Comments on: Shocked to find Genesis aren’t awful after all

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 10:45:54 +0000

Gerald who?

Precisely….

By: PaulE

PaulE — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 10:39:11 +0000

Jokes can have unintended consequences. Remember Gerald Ratner ?

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:04:40 +0000

As I said in another post, I don’t have much time for humour that punches at it’s audiences out-groups and relies on lazy stereotypes for cheap laughs.

By: Synthetase

Synthetase — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:48:31 +0000

Jokes that rely too heavily on fallacy or straight up lies in their set-up, before waddling on to the tediously inevitable conclusion are seldom funny. (And I don’t even like Genesis.)

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:20:09 +0000

If you think I’m missing the joke you may be taking this blog post far too seriously.

By: Martin Fitzgerald

Martin Fitzgerald — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 12:18:45 +0000

Unlike a Prog fan to miss the joke

By: Serdar Yegulalp

Serdar Yegulalp — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 01:15:17 +0000

When I was in high school, I had a friend who was into Genesis, but strictly the pre-1980s incarnation. I’d known by then that their earlier incarnation was quite adventurous, and we had a fun conversation about how most everyone today thinks of stuff like “Land of Confusion” or all the other pop material, and would probably faint if they heard stuff like “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.” He had great fun messing with people’s heads telling them that Peter Gabriel — yes, THAT Peter Gabriel! — had once been in the band.

It’s scary that there are adults calling themselves music critics who are not significantly more advanced than the classmates he used to baffle.