More Genesis trivia questions

DecomposingMan · Nov 20th 2020

I'd been saving these questions for the Genesis Trivia Quiz thread, but that seems to have stopped getting posted to, and I wasn't likely to get a turn anytime soon anyway. So here they are. These don't call for any inside knowledge or anything; the answers are just mundane things that I've observed.

(1) Among Genesis studio albums, what is only true of their first 3 (FGTR / Trespass / Nursery) and their last (CAS)?

(Hint: This is technically true of every band's first album, but Genesis's has a better claim to this than most.)

(2) Among Genesis studio album tracks, what is uniquely true about "Los Endos" and "No Son of Mine"?

(3) Among Genesis studio album tracks, "The Serpent" represents one extreme and "A Trick Of The Tail" represents the other. What are the opposite things that are true of these two tracks?

Sredni · Nov 20th 2020

2) They share bits (not just musical quotes) with other songs: It's Yourself and On the Shoreline.

DecomposingMan · Nov 20th 2020

Very good. More specifically, it's that they share bits with non-album tracks.

2 questions to go.

Henry Hamilton-Smythe · Nov 20th 2020

I'll take a stab at #3.....fastest and slowest tempo?

Henry Hamilton-Smythe · Nov 20th 2020

I think I just got #1......each album presented at least one new member.

Sredni · Nov 20th 2020

Sounds about right. And as for the hint: The first album has a different drummer than the singles preceding it.

DecomposingMan · Nov 21st 2020

Henry & Sredni - Correct all around!

As for #3 - This will be a tough question. Hint: It's observable from the track information (as seen in, say, Wikipedia), but I had to know the basic track information from all Genesis studio albums in order to figure it out.

bromleybruce · Nov 21st 2020

Well I am glad the Genesis Trivia quiz is finally back.

I have looked for it every evening.

Please keep it going

Ps I don't have the answer to number 3

raelway siding · Nov 21st 2020

Number 3:

The Serpent is the longest track on FGTR, but it is the shortest longest track on any Genesis album

Shipwrecked is the shortest track on CAS, but it is the longest shortest track on any Genesis album

I haven't actually checked this by the way!

DecomposingMan · Nov 22nd 2020

Raelway Siding -- You got the answer correct, even though I just realized I had the question wrong! Well done!

The actual "longest shortest" track would be "A Trick Of The Tail." I have corrected this above.

DecomposingMan · Feb 20th 2021

OK, here's one that should be easy.

One track from each lead singer: "It," "Throwing It All Away," and "The Dividing Line." What odd thing do they have in common?

Schrottrocker · Feb 21st 2021

The word "it" appears in all three lyrics?

DecomposingMan · Feb 22nd 2021

Um.... no.

bromleybruce · Feb 22nd 2021

Is it because the guitar riff never goes away through the entire track?

Backdrifter · Feb 22nd 2021

Quote from bromleybruce

Is it because the guitar riff never goes away through the entire track?

I haven't got it but it can't be that as that's not the case. I had to quickly run through them in my head though!

Sir Ralph Bernascone · Feb 23rd 2021

Thought it might be that the singer's first name is featured in the song. But that's only clearly true for The Dividing Line ("a little ray of light"). But in It you have "peter" only as an anagram in "pretentious", and in Throwing It All Away you'll just find the odd drum "fill" as in almost any song with drums ...

Another thought was: Maybe the song's title is quoted in another song by Genesis (or related to Genesis). That's certainly true for It, but which songs' lyrics contain "throwing it all away" or "the dividing line" ...?

Simon1967 · Feb 23rd 2021

I think all songs contain the word 'cause in the lyrics

But this may also appear in other songs as well?

DecomposingMan · Feb 23rd 2021

Wow, I thought this would be a lot easier.

Hint: It involves something simple that happened with the songs, rather than anything about the songs themselves.

raelway siding · Feb 23rd 2021

The only thing I can think of is that they were much longer, expanded songs when played live - which is certainly true of TIAA and TDL, but is it true of It?? Maybe not.

Backdrifter · Feb 23rd 2021

My next thought was It was re-recorded for official release, were the others? But no, I don't believe so.

Personally I'm at the "Oh just bloody tell us!" stage now.

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