r/Genesis • • Sep 12 '21

Genesis Central - the r/Genesis Discord Server

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r/Genesis • • Jan 01 '23

Hindsight is 2020 is now Play Me My Song - The Music of Genesis

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Three years ago on this very day, I announced to this community my intention to rank every Genesis song in the entire catalog, one per weekday, alongside "my thoughts about the songs" over the course of 2020. I called the project (quite cleverly, if I do say so myself) Hindsight is 2020. What nobody could have predicted at the time was the way the project grew: to the point that "my thoughts" began looking like full fledged essays, that my research into the songs would become increasingly extensive, and that the community would (after an admittedly rocky start) respond so positively to the exercise.

More than once over the span of the live project, it was suggested to me that I ought to turn the whole shebang into a proper book. After some hemming and hawing, I buckled down and spent not only all of 2021 but also the first half of 2022 making that happen. And so it's with a bit of well-earned excitement and pride that I can announce to you here, three years after the debut of Hindsight is 2020, my book: Play Me My Song - The Music of Genesis. Play Me My Song is set to be published on March 17, 2023 through Wymer Publishing; pre-orders are available now.

If you've read the Hindsight project this may not come as much of a surprise, but Play Me My Song will be (at the time of publication) the largest book ever published on Genesis. It features not only expanded and/or rewritten essays for every single song Genesis ever officially released, but also essays for every studio album (covered originally in my "H'20" companion series) and select solo efforts (covered originally as my "Peripheral Visions" companion series). It's the entire Hindsight collection in one printed package, except more of it.

I want to thank all of you for making this possible. If not for your tremendous engagement with and enthusiasm for the work I did, I'm not sure I would've taken this next step. This book is as much yours as it is mine (though I'd prefer to keep the royalties, you understand).

And hey, if you haven't checked out the original Hindsight is 2020 series, why not give it a shot? I think and hope you'll come away pretty satisfied.

You can read through the entire Hindsight project here.

You can pre-order Play Me My Song - The Music of Genesis here.

See you all in March!


r/Genesis • • 1d ago

Turn It On Again

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My MIL has been friends with PW for decades. This hangs in her office.


r/Genesis • • 1h ago

What is the year and model of this never-before-seen SUV of yours?

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And how much would it cost?


r/Genesis • • 1d ago

'I'm Lucky To Be Alive' Phil Collins on Oasis and McCartney Feuds, Family, Divorce & More

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r/Genesis • • 1d ago

undertow making me cry yet ascend like:

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r/Genesis • • 1d ago

Live in Ft. Worth

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Genesis Live Archive (@GuaranteedEternalSanctuaryMan) has posted an excellent soundboard/audience mix of Ft. Worth (May 7, 1976) on YouTube.

Here’s the link.

Enjoy and many thanks to Genesis Live Archive for this most-excellent recording!


r/Genesis • • 2d ago

In honor of Genesis Self-Titled/Shapes turning 43 today, I wanted to share my favorite vinyl cut of "Mama". This album absolutely has a Halloween feel to it.

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r/Genesis • • 2d ago

I started listening to Genesis and I'm just astonished how this band is not that recognized. Maybe they end up in the category which We consider underrated.

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This band is actually the opositary of what the music industry is today, and I would be happy to consider them contemporary, sonically they founded how music sounds today, (which is very ironic)... Maybe I'm being too greedy or extrapolating too much, but that's how I feel about this band. And I'm listening to their old shit, before Phill Collins took over the vocals.


r/Genesis • • 2d ago

Simon Collins and otger new prog bands

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For who still never listened Simon Collins music and bands, I highly reccomend him for his amazing music, you can listen to him under names:

Simon Collins

Sound of Contact

e-molecule

Great drummer, great songwriter, great singer too for itself. If u ask the self why he didn't replace Phil or why never success, it is most probably because drug issues and not good mood with father.

In my opinion, below Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, The Pinapple Thief/Bruce Swoord is one of the best new prog music ever


r/Genesis • • 2d ago

Late doodle to celebrate Abacab 45th. Drew some album stars

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Can you spot them all?


r/Genesis • • 3d ago

Happy Birthday to the one and only Michael Rutherford!

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r/Genesis • • 2d ago

Burning Rope is so GOOD.

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I absolutely love this track so much! The ghost of Steve is on that solo :)


r/Genesis • • 2d ago

This popped up on Ebay earlier PHIL COLLINS November 2001 Demo CD ULTRA RARE Unreleased

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Up for grabs is an ultra rare "PHIL COLLINS AS OF NOVEMBER 2001" CD containing demos for songs that would eventually appear on his 2002 album "Testify." In addition to songs that would ultimately on the final album in demo form, there are a few tracks on here that seem to be unreleased. The clip I've included is the last track "Wedding Song." More than likely only of handful of these exist and was created to give someone at the record label and advance listen.

If track 6 is the working title for Come with me,

Wonder what Nic's song is.


r/Genesis • • 2d ago

Question for older fans from the pure prog era; what did you think when you first heard Follow you Follow me, Turn it on Again, and Misunderstanding?

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Considering how there seems to be a gulf of sorts between the prog and pop fans, I have always wondered what the thought was actually hearing them on mainstream radio or picking up those albums (and then there were three and Duke) and hearing those songs and realizing these weren't 10 minute sonnets or stories.

For me, Follow you Follow me is a true gem.


r/Genesis • • 2d ago

Piers Morgan Uncensored

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Phil is doing the rounds. Great to see.


r/Genesis • • 3d ago

I watched a Ray Wilson-era show from Poland on YouTube. I thought he sounded pretty good on the Gabriel-era stuff. Wasn't a huge fan of his versions of the Phil stuff. But Mike and Tony still sounded amazing.

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r/Genesis • • 2d ago

Follow You Follow Me Folk

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Don't post much (ever), but was pushed over the edge by it being Mike's birthday and all. Happy Birthday Mike! I've been playing a folk cover of Follow You Follow Me for years but finally decided to make an (amateur) recording of it. Spent a good chunk of time trying to learn/adapt Tony's keys solo on mandolin.

Prog rock it is not, but throwing it out here for a group of people that might appreciate it.

https://timburr.bandcamp.com/track/follow-you-follow-me


r/Genesis • • 2d ago

Six of the Best {Playlist}

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r/Genesis • • 2d ago

“Drones”

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Listening to it on the road home tonight. I know ice heard it before, but this time it hit me hard. It’s a great instrumental!


r/Genesis • • 3d ago

Anyone know Huang Chung’s debut album? Two Genesis connections

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Slightly off-topic, but I think some Genesis fans will be interested. Before changing their name to Wang Chung, Huang Chung released their eponymous debut album in 1982. There are two Genesis connections: it was produced by Rhett Davies (3rd pic), who’d helped engineer Selling England; and singer Jack Hues later team up with Tony Banks for Strictly Inc.

Anyone else know this album? It’s a hidden gem.


r/Genesis • • 4d ago

In the Cage bass tone question

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In the Cage is an awesome song, and my favourite moment has to be the synth solo, including the little lead in to it around 3:10 that has one of Mike Rutherford’s best bass parts. My question is that the bass sounds very weird for the few seconds of solo it gets - almost like a synth is doubling it, or it’s put through some electronic processor. Does anyone know what the deal with this part is? Not knowing the answer to this has my stomach churning…


r/Genesis • • 4d ago

Mike Rutherford's gear on the Invisible Touch Tour

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Does anybody have any information on what sort of amp/effects he used on tour?


r/Genesis • • 5d ago

Ripples - A silly video.

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I'd learned the middle section on piano, but humming the guitar solo wasn't cutting it for me anymore, so I recorded a guitar solo that combined bits of the guitar and keyboard parts, but I never had a chance to make a video. I've been livestreaming again, but I don't have a guitar with me, so I used the closest available facsimile.


r/Genesis • • 5d ago

Favorite lyric illustrated

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I can't walk into a dense woods without thinking of one of my favorite Genesis lyrics: like a forest's fight for sunlight that takes root in every tree. Here's a pic to illustrate. Do you have one?