Flashbacks To The Past: Genesis – “Invisible Touch”

Today’s “Flashbacks” segment highlights Genesis and their 1986 album Invisible Touch. Check out our thoughts on the album after the jump.

Forget what you know about Genesis and their highly influential concept albums like The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. After Peter Gabriel left the band, Phil Collins took the reigns, and they slowly abandoned their progressive rock epics for a more accessible mainstream pop-rock sound. Invisible Touch is seen quite often as a Phil Collins solo album, and is by far the highest selling album of their career. That’s mainly on the strength of iconic singles like the protest song “Land Of Confusion”, the high charting title track, and “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”. Even if you were born after the album was even released (I know I was) it’s still worth listening to today – you’ve likely heard half the album on AOR radio growing up. I know I have – I can thank my dad for that one. Even Patrick Bateman loves it.