Halfway There....
Ah, OK. Actually a pretty good song in itself, but toward the end Mike's singing gets really strained and IMO he ends up hitting his worst point vocally on the album.
Posts by DecomposingMan
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Bought the single..... Loved it.
Which one?
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As I said on another thread: "Not only are the songs mostly nothing special to begin with, but poor Mike doesn't manage even one passable lead vocal here. (I'd say he comes closest on 'A Day To Remember.')"
Additional thoughts:
(1) I think "Who's Fooling Who" is the best song overall. (BTW, the lyrics as published online don't ever seem to be correct. It's "they trot out some pocketbook psychology." It's not "tried out.")
(2) The outtake "Calypso" has an even worse vocal than any of the songs on the album.
(3) "Making a Big Mistake" does not sound like it was recorded during the AVS sessions. Mike's vocal on this track (while still not perfect) is much better than anything he did on AVS.
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The figure on the far left: Harlequin
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OK, but now it says "The Wicked Lady remained unreleased until 2013 (see below)."
It didn't remain unreleased until 2013; it just remained unavailable on CD.
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Looks like one update is still needed. It says: "The Wicked Lady is one of the few albums from the Genesis camp that have not yet been re-released on CD." This, of course, changed several years ago.
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For example "She'll be waiting". Or most of Wise After The Event. I can only speak for myself but those are examples I like his voice a lot better than on the majority of Invisible Men.
Interesting how different people hear things differently. I've always considered WISE to have been seriously brought down by Ant's vocals as they were at the time (particularly his habit of lapsing into a "creaking" sound), and wished the album could have been sung in his INVISIBLE MEN voice! Oh well.
At any rate, I can't argue with the idea that Richard Scott could have sung more on INVISIBLE MEN. As I mentioned, there's no doubt that he was a more conventionally strong singer.
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There's other songs Ant sang at other times when I like his voice a lot better.
Really? Which ones?
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Worst feature of INVISIBLE MEN: The drum machines.
Best feature of INVISIBLE MEN: Ant's best singing ever.
Richard Scott sounds like a more conventionally strong singer, but IMO generally sounds less distinctive and convincing than Ant does here. "Penlee" would be the one exception.
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This song, from the original CD release of INVISIBLE MEN (which is the one I have), definitely stands out to me as being different from the rest of the album. IMO this is by far the best track on that release to be sung by Richard Scott.
Anyway, I finally got around to looking up what the "Tater Dhu" is. At least the lyrics printed in the CD booklet give the correct spelling; it seems that all the lyrics that can be found online spell it "tatterdoo"!
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It is 1951. He confirmed this in our interview with him we did in 2002.
Is that interview online? If so, can you provide a link?
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it's also John Mayhew's birthday
By golly, you're right! I never knew that March 27 was such an important date for Genesis!
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To my ears, YOSW nicely fits the mood of an album that I find quite evocative overall.
Trivia: It's the very last Genesis song alphabetically!
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Hmm, every source I can find online gives Chris' birthdate as either 1950 or 1951, without specifying his birthday. I had no idea he shared a birthday with Tony.
Happy birthday to 2/5 of the original Genesis!
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Didn't he appropriate part of this when he over-dubbed his playing on Fly On A Windshield on the first Archive Box Set?
Yes, I believe that's correct.
The box set's performance of "Slippermen" also has a snippet (in the "Chinese" intro) of what later became "Rebecca."
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<< Album: Defector / Length: 6:47 (Tokyo Tapes) >>
Actually, I believe the length on Defector is 6:06. And of course there are multiple live versions.
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The part about Ant's failed romance with a ballerina named Lucy is also interesting. I'm sure that story is behind more of his songs than just the obvious "Lucy" ones.
I never imagined that the premise of "Lucy Will" was based on anything more than Ant's imagination, much less that it was literally true right down to the lady's name. It's ironic, though, that Ant was famous in his own right by the time of that song's release, given that its "narrator" is implied in the lyrics not to be famous.
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Would love to hear Steve and Ant attempt a song together utilising both their guitar skills and vocal harmonies.
Those two really need to do a collaborative album! Their one brief instrumental collaboration on the "Harmony for Elephants" album doesn't even qualify as a "teaser"!
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<< none of them are what I'd classify as weird, at least not on my personal weirdness scale >>
Can you name any Steve songs that you would classify as weird?
<< Why reminded me a bit of Sentimental Institution >>
Yes, I can see that.
<< Down Street is very frustrating because the music is really good and has a very nice vibe but the voiceover spoils it >>
I agree.
<< I found Optigan forgettable and already have no real memory of it >>
I always thought that one would be amusing if taken completely out of context -- this jokey, hokey, old-timey music (surrealistically getting bent and distorted)... with a big audience enthusiastically clapping to it!
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Fascinating, insightful and informative, not only about the album but about the band's entire history.
In the earlier FGTR thread I asked about John Silver's drumming abilities. I guess the article answers that question. ("According to King: 'neither Chris Stewart or John Silver were very good drummers and they knew it'".)
And I never realized before that "The Magic of Time" contains the phrase "silent sun"!
