From Genesis to Revelation

Review

(Edsel)
Release Date: 09/01/1969 12:00

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Every band has to start somewhere. Genesis arrived, produced by English pop impresario Jonathan King, as an earnest, mushy, cliché-spouting knockoff of the Moody Blues. “Fill your mind with love,” Gabriel sings, soon to have strings and horns gooped on top of the band. The most amazing thing about this album—a true relic of late-1960s hokum—is that Genesis didn’t change the band name out of embarrassment.

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