I guess more is relative - I like it more than I did before you started this thread. That's progress, right? Honestly - going through the whole discography like this has made me appreciate their body of work more. There isn't an album we've done so far that I haven't learned something new or heard something different to appreciate.
That is cool.... Same for me really. I actually wasn't expecting to like Invisible Touch, but it's a really good album .... yea I know guys it's terrible ... sorry
I really don't have a problem with the 'oldies medley' that accompanies TIA. In context, it's works quite well with the song. I think it's great the band, especially Phil is paying tribute to the acts that shaped / inspired them. That goes for pretty much any act I've seen live. It's outright fun.
No drama, cane farmer. FWIW - you just inspired me to dig out my vinyl copy of ATTWT. I hope the neighbors are enjoying it, too. Love, Billy
The above is quite an interesting interview from 1986 including details of how they adapted the lyrics of In Too Deep for Mona Lisa and also some interesting body language when they're talking about the oldies medley...so it seems kind of appropriate at this point of the thread
IT was kinda ok for me. I gave it some serious listens for this thread and I have to say - many of the criticisms are valid but it’s a very good album in spite of its flaws. Enjoying it more than I have in a long time. It’s gotten a lot of plays recently and now I am on to the live shows.
Can you imagine showing up to the Invisible Touch tour when this happens It's not the entire thing but... it's Supper's Ready.
I did, and I lost my freakin’ mind. Totally unprepared for that. I had expected the whole night to be pablum but got THAT too!
Tonight Tonight Tonight Probably my favourite song on the Invisible Touch album and here it is presented really well .... I probably don't play this dvd enough.... I enjoy it a lot.
Throwing It All Away Phil's additions will probably annoy some folks from what I have read here so far, but I like the arrangement from a concert perspective
Home By The Sea This song always seems to work well live, and that is where I first actually enjoyed the song.
I vividly recall the start of the In The Cage medley on that tour ... when Phil announced that "we're gunna go all the way back to 1972 for some of this one ... when we all wore kaftans" ... and I was trembling with anticipation. This was pre-interwebs so I had no idea what was in the setlist ... and they dropped into Supper's Ready (maybe after In The Quiet Earth? Can't recall now) ... it was totes awsum, before totes or awsum were even invented --Geoff
I remember Home By The Sea when I saw them in concert. The thunderstorm and rain outside were so loud you could hear it inside of Kemper Arena in Kansas City. It gave a good backdrop to the song.
I recall attending one of the New York shows at MSG. This clip was strangely exciting; despite its poor resolution the closing section was spectacular with the lights flooding Phil. I thought he was going to levitate. Nice to get a breather from Afterglow—9/8 easily held its own as a replacement.
I can see that. That place seemed, as I recall, to be made of corrugated metal or something. I saw Springsteen there once.
yeah that performance of Supper's Ready gives the one on SEconds Out a run for it's money; really amazing, too bad there aren't better recordings of it.
I've been on vacation so I missed the "Invisible Touch" album section. This was the first Genesis album of whose release I was fully aware of ... and it came as a big disappointment. I now see it as a good (but not great) pop album. The best songs are the "Invisible Touch" and "Throwing it All Away" -- both short, direct, melodic and full of hooks. "Domino" is OK, although it sounds a bit dated now. "The Brazilian" is the most inventive piece here IMO.
I was at one of the MSG shows (in fact my final Genesis concert). The awful thing for me was that they followed "Supper's Ready" (which was sublime) with "Invisible Touch". I wanted to cry and vomit at the same time.
Clearly they had to satisfy their new fan base after throwing the die-hards a bone. ... That's not fair: they threw the die hards an entire T-Rex skeleton!
I had a similar experience at the LA Forum. Lots of surprised appreciative shouts when Apocalypse starts like in this MSG video. Old fans, or simply fans of the old material, get their faces melted. Then the drum machine for Invisible Touch kicks in, and when the music starts, this wild squeal of teenage girls erupts, like a Justin Bieber concert. They couldn't have made a more jarring juxtaposition of tunes. But...such was Genesis live in 1986. The sublime.....and the insipid.
