Posts by Schrottrocker

  • RIP Richard Macphail

    Shocking indeed! He was way too young to leave us. I never met him, I just know him through his book (been reading it for three times so far) and the online interviews I saw and the mentions of the other band members. They wouldn't have carried on after Ant left, had it not been for Richard Macphail! He seemed to be one the most uncomplicated people on earth and a real practical guy, with him on board things worked. What a loss.

  • A Genesis "summer" song?

    I always felt on a very general line the whole Trespass to Duke era (and maybe a little beyond hither and thither) has a late summery to autumnal feeling, a nostalgic, slightly melancholic feeling of slowly fading beauty that leaves you with sorrowful memories of bygone blissful times. That's a very general note though.


    I kind of have a hard time to identify any Genesis song as what is usually associated with summer hits that try to evoke a beach party mood in what is supposedly your time of your life when you're young. Such as Macarena.

  • Phil it

    I got an answer on facebook:


    'Wir spielen eigentlich überall wenn es Veranstalter und Veranstaltungen gibt, die eine so große Band "vertragen" können, d.h. auch die Logistik dahinter verstehen. Aber prinzipiell ist natürlich auch UK möglich und auch ein Ziel für uns.'


    Translation:

    'We play anywhere as long as there are events and event managers who can handle such a big band, meaning people who understand the logistics behind this. That includes the UK and yes, playing there is a goal we are aiming at too.'

  • Music and lyrics that don’t match

    Quote from raelway siding

    I always found Dodo a bit odd. The lyrics are basically off-the-wall stream of consciousness centred on certain themes. But then you get this big dramatic music that sounds like the sort of thing they would have put a bit dramatic story to in the past. I can remember when I couldn't make out the lyrics on Three Sides Live, I always assumed there was some meaning or story there I wasn't quite getting. "I'M BACK IN THE SEA!" *huge dramatic chords*

    It is by any means one of their strangest lyrics. When I first heard it on Three Sides Live I was somehow sure it has to be about animals in zoos that live under miserable conditions and dream of going back to their old natural habitats. I couldn't make out that message when I was only reading the lyrics, it needed the music to fill the words with meaning.

  • TotW 07/22/2024 - 07/28/2024: GENESIS - That's All

    I always had a soft spot for this song as it was on a cassette tape my sister recorded from the radio back in 1983, the tape somehow got into my hands soon and I listened to it over and over. So I was familiar with the song long before I even knew it was Genesis. At the same time I was listening to Selling England on high rotation and I wouldn't make the connection.


    As a matter of fact, That's All has always been my favourite song off this album besides It's Gonna Get Better. (I know, I'm a heretic and stuff.)


    Youtube has a lot of cover version of this little song. Here's just one example:


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  • Phil it

    I happened to see this Phil Collins / Genesis tribute band last night and I was blown away. They are incredibly good.


    Check them out:

    Phil it! - Collins & Genesis Tribute Band Deutschland und Europa
    Mit Phil it buchen Sie nicht einfach eine Phil Collins Coverband, sondern ein detailgetreues Phil Collins und Genesis Erlebnis.
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    They played mainly a Phil Collins show but they had a bunch of Genesis songs too: Land of Confusion, Tonight Tonight Tonight / Invisible Touch medley, No Son of Mine, I Can't Dance, Mama.

  • Music and lyrics that don’t match

    In a way the same could be said about Inside and Out. As a non-native speaker I just liked the music of this song, then I found out what the lyrics are about. Quite a contrast, I did not expect such a depressing story set to this gentle sweet music (the first half of the song) but I saw it as an intentional contrast.


    I guess the point of this thread is rather finding bad mismatches that don't work. I don't have any examples at hand, maybe I'll find some.

  • TotW 06/24/2024 - 06/30/2024: GENESIS - Seven Stones

    Yes, all the chord and key changes scream Banks too.


    One of my top-favourites. This seems to be one of those Genesis tracks a vocal fan minority agrees it is terrible so lots of other fans seem to feel a necessity to apologize for liking it as a guilty pleasure. Never understood this. I always loved this one.