Posts by FeelItComing

  • Genesis in the media

    Quote from Art Vandaley

    I see no reason for us to doubt Steve or consider him a boob or liar for the sons of the Beatles comment. He does mention it quite a lot, but personally I find Lennon to be a musician that holds little value to me for the way he conducted his life and relationships. I preferred George and Paul to John and didn’t care for the politics. I don’t need a Lennon endorsement to make me love Genesis. I adore them more than any prog band, even a few centimeters more than Yes….and that’s saying a lot because I’m a lifelong Yes maniac…

    It's very unfashionable to even suggest that to quote Elton John's Empty Garden, 'some say he farmed his best in younger years'. It was not his fault that his life ended just when he might have returned to music - who knows what he may have done? But all the simplistic politics, and the influence of Yoko, leaves not a great deal of solo work that really stands up, and I included the hallowed Imagine in that.

  • Other acts' album covers

    If you go back you can see that I said I thought REM & Fleetwood Mac albums covers are bad, as I did in the Genesis solo albums thread. I have never liked the covers of Fleetwood Mac & Rumours - I find them pretentiouus & off-putting, and yet they are better than Tusk, which is awful. As for REM, the cover of Automatic For The People is dreadful, but so is Out Of Time (which I will always consider a better album).


    Most of Paul McCartney's & Elton John's covers are good. The cover of Band On The Run & Goodbye Yellow Brick Road are etched in my brain.


    Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys - overrated album & horrible cover.

    Bob Dylan - most of them are dreadful, except for Highway 61 Revisited & Desire.


    I would imagine that if I mention Love Beach by ELP you will all know what I am talking about. Apparently it's also a bad album.


    Frank Zappa did some good covers - Broadway The Hard Way where he's just smiling, unexpected.


    Those are just a few examples of both good & bad.

  • Solo album covers

    Face Value is one of the most iconic covers of all time. All the others except Dance Into The Light are memorable (and then he recreated them years later). For Peter my favourites are 1, 3 & So. I like Steve's At The Edge Of Light but it's time he did something about the font he uses on his album covers.

  • Your favorite tracks on ... "Testify"

    About The Least You Can Do...


    It has more weary resignation than some of the more recent anguished 'why did you leave me' songs he did and for that reason it works better than some of those songs. I like how after he's used American pronunciation he suddenly switches to 'is that so much to ask' sung the English way. Strangely this line is not printed in the lyric sheet.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    As I only have Discography (best of) and Very I suppose I'm a 'casual' fan but some of their hits are a couple of my favourite songs of all time, specifically Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money), Being Boring, Suburbia, Rent, and if I keep going I will list them all. West End Girls always makes me think of London and is a nice companion to my beloved Straits' Wild West End. Also Neil Tennant is a Geordie like hubby.

  • STEVE HACKETT: "The Circus And The Nightwhale" (16 February 2024) - review online

    Quote from Christian

    this is from the press release we have received some days ago and it is for this reason also on our website. See link in my first post.


    I know nothing about art but i do not like this cover artwork.


    The album itself (I have it already) is better than his previous ones, imo. It also helps that it is only 45 minutes long. It serves the songs and some interludes are just wonderful short instrumentals.
    so, different approach here.
    The final track is an acoustic instrumental from 2018, first released on the Wuthering Nights live album as a bonus track on the Japanese edition.

    Sorry Christian, just putting my own ''spin' on it. I probably didn't need to include the links.


    Is it rude of me to ask how you already have it?

  • STEVE HACKETT: "The Circus And The Nightwhale" (16 February 2024) - review online

    There is the usual purple prose about it on the Facebook page.


    https://www.facebook.com/stevehackettofficial


    http://www.hackettsongs.com/ne…GMd68suBbxHwSeHvVhl5oPFz0


    He claims it's 'autobiographical' and states that "It's a lovely journey that starts dirty, scratchy and smoky and becomes heavenly and divine. How can you resist it?" Even better, the character in the concept is actually called 'Travla'.


    Well I don't know, Steve. I've been around for long enough now to know that these new albums are released and then vanish into the ether. If the songs are relatively short, who knows. Perhaps he might play a couple more of them for at least one tour.

  • MIKE + THE MECHANICS - Living Years (album thread)

    It was co-written by Rutherford and Robertson, although Rutherford - whose father had died a few months earlier - had nothing to do with the lyrics. And he was initially unsure whether the subject matter was too heavy for a pop song. It is also understandable if some people find the song too shallow.

    I had no idea Mike didn't write the lyrics of the title track. I just always assumed he did, as his father had died not long before. As for it being 'shallow' I guess it's 'shallow' in the way Another Day In Paradise is 'shallow'. What does that even mean?


  • PETER GABRIEL - I/O: The Tour 2023 (general info)

    Quote from federico

    So far, it seems that the i/o promotion will start in December 2023. Let's hope that in Spain it will be picked up by a music magazine. On the other hand, if concerts have been filmed, will there be a dvd-BlueRay of the tour i/o?

    And one more thing, will there be new tour dates 2024 in Europe, playing i/o songs?

    This time I won't wait for Backdrifter to support me. For the umpteenth time, there are markets outside Europe & the US. In my wildest dreams, if a tour occurs, surely it's going to be somewhere he hasn't been since.... oh,, I don't know... 1994. To quote Aerosmith, dream on.

  • The Rolling Stones

    I recommend this which they did during lockdown.


    External Content www.youtube.com
    Content embedded from external sources will not be displayed without your consent.
    Through the activation of external content, you agree that personal data may be transferred to third party platforms. We have provided more information on this in our privacy policy.

  • The Beatles

    Quote from Backdrifter

    Well FeelItComing did he?!


    Of course he didn't but anyway how was it?

    No he didn't. But it was awesome.


    I had a VIP ticket so I watched the soundcheck. Only McCartney could do Drive My Car, Day Tripper & Mrs Vandebilt at soundcheck and then leave them out of the main show. There were a couple of surrprises, Coming Up and Let 'Em In. It's really moving when he does the virtual duet with John in I've Got A Feeling. Such fun to hear him sing songs sung by the others - even I Wanna Be Your Man, Mr Kite & of course Something on the ukelele. The man is a marvel. 81 and three hours without a break and the band (same lineup as 2017) is hot. And the songs from Band On The Run - how I love them. Apart from the title track we had Jet, Let Me Roll It and Nineteen Hundred & Eighty-Five, not to mention the magnificent Letting Go from Venus & Mars. Don't criticise Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da to me - it rocks live.As for Helter Skelter McCartney invented Heavy Metal & that's the end of it. I could go on. The VIP package even included a really nice fridge magnet, which was a great surprise, as I love the things.