The Gods - Genesis [Expanded] (1968)

Tracklist

01. Towards the Skies (Mono)
02. Candles Getting Shorter (Mono)
03. You're My Life (Mono)
04. Looking Glass (Mono)
05. Misleading Colours (Mono)
06. Radio Show (Mono)
07. Plastic Horizon (Mono)
08. Farthing Man (Mono)
09. I Never Knew (Mono)
10. Time and Eternity (Mono)
11. Towards the Skies (Stereo)
12. Candles Getting Shorter (Stereo)
13. You're My Life (Stereo)
14. Looking Glass (Stereo)
15. Misleading Colours (Stereo)
16. Radio Show (Stereo)
17. Plastic Horizon (Stereo)
18. Farthing Man (Stereo)
19. I Never Knew (Stereo)
20. Time and Eternity (Stereo)
21. Baby's Rich (Mono)
22. Somewhere in the Street
23. Hey Bulldog
24. Real Love Guaranteed

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01. Towards the Skies
02. Candles Getting Shorter
03. You're My Life
04. Looking Glass
05. Misleading Colours
06. Radio Show
07. Plastic Horizon
08. Farthing Man
09. I Never Knew
10. Time and Eternity


The Gods' debut album was the sound of a band capturing the transition of British psychedelia into more ostentatious progressive hard rock. Ken Hensley's heavy Hammond organ was the center of their sound, and both that and the sometimes overbearing vibrato vocals pointed toward the less psychedelic sounds he and drummer Lee Kerslake would pursue in Uriah Heep. Genesis is undoubtedly lighter than Uriah Heep, though, often employing characteristically late-'60s British vocal harmonies. Some tunes, like "Candles Getting Shorter" and "Radio Show," even skirt a pop-soul sensibility. But the songs weren't terribly memorable, though they were segued together by brief odd'n'goofy instrumental bits at the end of tracks in keeping with the modus operandi of the psychedelic era. The Mellotron in "I Never Know" does rather remind one of the way the instrument was used on King Crimson's first album, though King Crimson inserted it into much better material. The CD reissue on Repertoire adds both sides of their first two singles (from 1968 and 1969) as bonus tracks; these are slightly more pop in feel than their album, including one of the most obscure '60s covers of an obscure Beatles song, "Hey Bulldog."

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