From Genesis to Revelation

Genesis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Transluxe
• ASIN: B000005T6K
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #444,837 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Where The Sour Turns So Sweet

2. In The Beginning

3. Fireside Song

4. The Serpent

5. Am I Very Wrong?

6. In The Wilderness

7. The Conqueror

8. In Hiding

9. One Day

10. Window

11. In Limbo

12. Silent Sun

13. A Place To Call My Own

14. A Winter's Tale

15. One Eyed Hound

16. That's Me

17. Silent Sun (single version)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great debut...why don't others see it that way?, July 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: From Genesis to Revelation (Audio CD)

From Genesis To Revelation is often regarded as a joke, a throwaway, accidentally stuffed in the religious bins at record stores. I don't know why because from the beginning, Peter Gabriel's voice grabs you and the songs are very tuneful, most notably The Silent Sun, which is one of Genesis' best two or three songs of all time - it's beyond me why this wasn't a HUGE hit. You probably will not be used to the sound of this album - many of the songs are acoustical, had a lot of backup strings, and Phil Collins' drumming was still 4 years away. But you will be hooked after one listen, especially on Where The Sour Turns To Sweet, One Day, A Winter's Tale, Am I Very Wrong, and One Eyed Hound. Enjoy the beginning of a great musical career.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good first effort by a great band., May 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: From Genesis to Revelation (Audio CD)

It took years for Genesis to get noticed and go on to become one of the world's most successful bands. This album is so early that reisues of it have been called _In the Beginning_. The line-up on this first album of theirs included Tony Banks (piano), and Michael Rutherford (guitar, bass), who are the only two musicians to appear on every Genesis album. Peter Gabriel was there on lead voice. The lead guitarist on the first two albums was Anthony "Ant" Phillips. I believe that the drumming on some of the tracks of this first album was done by Chris Stewart, John Silver on other tracks. Steve Hacket and Phil Collins would not appear on a Genesis record until a couple of albums later. At the time Genesis was being managed and produced by Jonathan King. He encouraged them to stick with shorter, more radio-friendly-type singles. They were already interested in writing the sort of longer, more ambitious kinds of songs that would start to appear on their subsequent albums, but King was discouraging some of this sort of song-writing at the time. King's favorite band at the time were the Bee Gees, so Tony and Pete wrote "The Silent Sun" to please him. It's a pretty love ballad which really does sound like an early Bee Gees song, and Pete manages to sing on it much as would Robin Gibb. Even still, the album is put together in such a way that many of the short songs are strung together to make a sort of art-rock concept album (inspired by the Bible!). King had an orchestra add their accompaniment to the quintet's tracks, and though the band didn't like the way it was mixed, I think it still sounds pretty good, especially when you consider that it was their first album and that they were barely out of high school at the time. Much of the album is a sort of soft, folky rock music, almost Easy Listening, but without the derogotory conotations. "In the Beginning" is a song with a slightly harder edge; I like Ant's late 60s-sounding, psychedelic electric guitar on that one -- it goes well with Pete's voice and the drums. At one point between two of the original songs, Tony interpolates a few bars from the second movement of Beethoven's _Patetique_ Sonata. "Am I Very Wrong" might be my favorite track on the album. Pete sings a haunting minor-key melody to the accompaniment of Tony's grand piano and Mike and Ant's accoustic guitars. "Am I Very Wrong" also features the group singing good vocal harmonies in certain sections. On their earlier albums, Genesis sounded like they were developing into as much of a vocal harmony band as they were into a great instrumental band; it's a shame that they did not pursue and develop the vocal harmony thing more than they did. If your not already heavily into Genesis, I would recommend that you start with one of their subsequent albums like _Trespass_ or _Nursery Crime_ or _Selling England by the Pound_ or something like that, but if you already have all those albums and are wondering what they sounded like when their recording carreer started, they I definitely recommend this album.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stand on a mountain,the sun going down & love the world..., February 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: From Genesis to Revelation (Audio CD)

The imagery of these songs is wonderful and so beautiful.Not many people have heard this album - it's hidden away in most shops.But once heard,many love it.

I once worked in a mountain lodge in Norway one summer and met a load of crazy people from Denmark.I ended up giving one friend my only copy of the album - she must have meant a lot to me!

If this album had been done in the mid 70's it may have been a monster hit.But it's poor production qualities never helped.

My second favourite album after Wind & Wuthering.