, obscure, disjointed and it could be argued that it's a novelty song. But the effectiveness of this song isn't in the song itself. The cacophony created by the off time syncopation of Phil's drums and Tony's keyboard work creates a feeling of slightly organized chaos. Granted, it's not chaotic like Pat Metheny's Zero Tolerance for Silence and it's not Ornate Coleman, but it is arrhythmic at best. The strength in this song is once it comes crashing down at the end, you're greeted by a song that could not be any more different than Who Dunnit. Lonely Man On the Corner is a sad, tear rendering piece that was crafted with all the compassion and brilliance that Tony, Mike and Phil have ever made. Unlike Driving the Last Spike, Lonely Man On the Corner is about the plight of the individual (as opposed to a group), but is no less profound and simultaneously both melancholy in content and uplifting in its beauty. Reading too much into it... | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Mama performed by Genesis The song does not even vaguely sound as if it recants any type of tragedy because it doesn't. I have never heard Phil Collins claim that it did. I saw Genesis several times back during the '80s and to witness Mr. Collins singing this song is to see someone recalling a very sensual moment. While you may have lost your mother or had an abortion and hearing this song brings out those emotions, it does not mean that you identify with this song because it is about abortion/death...you are stretching and giving new meaning to something that does not need your interpretation. The song is excellent for late nights;) Leave it alone. Genesis members, please cover this song in the concert and re-release the song | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song You Might Recall performed by Genesis This is one of my fave Genesis song post Gabriel era. Unfortunately, the least known, no video, no known concert/live cover by the band in their concert (it's only a supplement in the original Three Sides Live casette US version). The balance between instruments in this song is amazing. Phil's drumming is awesome. The lyrics is very touching while the music catch the lyrics' emotion perfectly. For those who wants to listen the song again can listen on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDVA6f5VJ3c For the band/member of the band, please release the concert/live/video version of the song (if exist). SPOILED | Reviewer: Dean ------ About the song Supper's Ready performed by Genesis The first concert I ever saw was Genesis' Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour in 1975 at The Shrine Auditorium in Hollywood, CA. Sufficed to say, I was spoiled from that point on in my life. No concert I've ever seen since can compare to the music and feast for the eyes that Genesis dished out. Simply Amazing!!!!! | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Turn It On Again performed by Genesis The best song that this band ever did, in spite of how short it is. The lyrics are great, Phil Collins is great, at the drums and the singing, Tony Banks is an underrated keyboard player, and Mike Rutherford should get more credit where it's due. Great song by an amazing band!!!!! Only Saw Lamb Live | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Supper's Ready performed by Genesis Unfortuantely, I only saw The Lamb in concert with Peter Gabriel. On the way to the concert we were disappointed to hear that the band wasn't going to perform any of 'Selling England'. Lamb was amazing - the sets, the whole show. I did see the Seconds Out tour, and while I still enjoy Trick of the Tail, Genesis never really recovered from the loss of PG. At the time, Gabriel said, Genesis was always a combination of sweet and sour and now (without him) it was too sweet. As important as Gabriel was Steve Hackett, whoose guitar playing added a very interesting texture not found in bands of the time. The band always leaned too much on keyboards and without Steve, they were submerged in synthesizers, right at the time they were going out of fashion. Interesting to note, Peter Gabriel's first two solo albums were all about different textures - perhaps borrowing that feel from Steve. 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