Culture : Fondly Remembered but Not Worth Repeating ; in the First of an Occasional Series Revisiting Classic Albums, Terry Grimley Renews Acquaintaince with Genesis's Selling England by the Pound (1973

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Although I'm old enough to remember when 'progressive' was not necessarily a term of abuse in pop music, I was never a big Genesis fan.

I caught up with them when their career was already in full flight, when a devotee was kind enough to lend me several of their albums. But though I was quite interested in the dark English surrealism in which Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot were rooted, the music itself struck me as hamfisted.

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Culture : Fondly Remembered but Not Worth Repeating ; in the First of an Occasional Series Revisiting Classic Albums, Terry Grimley Renews Acquaintaince with Genesis's Selling England by the Pound (1973

But the successor to these albums, Selling England by the Pound, was another matter - a virtuosic and original mix of adventurous music and English whimsy. I was sufficiently impressed to buy Genesi...

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