INVISIBLE TOUCH

Genesis

Symphonic Prog

2.51 | 1524 ratings

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Invisible Touch is much better than 1983's Genesis, but that doesn't mean it's a prog album.

The title track is pure pop, this has got nothing to do with Gabriel albums, but it's not the worst song on this album. Average, and if it wouldn't be such a big hit I would say it's a filler. Tonight.... has got a good intro which reminds me of Duchess (from Duke), with bongos and a "real ambience", you know what I mean, atmospherical track.....but it fades too fast into a pop song. In the middle of the song you can hear weird effects. Somewhere after 7 minutes it starts to be boring and it lacks after 8 minutes so you jsut wish that it fades very fast. A nearly 9 minute pop track..... but not really a filler track.... Land of Confusion was a very big hit in the 80's. In my opinion, it sounds too mcuh like disco crap. In Too Deep is a Collins ballad, but there are good Collins ballads (like Your Own Special Way, Many Too Many, Man On The Corner or The Roof Is Leaking from his first solo album) and bad Collins ballads. This one isn't good and it isn't bad, just a filler track. Anything She Does: silly crap. The worst song on IT. Domino has got two parts, In The Glow Of The Night and The Last Domino. The first part is the better one, the second part is more disco-ish. Although it's 10 minutes it's not that typical 10-minutes-suite, more a very long and sometimes strange ballad, something about a nuclear war and two lovers who don't know if the other is alive. You can't see what the topic is when you just read the text, I've read this on a Genesis FAQ site. Throwing It All Away is another Collins ballad. It's a quite good one. The last instrumental song is The Brazilian, very good as a closer track (yes, of course Los Endos or Afterglow are much better closers), but I've never listened to the whole song so I don't know how it finishes. I'll listen to it right now, when I've finished the review. The song also appeared in the film "When the Wind Blows". Roger WATERS (Pink Floyd) had also written some songs for this film. Sorry for my English mistakes.

Good, but non-essential.

the Sorcerer

| 3/5 | 2005-5-23

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