Genesis in the media

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    https://ultimateclassicrock.com/genesis-solo-songs/


    Top 20 solo hits...in someone's opinion..no real surprises other than Funny Feeling not featuring 😄

    Indeed, drearily predictable. I like how they lamely try to pre-empt that with their "no surprise which two members dominate this list (that I hurriedly cobbled together when the features editor told me to come up with something by this afternoon to plug a gap, meaning I had to quickly think of Collins & Gabriel hits and duets and a couple by that other one, and anyway hardly anyone knows anything by those other two)".


    Better to pin it to the 5-man group, 4 each, including 2 predictable big hits each where applicable, the rest being interesting album tracks that'd potentially give the more casual reader a flavour of lesser-known stuff. That wouldn't have taken much extra effort but obviously still too much for a mag hack.

    Four of my LEAST favourite songs by Phil, You Can't Hurry Love, Sussudio, Easy Lover & Against All Odds always fill up lists like this. I don't get it. And I am very fond of Big Time but before Here Comes The Flood?

    For those who can access the BBC iplayer, tonight's show 40 Hidden Music Treasures is a compilation of various performances and includes John Martyn performing Sweet Little Mystery on Whistle Test in 1981, with Phil Collins on drums and backing vocals. Really nice. Plus it was a blessed relief coming immediately after a glitzy clattering Pointer Sisters song. I've nothing against them but it did my head in. The JM track was a cool and refreshing contrast.


    EDIT: PC also on drums for an all-star lineup doing Get Back at a Princes Trust gig in 1986. (It's not very good).

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    Just enjoying a Rebus book (written by Ian Rankin). For those who are not familiar he is a fictional Edinburgh detective. He’s just put his headphones on to listen to ‘Genesis: For Absent Friends.’ Wasn’t expecting that!

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    Just enjoying a Rebus book (written by Ian Rankin). For those who are not familiar he is a fictional Edinburgh detective. He’s just put his headphones on to listen to ‘Genesis: For Absent Friends.’ Wasn’t expecting that!

    I remember the FAF reference, I think he's remembering the pal who recently died, the one who helped him redecorate?


    I love the Rebus novels. I need to catch up with the last 2 or 3. Ian Rankin is a keen music fan and it manifests via Rebus and other of the characters (I like Clarke's attempts to update his tastes) and of course some of the book titles. A while ago I had a twitter exchange with Rankin about King Crimson.

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    I remember the FAF reference, I think he's remembering the pal who recently died, the one who helped him redecorate?


    I love the Rebus novels. I need to catch up with the last 2 or 3. Ian Rankin is a keen music fan and it manifests via Rebus and other of the characters (I like Clarke's attempts to update his tastes) and of course some of the book titles. A while ago I had a twitter exchange with Rankin about King Crimson.

    He is excellent. I started reading him after staying in Cromarty where, as you’ll know, Rankin does his writing. I’m now collecting his first editions, although I recently had to pass on a signed first of the first Rebus novel at £1200!

    You’ve remembered the detail exactly and Rebus’ tastes are varied. He went from Genesis straight onto Family. I can imagine Rankin being a King Crimson buff.

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    He is excellent. I started reading him after staying in Cromarty where, as you’ll know, Rankin does his writing. I’m now collecting his first editions, although I recently had to pass on a signed first of the first Rebus novel at £1200!

    You’ve remembered the detail exactly and Rebus’ tastes are varied. He went from Genesis straight onto Family. I can imagine Rankin being a King Crimson buff.

    I've just started reading the new Rebus, Midnight & Blue. I always admired Rankin for when he said he played a lot of Mogwai while writing. He also ran a competition years ago with the question of where the name for the Exit Music novel originated. I must have been the only person to know it was the title of an album by one of my favourite artists, Steven Lindsay. Sadly, I only found out about the competition after it had closed.

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    watching Silo series 2 on Apple...episode 3. Set in the future around 100 years ahead...guy starts playing Red Rain in order to get the main characters attention....didn't expect that, but good to see has lasted the test of time!

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    watching Silo series 2 on Apple...episode 3. Set in the future around 100 years ahead...guy starts playing Red Rain in order to get the main characters attention....didn't expect that, but good to see has lasted the test of time!

    Yes good to hear and to entertain the notion of PG still being appreciated a century from now - was the character playing it to get in the mood for the follow-up album to i/o?


    But it reminds me of a mildly irritating music-on-TV thing specifically from various Star Trek series, where characters listening to music usually play 20th century or pre-C20th classical. I haven't seen every single episode of the various series so maybe I missed when they played anything from the 21st to the 24th centuries. (Similarly it only ever seems to be classic literature that gets quoted).

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    Yes good to hear and to entertain the notion of PG still being appreciated a century from now - was the character playing it to get in the mood for the follow-up album to i/o?


    But it reminds me of a mildly irritating music-on-TV thing specifically from various Star Trek series, where characters listening to music usually play 20th century or pre-C20th classical. I haven't seen every single episode of the various series so maybe I missed when they played anything from the 21st to the 24th centuries. (Similarly it only ever seems to be classic literature that gets quoted).

    Yes that's a special thing about the Star Trek franchise. Sometimes you get to hear music from other planets, which is quite interesting. Humans, however, are supposed to stick to 20th century culture forever. Music, literature, sports. And for sports exclusively 20th century US American sports. Also, everybody in the 24th century still speaks 20th century English, even though 20th-century people rarely speak 16th century English...