Debate Club Feb 26, 2014 at 4:00 am

Genesis: All Full of Ball

GENESIS Simultaneously soaring and silly.

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"I Know What I Like" was much better live, where it was pretty claer that Peter Gabriel was imitating Peter Cook's E. L. Wisty character.
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Hey Ned, first off, THANKS, for promoting music that wasn't too popular when I was growing up (punk and new wave was all the rave then) but I still found so much of this music to adore really....
But I certainly fell in love with certain 'prog rock' moments, to be sure.
Don't neglect King Crimsom in your musing, I would humbly offer.
If I have to weigh in, I'm with Dave's point of view moreso than yours, but I think that is merely splitting hairs.
It's funny to think of the times PG was discounted after he made it big on SO. I still think that his song 'BIKO' was the inspiration to that whole 'artists against aparthied' movement, which brought about real change in S. Africa then, politically speaking.
This, to me, represents what a artist can really do at moments, change the world for the better. Very few artists really achieve it, right? Maybe the Errol Morris documentary The Thin Blue Line is another example, but they are few and far between examples...
Thanks Ned.
frank
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BTW
"I Know What I Like" fucking rocks still Ned.
It don't have to be overly complex.
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> I am of the opinion that Foxtrot is a better album than Selling England by the Pound, and you feel differently.

It's when I read this line that I figured out you two were disagreeing mostly for the sake of disagreement. Everyone knows that Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and A Trick of the Tail were the best Genesis albums. The only debate is the order among the three.
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A "debate" between two people who hold more or less the same position? Rrrr...
I heard most of the last forty-five of that show from backstage, thought it was boring as hell. It's not like I have no sympathy for prog-rock, either. I just didn't see anything interesting about this particular project.
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rich bachelor's comment has 5 dislikes.

Those are votes for freedom in my opinion because i agree with everything he said.

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