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Nick Reed returns to Genesis' hefty 1974 double album opus, and finds, in-between the near-incomprehensible narrative and patchy second disc, a record that offers many fine moments and stakes a good claim to being the pinnacle of prog excess
Why exactly should the enjoyment of a great piece of music be marred by guilt? Following last week's Black Sky Thinking about the problems (and positives) of the concept of the 'guilty pleasure', the Quietus writers declare their undying, entirely non-ironic love for their favourite uncool songs. Introduction by Jimmy Martin