Oh come on now... you fuckers knew I'd do this eventually! 
I figured if we can have a thread devoted to spice racks, then we can have one about TEH BEAST ABAND EVER! They are the absoultely perfect combination of excellent songwriting, originality, non-wankery, heaviness, melody, etc. Note that the post "Wind and Wuthering" stuff is a DIFFERENT BAND who still showed a bit of brilliance, albeit in a much different paradigm.
Some thoughts:
** NAD, have you absorbed "The Musical Box" yet? Much like most early Genesis, it takes a few listens to reveal its depth... and never gets old/boring. The people who think that only Black Sabbath were playing heavy music in 1970 are wrong.
** Have any of you heard "Supper's Ready" (not the song), the CD where a bunch of unknown bands cover their old stuff? Its quite interesting, especially when the bands give their own interpretations of the songs (i.e., for those in the know, imagine "Back in NYC" with an acoustic first verse and a trombone outro!!!). Pretty cool. Much like the original, it seamlessly goes into FOUR time signatures over less than a minute and still sound perfectly cohesive.
** Last night a friend/convert and I watched A CLOCKWORK ORANGE simultaneous with "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Seeming a VERY fitting combination (both dark-themed looks at society and modern man, both starring street-thugs, both coming out in the same two-year span), it went along with the film EXCELLENTLY the first 15 minutes, but after that the music gradually proceeded to out-weird the movie (especially disc 2). And when its ACW, that's saying something...
** I have yet to hear their debut, "From Genesis to Revelation".
** Little known fact: Anthony Phillips, guitarist on the first two albums who was eventually replaced by the legendary Steve Hackett, went on to release an assload of great, classical-inspired acoustic albums (one of them being all piano)... very good stuff if you are into the Medieval/classical sounding stuff (mostly guitar-based).
BEST ALBUMS:
1) Foxtrot
1) Selling England By the Pound
1) Nursery Cryme
1) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
1) Trespass
1) Live
7) Wind and Wuthering
8) A Trick of the Tail
9) Duke
10) the rest...
Yes, I'm obsessed. Feel free to point that out. I don't get tired of listening to them... it all keeps getting better and better (especially TLLDoB, which I appreciate more and more each day). If I absoultely had to, I could probably live the rest of my life with a handful of their albums. When I hear the final minute of "Supper's Ready" and the music fades out, I usually just turn the CD player off and sit there in silence because I KNOW that I have nothing in my collection to possibly follow it up with.
But then, after about 5 minutes, I usually put in some more GENESIS.
I figured if we can have a thread devoted to spice racks, then we can have one about TEH BEAST ABAND EVER! They are the absoultely perfect combination of excellent songwriting, originality, non-wankery, heaviness, melody, etc. Note that the post "Wind and Wuthering" stuff is a DIFFERENT BAND who still showed a bit of brilliance, albeit in a much different paradigm.Some thoughts:
** NAD, have you absorbed "The Musical Box" yet? Much like most early Genesis, it takes a few listens to reveal its depth... and never gets old/boring. The people who think that only Black Sabbath were playing heavy music in 1970 are wrong.
** Have any of you heard "Supper's Ready" (not the song), the CD where a bunch of unknown bands cover their old stuff? Its quite interesting, especially when the bands give their own interpretations of the songs (i.e., for those in the know, imagine "Back in NYC" with an acoustic first verse and a trombone outro!!!). Pretty cool. Much like the original, it seamlessly goes into FOUR time signatures over less than a minute and still sound perfectly cohesive.
** Last night a friend/convert and I watched A CLOCKWORK ORANGE simultaneous with "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Seeming a VERY fitting combination (both dark-themed looks at society and modern man, both starring street-thugs, both coming out in the same two-year span), it went along with the film EXCELLENTLY the first 15 minutes, but after that the music gradually proceeded to out-weird the movie (especially disc 2). And when its ACW, that's saying something...
** I have yet to hear their debut, "From Genesis to Revelation".
** Little known fact: Anthony Phillips, guitarist on the first two albums who was eventually replaced by the legendary Steve Hackett, went on to release an assload of great, classical-inspired acoustic albums (one of them being all piano)... very good stuff if you are into the Medieval/classical sounding stuff (mostly guitar-based).
BEST ALBUMS:
1) Foxtrot
1) Selling England By the Pound
1) Nursery Cryme
1) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
1) Trespass
1) Live
7) Wind and Wuthering
8) A Trick of the Tail
9) Duke
10) the rest...
Yes, I'm obsessed. Feel free to point that out. I don't get tired of listening to them... it all keeps getting better and better (especially TLLDoB, which I appreciate more and more each day). If I absoultely had to, I could probably live the rest of my life with a handful of their albums. When I hear the final minute of "Supper's Ready" and the music fades out, I usually just turn the CD player off and sit there in silence because I KNOW that I have nothing in my collection to possibly follow it up with.
But then, after about 5 minutes, I usually put in some more GENESIS.
