This would have fit right into the SOIREE album.
Posts by DecomposingMan
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1. The Golden Age of Steam -- Some people may not like this (I've even heard someone say it "should have been left on the cutting room floor"), but it's my clear favorite on the album. An unexpected style with a wonderful sense of suspense throughout.
2. Twice Around the Sun
3. Dreaming with Open Eyes
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no-one has mentioned the repeat of the "can you hear me?" section of Driving the Last Spike?
Maybe because no-one else hears it? I definitely don't. Where is it in the song?
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Mike Pinder, keyboard player, songwriter and singer with the Moody Blues, 1964-1978.
Oh no -- that's 3 of the classic 5 Moodies gone now, and all 5 of the original ones.
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I heard that since WCD was the first album completely aligned with the rise of the compact disc, the band went a little overboard with jamming a lot of songs on the cd. Since it was a new medium, they went a little crazy and some tracks that should have been B sides ended up on the album. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, I am not sure where exactly I heard this. Seems to make sense.
WCD is definitely the first Genesis album to be sequenced for CD rather than LP. It was available in double LP format but was not "designed" for that, like LAMB, SECONDS or THREE SIDES were.
You could say it marks the first time Genesis was affected by what's called "CD bloat" -- i.e., the tendency of artists to make (often pointlessly) longer albums once the CD format took prominence.
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Incredibly enough, as of 2011, there were still reissues misprinting the second half of One for the Vine as Salmacis.
That's how the track divisions are on my DER copy of 3SL: "One for the Vine" is divided into two tracks while "Fountain" and "It/Watcher" are lumped together in one track.
I think the DER Lamb had Broadway Melody coded as being just the tranquil bridge section before Cuckoo didn't it? Making it about 40 seconds long, with all BMO74's words attributed to Fly.
My copy of the DER LAMB has the wrong track division, leaving "Broadway" at a mere 0:33 (and listed with that time on the back). However, the booklet has the lyrics to "Broadway" in the right place.
The same wrong track division also shows up in the live versions of "Fly" and "Broadway" on my copy of ARCHIVE 1.
(BTW, not an error but something I find interesting: My old LP copy of LAMB had Peter's story printed inside the gatefold, and at the end -- as if to fill some space that was left -- the story was started over again for a few paragraphs, stopping abruptly when the space ran out. Well, I just noticed that it's the same way in my DER CD copy!)
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Speaking of Definitive Editions and SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND: My copy of the Definitive Edition of SELLING has the second part of the lyrics to "The Battle of Epping Forest" -- i.e., starting with "They called me the Reverend" -- under the title "After the Ordeal."
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On my copy of the Definitive Edition remaster of THREE SIDES LIVE, the live tracks from the original UK side 4 have footnotes that were incorrectly carried over from the original US version with 5 studio tracks:
Recorded at... * The Farm Surrey '81 and + Polar Studios Stockholm 1979
"One for the Vine" and "Fountain of Salmacis" are marked with "*" and "It/Watcher of the Skies" is marked with both "*" and "+". (Of course, the "*" tracks were actually "Paperlate," "You Might Recall" & "Me & Virgil," while the "+" tracks were "Evidence of Autumn" & "Open Door.")
Also, my copy of the Definitive Edition of A TRICK OF THE TAIL has some incorrect writing credits:
"Robbery, Assault and Battery" - Banks (should be Banks/Collins)
"Ripples" - Banks/Collins (should be Banks/Rutherford)
"A Trick of the Tail" - Banks/Rutherford (should be Banks)
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In my opinion, NO JACKET REQUIRED is basically an OK album for the most part, and "Inside Out" is where the song quality takes a step up. "Take Me Home" is another step up, and "We Said Hello Goodbye" (on the CD version) is a step up from that.
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I know. To be fair, I did mention that in an earlier post in this thread.
Yes, sorry, I just noticed that. Anyway, I just meant that I was surprised not to see it mentioned in the Ultimate Classic Rock article.
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Hmm... No mention of Beatles / SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND vs. Mothers of Invention / WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY?
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I can't help with your question, but did you ever try to find out what the "strange folk music" actually was?
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One thing about Tony, as opposed to keyboard players in other bands that I listen to -- and it's not a criticism, just an observation: His major solos, such as in "Cinema Show," are predetermined rather than improvised. I can't think of any other keyboard player represented in my music collection who works that way.
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I always wonderer what became of Mick Barnard after Genesis, are there any information?
Per his Wikipedia page (yes, he has one): "After leaving Genesis, Barnard embarked on a successful career in audio engineering, founding the Bel Digital Audio company in 1975." There's even a link to a brochure from the company, complete with a fairly recent photo of Mick.
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Made the purchase. Best price I found (for U.S.) was here:
The Circus And The Nightwhale (CD) by Hackett, Steve (lasercd.com)
CD is again available at the above link.
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we ended up having a couple of pretty weak tracks on there — Way of the World and Since I Lost You could well have not been included. On the Shoreline is a really strong track...
I agree with Tony that "On the Shoreline" is a strong track, and that "Since I Lost You" is weaker. I do have a special fondness for "Way of the World," though, and would not have wanted it omitted from the album.
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Looking forward to it!
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I consider this among the best Genesis non-album tracks, and also find it superior to some of the tracks that appear on WCD.
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Thoughts after giving the album a second listen:
My main impression is that the album seems like a large, varied whole rather than a collection of songs. There really aren't any songs I would pull out and play individually for any reason, and if I listened to the album without knowing where the track breaks were I'd probably guess most of them incorrectly. There also really aren't any parts that stick in my head after hearing the album, except the chorus of "Taking You Down." At the same time, I get little if any sense from the album that there's a story being told.
My favorite moment is probably still the vocal part of "Enter the Ring." I also get a bit of a laugh from the "baby's cry" effect at the beginning and the weird little voice effect in the middle of "Circo Inferno."
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Made the purchase. Best price I found (for U.S.) was here:
Alas, the regular CD is currently no longer available from the seller I linked to. I'm glad I got it while I could. Hopefully they'll have it again; it was a good price and the shipping was really quick.