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The "GENESIS" disaster continues...!
Some of you wander why to bother with reviewing bad albums. Well, it is not an easy task but somebody has to do it (:-), otherwise we would have only very subjective 5 stars hails and praises of really mediocre staff. With "Invisible Touch" so called "GENESIS" made hits again and were more popular than ever. Sure, now they were mega-stars and earned a lot of money and became celebrity. That's OK, after all it is all part of the show business. However, I am not interested in judging the business undertakings of music artists, but rather their artistic musical output, their courage to experiment, their ideas and how well they communicate certain emotions. Being "commercial" does not necessarily exclude quality. The same year, 1986, Peter Gabriel recorded a well-crafted pop album "So" with loads of hits, synthesizers, funky rhythms and modern production, but in a way he remained faithful to his own artistic integrity. It was a commercial and it was a good pop album (or "art-rock" if you want). On the other hand, "Invisible Touch" is nothing short of a disposable single-use industrial product that evaporates quickly after opening the protective cellophane package. I even would not remember a song called "Land of Confusion", with its quasi-engaged "Cold War conscience" lyrics, had it not been incorporated in the jolly Spitting Image video spot.
This is the saddest story of once beloved "progressive" rock band, which offered us a blueprint of the genre. If only they changed the name after Hackett left in 1977...
Submitted by Seka Himalphi (Whimburg, South Dakota)
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Petition this
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. I think this album is much worse than Abacab but somehow hate this less because I was not expecting anything from this trio anymore. Again 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. 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. We have here whats left of so called "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. But really, we are really lower than the Marianna Trench here. Best avoided if you are a Genesis fan.
Submitted by John Von Bayer (Hamilton Square, NM)
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Rather Un-Genesis Like
The album is like a Phil Collins album, not a Genesis album. The only song that is impressive at all on here is "Land of Confusion". The album is way too synthesized and contrived. Not recommended.
Submitted by Julian (Las Vegas, NV)
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No real sound just a carbon copy of pop
I rate this 80s Genesis album lower than some reviewers have, because I feel it's a lousy effort from one of my erstwhile favourite bands. No, it's not classic Genesis, but neither is it absolute "pop rubbish" or "crap."
As with most of the band's output from the post-Gabriel and Hackett era, there is no overall sound to this recording. 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 "Land of Confusion"), and two attempts to recapture the old prog sound. It is in this latter category that I think the band has been most very unsuccessful: for my ears, "The Brazilian" is a weak instrumental that can't hold its own with forerunners like "Los Endos" and "Wot Gorilla," while "Domino," with its over ten-minute, two-part structure, is another garbage song the band did after the departure of P.G. & S.H.
Submitted by Peter Rideout (Wagner, NM)
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The Invisible Band
I wish this album would disappear. Invisible Touch is an embarassment to everybody involved in making it. It also insults the intelligence of listeners. Songs like Invisible Touch and Land of Confusion are an obvious attempt to garner the attention of pre-cognitive record buyers. On the bright side, Domino thus one star or if I could, half a star
Submitted by DW (Chicago, IL)
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