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GENESIS: Trespass | Extended Play Lounge - Episode 98 (Patreon)

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2025-09-10 01:57:23
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I'm pleased to share my latest full album reaction to music from Genesis. Y'all voted for Trespass, and I really enjoyed my listen. This music is full of life yet seems restrained at the same time. The multiple 12-string acoustic guitars help to set an evocative sonic landscape only made better by Peter Gabriel's youthful vocals and Tony Banks' keyboard wizardry. I hope you enjoy!

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Genesis: Trespass | Extended Play Lounge - Episode 98

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Mark J Moerman

I'm so glad that you enjoyed it! I like everything Genesis ever did, but this one is very special to me,

Prog Rock Piano Bar

I've always been a super fan of Genesis, but I never really got into this one. Maybe revisiting it with Doug will help me appreciate it.

SteveT

At first, I didn't know what to make of this album. But over the years, it has really grown on me. I love its complicated melodic structure.

Ralph Darvill

Hi Doug, as you mention in the summing up, for some of us this album has been part of our lives for 50 years or so. In my case it was one of the records which I would borrow from our local library (others were "Still Life" by Van der Graaf, "In The Region Of The Summer Stars" by The Enid*, and "Gorilla" by Jean Luc Ponty). I had purchased Second Out and ATTW3 and was delving into the band's back catalogue. My first favourite song was "White Mountain", but I grew to love "Dusk" and "Stagnation" above all the other tracks on the album. The ethereal nature of the 12 strings is a wonder, alongside some genius use of the organ by Tony. Peter's voice was developing a tone born out of his love for Otis Redding, he has such a richness of tone, which he still possess today. It's sad that Ant Phillips became so crippled by stage fright and anxiety that he left the band...one wonders how things might have developed if he'd stayed. But, his leaving gave us Steve Hackett, and all of Ant's wonderful solo recordings, which are a treasure trove in themselves. *I think you'd love The Enid, they have explored a connection between classical music (their leader Robert John Godfrey studied at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of . Music). Robert's style is quite romantic, and he created on Moogs some very faithful rendering of trumpet, flute and strings. Worth a listen. But I have digressed! Thanks again for such interesting analysis.

Mark Hehir

Doug, White Mountain is about the stolen dominance over a wolf pack. The characters in the story, Fang and One Eye are wolves. You must have missed the lyric "A wolf never flees from the face of his foe." Fang steals the Sceptre and Crown that represents the leadership of the pack from the former leader, One Eye, and the chase is on from there.

Alex Byrd

Stagnation was actually originally a part of 4 peices that made up a song called "The Movement". Those tracks are available to hear on youtube and include sections eventually seen on Nusery Cryme and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Pretty cool to hear the early versions of those licks.

David Harris

Hi Doug excellent review and one of my favorite Genesis albums. You quite correctly picked up the Keith Emerson similarity on the Knife. Apparently the working title of the song was "the Nice", as the band, especially Tony, was definitely going for an Emerson vibe. (Speaking of Tony, really hoping to see an EPL of A Curious Feeling one day!!). Cheers!

Rodney Griffin

Nobody talks about John Mayhew's drum work on this album. It's like he was overshadowed by Phil Collins, sadly... Great Drumming by John!

Rodney Griffin

I've never met you personally Doug, but I consider you somewhat as a friend. Who, like myself, loves music and the universe it contains and engulfs. Thank you for your channel. Musician To Musician! Fabulous Classic Album.

MikeCarr

Great album! Have you listened to Seconds Out? If so, you may not know you heard them play the end of Stagnation during the extended coda of “I Know What I Like.” Another fun fact …Phil sang an acoustic version of White Mountain during the same tour (either 1976 or 77). Cheers!

Adie

Even though this album is markedly different from the first Genesis album, I always think of it as the culmination of the band that evolved from the schooldays, as well as the platform from which the band could build its future. As Alex Byrd says, there is a suprising amount of future Genesis material that has already been collected by the band by this point, so this critical creative period sustains the band in it's professional progress as far as The Lamb. It was an indulgence to listen to it again with you, and interesting to hear your insights into the harmonic movements in some of the pieces. A lovely time listening to the pastoral aspect of the band - thanks.

Rolling Ronnie

It's a measure of the creativity and musicianship of these players that the had not long turned 20 when they recorded this, so it was created largely by teenagers, as was some of The Musical Box.

Jean-Michel LaFontaine

I have to listen to this album more often, man. It's amazing. I've known it for a long time but haven't spent enough time with it. Anthony Phillips had a special tone and texture that really makes this album unique. Even though I like Hackett better as a player, he really brought another element to their music.

Si

One day Ant Phillips's The Geese and the Ghost will win a vote and you will hear that album in its entirety Doug!

Pat Bourque

"The Geese And The Ghost" is a must