Reviews by lilpoopydukey

An underrated Guashaboley. Yes, i don't know what that means either.

Though this album may not be as good as Turnstiles or The Stranger, It's still a great album, especially the first half.

The opening 3 are among Billy's best songs, especially My Life, then there's Zanzibar which in my opinion is the weakest of the opening 4, but is still great. Stiletto in my opinion is the most underrated song on the album and easily deserves to be considered in "The Golden Run" of 52nd Street (The Opening 5).

The second half of the album is still great, but not quite as remarkable. Rosalinda's Eyes is pretty underrated, even more so on Half A Mile Away, Until the Night is also really good and catchy, but the same can't be said for the (very short) title track.

Easily one of his best albums. I need to buy, not Spotify.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: NEED TO HEAR

Best song: My Life
Worst song: 52nd Street
Underrated: Half A Mile Away

thanks 1001 albums generator: 15

It's fine, it's overrated, it's grunge, it's not for me. Grunge is not mine.

All the parts where she was actually singing and not screaming were great, this is not her style of music.

I didn't go that crazy for this album. It felt a little melodramatic, with the heueichlfhhf's in the final 4 songs in the end.

All of the songs were overrated, Violet & Doll Parts especially considering they're the one's bolded.

Wouldn't buy, relisten, or even just listen to any songs from it. Again.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: HEAR

Best song: Jennifer's Body
Worst song: Gutless
Underrated: Asking For It

This sure is a live album, and i like it.

Genesis, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd would've all been the best bands to see, for different reasons. The Who and Led Zepp for their performances always being legendary, Pink Floyd for being my favorite band of all time... Then there's Genesis.

You know why i put Genesis in this high tier most wouldn't? Because they don't need theatrics, or being the literal best band of all time, they're just really really really really good, and probably have the most consistent run of live albums ever.

From Live to Seconds Out to 3SL to Way We Walk to The Lamb live from the Archive 1967-75 box set are all at the very very least, amazing.

So where does this album stand in the flow? It is amazing, like all other Genesis live albums.

The first record of the album is mainly Phil Collins era stuff, particularly the most recent albums to come out with it mainly being comprised of Abacab and Duke. In fact, all of those two albums, aside from Follow You Follow Me.

The second record is mostly the Peter Gabriel era stuff, but with a few sprinkles of the Phil era with Misunderstanding and Afterglow. This record is better. In The Cage is great here, Afterglow is too, One For The Vine is much shorter, but not a LOT was cut out*. Fountain Of Salmacis is great, then appearing at the beginning of the final song the medley of it. and Watcher. Which is also the best song on the album.

It's an amazing live album and should be considered with the Genesis classics, like Seconds Out and Live.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: DEFINITELY HEAR

Best song: it. / Watcher Of The Skies
Worst song: Me & Sarah Jane
Underrated: One For The Vine

* (i just realized for some reason my version of one for the vine i listened to was only 5 minutes but actually on here it says it's 11 like the original i listened to the cd version if you're wondering)

HOW DO PEOPLE NOT LIKE THIS!?!?!??!!?

Shapes was always my favorite Phil era album. On relisten, it's easily this.

It's the more consistent album. Shapes has highs and lows, while this is just ____________ and Shapes is _/\__/\_/\__/\.

This album even has better songs. Land Of Confusion is absolutely classic. Title track is insanely catchy. And Domino was the bands farewell to the prog side and go absolutely prog pop.

I love this album. And i always will.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: NEED TO HEAR

Best song: Land Of Confusion
Worst song: Anything She Does
Underrated: Tonight, Tonight, Tonight

i lost my review, i'm not rewriting it. it's good, first side better, second side good that's the jist of it

NEED TO HEAR RATING: DEFINITELY HEAR

Best song: Second/Home By The Sea
Worst song: Illegal Alien
Underrated: It's Gonna Get Better

This one of the best pop albums ever. EVER.

Look at this tracklist.

Behind the Lines is just plain great, but there are better. Like...

Duchess is just amazing. I just wrote it off when i first listened to it, but it's easily one of the best on here. Moving on to...

Guide Vocal is easily the weakest on here. It's a minute and a half and still good, better than almost anything on Joe's Garage. Next up is...

Man of Our Times used to be my favorite on the album. While i still don't think that's so, I still think it's one of the best on the and and super underrated. Next...

Misunderstanding is just SO GOOD. Of course there's one other song that beats it out for being the best on the album, but it was close. And song is... Not

Heathaze which is still really good, but not close to the epic wonder of the giants on this album, It's just a nice song. But that can't be said for the BEST song on the album...

Turn It On Again is so good it's insane. Like, literally it's one of the best pop songs ever. And it's pretty close considering MISUNDERSTANDING is on the album, that's when you know a song is good. It's so good it's one of the only Genesis pop songs i would consider rivals some of the original prog stuff. Up there with Your Own Special Way. But sadly, we have a hard drop off at...

Alone Tonight was kinda destined to be a weaker than most of the other stuff, considering the last 4 are the albums best songs, and just the 1st side is better with the only lesser song being Guide Vocal. But the next song is much stronger. And it is...

Cul-De-Sac just like Duchess was a song I just wrote off before. Despite it being better than Alone Tonight and Guide Vocal, it's one of the worst songs on the album and I STILL love it. But we pick up HARD with...

Please Don't Ask was of all the songs on the album, the one i wrote off the most. And of all them, it's had one of the strongest redemption arcs. For a while i was just kinda drifting off during the album, from the early 2nd side being the weakest part of the album, but the middle section of this song just made me snap back into the album. And it stayed that way until the end. Which is...

Duke's Travel is an amazing (mostly) instrumental track. The whole song is good, but my personal favorite part is the end with the last minute or so. But then the song contunues. Sort off, with...

Duke's End sounds exactly like the climax of Duke's Travel, and that's not a bad thing. Just is kinda weird, but still good.

This tracklist is stacked. This album's amazing.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: NEED TO HEAR

Best song: Turn It On Again
Worst song: Guide Vocal
Underrated: Please Don't Ask

First half excellent, Second half completely mid.

If for some reason someone is asking for a From Genesis To Revelation deluxe, just go to the 4th disc of this set. It's not good.

The first 3 discs are great. First 2 are The Lamb live, which is an amazing album, and now live, some songs i even like better here, like Colony Of Slippermen. 3rd disc is mainly a live concert with some extras, like Watcher's single version, two extra singles, with Twilight Alehouse being AMAZING.

Then the 4th disc... Oh, it's bad. The worst is stuff like Flannan Isle Lighthouse, Patricia, and Sea Bee which are bad, real bad. The best song on the disc is Going Out To Get You which is actually pretty good for a '69 demo.

I would easily rather listen to the King Crimson 4 hour box set The Great Deceiver, but the first 3 discs of this are great.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: HEAR

Best song: Suppers Ready
Worst song: The Mystery Of The Flannan Isle Lighthouse
Underrated: Twilight Alehouse

Wow, much better than i remember.

When i first heard the album i wrote it of as pop junk and gave it a 76, relistening has made me realize it's pop goodness.

Side A

I still think the title track is overrated.

No Reply At All is THE STUFF MAN. THE STUFF.

Me And Sarah Jane is a little worse but still a great pop song,

Keep It Dark is also really great on relisten, just forgettable.

Side B

Remember when i said No Reply At All was THE STUFF. It still is, just Dodo / Lurker has more of THE STUFF. PEAK.

Who Dunnit.

Man On The Corner is REAL GOOD and one of only three songs on the album to have THE STUFF.

Like It Or Not just like Keep It Dark i wrote off in the beginning, but it's actually great and less forgettable than Keep It Dark, though not as good.

Another Record is stupid.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: HEAR

Best song: Dodo / Lurker
Worst Song: Who Dunnit?
Underrated: Like It Or Not

Speedrunning PG's discog to get hyped for o/i: #7 - Us

Us is quite weird, but it makes sense. Imagine you just put out the biggest album of the rest of your career, and one of the biggest albums of the 80's, you would practically have creative freedom to do whatever the hell you want to do. Considering you just made crazy money and everyone will buy/listen to whatever has your name stamped on it.

So... How is Us? Just good.

The thing with this album is it's much more diverse than So. So is ballad->pop->ballad->pop, this is all over the place. Sometimes it's a good thing, and sometimes it's quite bad.

I do like this album and would go back to quite a few songs on this album, the thing is i would still go back to them but not that often, considering almost every album he put out before this (besides Scratch) was better.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: HEAR

Best song: Secret World
Worst song: Only Us
Underrated: Love To Be Loved

Speedrunning PG's discog to get hyped for o/i: #8 - Up

It's a good album, it's fine. But just like 'hours...' by David Bowie, it is completely carried by one song...

THE BARRY WILLIAMS SHOW!

To sum up this one song. Amazing. The lyrics are great, it's cool, and it's a total vibe. It's really the only thing on this album i would truly play constantly, i love it.

The rest... Yeah, i forgot about that. Darkness is crazy overrated*. Every song between Darkness and I Grieve are forgettable, speaking of the latter, it's the first "good" song on the album. Then we get a streak of good songs, from I Grieve to The Barry Williams Show, then fluff until The Drop which is good.

It's a fine album, but it's feels like an album that's only to be listened to when you HAVE to, not something out of enjoyment.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: HEAR

Best song: The Barry Williams Show
Worst song: Darkness
Underrated: I Grieve

*On here, RYM it is. On AOTY no one cares about it

Speedrunning PG's discog to get hyped for o/i: #6 - So

Peter actually has the best taste when it comes to production. It sounds so clean and perfect like the good parts of the 80's sound.

The only albums that came out before this still during the 80's that are better is both Dire Straits 80's records, Making Movies & Love Over Gold. Sledgehammer is an absolute BANGER.

In Your Eyes CLASSIC. Mercy Street AMAZING. Red Rain AMAZING. Don't Give Up OVERRATED. That Voice Again UNDERRATED.

This album is just so good, please listen, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing!

NEED TO HEAR RATING: DEFINITELY HEAR

Best song: Sledgehammer
Worst song: Don't Give Up
Underrated: Mercy Street

Speedrunning PG's discog to get hyped for o/i: #9 - Scratch My Back

Scratch My Back......And I'll Scratch Yours......Scratch My Back......And I'll Scratch Yours... Scratch My Back......And I'll Scratch Yours......Scratch My Back......And I'll Scratch Yours... Scratch My Back......And I'll Scratch Yours......Scratch My Back......And I'll Scratch Yours... Scratch My Back......And I'll Scratch Yours......Scratch My Back......And I'll Scratch Yours...

But this album is so boring. As i write this i'm listening to New Blood, and it's so much better, because HIS songs were meant for HIM, not My Body Is A Cage.

It's an album i would have to be forced to relisten to, like i think i rated an album too low, so i then give it a higher score, then i realize i rated it higher than anything he did then relisten to his discog.

I don't like it. My first PG album i don't enjoy.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: MID HEAR

Best song: Flume
Worst song: I Think It's Going To Rain Today
Underrated: Mirrorball

Speedrunning PG's discog to get hyped for o/i: #5 - Plays Live

Is this the best live album i've ever heard? No. Is it one of the best i've ever heard? Yea.

Some of the songs are so much better here, like Intruder, On The Air, and Humdrum. All this stuff is so good, this is one of the best live albums ever.

All the Scratch songs that were ruined by production are much better here, the only Scratch songs done here were D.I.Y. and On The Air but they're SO much better. Specifically On The Air.

This is a perfect live album

NEED TO HEAR RATING: NEED TO HEAR

Best song: Shock The Monkey
Worst song: D.I.Y.
Underrated: Family Snapshot

Speedrunning PG's discog to get hyped for o/i: #4 - Security

I love this album. I can't believe this album isn't talked about that much just because "Melt is better". It isn't. They're tied, they're equally good.

San Jacinto, while slow, is a very deep song and one of the best on the album. I Have The Touch is so cool and fun and just think it's so underrated. Shock The Monkey is my JAM, one of his best solo songs i've heard. Wallflower is the last notable song on the album.

The production is great just like the previous album Melt. Unlike so many artists who just gave up and gave in once the 80's came around, Peter held back the production so it wouldn't be fully 80's and would sound perfect.

This is one of the best albums i've heard so far in the month.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: DEFINITELY HEAR

Best song: Shock The Monkey
Worst song: Kiss Of Life
Underrated: I Have The Touch

Speedrunning PG's discog to get hyped for o/i: #10 - New Blood

Mid.

But i guess there's more to it than that...

It is... Peter Gabriel songs. Redone. Yeah, this is PG's In Dreams: The Greatest Hits. Taking his best songs and completely flipping the script on them.

One song is better here, Darkness. It's insanely better here. Then...

WE DON'T TALK ABOUT A QUIET MOMENT
NO
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!ON
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TNEMOM TEIUQ A TUOBA KLAT T'NOD EW

yeah i'm just writing random things at this point

NEED TO HEAR RATING: HEAR

Best song: Solsbury Hill
Worst song: A Quiet Moment
Underrated: San Jacinto

Speedrunning PG's discog to get hyped for o/i: #11 - Live Blood

This speedrun is ending with i/o and i have to say, it's been great, i did it in a little over a week, and wow, i LOVE Peter Gabriel.

From Peter Gabriel to Peter Gabriel to Peter Gabriel and to, you guessed it, Peter Gabriel. To SewUsUp. To Scratch My New Blood. To i/o/i, you notice that every single album is part of a series, from the self titled series, the two letter series, covers series, and the moon phases series, it's what makes his discog unique. This album is no exception, it's amazing.

This would be his best live album, but Plays Live slightly beats it out. And despite the length, i never got bored, it was consistently amazing.

Biko, San Jacinto, Darkness, Washing Of The Water, all the classics are here, plus the New Blood versions are the ones done, and they're much better here than in New Blood, and i liked that album. The Scratch My Back versions of the songs are for no reason, SO, and i mean, SOOOOOOOO much better here, Book Of Love, Après Moi, The Power Of The Heart, all great, peak live album. Must listen... Or as i would call it, a...*

NEED TO HEAR RATING: NEED TO HEAR

Best song: Solsbury Hill
Worst song: Don't Give Up
Underrated: Intruder

*even_though_i_probably_wouldn't_consider_the_material_on_the_album_needtohear_level,_you_just_needtohear_this_album

Speedrunning PG's discog to get hyped for o/i: #12 FINALE - i/o

This was really good, and the fact he's been going since 1969 is insane at how good he still is, like this man will never lose his voice, he'll always hit the same notes in Sledgehammer, after hearing this, i know that 100%.

So many people lose their voice after 20 years, maybe even 30 years. Peter Gabriel has been doing music from 1969 to now and he sounds THE EXACT SAME.

gosh i love peter gabriel

Now how are the songs? Great! The only thing that makes me not like this album as much as a Car or Melt is it's just another Peter Gabriel album. It just sounds like the kind of thing you'd expect at this point. That's not a bad thing, just when someone does something new, it could go two ways, amazing or AWFUL. So i think Peter knew that and decided to stick to art rock, considering the last time he did a crazy genre switch was all the way back at Up with the slightly trip hop electronic flavored music. And that wasn't really my favorite PG album, it was good but nothing crazy.

So this album in general is a good album, better than most stuff i've heard, and it is certainly, a Peter Gabriel album.

And now i wait... For o/i!
TO O/I!

NEED TO HEAR RATING: DEFINITELY HEAR

Best song: So Much
Worst song: Road To Joy
Underrated: Playing For Time

WHY. IS. IT. NOT. LIKED.

Literally, this album is catchy as hell, absolutely not a "bad" song (even if CITR is just decent), and yet it's hated.

So? Two lesser songs, (IA)RR and CITR are much lesser than literally everything else. Remember Me is SO GOOD and is easily one of their best BW era songs. But still Dissatisfied is better. I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH.

Everything else is real good too. Night Watch is so underrated, Revelation is underrated, Derelict is underrated, EVERYTHING IS UNDERRATED!!!!

Just listen. Please.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: DEFINITELY HEAR

Best song: Dissatisfied
Worst song: Caught In The Rain
Underrated: The Derelict

Okay this cover could be top 3 worst ever.

This album is true pop perfection. She's Changing Me is literally top 10 pop rock songs ever. Bermuda Triangle is so ominous. And Coming Home is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO underrated!

The album has an all time bad cover, but that's just the price to pay to get through this album. Once you get past the disgusted feeling, then you click play and the opener plays.

AND IT'S AMAZING

You love it, then Coming Home starts, you think it's kind of strange until you realize how good the instrumental is. And Angel is just really catchy.

Then the best part of the album, the early middle starts. Bermuda Triangle to Come A Little Bit Closer to She's Changing Me is still one of the best runs ever. Especially She's Changing Me (BANGER ALERT!!!)

Overall, this is as good as some of the stuff they'd put out with Stevie and Lindsey. Amazing.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: NEED TO HEAR

Best song: She's Changing Me
Worst song: Born Enchanter
Underrated: Angel

thanks 1001 albums generator: 21. For giving me the BOOGIE

This album is groovy baby, gives the funk to whoever's got the blues.

It's a great dance record, the fact that the album that is talked about like how i'm talking about this one is Ray Of Light is insane.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: DEFINITELY HEAR

Best song: The Heart Remains A Child
Worst song: Big Deal
Underrated: Walking Wounded (Omni Trio Remix)