The Friday Canon: GENESIS FAMILY TREE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

GEN-O-FACTS:
- Mike Rutherford invented the prog atom! Then he got bored of Physics (including LASERS) after watching the film Grease and decided to sing about fixing cars instead.
- The singer from Stiltskin replaced Phil Collins in 1997, but then they realised he was rubbish and Phil came back!
- Phil Collins dumped his second wife by fax!
- Peter Gabriel liked dressing up as Weed out of Bill & Ben to combat his stage fright! He also sang on the Babe 2: Pig In The City soundtrack.

The hoary old members of Genesis have had 64 UK Top 40 hits between them! That means you the reader get 21 TICKS to dish out between all of the songs below.

[Poll #999372]

East 17: (link)
1. House Of Love
2. Stay Another Day
3. Deep
4. It's Alright
5. Steam

RHCP: (link)
1. Give It Away
2. Under The Bridge
=3. Love Rollercoaster
=3. Scar Tissue
=5. Aeroplane
=5. By The Way
=5. Californication
=5. Otherside
9. Can't Stop
10. The Zephyr Song

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I know 0 Gabriel-era Genesis! What should I be searching/destroying?

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I ticked #s 1 and 3 here. I don't think they're great records, but they aren't bad, and it was a struggle ticking anything in this batch.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Saucerful of Secrets, mostly. I quite like prog, so am more open to that kind of action than many, but it's... self indulgent in a fun and self aware kind of way, rather than in the I AM WEARING A CAPE TO SYMBOLISE THAT I AM SAVING MUSIC way. I recently got a whole pile of Gabriel-era Genesis from the family home, so I can answer that better (and illustrate points thanks to YSI) once I've listened to more of it.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Interesting - are Genesis THE dad-rock band? Do dads have a genetic disposition to prog? My dad has a Jean Michel Jarre CD as well as the reams of Pink Floyd & co - why are MUMS easy listening and DADS difficult listening?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have yet to explore EARLY GENESIS since becoming a Dad but clearly NOW IS THE TIME.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness yes. Ideally you want your child's earliest memory to be you saying "Listen to the textures" while The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway plays.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Aaaargh, I meant Foxtrot - Saucerful is early Pink Floyd. As I said - a lot of prog, recently.

I think that Dads are difficult listening because once eating super-hot curries stops being a dignified way of proving one is tough and manly, listening to 5 minutes of kitchen noise followed by 20 minutes of squalling guitars and organ sounds appears the better way to show ones tough, manly credentials.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Side 2 of Foxtrot is BLOODY BRILLIANT yes (it's mostly one long track, "Supper's Ready"). Side 1 hasn't fared so well over time.

Selling England By The Pound is also grebt.

I hated Lamb Lies Down... when I first heard it, at Uni (but that was 20+ years ago, so I might give it another go).

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

I don't recall if my dad has an opinion on Genesis as a whole. He likes Gabriel (mostly for Sledgehammer) and Mike & his Mechanics but HATES Phil Collins.

Suddenly I feel VERY old

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I think that makes your dad young enough to be my dad's grandson!

Re: Suddenly I feel VERY old

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

He turned 64 today! Music just sort of passed him by in the 70s - he only got into Pink Floyd after the CD era started.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

My dad was into the Shadows, Cliff Richard, Beatles. Eric Clapton. Roger Whittaker. Rock'n'roll in general. I don't think he held with any of this long-haired stuff. Or even anything that was particularly difficult listening.

My mum was into non-bizarre classical music, Gilbert & Sullivan and also the Beatles.

These days my mum sings modern classical compositions that mad composers in Portsmouth write, because she's a good sight reader. So I think chalk one up to the ladies there on the difficult music front.

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

I Know What I Like (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_EYU75uhKk) - LIVE! Feat. Gabriel mentalism