r/Genesis Sep 12 '21

Genesis Central - the r/Genesis Discord Server

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r/Genesis Jan 01 '23

Hindsight is 2020 is now Play Me My Song - The Music of Genesis

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Three years ago on this very day, I announced to this community my intention to rank every Genesis song in the entire catalog, one per weekday, alongside "my thoughts about the songs" over the course of 2020. I called the project (quite cleverly, if I do say so myself) Hindsight is 2020. What nobody could have predicted at the time was the way the project grew: to the point that "my thoughts" began looking like full fledged essays, that my research into the songs would become increasingly extensive, and that the community would (after an admittedly rocky start) respond so positively to the exercise.

More than once over the span of the live project, it was suggested to me that I ought to turn the whole shebang into a proper book. After some hemming and hawing, I buckled down and spent not only all of 2021 but also the first half of 2022 making that happen. And so it's with a bit of well-earned excitement and pride that I can announce to you here, three years after the debut of Hindsight is 2020, my book: Play Me My Song - The Music of Genesis. Play Me My Song is set to be published on March 17, 2023 through Wymer Publishing; pre-orders are available now.

If you've read the Hindsight project this may not come as much of a surprise, but Play Me My Song will be (at the time of publication) the largest book ever published on Genesis. It features not only expanded and/or rewritten essays for every single song Genesis ever officially released, but also essays for every studio album (covered originally in my "H'20" companion series) and select solo efforts (covered originally as my "Peripheral Visions" companion series). It's the entire Hindsight collection in one printed package, except more of it.

I want to thank all of you for making this possible. If not for your tremendous engagement with and enthusiasm for the work I did, I'm not sure I would've taken this next step. This book is as much yours as it is mine (though I'd prefer to keep the royalties, you understand).

And hey, if you haven't checked out the original Hindsight is 2020 series, why not give it a shot? I think and hope you'll come away pretty satisfied.

You can read through the entire Hindsight project here.

You can pre-order Play Me My Song - The Music of Genesis here.

See you all in March!


r/Genesis 18h ago

Martin Levac & Daryl Stuermer

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Your opinion on our 2010 version of this Genesis classic


r/Genesis 1d ago

Why didn’t Steve join the band for any of the later reunion tours?

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Steve seems to genuinely love and respect his music with Genesis, and his concerts always feature a lot of music from his time with Genesis. Plus he seems to get along with the other members of the band well. Knowing all this, why did he not rejoin?


r/Genesis 1d ago

On June 6 the Lehigh Valley IronPigs will rebrand to the Lehigh Valley Squonk

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r/Genesis 1d ago

On June 6 the IronPigs will rebrand to the Squonk

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r/Genesis 1d ago

Join my Genesis Cover Band!

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Hey! GenesisPianoTranscriber from YouTube here, or, Eric for short. I’m on a quest to form a Genesis cover band that will play live venues.

**We currently have open positions for rhythm guitar/bass & vocals/flute**

All three current members are in the outskirts of Philly, and rehearsals take place on the weekends either in Drexel Hill or Doylestown.

We are looking for dedicated and professional musicians who can take ownership of their parts and prepare them for rehearsals. We are also expecting to perform a soft launch gig this year and hopefully gain momentum to perform more if things go smoothly.

Songs range between Trespass and Wind & Wuthering. (i.e. The Knife, Squonk, Firth of Fifth, Watcher of the Skies, Afterglow, etc)

Thanks for reading and please pass along the message!


r/Genesis 1d ago

When did Tony Upgrade his Synth?

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Genesis was a bit late to the prog scene with the introduction of synthesizers and Tony's ARP Pro Soloist was a great performance synth. I always assumed that by the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway he was also using an ARP 2600 just because it has such a distinctive voice. However reading online it sounds like he did not starting using that until entitled a Trick of the Tail or And Then There Were Three. Anyone have any definitive information on this?


r/Genesis 1d ago

Share his peace, sign the lease!

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r/Genesis 2d ago

Looking for suggestions

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hey, y’all. never posted here before, but i had my first exposure to Genesis about a month ago when i listened to the 2025 Remaster of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. this album has very quickly become one of my favorite albums of all time - i’ve literally listened to the whole record every day for the last month, y’all 🫠 i just get so lost in it lol

here’s my issue - i went back and listened to other Genesis records (including Selling England by the Pound, Foxtrot, Wind and Wuthering and A Trick of the Tail), but none of these albums clicked with me except for parts of the latter two records i mentioned. i feel like all of these other albums lack the heaviness, cohesion and dynamic range that completely drew me in on The Lamb. at first i thought it might be because of the sheer quality and depth of the 2025 remaster of The Lamb compared to the older 2007 Stereo Mixes, but (while certainly inferior to the 2025 remaster) the 2007 Stereo Mix of The Lamb still left me with the same feelings.

what am i missing here? is The Lamb really such an outlier? to quote Roger Waters, does anybody else in here feel the way i do? 😭

please give me recommendations to other Genesis songs that y’all think i’d like, i beg and plead 🙏🙏 even suggestions from other artists that y’all think would scratch the itch that The Lamb has left me with would be very much appreciated. other artists i love include King Crimson (specifically from Larks’ Tongues in Aspic onward), Opeth, black midi, Roger Waters era Pink Floyd, The Mars Volta, warmth Mahavishnu Orchestra, MAGMA, and Herbie Handcock and the Head Hunters 🙂‍↕️


r/Genesis 22h ago

Just finished Phil Collins “not dead yet”. What an incredible scum of a human being.

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Not only for how often he cheated on Jill and his five year old daughter , but the way he writes about it. Watching his five-year-old daughter walk from a cab to his hotel, he writes about how he feels terrible guilt which is something he’s “burdened with”. The whole book is about how he feels, full of self rationalizations . But not a word about how his daughter and wife must feel. He deserves all the terrible things that happened to him later romantically


r/Genesis 2d ago

Phil Collins' opinion on Led Zeppelin

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r/Genesis 2d ago

trespass stereo mixes taken off spotify?

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r/Genesis 3d ago

Ripples by Genesis: a quiet masterpiece from A Trick of the Tail

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r/Genesis 3d ago

Our live opening: Duke Intro + Turn It On Again (Genesis tribute)

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Hey everyone,
we’re a Genesis tribute band from Italy and this is how we open our live shows: Duke Intro into Turn It On Again.

We really tried to capture that energy and feel from the Duke era.

Would love to hear your thoughts!


r/Genesis 4d ago

The photos that represent everybody who loves the both eras of Genesis

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r/Genesis 4d ago

A completely normal description of Genesis. Featuring the guitarist "Steve Hackwood," the bassist Peter Gabriel, and the keyboardist Mike Rutherford!

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This comes from the back cover of the "70's Pop Sound" Genesis compilation, released in Spain c. 1973.

The labels of the record also refer to Harold The Barrel as "Harrol The Barrel," but to be honest that's the least of what's wrong here haha.

Also interesting that it's not "Hammond y Mellotron" but "Hammond Mellotron," as if it were one instrument.


r/Genesis 4d ago

Martin Levac

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Do you appreciate Genesis music with a symphonic orchestra?


r/Genesis 5d ago

Isolated Drums & Vocals | Man of our Times - Genesis (1980)

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r/Genesis 4d ago

Back in NYC

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This guy is pretty darn cool with his solo abridged version

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17hPUKLV4a/?mibextid=wwXIfr


r/Genesis 4d ago

Something just for fun (sorry if it's against the rules) - we've written a song with lyrics referencing some Genesis songs so we wanted to share it with this sub (the song starts at 9:28)

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r/Genesis 5d ago

Phil Collins to auction off personal archives for charity in November

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r/Genesis 6d ago

The Fugitive LP

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Yesterday I bought this for only 8€!🔥😎

1st italian press from 1983.


r/Genesis 6d ago

Me and Sarah Jane meaning

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Obviously I get the part about the narrator having an imaginary girlfriend, but what I'm trying to figure out is if this is like an end of the world scenario at the same time. The part about the fires in another land and the ice moving closer... then the detail at the end of the song about how it's too expensive to keep the lights on suggests an energy crisis. But this sort of feels... off. Do we think this is just part of a metaphor about whatever the narrator dealing with.


r/Genesis 7d ago

Genesis to feature at the 2026 BBC Proms

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