My (late) brother got me into Genesis many years ago (back in NZ) and i quite enjoyed their 'different' music. I later discovered some of their influences and became quite hooked on those (and similar) sounds.
On Duke I do like the ‘Duke Suite’ and as seems consensus of Genesis fans I rather wish they’d kept it together on one side of the album rather than split it up - and put the rest on the second side. Question is...do I buy it vinyl from my local record shop...? I can get it for £6-£8 so might just do that. Meanwhile I have Spotify to make my mind up. I don’t think I am that keen on any of the rest of the 80s or early 90s stuff.
When in NZ last year it seemed to us as we travelled around the country that NZ is still in love with 1980s music and by the amount of it we heard played - very much in love with 1980s Genesis and Phil Collins ?
Goodness knows what Collins was thinking singing Illegal Alien with a cod Mexican accent...I hadn’t noticed before.
For my sins I only have The Lamb on cassette - recorded back in the day from a copy of the album borrowed from my local library. I have all the rest and favourite sways between WaW and SEbtP - though playing and enjoying Foxtrot quite a lot at the moment.
Still prob the 'best' era for music imo! But then, I'm biased - having discovered and lived through that (and a bit previous) period! Kiwis are fairly conservative music-wise - though their artists are often at the forefront of trends. I was, however, pleased to be informed by Wifey1 that she travelled to Wellington to enjoy a Jimmy Buffett concert. In '76 I was given a ticket to a show by a guy (John Hanlon) staying in the same B&B as me on a wicked Wellington stormy night - where the warmup band was a band called Split ENZ (who eventually morphed into Crowded House). 150 or thereabouts people watching! The next time I saw them (SE) - in the same venue - there were 4000+ and tickets were extremely expensive!
Have a number of bands seen in small venues which went on to bigger, Dire Straits in Dundee Uni being one. Biggest difference for me was seeing ELO at Edinburgh Uni tickets £2 who stated at the end that they would be back. Oddly it was only a year before the venues size went somewhat bigger than Edinburgh Uni.
