This might be "insensitive" of me, but I usually am more concerned about the music than the lyrics of a song. If it's got great lyrics, that's a bonus! How else could one put up with the inane lyrics of ZZ Top's "Sleeping Bag"? Musically, there's not a darned thing wrong with Illegal Alien, except maybe (for…

That sounds right. Phil was also working with the fusion group Brand X at the time, and probably wanted to bring some of their style to Genesis.

Abacab was my first Genesis album, although I eventually ended up getting all of them, so it's hard for me to be unbiased about it. It's a great album with a surprising amount of variety on it. But how can you talk about it being "art rock for pop people" without mentioning the truly bizarre Whodunnit? I always…