Despite the conflicting agendas and lineup shuffling, the three albums covered here are impressively consistent and artful, showing that the pressure of artistic conflict often produced diamonds in the world of prog rock.

You could argue that the trio of albums presented in this Catalog Crawl represent the classic lineup of Genesis at its most unified and groundbreaking, delivering material that had complexity without sacrificing melody.

This installment of Catalog Crawl looks at their first three albums, which cover a rapid pattern of growth and development… By the final album covered here, they completed their lineup and their development into a style of progressive rock that would sustain them well into the '70s.