“The Last Domino?” – Collins Beats Gabriel – Rolling Stone

Killjoys says: “A start without Peter? That’s nothing,” and those with enough intelligence say: “And without Steve they’re nothing too!” Guitarist Steve Hackett aside: the fight between Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel is quite clear, at least when looking at these 27 pieces. Gabriel is responsible as a composer or singer for only five of them. This poor level is important because the remaining three members of Genesis did a selection of these major hits themselves (following the music reservation, we are now talking about “scheduled”). is intended to give an overview of the set list for the upcoming “The Last Domino” tour, which, unsurprisingly, will not deviate much from the last Genesis tour in 2007. The last studio album of the trio dates back to 1991. And not Gabriel nor Hackett are scheduled to be guests in 2021.

The hits are many such as the best Phil Collins among: “Mama”, “Land Of Confusion”, “Invisible Touch”, “Washa Tena”, “Jesus He Knows Me”, “That’s All”. But album two also collects some prog rock songs that always sound like the band was forced to compose them after Gabriel’s departure, or as if only keyboardist Tony Banks asked them out loud: “Domino”, “Fading Lights.” “Home by the Sea/Second Home by the Sea.” The best Phil Collins Genesis songs – and Genesis songs from 1978 onwards are Phil Collins Genesis songs – are under six minutes.

A rather arbitrary arrangement of the songs, the older one which comes from the fifth album, “Selling England By The Pound” from 1973, would show the development in the pop band more clearly. The Peter Gabriel classic “Carpet Crawlers” would still be a fitting closing piece. Instead, Collins closes the set with “Abacab”: “Do you think I’m to blame?/Tell me, do you think I’m to blame?” (Universal)