Genesis - Nursery Cryme (1971)

Year: 12 November 1971 (CD ????)
Label: Rhino Records (US), R2 513944
Style: Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Surrey, England
Time: 39:29
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 256 Mb

Genesis' transitional Nursery Cryme served more as a signpost for future breakthroughs than a stand-alone accomplishment. The album eventually stood as Genesis' first U.K. Top 40 album, but that was only after it became clear how important the then-recent addition of Phil Collins and Steve Hackett really was.
They brought a wealth of new musical ideas and energy to the group, which had released two largely ignored albums before Nursery Cryme arrived on Nov. 12, 1971. But Genesis hadn't yet gelled around this new configuration, leading to an album that guitarist and bassist Mike Rutherford has said possessed "very high highs" and "very low lows."
Dexterous, content-packed tracks like "The Musical Box" (which would be part of Genesis's live set lists through the rest of Collins' tenure), "The Return of the Giant Hogweed," "Seven Stones" and "Fountain of Salmacis" pointed the way toward a string of Top 20 collaborations to come with this lineup. There is the sense, throughout Nursery Cryme, of new discovery - if not consistent success.
Both Collins - a drummer who'd later worked with the jazz-fusion group Brand X - and Hackett made significant early contributions, but nothing came easy.
“Something definitely changed when Phil joined the band," singer Peter Gabriel has said. "He was a real drummer - something I had never been too convinced of with [previous members] Chris Stewart and John Mayhew."
For his part, Hackett eventually found a creative spark as a guitar-playing collaborator with keyboardist Tony Banks. "I will say, being in the band with Steve, who is also very masterful with the guitar and could get lots of different sounds with it, the combination of the two of us produced some combinations that were kind of unusual," Banks told Ultimate Classic Rock in 2015.
(full version: altrockchick.com/2016/09/27/nursery-cryme-by-genesis/)

01. The Musical Box (10:26)
02. For Absent Friends (01:47)
03. The Return Of The Giant Hogweed (08:09)
04. Seven Stones (05:08)
05. Harold The Barrel (03:00)
06. Harlequin (02:55)
07. The Fountain Of Salmacis (08:00)

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