A Trick of the Tail (2007 Remaster)

Genesis

Released on 2/1/76 by Rhino Atlantic
Main artists: Genesis
Genre: Pop

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After Peter Gabriel departed for a solo career, Genesis embarked on a long journey to find a replacement, only to wind back around to their drummer, Phil Collins, as a replacement. With Collins as their new frontman, the band decided not to pursue the stylish, jagged postmodernism of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway -- a move that Gabriel would do in his solo career -- and instead returned to the English eccentricity of Selling England by the Pound for its next effort, A Trick of the Tail. In almost every respect, this feels like a truer sequel to Selling England by the Pound than Lamb; after all, that double album was obsessed with modernity and nightmare, whereas this album returns the group to the fanciful fairy tale nature of its earlier records. Also, Genesis were moving away from the barbed pop of the first LP and returning to elastic numbers that showcased their instrumental prowess, and they sounded more forceful and unified as a band than they had since Foxtrot. Not that this album is quite as memorable as Foxtrot or Selling England, largely because its songs aren't as immediate or memorable: apart from "Dance on a Volcano," this is about the sound of the band playing, not individual songs, and it succeeds on that level quite wildly -- to the extent that it proved to longtime fans that Genesis could possibly thrive without its former leader in tow.

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Dance on a Volcano (2007 Remaster)

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Mike Rutherford, Producer, Arranger, Bass Guitar, Writer - Phil Collins, Producer, Arranger, Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer - Tony Cousins, Remastering Engineer - Nick Davis, MixingEngineer - Tony Banks, Producer, Arranger, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Backing Vocals, Writer, Synthesizer - David Hentschel, Producer, Engineer - Tom Webster, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Geoff Callingham, Technical Assistant - Steve Hackett, Producer, Arranger, Guitar, Writer - Genesis, MainArtist - Tom Mitchell, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Nick Bradford, Engineer - Tom Tunney, Assistant Mixing Engineer

Under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company for the United States and Canada and to Warner Music UK Limited for the rest of the world, © 1976, 2007 Craft Recordings ℗ 2007 Philip Collins Limited, Anthony Banks Limited, Michael Rutherford Limited under exclusive license to Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.

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