I'm curious to hear your thoughts after you do a deep dive on Genesis. I suspect it will surprise you.
That's a band I fell in love with in high school, and not the just the very poppy, very mainstream stuff they were playing in the late 80's/early 90's when I discovered it. I mean the older stuff right after Peter Gabriel left in the late 70's.
I think probably the album "Invisible Touch" got me listening (Tonight, Tonight, Tonight is probably one most know, and the title track of course). The popular track s got me to buy that album, but the truly weird, amazing, and definitely NOT for MTV instrumentals and 10 minute long....epic 80's prog rock... poem that is Domino parts 1 and 2 got me to listen to every single album they had released prior to that (which was pretty much a different group of course, with frontman Peter Gabriel early on, then Phil Collins I still remember hearing the epic, instrumental "The Brazilian" track for the first time...it was at home, on my Dad's "hi fi" cassette tape player, complete with equalizer, amp, etc etc. I was just blown away. It's what started me down a long path with synths, piano, digital music, editing, and a lot of other things that I still love even though I don't tinker with them like I used to (retirement, though!!!)
After you listen to Domino P1 and 2 on that Invisible Touch album, then go watch the live concert video of that being performed on tour, because it's hilarious - the crowd has absolutely no fucking idea what to do for the first 5 minutes of the weirdness, and are wondering if they are at the Genesis concert that they paid for
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FWIW, I tried going all the way back to the late 60's with Genesis and couldn't do it (and by that I mean the stuff I found didn't mesmerize me like some of the later stuff with Collins as front man). Probably a big part for me (especially at that time) was the sound quality was atrocious (though all the Genesis albums have since been remastered AFAIK, when they did the big box set in 2010 or around there). I absolutely love Peter Gabriel's voice, and always have, but these early albums were maybe a little too prog rocky for my tastes. Ain't nobody got time for 23 minute songs, that aren't symphonies!
Hope you have fun with this one...it's an interesting journey (that sadly ended with an absolutely awful album when Collins left - you can definitely skip the last album)