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Posts by DecomposingMan
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Besides "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight" and "Blood on the Rooftops," the SO version of IKWIL also quotes "Stagnation" (which is pretty obvious) and "Visions of Angels" (which may be less obvious). It took me many listens to spot all of those. I always wondered if there was something else in there that I was missing, but I never spotted anything else! (And, yes, I know there's a quote of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" in there as well.)
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I also thought PDA and AT should have stayed on PC album.
Except that Mike wrote "Alone Tonight," not Phil.
Songs I liked right away were TIOA, BTL, Duchess, MOOT and even Misunderstanding. I had to warm up to most of the rest over time (especially Tony's songs). Of all Genesis songs, PDA has made one of the longest leaps from my not liking it very much to liking it a lot.
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DUKE was the album that got me into Genesis. I consider it the last great Genesis album and the best album by far from the 3-man lineup. I don't recall what I thought of ABACAB when I first heard it, but in retrospect I consider it and all the albums that follow it (even though I do like them) to be a fairly big step down from DUKE.
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Re the vocal buried in the fade-out of Los Endos, I've just remembered one of them (Banks, I think, in a fan club mag back in about 1980) said they put that in as a jokey reference to the "Paul is dead" Beatles rumour, thinking it might inspire a similar funny rumour of some kind.
I seem to recall hearing something similar about the unintelligible voices near the end of "It's Yourself."
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I have had Y.M.C.A playing in my head.
Hmm, that would be annoying...
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In The Air Tonight
Tomorrow Never Knows
I Missed Again
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No, it doesn't have to be in the title. Note that I included C-O-L-A from "Lola."
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Lola - The Kinks (L-O-L-A and C-O-L-A)
Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
Gloria - Them
Cheese and Onions - The Rutles
Anyone know any others?
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Very easy choices for me:
- We Said Hello Goodbye
- Take Me Home
- Inside Out
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Examples that recently occurred to me of artist's name on cover but not title:
Kansas - Song for America
Kansas - Monolith
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I somehow developed an affection for Anything She Does. Anyone else here who likes this tune?
Not as one of my top three, perhaps, but I've always liked it. It's one of those songs that a lot of fans dislike, isn't it?
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There's some tracks missing. What about Pacidy, Let Us Now Make Love, Shepherd, Sea Bee, Hair On The Arms And Legs,....... there's a lot on Archive I Disc 4... And among the Ray Wilson non-album tracks you missed Nowhere Else To Turn.
I knew there were some things missing!
"Let Us Now Make Love" would be at least a contender for the sixth spot on my list.
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In chronological order:
Twilight Alehouse
Inside & Out
You Might Recall
On The Shoreline
Anything Now
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It would be interesting to hear the songs with a totally different production. Certainly with at least the strings taken away.
To my ears, the strings and horns are not the problem; I'd actually miss them if they weren't there. The problem is that bloody awful mix & stereo separation.
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When The Sour Turns To Sweet, The Serpent, In Limbo -- The Genesis songs that, for me, best represent that indescribable haunting quality that's found in certain '60s music.
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Being in the U.S., I didn't know for a long time that "Inside & Out" was from an EP. I originally knew of it -- and sought it out -- only as a non-LP B-side by Genesis (and the first such Genesis B-side that I'd heard of). In the U.S. it was the B-side of "Follow You Follow Me". To this day I&O is one of my favorite Genesis songs.
I like "Match" and "Pigeons," but I agree that they wouldn't fit the mood of WIND & WUTHERING at all.
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Eurgh! That must vie with Script For A Jester's Tear and Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors for most pretentious album title of all time.
What stands out for me about the title "Beyond the Shrouded Horizon" is that, like many of Steve's titles, it has no recognizable connection to anything on the actual album. (Other examples are Cured, Highly Strung, Till We Have Faces, Feedback, Guitar Noir, Wild Orchids, Out of the Tunnel's Mouth, The Night Siren, At the Edge of Light. Even VOTA probably qualifies.)
Someone in another thread said they knew what the vocoder voice says halfway through this. I've often wondered, and was about to ask what it was, when I decided that having gone several decades not knowing I could carry on that way. So I still don't know, and don't want to.
That was me who said that. And, just to warn you, it's mentioned in the review linked to in the first post!
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I didn't buy the CD but just bought the Hackett & Phillips tracks. BTW it turns out that "A Perfect World" is officially credited to Steve Hackett, Anthony Phillips & Roger King.
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Stagnation, Dusk. Don't have a definite 3rd.