The way the musical themes and lyrics from “Behind the Lines” and “Guide Vocal” are reprised in “Duke’s Travels/End” is a classic Genesis trick that works every time. The album is built around the deconstructed Duke Suite, which consists of six songs that are thematically, musically and lyrically linked. It’s the perfect time capsule of that era in music, but it’s also just a great, listenable album full of excellent songs and jams. Their 1980 release Duke - their second as a trio - shows them embracing an entirely new, modern sound dominated by synthesizers and drum machines. This is a band, after all, that replaced their charismatic lead singer with their drummer, and had their bass player take over on guitar duties after the brilliant Hackett left. They’re a band of continuous growth and change, and somehow they were always able to honor their past while creating a new future. The real genius of Genesis is that they’re both poppy and proggy - cheesy and cool - and Duke is proof that they’re at their best when they blend the two.
As a general rule, the more you like the Gabriel years the less you like the Collins years and vice versa. They had some really great singles that were huge and some really terrible singles that were inexplicably still huge.įor other people, they think of Genesis as the critically-acclaimed ‘70s progressive rock band fronted by Peter Gabriel and featuring virtuoso guitarist Steve Hackett. Most people think of them as being an ‘80s guilty pleasure pop-rock band that was fronted by Phil Collins. If you asked a random music listener about them you’d probably get one of two responses.
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