Why Entangled?

Mellotron and ARP 2600 outro. An incredible high point artistically - beating out the rest of the album for me.

Edited by fudgenuts64 - June 10 2015 at 07:14

Exactly Tom. It's the duet between these two electronic critters, and ultimately that beautiful crescendo, that really takes this song from a lovely little tune and metamorphoses it into a towering phoenix of sound. I always always get goosebumps during this section. Never fails.

You said it David. I can´t say it better. Goosebumps every time...

My guess is "personal taste'. There are some pieces that most people seem to like a lot, and others don't have a clue as to why, such is the world we live in.

Manuel wrote: My guess is "personal taste'. There are some pieces that most people seem to like a lot, and others don't have a clue as to why, such is the world we live in.

This. This. This.

Yeah, it's all been said I guess, but the melding of the acoustic and the electronic and the incredible atmosphere evoked by that outro makes it a classic Genesis piece.

Apart from the lyrics, which I personally think are awful... Sorry, not a shared view I'm sure.

close your eyes, empty your mind, and listen to the last 2 minutes and you will know why

Oh yes the Hackett fingerprint is all over this one. The acoustic twinklings of his are essential to the track, and they really do shine during the duet. I love the small pauses he makes. 

Someone mentioned the bass synth - indeed, mustn't forget Mike R's thunderous Taurus pedals.

WrytXander wrote: I love Entangled. But can someone explain to me why everyone seems to worship it with such a passion? I don't see how it's any more special than Ripples or Mad Mad Moon, so please somebody help me out I'm not a hater or anything, it's just I don't see the way a lot of people seem to do, some preferring it over even Watcher of the Skies. What's the huge appeal that I'm missing? What secret formula, and what other songs employ this formula to make themselves more appealing?

Mainly it's Hackett's guitar for me, but it's got everything Genesis in a relatively short time span, and has a character that results from the combination of brilliant writing skills from two who were to increasingly not to see eye to eye. A lot of what prog fans like converges on it in a way that it fails to converge on other TTOT tracks, nice as they are. It's soft madrigal Genesis and mystical big sound Genesis. I've often been mystified by the appeal of Watcher of the Skies that the OP made reference to. It's intro, though a big grandiose sound, never struck me as very sci-fi sounding. I would have been pleased if the intro to it were more otherworldly like the Entangled outtro. I like the lyric. Someone prior did not, and, to carry on the contrast, I would agree with anyone who might say that the Watcher of the Skies lyric is more digestible and poignant as read on paper. However, the lyrics in Watcher seem forced into the music. In Entangled the lyrics really seem to belong.