Always loved that album, the weakest song imho is Get 'em Out By Friday. I must be one of the rare Genesis fans who also loves Time Table, regarding the frowns that song constantly gets. It is one of the beautiful non-epic tracks, I love its atmosphere, the interesting chord changes, the nice intertwining of piano and guitar, the bass lines, the few subtle time signature changes, and Peter's vocals on top of it all, and last not least the nice baroque intro. Also nothing bad to say about Horizons, I still prefer this original version over all of Steve's later recordings. It is a breather on the album and it brings up the mood of a peaceful early dawn before the rush of the day starts.
Posts by Schrottrocker
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Teach Yourself Vulcan? Nice idea but speaking for me I'm still trying to Teach Myself Human
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Love this song. A perfect closer for the suite that makes side 2 of Please Don't Touch.
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From snow to rain (which would make a nice album title).
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Just out of curiosity: How do you pick the tracks of the week? I couldn't find a pattern yet
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It would be nice to hear any new album by Ant.
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Star Strek: Short Treks, all 4 of them in a row. The last one was the best
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This is really funny: up to the night before Christmas Eve it was all stormy and rainy. Right on the 24th it suddenly changed to marvellous Winter weather with sunshine and a chilly breeze. The night was clear with stars; now today it is foggy. Haven't seen the weather changing so quickly in 2018 so far.
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Are these lyrics for a new version of 'Aisle of Plenty'? It's scrambled eggs from Canada
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I can't answer that question but this part always sticks out to me in live versions because Phil often used to burst out "Innatrapp!!!" like a tourette attack, which I find a bit weird.
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I prefer Living Forever as a song with an extended instrumental section/synth solo.
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Raining cats and dogs
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Rainy, after all. Didn't see that coming in 2018.
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Queen - I'm in love with my car
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Am I right in thinking that musically this is solely or primarily a Banks composition? With Hackett contributing the solo?
Yes, reportedly "Tony bought this one in", the lyrics were Gabriel's of course. For Hackett's solo, most likely he will have been given a blank space to fill in a solo in whatever way it would suit the song.
The Lamia is a good song no matter what but as with the vast majority of The Lamb I always find myself struggling. The mood is just so depressing. My favourite part in that song is the little interlude right before the last verse where Tony doubles the piano line with the ARP and puts Hammond chords behind.
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'Hey Andy, did you hear about the swan?'
(Man In The Moon, R.E.M. - original words: "...about this one")
I mentioned this one in the old forum:
"Relax! Come to West! Don't you wanna *mumblemumble* come to West?"
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I'm not sure if I got this wrong but wasn't the original source of both songs that film music Mike and Tony did before ATTWT? I think I remember an interview in which Tony stated he used that extended intro for Undertow which was cut to elaborate, he basically built a whole new song around it and that's what became From The Undertow.
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The common folklore says It's Yourself was supposed to be inserted in between Squonk and Mad Man Moon (which is remarkable, most non-album tracks seemed to be sorted out before they had a fixed place on their album), it makes sense Los Endos would be kind of a reprise of several songs; the intro was clearly copied and pasted from It's Yourself after It's Yourself was cut out. In its original form this part ends on the same 5 notes that begin Mad Man Moon so it makes an obvious link.
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