A Genesis "summer" song?

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    Don't the lyrics for Driving The Last Spike matter (I'm not going to quote that reply too)?

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    "Hence the connection". HENCE! :D Oh man that is hilarious.

    I did not say that Driving The Last Spike was a summer song. In fact, if you are able to read above it is not among my list of summery songs. I simply gave an argument for why some would associate 'Driving The Last Spike' with summer. And Backdrifter, I think what is hilarious is your lack of taking 'hence' as a standard word and your mistaking it as something incorrect or abnormal.

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    Leaving aside how daft that suggestion of a suggestion is, on a tangent I wish they actually had called it Land Of Confussion.

    Last Friday it was so hot that my finger slipped and I typed S in 'Confusion' twice and then I made a copy-paste of the same text to refer to 'Land of Confusion' instead of typing the same title again.


    But, it's quite surprising you're the one quibbling about it, being you, Backdrifter, the one who referred to an actor called Denis Waterman.

    :D:D:D:D


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    it was the actor Denis Waterman who gave PC the book about the building of the railways in Britain.

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    Do the lyrics matter or not? Make up your mind!

    For me what what matters is the tune.

    Sigh.... the point here is, I guess, that in these particular songs, there is no mention of summer at all, whereas in (e.g.) Home By The Sea, summer is at least mentioned.


    If you are going to claim that the 'tune' defines what type of song it is, then you can put your own interpretation of absolutely everything at all. You are free to do that, but people will disagree.


    As for me acknowledging that JHKM has a 'reggae' feel in the middle eight section, that does not mean that it is a 'summer' song any more than the swimming pool sequence in the video does.

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    I could see why some associate 'Driving the Last Spike' with summer. It sounds like a piece for a number of an opening ceremony of the Olympics. As the Games usually take place in the Northern Hemisphere summer, hence the connection.

    This seems like a real stretch. I'm not sure how it sounds like a piece for an opening Olympic ceremony. And if it does, maybe it sounds like a piece for the Winter Olympics :)

    Far be it from me to put words in folk’s mouths but I took the original question from Ashley to be along the lines of -‘We’ve got plenty of autumnal and wintery songs from Genesis, as it’s summer are there any ones that we feel are summery?’

    I tried to think of some and the only ones I could come up with were more to do with the accompanying videos. To me, most Genesis music, because of the lyrics and the chords, have more of a melancholy or wistful feel than a bright summer one, maybe that’s why I like them.

    But good fun to see what other people think.

    Trying to pick over the methods people use to establish what they ‘feel’ about music seems pretty pointless to me, but each to their own.

    I thought it was quite a nice idea, although there were never likely to be many songs in the ‘summer’ category- which I suspect was part of the point of the question.

    I made a "vacation" playlist this past summer. Just trying to have songs that had a summer feel. Feelings like carefree, easy going, free, warm, etc. 275 songs. Precious few by Genesis. The ones I can remember: Wot Gorilla, Turn It On Again (live and studio), Paperlate, Domino, Abacab (live). Maybe they're just not a very summery band?

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    carefree, easy going, free, warm


    ...Domino

    Those are words I'd never have applied to that one

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    Turn It On Again (live and studio)

    Not just multiple tracks by the same band but putting two versions of the same song on a playlist is making the Compilation Guy in my head shake his own head. I can't have the same artist more than once on any length of playlist, even one with 275 tracks! Unless it's a compilation of just one artist of course.

    Abandon all reason

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    Those are words I'd never have applied to that one

    Not just multiple tracks by the same band but putting two versions of the same song on a playlist is making the Compilation Guy in my head shake his own head. I can't have the same artist more than once on any length of playlist, even one with 275 tracks! Unless it's a compilation of just one artist of course.

    Ya. Domino is a bit of a head-scratcher...but while the 2nd half is pretty intense, I also find it upbeat.


    On repeated songs...you would have really hated that I added the exact same song twice in a couple cases. Not on purpose. 275 songs is a bit to manage. Regarding TIOA, I find both the studio and live versions to be worthy.

    I went thru my iTunes and meticulously created a multiple days long playlist (if played for 8 hours) for the office overhead speakers where I work...just for some background music-yet office appropriate.


    I went by amount of time passed in between songs by the same artists. I set this 400 + song playlist to never allow more than one song by the same artist in less than a 2 hour span.