We are going to take a little time out from hustle and bustle of new releases which threaten to overwhelm even the most stolid of nervous systems, and talk about some old-school Genesis. This isn't the Invisible Touch/I Can't Dance variety you may be more familiar with and love/disdain depending on your temperament and/or your hipster quotient, but the musically adventurous, dare I say Progressive incarnation of the band that spanned the early to mid 70s and was enormously popular before punk came along and told people they weren't allowed to like it. Something about pretentiousness and playing their instruments too well, etc, etc. I love the Sex Pistols as much as anybody, but I'm here to tell Mr. Rotten that we are throwing out the precocious baby with the pretentious bathwater. Bands like Yes, King Crimson and Genesis were broadening the musical vocabulary of rock and they weren't snipping their balls off in the process. There's something to be said for involving and inventive music on its own terms, especially in an age more and more dominated by pure rhythm.
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