Genesis U K Band - Abacab CD

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 ABACRAP!
DISGRACE OF AN ALBUM
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 Phonyfans:
Genesis made very great albums like The Lame Lies Down On Broadway, Selling England By the Pound, Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, and so on. Genesis ended when Steve Hackett quit the band in 1977. The name may have gone on but the music that DEFINED GENESIS ended for the worse not the better. PHIL COLLINS AND GENESIS ARE NOT THE SAME THING! GET WITH REALITY! ABACAB DOES NOT COUNT AS A "GENESIS" EFFORT!
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 Call a cab for this one
This is where it all went completely wrong! Phil Collins was dragging the band closer and closer to his solo output, to the extent that by "Abacab", it’s hard to tell the difference. It’s bad enough that there is nothing progressive here, "Dodo" is as close as they get, but in fact there is nothing particularly good either. The title track, named apparently after the structure of the song, was a big hit single, and its easy to understand why. Essentially, its just another funky pop song, a million miles from the Gabriel or indeed later Hackett eras. Did Peter Gabriel want this? Did Steve Hackett want this? Were there any Genesis fans in the audience of the Lamb tour demanding to have pop played on stage? Obviously not or Pete and Steve would have stayed with the band and Genesis fans would have been a lot more loyal than this. The Phil Collins solo fans took the place of the once loyal Genesis fans. The people that did want this sound were the record company and Phil Collins since they were the ones that were to generously profit from it. The rest of the tracks are in a similar vein, simple shortish soul/funk influenced songs featuring Collins vocals and little else. Fortunately, Genesis (or what used to be "Genesis") would find their way back towards their progressive roots on parts of subsequent albums, but this is a real low point in the band’s output, even the front cover, producer and the EMF horns are devoid of inspiration.
Submitted by Bob McBeath (Lise, VA)
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 Who cares what Tony Banks' favorite song was?!!?!!?
Abacrap is the worse crap this is! Every song and even the cover is a big embarrasment. So what if Mama was Tony Banks' favorite song!!?!? Tony Banks was also being hypocritical with certain band members who could and couldn't have a solo act(ie. Steve Hackett, Phil Collins) so what is your point?! We are Genesis fans and we know what we like whether you like it or not!! Who cares what this trio formerly known as Genesis liked!? After all, did they care what their own fan base wanted when they wrote this crap? When Peter Gabriel writes a song he does it from the heart and from experience. Steve Hackett writes the same way. It's often by chance, if Peter Gabriel makes a hit. They don't worry all night on whether it's going to be a hit or not, unlike the three stooges of pop. The trio that simply uses the name "Genesis", makes disposable, overproduced synthed out garbage songs that are not even music. There is big difference in the writting between the trio and Peter Gabriel. Do you really think Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel wanted this!? If they did, don't you think they would have stayed in the band! The record company wanted this!! Don't tell me that Whodunnit is better than Firth of Fifth or Man on the Corner is better than Watcher of the Skies. Do us all a favor by droping dead, go to hell and get your butt kicked along the way. You're so stupid you don't even know what a hippie is! They didn't follow Genesis! No real Genesis fan cares about your fakefan rhethoric! You think you're a Genesis fan, but your are far far from it!
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 A bad Genesis album
The critics have been singing the praises of this album since it came out. Funny enough it was the very last Genesis album I studied. I had listened to all the rest of the albums and Abacab just didn't cross my path until recently. When it crossed my path I was shocked. The album is a huge disappointment. Why it is considered the best Genesis album I don't understand. How can one of the biggest bands in history play songs like "Dodo/Lurker", "Keep it Dark" and "Who Dunnit"? These songs are a disgrace. "Man on the Corner" is by far the best song on the album with "Abacab"(the track) and "No Reply at All" ranking up there. The rest of the album is quite disgracefully bad. They got back in it with 1983's "Genesis" album which is a great album, but Abacab will always be low on my list. I have listened to everything from "Trespass" to "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", from "Foxtrot" to Invisble Touch, From "Duke" to "We Can't Dance". So far Abacab is the one I like the least.
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