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GENESIS - Happy the man Year: 1972 Album: non-album track; re-released e.g. on Genesis Archive 1967-1975 Working title: unknown Credits: Genesis Lyrics: Yes Length: 2:54 (7" UK 1972), 2:48 (7" Italian 1972), 3:10 (Nick Davis Remix 2008) Musicians: Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins Played Live: 1970 (?) - 1972 Cover versions: none Notes: The Genesis discography has a number of non-album tracks, but there are just two songs that only appeared as the A-side of a 7" single: The second Decca single A Winter's Tale (1968) and the rather hard to find Happy The Man. The former has been published again and again as a bonus track of a repackaged debut album, but the latter became a rarity. The single was released only in the UK and Italy and in different mixed to boot. The Italian mix does not have the "aaaah" vocals in the introduction. Nick Davis's 2008 mix (in the bonus CD of the 1970-1975 box set) sounds different again: There is no fade-in, but there is a flute that was found on the multi-track tapes but ignored on the original mix. The UK mix first appeared on CD in the Famous Charisma Box and was included in the Archive 1967-1975 set five years later, the Italian single mix has been re-published only once, on an Italian LP compilation to celebrate five years of Charisma label 1974). Happy The Man was recorded in 1971 during the Nursery Cryme sessions, as evidenced by the label note "Producer: John Anthony" - for Foxtrot, which came out four months later, was already produced by David Hitchcock. The single was backed with a Nursery Cryme song, Seven Stones. It has never been explained why Happy The Man did not end up on the album. It may have been held back especially for the later single release, for it appears frequently on the live set lists from the time. In 1971/2 it is said to have been the opening song, so it may have been a favourite of the band's . We invite you to share interesting facts and tidbits about this track. Let's look at the track in the context of the band's / the artist's history, at the music, the songwriting and all other aspects that are relevant for this track. Please do stick to the discussion of the track above. Comparisons to other tracks are okay, but remember that the other track you may be keen to talk about has or will have its own Track Of The Week thread. If you spot a mistake or if you can close a gap in the fact sheet above please feel free to contact martinus or Christian about it; we will gladly add and improve! |
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TONY BANKS & ANDY TAYLOR - Still It Takes Me By Surprise
Year: 1991
Album: Still
Working title: unknown
Credits: Banks
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 6:27
Musicians: Tony Banks, Andy Taylor, Daryl Stuermer, Pino Palladino
Played Live: never
Cover versions: none
Tony Banks's solo album Still was overshadowed (again) by the almost simultaneous release of Genesis's We Can't Dance. Banks moved closer to the mainstream in Still without hiding his roots. Pop hits with musical guests such as Fish and Nick Kershaw are interspersed with typical Banks songs that have a certain Genesis touch. Still It Takes Me By Surprise belongs in the second category. In its way it resembles songs such as The Cinema Show, Ripples and Home By The Sea...
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GENESIS - I Can't Dance
Year: 1991
Album: We Can't Dance [review]
Working title: Blue Jeans / Heavy A Flat
Credits: Banks, Collins, Rutherford
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 4:01
Musicians: Banks, Collins, Rutherford
Played Live: 1992, 1998, 2000, 2007
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Cover versions: none
Notes: The title song (well almost) of Genesis' last album with Phil Collins is the odd one out on the record. As if the band had remembered what made the Abacab album unique, they have riffs, tinkle around on the keyboards and sing completely different from the way they sing on the rest of the album. Then they went on to create a hilarious video for the song. The concept worked, and I Can't Dance became the second world-wide hit single from the album. Genesis were suddenly "cool" with the youth, and the song spawned very different but very strong opinions in the fans. Even here, 28 years later. Or does it?
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Good things come to those who wait (though, to my surprise, the Tracks Of The Week seem to meet with remarkably little interest here).
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Here we go again! After a brief hiatus the Track Of The Week spreads its wings again and rises majestically and, we hope, with more success than Icarus.
All Tracks Of The Week of 2019:
0018 - 01/14/2019 Steve Hackett - Icarus Ascending
0019 - 01/21/2019 Genesis - I Can't Dance
0020 - 01/28/2019 Peter Gabriel - Humdrum
0021 - 02/04/2019 Tony Banks - Still It Takes Me By Surprise
0022 - 02/11/2019 Genesis - Happy The Man
0023 - 02/18/2019 Phil Collins - We Fly So Close
0024 - 02/25/2019 Anthony Phillips - Which Way The Wind Blows
0025 - 03/04/2019 Genesis - Silver Rainbow
0026 - 03/11/2019 Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
0027 - 03/18/2019 Steve Hackett - The Steppes
0028 - 03/25/2019 Genesis - Your Own Special Way
0029 - 04/01/2019 Phil Collins - Like China
0030 - 06/17/2019 Mike + The Mechanics - One Way
0031 - 06/24/2019 Genesis - Tonight Tonight Tonight
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STEVE HACKETT - Icarus Ascending
Year: 1978
Album: Please Don't Touch
Working title: unknown
Credits: Hackett
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 06:26
Musicians: Steve Hackett, Richie Havens, Chester Thompson, John Hackett, John Acock, Tom Fowler, Dave Lebolt, Graham Smith, Dan Owen, Dale Newman
Played Live: 1978
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Cover versions: none
Notes: The final track of Steve Hackett's second solo album Please Don't Touch is one of two songs Steve asked Woodstock legend Richie Havens to sing on. They met when Havens was the support act for Genesis at Earl's Court Arena, London, in 1977.
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BRAND X - ...And So To F
Year: 1980
Album: Product [album review]
Working title: unknown
Credits: Collins, Lumley, Jones
Lyrics: None
Length: 06:28
Musicians: Percy Jones, Phil Collins, Robin Lumley, John Godsall, John Giblin
Played Live: 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985
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Cover versions: none
Notes: Collins's soft spot for fusion music was channelled in Brand X. The fusion band existed with Collins in it until 1982. ...And So To F is one of their most popular tracks, and Collins would play it on his first two solo tours.
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GENESIS - Fading Lights
Year: 1991
Album: We Can't Dance [album review]
Working title: Nile
Credits: Banks, Collins, Rutherford
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 10:27
Musicians: Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford
Played Live: 1992
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Cover versions: none
Notes: Fading Lights is not merely a thoughtful look back across a long and successful career, it is also a declaration of love for progressive rock. Fading Lights makes the impossible possible and spans an arch from the early 70s to We Can't Dance. The instrumental middle part is excellent, and even dyed-in-the-wool prog fans who usually avoid the Collins era find something attractive in this song. Plus, there is something prophetic to Fading Lights as Tony Banks may have been writing about the end of Genesis.
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MIKE + THE MECHANICS - The Letter
Year: 2017
Album: Let Me Fly [album review]
Working title: unknown
Credits: Clark Datchler, Patrick Mascall, Andrew Roachford, Mike Rutherford, Mark Taylor
Lyrics: .
Length: 4:55
Musicians: (tba)
Played Live: never
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Cover versions: none
Notes: Six years almost to the day passed before Mike Rutherford brought out the successor to The Road. Let Me Fly is the second album of the new-formed Mechanics with new singers Tim Howar and Andrew Roachford. We have picked the first song of the album as the Track Of The Week. Regardless of what you think about The Letter, it is a good start into the album.
In his review of the album Christian ventures to state that The Letter may be the best song on the album. Is it, or is ist just a rehash of old Mechanics sounds and recycled ideas from Silent Running?
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PETER GABRIEL - Mercy Street
Year: 1986
Album: So [album review]
Working title: unknown
Credits: Gabriel, Anderson
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 06:22
Musicians: (tba)
Played Live: 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011
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Cover versions: none
Notes: So made Peter Gabriel the same kind of rockstar as his former band and Phil Collins - he had worldwide success. He wrote Mercy Street with Laurie Anderson. This song had a long evolutions behind it - one of its earliest incarnations was the B-side Don't Break This Rhythm - and Gabriel would happily explain the inspiration for this song live. Mercy Street has never been a single, but it is a Gabriel classic.
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Free trade agreements are linked to EU membership. So is free movement of persons, but the one does not depend from the other.
As I see it, its not a case of dogma, but a case of two sets of rules all members of the EU have given themselves and have pledged to adhere to.They did so voluntarily and, I might add, unanimously.
But I can see we are unlikely to find a common ground here, so I suggest we agree to disagree and leave it at that.
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Donald Trump wants to be America's dictator. He cares not one bit about our country, it's laws or its citizens. It's a scary reality, so hold on because we're in for a bumpy ride.
A scary reality it is. What scared me even more was how similar the early presidency of that man was to the (fictional) events portrayed in Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here. He wrote that in 1935, by the way. I'm not saying that Trump is like the dictator Lewis used as a blueprint for his novel, but as I said, the story told in the book screamed "Trump/Bannon" to me.
Remove the lie that is the free movement of people. If it's free, how come the movement is all one way, East to West?
The fact that more people move from A to B than from B to A does not prove that free movement is a lie.
I can't buy an Audi without allowing a German to move here? Really? Does that make ANY sense?
It doesn't make sense because it is wrong. You can buy an Audi without allowing a German to move to the UK. There is no law as to that. With the UK outside the EU and the common market it will simply become more expensive as tariffs will be raised on that. Well, at least you are allowed to buy an Audi; I don't know whether you can (no offence intended).
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I don't think he will be impeached. The people who support and finance him are very rich and very powerful, and all representatives and all senators, especially the Republican ones, will come under tremendous pressure to support than man. With all the loosening of regulations those people might not even have to risk any money for this, they could just play havoc with the financial markets or the energy sector (which might even turn out to be profitable for them).
A bleak view? Yes.
But four years ago I would not have believed that the people of the US would willingly give the White House to such a man.
And I would not have believed that the UK would voluntarily leave the EU.
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My guess is that that trump person will be re-elected. He is good at what he does, though whether what he does is good for his country or for peace in the world may be something else entirely.
Re guns:
It is difficult to change the constitution of a country, and it is a good thing that it is difficult. The constitution usually contains the fundamental laws and rules and ideas which are to govern the co-existence of all the people in a country. Changing that means admitting that society is fundamentally at odds with the basic law, and that that basic law has become outdated or wrong somehow.
In other words, changing the constitution of a country means that society has changed in such a way that the constitution as it is cannot fulfill its purpose, i.e. "to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity".
The right to possess and bear arms is a constitutional right in the USA, that much is true. It was necessary to set up a militia in the infancy of the USA so that this new country could defend its independence, I gather. But is it still "necessary to the security of a free state", as the second amendment puts it? Or does it, perhaps, cause more problems than it solves today?
Not being a citizen of the USA, it is not for me to say.
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GENESIS - The Lamia
Year: 1974
Album: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway [album review]
Working title: unknown
Credits: Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 6:58
Musicians: Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford
Played Live: 1974/1975
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Cover versions: none
Notes: Prising invididual songs out of this concept album is still a tricky job. It works well with the title song or The Carpet Crawlers, but also with The Lamia. The latter was very important in their stage show. The Lamia also indicates how good Genesis are in setting the perfect stage for a song.
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RAY WILSON & STILTSKIN - Constantly Reminded
Year: 2006
Album: SHE [album review]
Working title: unknown
Credits: Wilson, Metzler
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 05:17
Musicians: Ray Wilson, Nir Z., Uwe Metzler, Irvin Duguid
Played Live: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
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Cover versions: none
Notes: Ray's 2006 comeback with Stiltskin, SHE, was most of all, extremely underrated. When we interviewed Nir Z in 2006 he said: "I can tell you that all the people who are involved with my studio were shocked to know that this guy doesn’t have a major record deal when they’ve heard the tracks for the record... It's pathetic."
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PHIL COLLINS - Take Me Home
Year: 1985
Album: No Jacket Required [album review]
Working title: unknown
Credits: Collins
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 05:53
Musicians: Phil Collins, Daryl Stuermer, Sting, Peter Gabriel
Played Live: 1985, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2016
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Cover versions: none
Notes: There is hardly a song Phil Collins has played more often than Take Me Home. Since its release in 1985 it has been played as the closing song at almost all of Collins's live shows. Genesis fans may be interested to know that the backing vocals were sung by Peter Gabriel.
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GENESIS - Stagnation
Year: 1970
Album: Trespass [album review]
Working title: unknown
Credits: Banks, Gabriel, Phillips. Rutherford
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 8:46
Musicians: Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, John Mayhew
Played Live: 1970, 1971, 1972
mp3 downloads:
Cover versions: none
Notes: The early period of the band had a number of outstanding tracks that made the band popular - especially when they were played live. Some of those songs, e.g. The Light, have never been released officially. Others ended up on Trespass or Nursery Cryme. Stagnation is perhaps the blueprint for the progressive phase of Genesis.
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Monday sodding morning shuffle:
Paul Simon, Graceland
REM, Orange Crush
Nick d'Virgilio, The Light Dies Down On Broadway
Anne Clark, Seize The Vivid Sky
Severa, Kuigai
Anon, Pennsylvania Flickhouse
Alphaville, Forever Young
Beach Boys, Surfin' USA
Faithless, God Is A DJ
Roxette, Crash!Boom!Bang!
bonus track:
A House Somewhere (episode of a BBC radio programme focusing on Chris Stewart)
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I read this and had a vision of Phil Collins in a very loud yellow jacket coming out of my TV screen:
"Get me ten more members by Christmas! Get me 18 million dollars by the weekend! Stretch forth your hands and TYPE!"
