The only Genesis album -- and one of probably only a few non-compilation albums in history -- where a whole side (1) consists entirely of songs that were released as singles. And there's also a single from side 2 on top of that!
Posts by DecomposingMan
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I came to know SMALLCREEP'S DAY through the U.S. vinyl version, which has the suite on side 2 and the other 5 songs on side 1. To me, the album wouldn't work nearly as well with the suite on side 1.
I'm also highly fond of "Overnight Job." Another case of different people hearing the same song differently. I guess it makes a better side 1 closer than album closer.
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My top 3:
Steve - One of the best-represented artists in my whole collection. There's not much solo material by him (other than live albums) that I don't have.
Ant - I have the majority of his output, but there are also several of his albums that I either passed on after one listen or never bought to begin with.
Tony - I have all of his rock material, but never got into his classical stuff.
The rest are a little harder to rank.
Of these, I have the most material by Phil, but overall I'm not a huge fan of his solo stuff.
I have all of Mike's proper solo stuff (what little there is), and am a big fan of SMALLCREEP'S DAY. But the Mechanics stuff, past the 1st album, has never caught my interest.
I've never been a fan of solo stuff by either Peter or Ray, although I have one album by each, plus a handful of individual tracks (1 by Ray, the rest by Peter).
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According to liner notes the only post-Peter albums with vocal credits to anyone but Phil were Trick of the Tail, Duke, and Genesis.
On Trick I think I hear Tony on "Mad Man Moon," going "aaaah" behind the "hey man, I'm the sand man" part.
On Duke I'm guessing that Tony and Mike sing along with Phil on the chorus sections of "Duchess."
On Genesis there's Tony on "Silver Rainbow," and I'm guessing that Tony and Mike sing along with Phil at the end of "Illegal Alien."
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And of course there's Tony's co-lead vocals in Shepherd and The Magic of Time.
Oh, so Tony's singing the harmony with Pete on TMOT? Hmm, I wouldn't have thought of that as being a co-lead. (I think there can be a fine line between "backing vocal" and "co-lead vocal"; think of "Am I Very Wrong?", "Dusk" or "Supernatural Anaesthetist", for example.)
No, it's true. They bounced around the idea of Tony singing silver rainbow and Mike singing just a job to do.
Hmm, I could almost imagine Tony pulling off "Silver Rainbow." Mike and "Just A Job To Do," on the other hand...
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I love the two strange songs that they toyed with the idea of Tony and Mike singing.
Is that really true? It always sounded like fan legend/speculation to me.
Display MoreThat would be my guess too - "A Call To Arms" - songwriting credits to Banks, Collins, Rutherford, Christopher Neil, and B.A. Robertson.
Wikipedia seems to agree:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…he_Mechanics_(1985_album)
(Check out the paragraph just above "Reception".)
Based on that article, it sounds like only a small part of the final song actually reflects Tony & Phil's contributions. So it's not like anything close to the full "A Call To Arms" would have been a potential 10th track on GENESIS.
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Good to be normal, if Genesis fanatics count as normal.
Well, I'm definitely not normal... but I think my being a Genesis fan is only a minor symptom of that.
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Banjo Man - Genesis
A Bed, A Chair And A Guitar - Steve Hackett
Green Tambourine - Lemon Pipers
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While there's nothing on the 2nd CD that's likely to end up on anyone's "best of Anthony Phillips..."
After a couple more listens, I have to say that "Something Blue" may be the best track on the 2nd CD. If I absolutely had to pick one track from the disc for an AP compilation, it would be that one.
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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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Regarding Lamb you can choose six tracks because it's a double album.
My point is that the poll at the top of this page says "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" when it should say "Selling England By The Pound."
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Interesting to see what no one has picked yet: Aisle of Plenty, and (very strangely) I Know What I Like!
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The best PG-era album.
My favorite is "Cinema Show." "Dancing" and "Firth" are the (obvious) other choices.
BTW, you may want to correct the heading:
"Your favorite tracks on "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" - pick up to THREE tracks"
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It's worth mentioning the three tracks that didn't make the album
I've long thought that "Feeding the Fire," "I'd Rather Be You" and "Do The Neurotic" would have made a great EP.
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Read this again recently and noted an interesting bit of trivia that I must have missed the first time. Apparently "In The Beginning" was, at some point, the last remaining FGTR song in the band's live set.
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An incidental observation about W&W: A full third of the tracks are instrumental. No other Genesis album comes close to this proportion. (Even if you count "Unquiet" and "In That" as one track, W&W's proportion of instrumental tracks is still the highest.)
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his "Daaah!" at the start of Maxine
I know the song well but I don't know what you mean. What I hear at the very beginning is one of the backing singers going "Yeah!"
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My first two choices are Entangled & Mad Man Moon, two pieces that sound downright magical to me. For third choice I could have gone a few different ways but went with Los Endos.
Side note: What I find interesting about Los Endos is that it's almost entirely made up of pieces of other songs. Besides the obvious reprises of Dance & Squonk (and the little Supper's Ready quote at the end), most of its melody is merely a fast arrangement of the opening theme taken from It's Yourself. If I recall correctly there's just one little theme in there that doesn't reference anything else.
In spite of all that, it's really a great tune, isn't it?
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In the end I ended up with just In That Quiet Earth, with Blood on the Rooftops and Eleventh Earl of Mar keeping it company.
Same as my top 3. Blood on the Rooftops is my favorite Genesis song overall, and Eleventh is definitely in the top 10 (or fewer).
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A nicely oddball track that has really grown on me (no pun intended). The amusing wordiness of the verses is a plus to me, especially given how Pete manages to put two whole verses' worth of smoothly-sung lyrics to that downright insane melody. The instrumental mid-section is amazing as well... it truly evokes a sense of some toxic, noxious weed.
The live version is actually even better in some ways, particularly with Pete's yell at the end -- GIANT HOGWEED LIIIIIIIIIIIVES!!
