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When Genesis reconvened to record 1986's INVISIBLE TOUCH, Phil Collins had a thriving solo career in both music and film, Tony Banks was recording movie scores, and Mike Rutherford was doing well in Mike & the Mechanics. Though it may have seemed impossible for the band to do better as a unit, this record spun off five Top 5 hits including the chart-topping title track. By tapping into a baby-boomer market that had lots of disposable income, Genesis became an adult contemporary god.
INVISIBLE TOUCH represented the perfect hybrid that Genesis had been striving for: a pop sound mated with prog-rock flair. "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" demonstrated this perfectly. Despite being over eight minutes long, the topic of dysfunctional relationships had enough universal appeal in it to be used in a beer commercial. "Land of Confusion," a straightforward number commenting on the pervasive greed of the '80s was one of the album's hit singles along with the soft-rock ballad "Throwing It All Away." The Domino Suite ("In the Glow of the Night," "The Last Domino") may have been a nod to the band's more progressive past, but the sweeping instrumental, "The Brazilian," truly harkened back to Genesis' art-rock glory days.
The new live album from Jay Gordon and The Penetrators shows how great this power trio is in front of an audience at the Screaming Chicken an old roadhouse in San Bernardino. The group covers eight standards from the rock and blues worlds including Willi
Recorded at the Farm, Surrey, England in 1985 & 1986.
Genesis: Phil Collins (vocals, drums, percussion); Mike Rutherford (guitar, bass); Tony Banks (keyboards, synthesizer, bass).
Personnel: Tony Banks (vocals, keyboards, bass synthesizer); Phil Collins (vocals, drums, percussion); Mike Rutherford (guitar).
Recording information: Farm Surrey (1985-1986); Farm, Surrey, England (1985-1986); The Farm Surrey (1985-1986).
Photographer: John Swannell.Mojo (Publisher) (3/01, p.82) - "...The production is so mid-'80s - it was nevertheless impossible to go anywhere for a good 12 months without hearing 'Invisible Touch', 'Land Of Confusion', 'In Too Deep' or 'Tonight Tonight Tonight'....the result rarely sounds anything less than ruthless in its commercialism."
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) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 3 of 3 found this helpful.
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) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 4 of 5 found this helpful.
adric22@excite.com is my new god! Even more god-like than Gabriel! All these narrow-minds posting asine "reviews" slamming anything non-Gabriel and/or Hackett have brought upon themselves the other idiotic slams on classics with those two greats. Y'see, it's fine to love the 70's prog output - I do too, but not all the post Peter/Steve stuff was exclusively 1 star. Much of it was quite good and far better than most other bands' of the period. Judge the material on its own merit, not in relation to material recorded 10+ yrs. earlier and not to punish the remaining trio simply because Gabriel and Hackett left. Submitted by Todd Graham (NY, NY) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 1 found this helpful.
This goes out to all Genesis fans Use your heads before you start making idiotic comments about how bad Genesis is in your reviews. Did you think the music was going to be the same after the progressive aspects of the band both quit? You make it sound like Phil Collins kicked Peter Gabriel & Steve Hackett out of the band. And don't give me that crap about how the remaining three should have stuck with progressive rock anyways! It wasn't the same for you after Peter left, much less Steve and you know it. So quit bashing the remaining three members because they went in a direction you didn't like. However you want to categorize their music(Pop,Commercial,Adult Contemp)they have given us some great songs.
One final note: ALL music is to be enjoyed. If you hear something you don't like, don't listen. Submitted by Jones (Houston, TX) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 1 found this helpful.
Hey! I worked on this record! Please help a lad out and buy it. The bob or two I'll get will help me pay for me daughter's tuition at the Wapcaplet Dance Academy. Her mum went there. Inside joke: "We Can't Dance" was inspired when the lads saw me, my wife and me daughter at Phil's wedding hopelessly flailing about to "Boogie Wonderland". Good times. Cheers! Submitted by Hugh Padgham (Boffington-Heffershire, Wopney Glenn, UK.) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 1 found this helpful.
The "GENESIS" disaster continues...!
adric22@excite.com is my new god!
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