History Trivia / GenesisBand

** The vinyl releases of both ''Music/WeCantDance'' and ''Music/CallingAllStations'' were [=double-LPs=] out of necessity, as both of them were recorded with the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format in mind. The latter album only occupies three sides, with the fourth featuring a stylized etching of the band.

** In ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'', Adriana is singing one of the band's songs, and Ilene jokes that they are known as "[[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Mega Drive]]" in the rest of the world.

** The jam band Music/{{Phish}}, who are known for doing "musical costume" complete album performances at their Halloween shows, reached out to Peter Gabriel in 2010 about possibly staging a performance of ''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'' with him. The band's musical style is strongly influenced by prog rock, and their leader Trey Anastasio had inducted Genesis into the UsefulNotes/RockAndRollHallOfFame that same year, so the idea was both more fitting and more likely than would first appear. Gabriel told ''Rolling Stone'' that Phish's proposal was the only time he had ever seriously considered performing ''Lamb'' in its entirety again, but ultimately the idea fell through, and Phish did a cover of Music/LittleFeat's ''Waiting for Columbus'' for their 2010 Halloween show instead.

** "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "The Cinema Show", and "Aisle of Plenty" were originally composed as a single twenty-minute suite, but as with the Saint-Exupéry-inspired ''Duke'' suite above, the band decided they didn't want it compared to "Supper's Ready" (to which they felt it would be too similar) and split it up to bookend the album. This is why the coda to "Dancing" just seems to build up tension without any real release: it's intended to lead into the intro of "The Cinema Show". In any case, if they'd left them together we'd be mentioning them in the same breath as "Supper's Ready" now, so it's a shame they were split up.

** The band as a whole regards their final studio album ''Calling All Stations'' as this, as well as Ray Wilson's time as lead vocalist (whom the album boasted). In both of their one-off reunions, they refused to play anything from the album, and their greatest hits album ''Turn It On Again: The Hits'' only includes the song "Congo," the only UK Top 40 hit from the album. Tellingly, their ''R-Kive'' box set from 2014 doesn't include any song from the album.

** Attempts were made to make a movie out of ''The Lamb'' since the late 1970s, including talks with Creator/WilliamFredkin, but nothing came to fruition.

** An extremely rare early pressing of ''Genesis Live'' was a double album including a version of "Supper's Ready" in addition to the five commonly available tracks. These test pressings are now extremely rare and the recording of "Supper's Ready" included on them has never been reissued.

* NoExportForYou: The Definitive Edition remaster of ''Trespass'' was never released in North America, thanks to the fact that the album was owned by Creator/{{MCA}} (who inherited it from ABC/Impulse) in that region, who operated under a different parent company than Creator/VirginRecords (who owned the international rights to the Genesis catalog post-''From Genesis to Revelation'') and Creator/AtlanticRecords & Creator/AtcoRecords (who owned the North American rights to the Genesis catalog from ''Nursery Cryme'' onwards). Likewise, the 2007 remaster of ''Trespass'' never saw a CD release in North America for the same reason, only a digital and LP release (both of which are now unavailable).

** The liner notes for the Definitive Edition Remaster of ''Nursery Cryme'' list the lyrics for the songs in an alternate order from the album's running order. When listened to in sequence, this provides an interesting alternate running order for the album that some listeners may end up preferring to the official one. For one thing, it ends less abruptly.

** Ray Wilson was originally going to sing the final verse of "The Carpet Crawlers 1999", which would've been the only time in which all three past and present frontmen would work together, but Wilson had left the band by this time, so it ultimately ended up being a Gabriel/Collins duet.