A Trick of the Tail
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Topic: A Trick of the Tail
Posted By: WrytXander
Subject: A Trick of the Tail
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 04:55
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I honestly didn't want to include the title track, as no progger in their right mind would choose it over all the beautiful pieces on this record. Nevertheless, I felt obligated to for some reason. One of the albums I've been obsessing over recently, and my vote goes to Dance on a Volcano. ------------- 20+ prog bands discovered and explored in 3 years, still going strong... |
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 06:07
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Entangled. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 06:52
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I could choose six of these, but Dance on a Volcano is the best, methinks... ------------- 
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 07:05
| Robbery, Assault & Battery |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 07:09
I kind of agree, and yet the title track always cheers me up when I hear it, in a way that none of the other tracks do. so I picked it, even knowing it's far from the best song on the album.
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WrytXander wrote:Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 07:12
| Mad Man Moon, though this is quite an even album. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 08:27
Agree---I have played Mad Man Moon more than any other track---there is something about the melody that I find gorgeous----
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 08:32
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Los Endos just ahead of Dance on a Volcano. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 08:34
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Entangled +1 ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: WrytXander
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 08:34
See, it's all because of weirdos like you that the title track has more points than "Mad Mad Moon" right now!   ------------- 20+ prog bands discovered and explored in 3 years, still going strong... |
Posted By: A_Flower
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 09:46
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WHAT? SQUONK HAS NO VOTES YET? That's probably the best thing Phil Collins ever wrote with Genesis! It's so powerful and has so much emotion. It's a classic for sure and I have to vote for it. If i, for some reason could not vote for it I'd go for the underrated beauty, Mad Man Moon |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 10:12
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I've always seen the great Entangled and Squonk as Parts A and B of a longer song for some nutty reason - you can't separate them. Mad Man Moon is just plain brilliant. Dance On a Volcano is the show stopper though as it heralded to the world that the Gabriel era had definitely come to a close. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 10:41
Yes, but it doesn't have more points now, so justice prevailed in the end. whaddaya mean, "weirdos"? You want to step outside and say that?
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 10:45
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"Dance on a Volcano", because it sets the tone for the rest of the album and best exemplifies the "new" Genesis sound found on both ATotT and Winds and Wuthering. One of the reasons this album was the first Genesis release I actually cared for. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 12:29
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Went for Entangled, but the album is more than the sum of its parts. The tracks work great together. When removed from the context of the album each track is somewhat diminished. I suppose that this is one of the measures of great album. ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 12:35
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At the same time, 'Stamp, Robbery' always seemed to me that throwaway, red-headed stepchild among the mix with the jarring beginning that went against the relative smoothness of the rest of the proceedings. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 12:35
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Dance on a volcano. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 13:11
Parallels my thoughts closely.  ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 13:11
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Los Endos, baby. ------------- |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 14:00
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Entangled followed by Dance on a Volcano. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: the lighthouse keepe
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 17:12
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Mad Man Moon is class and gets my vote. ------------- "Hello sun.Hello bird. Hello my lady. Hello breakfast.May I buy you again tomorrow?" |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 17:34
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Yes, this is a GREAT album . . . even "Trick of the Tail" ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 17:39
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Ripples ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 18:28
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I found a really bad album, as the only Genesis I enjoy is the Peter Gabriel era. But I do have to admmit that the first track some times move me around... somewhere... ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 18:44
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Dance ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: thwok
Date Posted: June 04 2015 at 05:42
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Although I'll listen to either incarnation of the band, I actually prefer Genesis without Gabriel unlike most. I love "A Trick of the Tail"; it's the song that instantly comes to mind when I think of one of the band's best albums. So I guess I'm a prog fan who's not in his right mind! ------------- I am the funkiest man on the planet! |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: June 04 2015 at 06:51
Stuck between a few (including the title track actually - got a soft spot), but since Squonk has isn't doing so well, it gets my vote. Honestly, they're all of supremely high quality
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Posted By: ebil0505
Date Posted: June 04 2015 at 09:18
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Los Endos for sureeeee, as soon as it reprises Squonk, my heart just stops beating. ------------- "I like to think oysters transcend national barriers." - Roger Waters |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: June 05 2015 at 15:39
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This is like an ensemble cast of songs, each shines in its own way. That being written, Los Endos, since it reprises several others, albeit briefly.
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Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: June 05 2015 at 18:29
Maybe it's time to listen this album for the first time in full ...
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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: June 06 2015 at 12:15
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Mad Man Moon, followed by Squonk. (btw. maybe someone can fix the error in the poll, it is not a very mad, mad moon... )------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: June 06 2015 at 13:20
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Has to be Dance on a Volcano for me. I accept that I'm somewhat of an outsider, but I personally break Genesis down into three rather than two. I add an era for 'post Gabriel but still with Hackett' and frankly that is my favorite. 'A Trick of the Tail' and 'Wind and Wuthering' are two of my all time favorite albums. (In fairness, I include Lamb and Selling England among my all time favorites as well. A Trick of the Tail though has been my favorite album since I started really keeping track of such things. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: June 07 2015 at 03:45
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Dance on a Volcano, today. -------------  
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: June 07 2015 at 06:37
| Apart from the title track I find it a very consistent album but I'll go for Dance on a Volcano. |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: June 07 2015 at 12:56
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Mad Man Moon gets my vote, love the hackett era |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 08:06
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Robery Assault and Battery for me - the instrumental section perfectly sums up just what I love about Genesis. |
Posted By: Kirillov
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 09:24
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Sail away, away... |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 11:40
Post Gabriel but with Hackett is also my favourite era of the band. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Rando
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 17:19
I really like the title track A TRICK OF THE TAIL with its quirky and off-beat rhythm and story-but my favorite is ENTANGLED, with MAD MAD MOON a close second-All perfectly tailored to Phil's softer voice. ------------- - Music is Life, that's why our hearts have beats - |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: June 10 2015 at 11:53
------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |