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   narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 22:59:32 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:
   >listens to genesis
   >"mmm yes i like peter gabriel"
   >it's actually phil collins
   >actually all of the genesis songs i like are with phil collins vocals
   
   i still like peter gabriel tho
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     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 23:05:57 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     @SuperSnekFriend hard to say what type of music nut/fag i am, i only started getting deeper into progrock recently.
     
     https://listenbrainz.org/user/hopeajonne/reports/?range=all_time
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 23:05:58 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     @hj It all matters whether if you are a prog-nut or pop-fag. Being a prog-fag, I prefer Gabriel's Genesis, especially Selling England by the Pound.
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     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 23:26:59 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     @SuperSnekFriend wel,, i started with pink floyd and deep purple mostly because my dad listened to them, but only much later i learned that it's considered to be "prog". Also ELO, but like THE one album and two songs that aren't on THE album. Out of the things that I got recommended by a friend I like mike oldfield's tubular bells. I need to listen to king crimson some more though, i listened to them once and it didn't really provoke any emotion, apart from that meme song (21st century schizo man).
     
     I dunno if its even categorized as prog rock but i really REALLY like SLUGBUG https://slugbug.bandcamp.com/album/0xbaadf00d
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 23:27:00 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     @hj >Top Artists
     >Triple-Q
     >Neil Cicierega
     Nice! I'm listening to Mouth Dreams as I'm typing this.
     > i only started getting deeper into progrock recently.
     What have you been getting into? There's some good Japanese prog bands, like Kilagaku Moyo and Kenso
     If you want a good resource for prog, this is the go-to site:
     progarchives.com/
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     900774588cfb4d3c920d1219053775d…
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     Elden Ring :verified: (Ukko) (gnutard@bruh.homd.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 23:28:37 JST Elden Ring :verified: (Ukko)

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     @hj I’ve been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that I didn’t really understand any of their work, though on their last album of the 1970s, the concept-laden And Then There Were Three (a reference to band member Peter Gabriel, who left the group to start a lame solo career), I did enjoy the lovely “Follow You, Follow Me.” Otherwise all the albums after Duke seemed too artsy, too intellectual. It was Duke (Atlantic; 1980), where Phil Collins’ presence became more apparent, and the music got more modern, the drum machine became more prevalent and the lyrics started getting less mystical and more specific (maybe because of Peter Gabriel’s departure), and complex, ambiguous studies of less became, instead, smashing first-rate pop songs that i gratefully embraced. The songs themselves seemed arranged more around Collins’ drumming than Mike Rutherford’s bass lines or Tony Banks’ keyboard riffs. A classic example of this is “Misunderstanding,” which not only was the group’s first big hit of the eighties but also seemed to set the tone for the rest of their albums as the decade progressed. The other standout on Duke is “Turn It On Again”, which is about the negative effects of television. On the other hand, “Heathaze” is a song I just don’t understand, while “Please Don’t Ask” is a touching love song written to a separated wife who regains custody of the couple’s child. Has the negative aspect of divorce ever been rendered in more intimate terms by a rock ‘n’ roll group? I don’t think so. “Duke Travels” and “Dukes End” might mean something but since the lyrics aren’t printed it’s hard to tell what Collins is singing about, though there is complex, gorgeous piano work by Tony Banks on the latter track. The only bummer about Duke is “Alone Tonight,” which is way too reminiscent of “Tonight Tonight Tonight” from the group’s later masterpiece Invisible Touch and the only example, really, of where Collins has plagiarized himself.

     Abacab (Atlantic; 1981) was released almost immediately after Duke and it benefits from a new producer, Hugh Padgham, who gives the band a more eighties sound and though the songs seem fairly generic, there are still great bits throughout: the extended jam in the middle of the title track and the horns by some group called Earth, Wind and Fire on “No Reply at All” are just two examples. Again the songs reflect dark emotions and are about people who feel lost or who are in conflict, but the production and sound are gleaming and upbeat (even if the titles aren’t: “No Reply at All,” “Keep It Dark,” “Who Dunnit?” “Like It Or Not”). Mike Rutherford’s bass is obscured somewhat in the mix but otherwise the band sounds tight and is once again propelled by Collins’ truly amazing drumming. Even at its most despairing (like the song “Dodo”, about extinction), Abacab musically is poppy and lighthearted.

     My favorite track is “Man on the Corner,” which is the only song credited solely to Collins, a moving ballad with a pretty synthesized melody plus a riveting drum machine in the background. Though it could easily come off any of Phil’s solo albums, because the themes of loneliness, paranoia and alienation are overly familiar to Genesis it evokes the band’s hopeful humanism. “Man on the Corner” profoundly equates a relationship with a solitary figure (a bum, perhaps a poor homeless person?), “that lonely man on the corner” who just stands around. “Who Dunnit?” profoundly expresses the theme of confusion against a funky groove, and what makes this song so exciting is that it ends with its narrator never finding anything out at all.

     Hugh Padgham produced next an even less conceptual effort, simply called Genesis (Atlantic; 1983), and though it’s a fine album a lot of it now seems too derivative for my tastes. “That’s All” sounds like “Misunderstanding,” “Taking It All Too Hard” reminds me of “Throwing It All Away.” It also seems less jazzy than its predecessors and more of an eighties pop album, more rock ‘n’ roll. Padgham does a brilliant job of producing, but the material is weaker than usual and you can sense the strain. t opens with the autobiographical “Mama,” that’s both strange and touching, though I couldn’t tell if the singer was talking about his actual mother or to a girl he likes to call “Mama.” “That’s All” is a lover’s lament about being ignored and beaten down by an unreceptive partner; despite the despairing tone it’s got a bright sing-along melody that makes the song less depressing than it probably needed to be. “That’s All” is the best tune on the album, but Phil’s voice is the strongest on “House by the Sea,” whose lyrics are, however, too stream-of-consciousness to make much sense. It might be about growing up and accepting adulthood but it’s unclear; at any rate, its second instrumental part puts the song more in focus for me and Mike Banks gets to show off his virtuosic guitar

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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Thursday, 18-Aug-2022 00:18:29 JST 御園はくい

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     >listens to genesis
     >it's pretty wild
     >so was exodus
     >leviticus was alright
     >numbers was absolutely boring, dropped
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     • 御園はくい
     @hakui what a revelation huh
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     • 御園はくい
     @hakui oh no my marker ink is petering out
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Thursday, 18-Aug-2022 00:25:30 JST 御園はくい

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     @hj mark my words, peter
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     • 御園はくい
     @hakui wrote too much "ne"s
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Thursday, 18-Aug-2022 00:30:31 JST 御園はくい

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     @hj it had one job