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    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.


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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").

    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.


    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.

    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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    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

    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
    mp3 downloads:
    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

    mp3 downloads:

    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

    mp3 downloads:

    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

    mp3 downloads:

    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

    mp3 downloads:

    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.

    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).

    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.

    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.

    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

    mp3 downloads:

    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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