Nope. It's more unusual than that, and also more superficial (for lack of a better description).
Posts by DecomposingMan
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OK, I have another one:
What oddly specific thing does Mike's ACTING VERY STRANGE have in common with the album PROLOGUE by Renaissance?
Hint: This can be observed just by looking at the respective album info in, say, Wikipedia. It's just a matter of whether anyone will observe it!
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Tony has definitely claimed the lyrics on RA&B. My guess (based on other Tony compositions) would be that the "tricky rhythmic bits", etc., are his as well. I would bet that Phil's credit was due to his contributing to the vocal melody.
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Say, I wonder who wrote the lyrics to the compositions after Gabriel left...
Starting with A Trick Of The Tail, based on what I've seen...
Dance On A Volcano - lyrics Mike
Entangled - lyrics Steve
Squonk - lyrics Mike
Mad Man Moon - Banks
Robbery Assault & Battery - lyrics Banks (Collins hasn't contributed lyrically at this point, exceptions aside)
Ripples - lyrics Mike
A Trick Of The Tail - Banks
Los Endos - instrumental
I believe you're mostly right, although Tony has claimed the choruses of "Entangled," which may mean he wrote the lyrics as well as the music to those.
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Are we sure this album isn't actually called Surrender to Hyperbole? What a load of overheated verbiage.
Well, anyone who's followed Steve for any length of time should be aware of his unfortunate tendency to verbally over-glorify his own work.
BTW, if I'm not mistaken, the new title "Scorched Earth" is a translation of the earlier Steve title "Sierra Quemada".
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or one of the 48 different colored vinyl editions?
I don't have to wonder whether or not any of those are worth getting...
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there's also a track with Nad doing lead vocals (that hasn't happened since GR2, I think).
Actually, Nad sings on "Inca Terra" from THE NIGHT SIREN.
My expectations? Pretty much the same as Nanumani's. Based on other recent albums I also expect that the album will (1) have a title that has no obvious connection to any of the material on it; and (2) leave me wondering whether it will be worth it for me to get the Japanese edition with the exclusive bonus tracks!
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Thanks for the info. Seems odd to me. Maybe they offered and he declined? It seems like the basis for at least the start of the song.
Well, remember that at the time the band's records credited everything to simply "Genesis." And there seems to have been a certain unconcern as to how accurate that really was. Consider, for example, that "Twilight Alehouse" was originally credited to "Genesis" (when the band included Phil & Steve) on the original single, and only received its correct credit (Peter, Tony, Ant & Mike) on ARCHIVE 1967-75 many years later. Also consider that the same recording of "Silent Sun" was technically credited to a slightly different Genesis when it was released as a single (when Genesis included Chris Stewart) than it was when released on FGTR (when Genesis included John Silver). And so on.
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I realize I'm very late to the party here, but did Philips write that F sharp bit? Why wasn't he credited for TMB if so? Or was he, and I just missed that completely?
On Ant's compilation (ARCHIVE COLLECTION), F Sharp is credited to him and Mike. Ant has never been officially credited on TMB itself.
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Angel Face & Red Day are my favorite Tony songs, and are among my favorite songs by anyone.
Still It Takes Me By Surprise is a well-written song, but Andy Taylor's vocal is really strained and sounds wrong for it. I actually like Tony's vocal on Hero better.
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Wow, I can understand some words from this that I never could before!
This shows how much better the songs on ACTING VERY STRANGE could have been. Based on the track "Making a Big Mistake" I still think Mike could have managed to sing lead on a solo album; he just wasn't anywhere near ready at the time he actually tried it.
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One of Steve's better albums IMO. As is common with Steve's albums, the variety of moods and styles makes things interesting, if sometimes a bit uneven.
Thoughts on individual songs:
The Devil Is An Englishman - I'm not a fan of this, but I heard part of Thomas Dolby's original and it sounded worse!
Frozen Statues - A particularly good showcase for Steve's voice.
Brand New - A promising song idea, but it loses its way and gets ruined in the process. This would have been served well by a more conventional song structure. The single edit is better.
Rebecca - Maybe it helps that I actually read the book, but this is one of my very favorite Steve songs. To my ears, the upbeat middle section is actually the saddest and most beautiful part of the song.
The Silk Road - Weird, almost scary.
Come Away - Stylistically odd but irresistibly catchy nonetheless. Another favorite.
Serpentine Song - Just wonderful, especially the flute work at the end. (BTW, I'm pretty sure the most prominent voice here is not Steve but rather Gary Toole.)
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II was never a real fan of Genesis art work/covers
I'd be afraid to ask what you think of some Steve Hackett album covers then...
Anthony Phillips has had some pretty good ones though.
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What do your think about the slow version of Doesn’t Anybody Stay Together Anymore during the Serious tour?
I saw Phil playing the song live on TV, in a slow piano-based version, and that was the first time I heard the song. When I finally heard the album version I didn't like it nearly as much.
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Interesting!
Mike looks a little uncomfortable playing the "front man," but that's to be expected.
Note how far off the mark the "backing singers" are at around 1:50.
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Yes, overwrought is exactly it. I was thinking pretentious...
If you think that it's pretentious, you've been taken for a ride...
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Just curious Decomposing, which three songs did you omit?
(1) Mama. I only listened to it once and didn't like the way it sounded.
(2) Hold On My Heart. This version & the LIVE OVER EUROPE one both have the same overextended ending, and one version like that was enough for me.
(3) Invisible Touch. Another case where one live version was enough for me. (Note: I used some sound editing software to fade this one out at the beginning after TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT. Otherwise I just copied all the CD tracks as they were. There's one place in my arrangement where the applause from a SHORTs track transitions perfectly into the beginning of a LONGs track!)
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I voted for SECONDS OUT & GENESIS LIVE.
I don't have RAINBOW. That one has some of the same performances as disc 3 of ARCHIVE 1967-1975, right?
I arranged SHORTS & LONGS so that they're mixed together into one 2-disc live album, but with 3 SHORTS songs omitted.
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I've always liked Kim as well, though it's not likely he'll be playing that one again!
He should just give it a new name, like he did with Depth Charge/Riding the Colossus, Beja Flor/By Paved Fountain, Bacchus/Puck, End of Day/All is Mended...
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I got the CD just now and haven't had opportunity to do a full listen yet. But I have one observation.
I decided to compare the UNDER version of "Lorato" with the one from HARMONY FOR ELEPHANTS, which I can do both aurally and visually with some sound editing software. It appears that both versions are taken from the same performance, but the HARMONY one is edited in a few places so as to be about 20 seconds shorter. Oddly, though, one little bit about 20 seconds in is slightly longer in the HARMONY version. Go figure.
