Genesis (W/Dvd)

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Artist: Genesis
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
  1. Mama
  2. That's All
  3. Home By the Sea
  4. Second Home By the Sea
  5. Illegal Alien
  6. Taking It All Too Hard
  7. Just a Job To Do
  8. Silver Rainbow
  9. It's Gonna Get Better

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Music Review: Phil's Blitz on All Things Music
Rating: 1 Stars

For 40 years now, Phil Collins has a waged a one man war on the Western world by unleashing a barrage of some the absolute worst music that ever had the misfortune to see the light of day. This album is where the masterplan seems to have originated. A glimpse of the cover art, which looks like fairly uninspired scribbling of random shapes by a slow-witted child, is the first indication. Here for the first time, Collins assaults us visually as well aurally.

This album requires a bit of a history lesson on the boys, a tedious prospect I know, but unfortunately necessary to place this steaming pile of garbage in its proper perspective. A couple of years before, Collins had opened up a second front in his personal war on mankind by unleashing what is indisputably the muscial equivalent of getting a root canal. I'm talking about his solo career. Free from the chains that bind him to the muscial excesses of his bandmates in Genesis, Collins was able to focus single-mindedly on composing adult-oriented (provided said adults aren't very intelligent), made for top 40 radio and MTV, soft pop. His early solo success in addition to Genesis' moderate commercial success with the early 80's "Duke" and ghastly "Abacab" albums had provided the dim, narrow path of which Phil would trudge along dully like a war weary soldier in 1960's Saigon forever more.

I suspect that his handlers at the time had encouraged Phil to make an album that would sound more like his solo material than the long-winded and exceedingly dull prog-rock that Genesis was more commonly associated with. This would prove to be the approach, albeit with the violent exception of "Home By The Sea".

Well, why waste any time? The first track gets right to the point and leaves no one in doubt of just how bad this album is going to be.
"Mama", this is Phil doing his weirdo routine, which he enjoyed from time to time. Seven minutes long and believe me, the listener is aware of every sluggish ticking of the second hand that passes while this pseudo-shock rock plays its tired self out. Collins plays a stalker-esque, severely unhinged individual that is lamenting his failures to acquire the woman of his dreams. Needless to say, it wasn't much of a stretch. Live performances of this found the balding, petite Collins sticking his tongue out while making weird faces in a semi-crouch position and moaning idiotically (apparently feigning constipation) in the middle of the song. Frightening? Well, perhaps to Genesis fans who were probably still regarding Duran Duran as pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable in pop music at the time.

"Illegal Alien" was to be one of the earlier examples in a string of increasingly embarrassing videos the band would release. The track finds Collins singing in a ridiculous and poorly conveyed Mexican accent as he laments with all the fiery histrionics of a teenage queen, "it's no fun, being an illegal alien." The aforementioned video would also find him dressing up in quite a tasteless and stereotypical version of what in Collins' myopic mind , must have been the spitting image of an illegal alien. Clearly, Mexican immigrants are something that an American audience knows about and of course does not resonate in the UK. I'm of the opinion that Collins' handlers cautioned him to direct this album towards a US audience, not simply for the usual reason that it's a larger market, but also in view of the fact that by 1983 people in the UK were probably beginning to realize just how big a joke Phil Collins was. I'm not sure whether the track generated any backlash at the time, but that was perhaps another machination of his handlers. On the one hand, the track could rightfully be accused of being stereotypical, possibly even outright racist, but on the other it could provide some of that classic rock and roll rebellion Genesis never really had because their music was boring and their singer looked like a lonely school teacher whose sole companions were probably a small herd of live-in cats.


"Home By The Sea". Well this would be yet another in a very long list of the boy's unconvincing attempts to lend some credibility to the proceedings. A two part epic meditation on nothing much at all, totalling in excess of 12 minutes. Fans will probably insist that this track was the band maintaining their principles in the face of record company pressures to create ever more commercial flop-pop for mass consumption of a musically undernourished and dietarily uninformed record buying public. For my money, it was just another effort to appear serious in an album chalked full of songs that blatantly declare the opposite. No one told the lads that just because you play a dismal song for what feels like an eon, does not increase the chances that it will lend one iota of respectability to your sad record. The track inspires only one thought in the serious listener and that is that he finds himself harboring the wish that Phil and the boys would make their home in the sea instead and spare us all from any further bile-inducing banalities.

The album closes with Phil assuring us that "if it's gonna get better, it's gonna take time." 25+ plus years on and that statement has never been more untrue.

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