'Snowbound'.
I was at an IQ Christmas show and the song was blasting through the concert hall before IQ came out and i have never heard such a more fitting Christmas song. What a chorus. 'And then there were three' has always been downgraded by me for having no epics but it has a class and magic of its own.
Is it an illusion?
Is it a game.
Maybe next year we might find out.
Happy new year too.
I would just like to thank Christian for keeping Genesis alive with all his ideas and news. Every time I go on the forum I always learn something interesting and important.
Small-creeps Day suite from my cassette (A bit of a cheat but you cannot separate the songs and the whole thing is perfect. Just imagine what this feels like as a 14 year old heading to a newspaper round hearing this amazing suite of music for the first time.)
Over my shoulder
Beggar on a Beach of gold
Nobody's Perfect
All I need is a miracle (live version)
A Curious Feeling
Walls of sound
Queen of Darkness
Lucky Me
An island in the darkness
Racing in A (live version)
Fire on the Moon (live version)
The virgin and the Gypsy
Casa del Fauno
Star of Sirius (live version)
Lillywhite Lilith / The Evil Jam (Live at Shrine 1975)
Stagnation
Can Utility and the Coast-liners
Keep it Dark / Its Gonna get better (Live version)
Suppers Ready (particularly Apocalypse in 9/8)
Take me home (live in Berlin version)
Easy Lover
Testify
Inside Out
Separate Lives
Genesis and Christmas are linked by magic and melancholy too. Most of Genesis's material are linked by those two traits. 'Stagnation' has no lyrical connection with Christmas but to me this is a piece of music best played on Christmas Eve.
Thank you Ian.
I might just end up buying these.
This box set is available and has been released.
The message from eBay was that they have it in stock but they cannot possibly find the information for me as they are too busy.
The message from Amazon is that they do not know.
Furthermore it is not available for download.
Maybe I should take a punt as it is such good value.
Only trouble is that I might end up with a single disc of Phil Collins serious hits cd.
This bumper 8CD box set is available at the bargain price of £25is. It is also on eBay too. The trouble is that nobody knows anything about it. No concert details or track listing. I have tried writing messages to both companies and the replies have been poor. Any searches on the internet uncovers nothing.
Here is the amazon link:
Can anybody help?
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We have all been discussing this for years.
It would be marvellous to get this done for the future.
When the box set is released, we will not know which of the three nights those Lyceum tracks come from. It could be one of three, and it might even be from 'Drury Lane'. Will Nick Davis or Tony Banks clarify this?
Thank you Christian. I am so excited about this box set. I am behaving like a teenager again. I have got everything here on my computer already with the exception of Wembley 1975 Watcher. Watcher must have sounded amazing blasting through the arena.
Abacab was the highlight for me when I was beginning to love Genesis. It remains my favourite album to this day and most of my best moments are tucked well out of sight. 'Like it or not', 'Me and Sarah Jane'. The BBC did not do an 'in concert' broadcast around that tour or the subsequent one either. By the time we got to Wembley 1987 only the title song was played.
On new box set:
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Album with most tracks; Duke: 5.
Album with least tracks; Abacab: 0.
There is not one track from Abacab!
I normally move on straight away but I had to stay on full screen for the duration of that. What a tune that second song is from 5 minutes onwards. Whoever wrote that is a genius.
I have been into Unitopia for a while.
They did a covers album which starts with 'The Carpenters' 'Calling Occupants'. The keyboard player writes most of the songs and the lead singer has a lovely deep gravel voice. They are signed to IQ's label I believe, GEP.
Best songs:
From Artificial:
The great Reward
From More than a dream:
More than a dream.
There's a place.
They did a live album called 'One night in Europe' which is on YouTube and this sums them up.
For me this is fantastic news.
I have mentioned this before but this is my favourite PC album.
I'm loving 'Esthesis'.
Especially the album 'The Awakening'.
All tracks are excellent especially 'No Soul to sell'.
They are fantastic musicians playing eerie jazz combined with prog. Very reminiscent of Hackett crossed with a classical grand piano.
