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The Gods - Genesis (1968)

Track listing:
  1. Towards The Skies 3:25
  2. Candles Getting Shorter 4:28
  3. You´re My Life 3:20
  4. Looking Glass 4:14
  5. Lisleading Colours 3:40
  6. Radio Show 3:11
  7. Plastic Horizon 3:26
  8. Farthing Man 3:30
  9. I Never Know 5:41
  10. Time And Eternity 2:43
  11. Baby´s Rich 2:48
  12. Somewhere In The Street 2:50
  13. Hey Bulldog 3:03
  14. Real Love Guaranteed 2:29

Notes

Later Uriah Heep - 1968

Reissue. 1968 The Gods were the musical launching pad for Uriah Heep members Ken Hensley and Lee Kerslake and 'Genesis' was their first studio LP, originally issued by Columbia Records in 1968. the album's ten tracks have now been joined by four bonus cuts that feature both sides of the bands ultra rare 45's 'Baby's Rich' and 'Hey Bulldog' and come in the original Hipgnosis designed sleeve.

The Gods' debut album was the sound of a band capturing the transition of British psychedelia into more ostentatious progressive hard rock. Ken Hensley's heavy Hammond organ was the center of their sound, and both that and the sometimes overbearing vibrato vocals pointed toward the less psychedelic sounds he and drummer Lee Kerslake would pursue in Uriah Heep. Genesis is undoubtedly lighter than Uriah Heep, though, often employing characteristically late-'60s British vocal harmonies. Some tunes, like "Candles Getting Shorter" and "Radio Show," even skirt a pop-soul sensibility. But the songs weren't terribly memorable, though they were segued together by brief odd'n'goofy instrumental bits at the end of tracks in keeping with the modus operandi of the psychedelic era. The Mellotron in "I Never Know" does rather remind one of the way the instrument was used on King Crimson's first album, though King Crimson inserted it into much better material. The CD reissue on Repertoire adds both sides of their first two singles (from 1968 and 1969) as bonus tracks; these are slightly more pop in feel than their album, including one of the most obscure '60s covers of an obscure Beatles song, "Hey Bulldog."