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Wow.
So much work.
Two minor things I noticed. I like how the dance edit of Easy Lover is longer than the extended dance version! And I forgot, or possibly never noticed that Daryl had co-writing credits on NJR, including one of my favorite tracks Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore.
RIP Tina Turner
That's a big one. What a voice she had, and a tumultuous life by all accounts. RIP.
Well, I would not call it fuck up. Though that was funny.
Funny and about as authentic and live as you can get. Not sure what the other poster's issue is but he seems to have a real bee in his bonnet about Peter performing live at his age.
I pretty sure I'm gonna stump for tickets to see him now, he seems to be in great form and very proud of his new material. The antithesis of a legacy act, and I'm all for it.
Chocolate chip pancakes from a cheap breakfast place, with generic syrup and sweetened whipped cream from one of those shaving foam can deals. I confess I was singularly unexcited about this. We got a bunch of pancakes because our house is full of kids for a sleepover birthday. I didn't even order for myself because I don't really like the place we ordered from, but there was so much and I was hungry so I went for it.
It was much better than it should have been! It was actually pretty delicious. Sometimes the simplest things work.
His voice is gone.......the show is nothing special for the ticket 's price........
On the basis of the studio releases so far, I can't agree with the first part of this comment at all. I think his voice sounds incredible for his age on the new songs.
I think it's brilliant he's playing so much of the new album. That takes some pretty serious balls to not worry that the crowd will boo and/or leave. Good for him.
according to the source Tony was very not amused of this.
😆 I'm picturing Tony maxing out his stone-face as he listens to the noise, and Peter and Eno backing slowly away.
Anyone else in Dublin? Will be there over the weekend.
I'm not but the Avoca cafe has lovely food, and Hodges & Figgs is a wonderful big bookshop if you're looking for one. There's a nice small rare/antique bookshop on a side street off Grafton but I don't know the name. Also, the Guinness will be lovely no matter where you go!
Good tune I've often overlooked, probably for familiarity. I've always liked the faint buzzing noise at the start that sounds like part of the waiting room trying to break through. Sets an uneasy tone.
Can't ask for a much better opener for the album in terms of introducing the world. Can't say any more any better than the numerous, well-articulated comments above.
14.
Proggy goodness, culminating in a final 30 seconds I swear is borrowed from one of the Genesis drum duets.
I'd go with a surging opener like Panopticom, Growing Up or really slamming it to us right from the start with The Tower, then into Intruder as a starkly contrasting 2nd number. How about that for a double-salvo start? Eh? EH?
Love it. Sounds freaking amazing!
Depending on quite what you mean by his "last tour", it was in 2011 when Gabriel talked about trying out Supper's Ready "not long ago".
At his pace, he may have been referring to the Selling England tour.
On a tangent, I'm just curious - how did you have my comment as a quote from zaar?
The Flood "pre-opener" as you put it did work well, but it'd be better for him to not repeat that - too much of a throwback. (For similar reasons I was mildly disappointed Genesis reprised the 07 tour opening last year). 20 years on, new tour new album, a different kind of curtain-raiser is needed.
Intruder would be good as an opener.
WCD is an odd one for me, it has a special connotation because it was the album really got me into Genesis, and one of the earliest albums I listened to obsessively, age 10-11. I think it has good depth and range, but there's also a maturity about it that makes it a little boring or something. The sound is unadventurous, which may be a production issue. I return to it infrequently but when I do, I enjoy the heights very much - NSOM, Jesus, driving the last spike and dreaming while you sleep are all great but countered by very mechanicsy MOR fare like Never a Time, and I was never a big fan of Fading Lights.
I am glad to see it top of someone's pile though!
I never knew this about the mechanics singers but it's not surprising I suppose. I'll always be down on how they ended (I think they should have followed up cas) but I am glad neither mechanics singers got the gig. It would have been two of the mechanics + Tony, and given Tony's singular lack of solo success it would have been an odd set up I think.
Come to think of it, I wonder if Mike and Tony had a difference of opinion about the new singer (such as Mike wanting a Paul), and whether that played into Mike's decision not to continue when Ray and Tony would have. None of my beeswax I know but another angle to ponder.
I like this one, it builds nicely and the vocalese at the end melds well with the instrumental. It's on my favorite PC solo album and I'm a fan of his general sound at this stage. It had a certain evocative quality that became less prominent beyond this and especially after NJR.
Beautiful space opera vibes here
Really enjoy this song. It's a bit inconclusive which I kind of like, and has a nice multilayered soundscape. His voice is great - has barely changed with age.
In the vein of "those little bits you notice", I love the guitar in the opening bit, which is so wistful and remote - it almost feels like it's trying to reach out to the rest of the music to make something whole, and the glitchy bit that goes in the background. I can't tell which of them is responsible for that, it sounds like a palm-muted guitar.
Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer songwriter. I never got into him, but I remember my parents going to see him a few times, and after the last one a few years ago they said his voice had faded badly. Reading of his death causes me to reflect on the fact that they are getting older.
Also this week: Jerry Springer.
