Nursery Cryme - Genesis

This album, released in 1971, was Genesis' 3rd studio release. The band had gone through big changes since their previous album (Trespass). Their drummer John Mayhew had been more or less sacked (well he was pretty rubbish) and replaced just about immediately by the former child actor Phil Collins. Their lead guitarist and one of their main creative influences Ant Phillips had become crippled by chronic stage-fright and had been forced to leave the band. Despite auditioning several guitarists and giving Mick Barnard a brief trial run, they had been unsuccessfull in replacing him, with Tony Banks being forced to play guitar solos on a fuzz-toned electric ...

It's cool to hate Genesis, everyone knows it. In the same way that no one will ever admit to liking Paul Daniels as a child, very few people will actually come clean and say that, yes, they've listened to a Genesis record and, shock horror, enjoyed it. Criticism generally revolves around the influence Phil Collins has had on the sound of the band, producing hits like ‘Turn it on again’, ‘Invisible touch’ and ‘I can’t dance’. Genesis are more often than not dumped unceremoniously into the ‘crap keyboard’ category of musical sin and forgotten about. Whether you agree or not, that is the general ...