Genesis
Wind And Wuthering
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June 28 - July 4, 2026
Year of Release: 1976
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Eleventh Earl Of Mar
One For The Vine
Your Own Special Way
Wot Gorilla
All In A Mouse's Night
Blood On The Rooftops
Uniquiet Slumber For
The Sleepers
In That Quiet Earth'
Afterglow
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Genesis returns this week, with their Progressive Rock 1976 release, Wind And Wuthering. It was the second
album with the band's newest lead singer, Phil Collins. This album would be the last with guitarist Steve Hackett.
Hackett wasn't pleased with the direction in the material for this album, especiall with keyboardist Tony Banks'
contributions. Hackett did get songwriting credits for four of nine tracks on the album. Banks wrote/co-wrote five.
"Eleventh Earl Of Mar" you recognize Phil Collins' voice. The music itself reflects on the previous music
Genesis had with lead singer Peter Gabriel. Progressive Rock. "One For The Vine" has the softer sounds of
Progressive Rock, and you can easily hear the beginnings of what would come for Phil Collins and Genesis. The keyboards
stand out on this track, as Tony Banks was the sole writer of "One For The Vine." Definitely Progressive Rock
in it's finest for the previous Genesis with Peter Gabriel, and the new beginnings of Genesis, with Phil Collins.
As in most Progressive Rock bands, their tracks are quite long. "One For The Vine" a little over 10 minutes.
It shines in its own Genesis Progressive Rock form. The instrumentation here can be compared to another Progressive
Rock band: Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
"Your Own Special Way" (written by Michael Rutherford) also has the softer sounds of Progressive Rock.
Drumming stands out on "Wot Gorilla," (written by Phil Collins). It's a very energetic instrumental. Tony Banks
wrote the next track, "All In A Mouse's Night," a song that continues the early Genesis Progressive Rock sound.
"Blood On The Rooftops" (co-written by Hackett and Collins) is another soft Progressive Rock track.
"Uniquet Slumber For The Sleepers" is a mystical epic instrumental track; capturing Progressive Rock in it's own
theatrical ways. (Co-written by Hackett and Rutherford.) It then leads into another great Progressive Rock sounding
track, written by the entire band, "In That Quiet Earth'". Another powerful instrumental. "Afterglow"
(written by Tony Banks) could just be the start of a sound that was going to come towards the future. Progressive, yes,
it was the start of something big for Genesis' musical future.
Genesis' Wind And Wuthering is a Progressive Rock album. Equally recorded well, as well as other Progressive
Rock bands of the 1970s: The early Genesis, with Peter Gabriel, Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Maybe even Yes. The
instrumentals easily has Genesis progressing into Progressive Rock anthems Rock. And Phil Collins was now the band's new
singer. Genesis would then become a three-piece band - Phil Collins, Michael Rutherford, and Tony Banks. After their
next album And Then There Were Three, they would launch into their own musical Pop style, becoming more famous than
they were with Peter Gabriel. Exceptional with the Progressive Rock instrumentals, Phil Collins as lead vocalist was
continuing the band into more of their Progressive Rock sound.
But the best years and albums of Genesis (with Phil Collins) was yet to come. Their future albums Duke, Abacab,
Genesis, Invisible Touch, We Can't Dance would define Genesis as a powerful band with Phil Collins' vocals and the
band's most successful output. Although the "last Genesis album" would be with a new lead singer Rav Wilson, the Phil
Collins Genesis era would be the best remembered.
Wind And Wuthering defines powerful Progressive Rock. Genesis had continued with this sound after Peter
Gabriel left, and although this album is great, better years and sounds would later define Genesis' best popularity.
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