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| 2.7 average | manosg EMERITUS | May 23rd 21 |
Not a poor album, but lacks the hooks and standouts of the subsequent two LPs.
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| 3.5 great | Gerkuman | December 18th 12 |
Genesis' first full step out of the prog rock world ended up being a pretty good one if you liked the genre they were moving into and an harbinger of doom for those who did not. The rating should clue you into which one I fall into. The musical hooks are memorable, the synths are tasteful bordering on tasty and the album rarely drags even on the longer tracks, but the weakness is definitely the lyrics. Still, the three members were clearly working as a team. If only it had stayed that way.
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| 3.0 good | NightmareCinema16 | November 28th 12 |
Genesis is now going through dramatic changes that are shaping the history of prog rock, and are now definately pointing toward pop. It seems as if Genesis will take a skyfall for the worse.
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| 2.5 average | KILL | November 19th 11 |
There's only one Genesis album.
It's called Abacab.
― Dereks Erdman, Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:54
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| 3.5 great | Fernando Alves | August 26th 11 |
Abacab has good moments like the title track but in my opinion the previous is definitely better.
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| 3.5 great | sasdj | June 21st 06 |
Those of you who've dismissed anything Genesis has done since PG left the band as crap - this is not for you! I love this release - it is one of the very few albums I own which I can listen to in its entirety without getting bored. The tracks featured herein fall between soft pop suitable for your dentisits' office (Man on the Corner) to the title track which can be heard in light rotation on your local classic rock station. Nothing here gets overplayed on the radio, becasue there were no mega-hits, just a clean assortment of very well-engineered tracks which bridge the gap between the 22:00 art-rock stories of Genesis' early albums and the 3:30 pop tracks which were to come later (Follow You, Follow Me, Invisible Touch, etc.). Listen to it again if you haven't lately - you might hear the "duck".
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| 3.0 good | Elmo | November 22nd 24 |
| 4.5 superb | MrHigh | July 26th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rodstar | July 21st 24 |
| 3.0 good | Lani | April 11th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Verdr | March 30th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | prana37 | January 30th 24 |
| 2.5 average | HalapenYo CONTRIBUTOR | July 5th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Timmy | January 11th 23 |
| 2.0 poor | Djokoll | September 14th 22 |
| 3.0 good | C. Deez | September 14th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jerrad | August 16th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Rick64 | April 15th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | CalinD | December 10th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Titan | September 13th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Source | July 4th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Gustav | February 29th 20 |
| 2.0 poor | Mattia | December 15th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Elynna | November 22nd 19 |
| 2.5 average | LePsych | November 2nd 19 |
| 2.5 average | Bossie | October 12th 19 |
| 3.0 good | dlbk03 | August 27th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Djang0 | April 10th 19 |
| 2.5 average | BoiBoi | March 11th 19 |
| 3.0 good | inthox | November 25th 18 |
| 2.5 average | igi78 | September 1st 18 |
| 1.0 awful | OliKad | August 13th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Benman | February 24th 18 |
| 3.0 good | wg98 | November 29th 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | GazAldo | July 23rd 17 |
| 3.5 great | Geomi | July 12th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | CRX | June 30th 17 |
| 2.5 average | xHit | December 24th 16 |
| 3.5 great | leopm | November 8th 16 |
| 2.5 average | KyleW | October 16th 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | IceMole | August 19th 16 |
| 3.0 good | DaveD | August 18th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Xinlo | July 21st 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Ire | May 12th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Robbit | May 7th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | DarthGL | December 22nd 15 |
| 3.0 good | btati | November 12th 15 |
| 3.0 good | e210013 | September 28th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Onett | August 5th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Superb | March 11th 15 |
| 3.5 great | cbc2508 | February 15th 15 |
| 2.5 average | Abraxas | January 20th 15 |
| 2.5 average | Beats59 | November 1st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | micah68 | July 30th 14 |
| 3.5 great | et66 | April 29th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Lilt98 | April 20th 14 |
| 2.5 average | nicowyp | February 11th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | powrnap | February 6th 14 |
| 3.5 great | bing93 | January 19th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Me2 | December 23rd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mootgut | December 12th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Grimsby | September 16th 13 |
| 3.0 good | Diachy | August 14th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Kalhur | August 12th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | JJKeys | August 4th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kinch | June 15th 13 |
| 3.0 good | Hsur | May 31st 13 |
| 3.5 great | ramon | May 15th 13 |
| 2.0 poor | goguey | April 18th 13 |
| 3.5 great | kual21 | March 30th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | SmersH | March 5th 13 |
| 3.0 good | JS19 | February 3rd 13 |
| 3.0 good | igorvt | December 21st 12 |
| 2.5 average | facupm | December 13th 12 |
| 2.5 average | Noakesy | October 15th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Cru | July 7th 12 |
| 3.0 good | cmclay | February 22nd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | mandan | January 28th 12 |
| 2.5 average | BigHans | November 3rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | Totes | July 20th 11 |
| 2.0 poor | true | July 13th 11 |
| 2.5 average | KaliMa | June 29th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Ricpru | February 19th 11 |
| 2.5 average | darky68 | February 3rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | joejjc | January 18th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Jarvig | November 18th 10 |
| 3.0 good | mppwns | September 20th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | LeGo | June 9th 10 |
| 3.5 great | KP23 | May 18th 10 |
| 1.0 awful | Manland | December 30th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Boaz | May 1st 09 |
| 3.0 good | thetod | March 24th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Maz | November 29th 07 |
| 2.5 average | katrngs | October 3rd 07 |
| 2.5 average | Egglord | September 30th 07 |
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