Vocal track with the shortest vocal?

  • OK, here's kind of an odd question: Which Genesis song that's not an instrumental has the least amount of actual vocals?


    I thought of this while listening to TLLDOB, and noting that the entire lead vocal of "The Supernatural Anaesthetist" (which has Pete & Phil vocalizing together) lasts only 18 seconds.


    Surely there's no Genesis song that beats that record?

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  • Riding The Scree might come close. It depends if you include the pseudo-instrumental tracks, then Los Endos is surely the one you're looking for. "Frustration" (the 'Anyway' of the Jackson Tapes) has a very short vocal line as well.

  • I thought that but I think it’s about 30 seconds from the start of the first “There’s an angel...” to the end of “get back home”

    It depends on how you define 'vocal track' . You could define it as number of lines of lyric or number of words or as a time proportion of the whole song.

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