Abacab is the eleventh studio album of the British prog band Genesis , released September 14, 1981 . The album stayed in the British charts for 27 weeks, for some time taking first place in it [5] . In addition, he became twice platinum in the United States .
| Abacab | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Genesis Studio Album | ||||
| Date of issue | September 14, 1981 | |||
| Recorded by | May - June 1981 | |||
| Genres | progressive rock pop rock [1] | |||
| Duration | 47:04 | |||
| Producers | Genesis | |||
| A country |  Great Britain | |||
| Labels | Charisma Virgin Atlantic Vertigo | |||
| Professional reviews | ||||
| ||||
| Genesis Timeline | ||||
| ||||
Selecting material for the album, Genesis, focused on radio rotation, deliberately tried to weed out material reminiscent of anything they had done before [6] .
The album uses a powerful drum sound based on an effect called a gated reverb. The principle of its operation is to use a drum kit artificially amplified through a noise gate, which is cut off sharply when the sound reaches a certain threshold. The result is a powerful βlivelyβ sounding, albeit controlled, blurring sound of drums. This distinctive sound was coined by Gabriel, Collins and their co-producer and engineer Hugh Padham when Collins co-recorded the background track for Intruder, the first track on Gabriel's 1980 solo album. This technique, combined with Padham's production, also appears on Collins' Face Value debut solo album. The gated sound of the drums became the hallmark of subsequent Genesis and Collins albums.
Album Title
In an interview with American radio, Mike Rutherford said that the musical components of the album were conditionally divided into sections "A", "B" and "C"; at different times, they were in a different order, and at some point the sequence βABACABβ turned out (it did not become final, but the name was adopted) [6] .
Criticism Reviews
Rolling Stone magazine praised Genesis for descending from its βivory towerβ and embracing modern musical techniques, comparing them to The Police and XTC [6] .
List of Songs
| First side | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Author | Duration | ||||||
| one. | "Abacab" | Banks , Collins , Rutherford | 7:02 | ||||||
| 2. | "No Reply at All" | Banks , Collins , Rutherford | 4:41 | ||||||
| 3. | "Me and Sarah Jane" | Banks | 6 a.m. | ||||||
| four. | "Keep It Dark" | Banks , Collins , Rutherford | 4:34 | ||||||
| Second side | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Author | Duration | ||||||
| one. | Dodo / Lurker | Banks , Collins , Rutherford | 7:30 a.m. | ||||||
| 2. | "Who Dunnit?" | Banks , Collins , Rutherford | 3:22 | ||||||
| 3. | "Man on the Corner" | Collins | 4:27 | ||||||
| four. | "Like It or Not" | Rutherford | 4:58 | ||||||
| five. | "Another Record" | Banks , Collins , Rutherford | 4:30 | ||||||
| 47:04 | |||||||||
Charts
| Hit parade | Highest position |
|---|---|
| Great Britain [5] | one |
| USA | 7 |
| Germany | 6 |
| Norway | four |
| Sweden | eleven |
The album went double platinum in the USA .
Record Members
- Phil Collins - vocals , drums , drums
- Mike Rutherford - bass , guitar , backing vocals
- Tony Banks - keyboards , mellotron , backing vocals
- Johnny Graham - Trumpet
- Andrew Woolfock - saxophone
- Stayton Hayward - Bass Guitar in No Reply At All
Notes
- β Abacab: Allmusic review
- β Abacab. Review AllMusic . Date of treatment August 14, 2010. Archived on April 20, 2012.
- β Rolling Stone review
- β Sputnikmusic review
- β 1 2 Chart Stats - Genesis . Charts Stats. - History of Genesis albums on the UK Albums Charts. Date of treatment July 26, 2007. Archived on April 18, 2012.
- β 1 2 3 classic2, 2012 .
Literature
- The aftertaste. The Legend of Genesis, Part 2 (Russian) // Classic Rock. - Ars Longa, 2012. - Vol. 105 . - No. 05 . - S. 47-51, 72-73 . - ISSN 1997-7646 .