many people (including myself) name 'a trick of the tail' among their favourite genesis albums. however, the singles from this album -the title track and entangled- charted very poorly, if at all. it's a pity, because 'a trick of the tail' includes a few songs that could have worked well as singles, the same way that i know what i like did.
Posts by chema
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I would prefer them to have left The Cinema Show, which they've done countlessly, out and done Apocalypse in 9/8 for the keyboard solo. But one of my favourite aspects of As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs is the vocal melody and I'm not sure how well it works without vocals. I think if they segued Apocalypse into Afterglow that would be the best.
when i saw that "fading lights / cinema show / afterglow" medley in the setlists, i thougt they would start playing the instrumental section of fading lights after the second chorus, and then it would evolve into the cinema show. hearing the cinema show instrumental tune right after phil singing "...the days of our lives... remember..." was odd to me, it even gave me a fright.
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i've been thinking of a certain song lately...
long ago i read somewhere that the lyrics to paperlate were written by phil.
i bet you anything that they were actually written by mike.
"Ooh it's too easy to live in a cold sweat
Just sitting dripping in pools below""Oh it's too easy to compute your future
Taking no risks and playing too safe""Ooh it's too easy to talk about rocking the boat
Making changes and changing track
But you'd better not lock that door
'Cause you'll be coming back"these lyrics sound very mike-ish to me.
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'dancing with a moonlit knight' is a fan favourite, but it had never been included in any genesis official compilation or live album so far.
the other tracks from this compilation are more or less predictable...
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i guess they will play domino, since they have named the tour after that song.
(the second part of it, to be precise).i think this time they will have more freedom to play unexpected songs. 2007's tour was pretty much a greatest hits tour.
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I can't believe Illegal Alien was part of their live classic medley, and they included it on The Longs album. I also dislike Jesus He Knows Me. I believe Phil mentioned in an interview that he can't stand watching some of their live concert footage due to his goofy antics. It certainly turned me off.
on the mama tour shows, at times they looked like a comedy group rather than a rock band.
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since it's a digital album, i hope the mistake will be fixed before the release date. all they have to do is replacing one track with another. it would be different if it were a physical album: they would have to throw all the burned cd copies into the rubbish bin and start again.
i wouldn't care too much if it were some other track, but i love that early version of 'another day in paradise' called 'homeless' in 3/4 time signature.
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choosing only one song from every album, many songs would be missed. but that's inevitable in any possible genesis setlist, due to their vast discography.
i'm going to try...
1. watcher of the skies
2. turn it on again
3. abacab
4. in the cage
5. afterglow
6. follow you, follow me
7. i know what i like
8. home by the sea
9. the musical box
10. i can't dance
11. los endos
12. invisible touch
13. the knife
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this is the track list:
01 In the Air Tonight (Demo)
02 I Missed Again (Demo)
03 If Leaving Me Is Easy (Demo)
04 The Man With the Horn
05 I Like the Way
06 Big Noise (Instrumental)
07 Homeless ("Another Day in Paradise" Demo)
08 Lionel ("Do You Remember" Demo)
09 Broadway Chorus ("Something Happened on the Way To Heaven" Home Demo)
10 Around the World in 80 Presets
11 Rad Dudeski
12 Don't Call Me Ashley
13 Both Sides of the Demo (Early Demo)
14 Everyday (Early Demo)
15 For a Friend
16 Stevie's Blues ("Theres a Place for Us" Instrumental)
17 It's Everywhere
18 Tears of a Clown (Wake Up Call) [2003 Version]
i guess i'll take those tracks and add them to the extra cd's from the 2016 edition. i mean, the demos of in the air tonight, i missed again and if leaving me is easy belong on 'extra values', the man on the horn belong on 'hello! extras' and so on...
i rarely skip songs, but i will feel tempted to do it with i like the way. i listened to it once or twice many years ago, and i recall it was terrible.
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'dance into the light' is a guilty pleasure for me. it has an actual band sound, maybe as a reaction to 'both sides'. unfortunately, phil went back to his old ways on 'testify'.
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lately i'm listening a lot to a dusty springfield compilation that i was given as a christmas gift. it includes the song some of your lovin', which phil covered on the album 'going back'. i guess that song may have had several versions, and i don't know which one phil was thinking of, but his cover sounds pretty much the same as dusty's version.
i used to despise 'going back', but thanks to that album i discovered quite a few good songs. i guess that's what cover albums are good for.
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last night i dreamt that i was watching a live performance of tonight tonight tonight, and mike sang a couple of lines. that would have made more sense in a song where mike wrote the lyrics at least, such as follow you, follow me or throwing it all away. but we all know that dreams have no logic.
have you ever dreamt of genesis?
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i read somewhere that mike and phil didn't like the long intro that tony wrote for undertow. i find hard to believe that tony couldn't do what he wanted, considering that he was a close thing to a genesis leader.
anyway, the result would have been interesting, maybe a bit similar to behind the lines, in the sense that it has quite a long intro compared to the total length of the song. -
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According to who?
i might remember incorrectly, but i own one of the mechanics compilations, and according to the credits, mike played only guitar, while there was another guy who played bass.
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i find odd that mike didn't play bass on mike & the mechanics albums, considering that he was a bassist before he became a guitarist. besides, in my opinion bass is his main strength.
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anniversaries of things that came before i was born don't impress me, because i've always considered them old.
'selling england by the pound' is definitely one of the best genesis albums. firth of fifth is a masterpiece, i know what i like is a great live number, and the cinema show is simply my favourite genesis song. i'm not crazy about the battle of epping forrest, but lately i enjoy it more than i used to. more fool me and after the ordeal aren't exactly masterpieces, but they give the listener a breathe.
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Not sure they ever dissolved officially
i don't think they did, but the wikipedia article for genesis refers to them in past: "genesis were an english band...".
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genesis suffered from steve departure, for sure. i'm tempted to think of 'and then there were three' as a four-member era album with one of the members missing. steve left a hollow that tony, mike and phil weren't prepared to fill yet. it wasn't until 'duke' when they really became a proper three-member band.
it's funny that daryl played guitar live on the pre-1978 songs. in other words, he played steve's guitar lines, as it's been said above. meanwhile, mike played bass, as he used to do when those old songs were written, he went back to his old bassist role. i don't think mike would have played steve's guitar melodies badly at all, but i guess they had their reasons to do it like that...
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Looking for Someone is a good opener (I like stark opening, attention grabbing songs like this and Moonlit Knight),
i had thought about that too. looking for someone and dancing in the moonlit knight have in common being album openers with an a-capella intro.
