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Topic History of: Genesis show
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Pru |
I'm not sure about how it was structured. You had a snatch of a song, an album cover and maybe a brief sound bite for each significant early album, which I doubt was very enlightening to anyone who didn't already know about that era. Then you had longer digressions about solo careers etc. If you looked at it through the eyes of a newcomer I wonder how much sense it actually made.
And - as a sign of today's hopeless failure of programme-making nerve - demographics depressingly intruded with the youngish (tick) female (tick) Observer critic and the youngish, female, black (triple tick) journalist talking about 'Pete' and 'Phil' as if they were old buddies (and most of what the black hack said was just nonsense: 'Everyone loves a bit of Genesis' - do they? Really? Because I would have thought the rest of the programme suggested that, for most of their career, the band was a famously acquired taste). If you're going to use 'expert' talking heads, then for god's sake choose them on merit.
The most intriguing aspect, I thought, was the band members talking, and bitching, in the same room, of which there was too little. I presume that will be the main 'extra' on the DVD that will be hyped up. The relationship between Tony Banks (who I though came over as a monumental pain in the bum) and Gabriel was especially fascinating, but we only got two or three little asides between them before the breathless and superficial narrative rolled on.
And of course we only got a tiny clip of JK. It would have been helpful to have dwelled a little on the beginning.
All in all a typical contemporary pop culture documentary: quite neat and slick but, deep down, rather too scared to actually engage with its subject. |
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Pattaya |
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04l3phb/g...s-together-and-apart |
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JK2006 |
Very good I thought. Might have been nice if they had spelled my name right though. But it did make me think - the world would musically have been a very different place if I'd not been born! |
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