I bought pretty much all the early Genesis LPs when they first came out (my girlfriend at the time turned me on to the band), but as much as I loved the records they didn't really sound very good until Trick of the Tail. I still remember the first time I put Trick of the Tail on. No Peter Gabriel but wow! A Genesis record that didn't sound utterly compressed and bandwidth limited! It didn't hurt that even without Peter Gabriel they still made a case for out-and-out classically influenced rock. And oh yeah, just to show you dudes how cool I am I saw ELP at the Santa Monica Civic...
