ANTHONY PHILLIPS - Which Way The Wind Blows Year: 1977 Album: The Geese And The Ghost [review of the 2008 remaster] Working title: unknown Credits: Phillips Lyrics: Yes Length: 5:52 Musicians: Anthony Phillips, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford Played Live: never Cover versions: none Notes: Anthony Phillips's debut album came out only in 1977, but The Geese & The Ghost became an instant prog classic and won much praise in the music press. Ant got his friend Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins to play on this album; Collins also sings on this track. 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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Well, Hackett has not done much detraction in this book, so I would suggest that argument is missing the point here.
As for "why so-and-so", the answer is likely to be "because they were up for it and ready to contribute". Which is, with the exception of that he-wit, not necessarily a bad thing. And it is not terrible that Kirkman has no soundbites from messieurs Gabriel, Collins, Rutherford or Banks. Remember, Kirkman's aim has never been to "tell the one, true and definitive history of The Lamb", but to show the reader what "it was like to experience a Genesis Lamb show live". For this, it is probably much better to get people from the fringe to tell their story. The people in the eye of the storm are frequently the least suited to talk about its impact (that passage from Chapter & Verse comes to mind where, circa Foxtrot or Selling, someone from the audience tells Steve quite excitedly that, at the end of Supper's Ready, they saw God - and he replies: "Great. So you saw God. I was trying to get the notes right").
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ATTW3 is not my favourite Genesis album by far, but I do like many of the songs on their own. Many Too Many comes to mind. The Lady Lies (well, the live version of it).
I used to think that Snowbound was a cozy-before-the-fireplace-while-it's-snowing-gently-outside winter fantasy - until I saw an interpretation of the song that argued very convincingly that the "snowman" is, in fact, someone who has frozen to death in the harsh winter climate. Now its deceivingly sweet melody has grown rather scary undertones.
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PHIL COLLINS - We Fly So Close
Year: 1993
Album: Both Sides [review]
Working title: unknown
Credits: Collins
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 07:34
Musicians: Phil Collins
Played Live: never
Cover versions: none
Notes: Collins's 1993 album had the flair of Face Value and still was an album that divided the fans. Collins played all instruments, which gave the album a reduced and (intentionally) imperfect sound. We Fly So Close is one of the secret gems in Collins's solo repertoire. The song was not released as a single, has never been played live - and at seven and a half minutes it equals Genesis song lengths.
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In addition to (and perhaps in contradiction to) what I said in my re-assessment of ATTW3 I am also going to use the term "transitional album", but I have come to think that the "transition album period" extends across Duke and Abacab, too. And Then There Were Three is the band re-configuring as a trio. It shows the band are very aware of where they were coming from and very unsure about where they want to go. They try out stuff. Duke sees them exploring another musical direction; Abacab yet another, and this time a radically different direction; from the self-titled album onwards there is something I would, with some slight hesitation, tend to call stability (which is not, repeat: not, stagnation). And Then There Were Three has the additional burden of Mike having to find his feet in the big shoes Steve Hackett left as lead guitarist.
It is, perhaps, also worth noting that Peter Gabriel is going through a similar transition on his first two solo albums - almost simultaneously to ATWW3.
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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 .
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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 and beyond:
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
0032 - 01/04/2020: GENESIS - No Son Of Mine
0033 - 01/17/2020: PETER GABRIEL - Shock The Monkey
0034 - 01/25/2020: GENESIS - Congo
0035 - 02/08/2020: ANTHONY PHILLIPS - Nightmare
0036 - 02/15/2020: GENESIS - The Return Of The Giant Hogweed
0037 - 06/27/2022: PHIL COLLINS - All Of My Life
0038 - 06/20/2022: STEVE HACKETT - Shadow Of The Hierophant
0039 - 06/13/2022: GENESIS - Mama
0040 - 10/24/2022: GENESIS - Land Of Confusion
0041 - 10/31/2022: BANKSTATEMENT - The Border
0042 - 11/07/2022: GENESIS - Dodo
0043 - 11/14/2022: RAY WILSON - Makes Me Think Of Home
0044 - 11/21/2022: GENESIS - Down And Out
0045 - 11/28/2022: PETER GABRIEL - Darkness
0046 - 12/05/2022: GENESIS - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
0047 - 12/12/2022: PHIL COLLINS - Another Day In Paradise
0048 - 12/19/2022: GENESIS - Pigeons
0049 - 01/02/2023 MIKE + THE MECHANICS -Silent Running
0050 - 01/09/2023 GENESIS - The Silent Sun
0051 - 01/16/2023 BRAND X - And So To F
0052 - 01/23/2023 GENESIS - Dreaming While You Sleep
0052 - 01/30/2023 STRICTLY INC - Charity Balls
0053 - 02/06/2023 GENESIS - Heathaze
0054 - 02/13/2023 PHIL COLLINS - I Missed Again
0055 - 02/20/2023 GENESIS - Horizons
0056 - 02/27/2023 STEVE HACKETT - The Devil's Cathedral
0057 - 03/06/2023 GENESIS - Paperlate
0058 - 03/13/2023 PETER GABRIEL - Family Snapshot
0059 - 03/20/2023 GENESIS - Get'em Out By Friday
0060 - 03/27/2023 ANTHONY PHILLIPS - God If I Saw Her Now
0061 - 04/03/2023 GENESIS - The Brazilian
0062 - 04/10/2023 RAY WILSON - American Beauty
0063 - 04/17/2023 GENESIS - Eleventh Earl Of Mar
0064 - 04/24/2023 MIKE + THE MECHANICS - A Beggar On A Beach Of Gold
0065 - 05/01/2023 GENESIS - Me And Sarah Jane
0066 - 05/08/2023 PHIL COLLINS - The West Side
0067 - 05/15/2023 GENESIS - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
0068 - 05/22/2023 PETER GABRIEL - The Court
0069 - 05/29/2023 GENESIS - Driving The Last Spike
0070 - 06/05/2023 PETER GABRIEL - Digging In The Dirt
0071 - 06/12/2023 BANKSTATEMENT - Thursday The Twelfth
0072 - 06/19/2023 GENESIS - Inside And Out
0073 - 06/26/2023 GENESIS - Feeding The Fire
0074 - 07/03/2023 STEVE HACKETT - There Are Many Sides To The Night
0075 - 07/10/2023 GENESIS - In The Cage
0076 - 07/17/2023 PHIL COLLINS - Hang In Long Enough
0077 - 07/24/2023 GENESIS - One Man's Fool
0078 - 07/31/2023 SOUND OF CONTACT -Not Coming Down
0079 - 08/07/2023 GENESIS - Undertow
00xx - 08/14/2023 summer break
0080 - 08/21/2023 GENESIS - Throwing It All Away
0081 - 08/28/2023 PETER GABRIEL - Panopticom
0082 - 09/04/2023 GENESIS - Squonk
0083 - 09/11/2023 PETER GABRIEL - Sledgehammer
0084 - 09/18/2023 PHIL COLLINS - Can't Find My Way
0085 - 09/25/2023 GENESIS - Fly On A Windshield
0086 - 10/02/2023 PETER GABRIEL - Solsbury Hill
0087 - 10/09/2023 STEVE HACKETT - Camino Royale
0088 - 10/16/2023 GENESIS - Behind The Lines
0089 - 10/23/2023 PETER GABRIEL - In Your Eyes
0090 - 10/30/2023 TONY BANKS - I Wanna Change The Score
0091 - 11/06/2023 GENESIS - Snowbound
0092 - 11/13/2023 RAY WILSON - Wait For Better Days
0093 - 11/20/2023 PETER GABRIEL - Signal To Noise
0094 - 11/27/2023 GENESIS - The Battle Of Epping Forest
0095 - 12/04/2023 ANTHONY PHILLIPS - Now What (Are They Doing To My Little Friends?)
0096 - 12/11/2023 PHIL COLLINS - I Wish It Would Rain Down
0097 - 12/18/2023 GENESIS - Blood On The Rooftops
0098 - 01/01/2024 MIKE + THE MECHANICS - Why Me?
0099 - 01/08/2024 STEVE HACKETT - In Memoriam
0100 - 01/15/2024 GENESIS - The Cinema Show
0101 - 01/22/2024 PETER GABRIEL - Four Kinds Of Horses
0102 - 01/29/2024 GENESIS - It's Gonna Get Better
0103 - 02/05/2024 PHIL COLLINS - Both Sides Of The Story
0104 - 02/12/2024 GENESIS - The Lady Lies
0105 - 02/19/2024 RAY WILSON - Mother Earth
0106 - 02/26/2024 GENESIS - Liliwhite Lilith
0107 - 03/04/2024 STRICTLY INC - An Island In The Darkness
0108 - 03/11/2024 GENESIS - Calling All Stations
0109 - 03/18/2024 ANTHONY PHILLIPS - The Anthem Of Tarka
0110 - 03/25/2024 GENESIS - On The Shoreline
0111 - 04/01/2024 MIKE + THE MECHANICS - Background Noise
0112 - 04/08/2024 GENESIS - Abacab
0113 - 04/15/2024 PHIL COLLINS - Inside Out
0114 - 04/22/2024 BRAND X - Don't Make Waves
0115 - 04/29/2024 GENESIS - Time Table
0116 - 05/06/2024 PETER GABRIEL - Come Talk To Me
0117 - 05/13/2024 PETER GABRIEL - Live And Let Live
0118 - 05/20/2024 GENESIS - Ripples
0119 - 05/27/2024 STEVE HACKETT - Taking You Down
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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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