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Fox On The Rocks
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Topic: Wind and Wuthering - Genesis Poll Posted: April 19 2012 at 15:23 |
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Sounds nothing like Pete. |
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: April 18 2012 at 20:52 | |
That is not Genesis. It sounds like a bunch of teenagers in a garage trying to emulate Genesis.
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...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... |
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Icarium
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Posted: April 18 2012 at 20:46 | |
All in th Mouses Night is my favourite Genesis song
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TheShaggs
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Posted: April 18 2012 at 20:35 | |
I was wondering if anyone knew what this "Genesis" song is. I like it a lot, is it real?
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Billy Pilgrim
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Posted: January 25 2012 at 05:00 | |
Your Own Special Way, yeah, I said it.
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: January 24 2012 at 09:04 | |
yeah good song too^^^^
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Guitar Noir
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Posted: January 24 2012 at 08:34 | |
Afterglow, one of Tony Bank's best songs.
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"Sometimes the afterglow isn't enough and we have to move on." Steve Hackett
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: January 21 2012 at 20:39 | |
As said before, the oly song I'm sure about the meaning is Eleventh Earl of Mar and the Misadventures of John Erskine 11th Earl of Mar.
Even the reference to Perth Out on the road in the direction of Perth, Backwards and forwards in a circle they went. Leaves no doubt, he took the forces under his command to Perth (Pairth ) where precious time was lost and due to his incompetence, the Jacobites were lost. Iván
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twosteves
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Posted: January 21 2012 at 15:47 | |
Afterglow is a love song ---afterglow is the warm and fuzzy feeling you have after you finish (Orgasm) with someone you love---the feeling that they are in total control of you----it has nothing to do with god IMO---Banks used to joke about how their repressed boys school made it hard for him to write a simple love song.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: January 21 2012 at 15:05 | |
I think you're reading way too much into a simple fairy tale of mouse revenge, wherein an "Everymouse" is saved from a feline feast by an avenging arch-mouse.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: January 21 2012 at 14:59 | |
Toss up between "Blood on the Rooftops" and "One for the Vine". The last great Genesis album.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: January 21 2012 at 12:25 | |
I voted "One For The Vine", but this is one of my least favorite Genesis albums.
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refugee
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Posted: January 21 2012 at 10:40 | |
I just found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0JTA6sRJw&feature=related |
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He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 18 2011 at 01:18 | |
Thanks again everyone - I DEFINITELY WILL QUOTE some of these ideas in the blog - with permission i hope from one and all. I appreciate the input and feedback. Working on the blog entry now and its almost complete so please continue ideas.
One thing i am a bit perplexed with is the meaning of 'All in a Mouses Night' I wrote in my review the following but do you agree or disagree - and can you add anything? ‘All In A Mouse’s Night’is an intriguing piece where a mouse speaks to a
loving couple, Cinderella style. The lyrics are charming with a few dark
nuances thrown in . Loving Couple: The song continues with its
quirky jaunty rhythms telling the tale of the mouse’s adventures; “Suddenly he
bumps into wood, the door is closed. A voice from the bed, he'll be
exposed. Which way to run, must make for the hole, The light's
been turned on, he's blind as a mole in coal.” Perhaps the mouse is a
metaphorical representation of sexual suppression that the lovers are feeling.
In fact a cat comes into the story and chases the mouse to its final fate; “But
now the cat comes in for the kill, His paw is raised, soon blood will
spill, yes it will.” The cat has a cynical line of dialogue that further
cements the sexual tension in the lives of the lovers. They are experiencing conflict
that is represented by the cat and the mouse scenario; “Hard luck mouse, this
is the end of your road. The signpost says inside me, let me bear your
heavy load. But it's not to be, that final pounce, Knocks a jar
upon his head, and lays him out.” In any case it is a fun song harkening
back to the classic Genesis material on “Foxtrot” or “Selling England By The
Pound”. Other interpretations are
that the mouse represents mental health and the protagonist loses it completely
when the cat is devoured by the ten foot mouse. Also this could be a dig at the
Looney Tunes cartoon where Sylvester is taunted by a ‘ten foot mouthsh’ and it
is actually a baby kangaroo but Junior thinks it’s a real mouse and forces his
father to fight it to no avail. A darker interpretation is that the loving couple discovered a mouse costume stored
in an old casket in the basement. The male donned the costume in order to
scare his female lover but it backfires as she has become a cat in costume also
and “it only took one blow”, she performs oral sex thus finishing in the
superior position of the relationship. Or did she kill her lover accidentally
thinking he was a lunatic trying to kill her. Or did the man in mouse costume
see a cat on his way upstairs and whack the cat dead. The song is nevertheless
about the chase, submission and sexual tension, disguised in a cute tale, and
is one of the great tracks on the album.
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7headedchicken
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 12:42 | |
That's what I was thinking about "One For the Vine", and I'm not sure about the meaning of all of the other songs, and I could be wrong about this one, but I always heard "Afterglow" as being about giving yourself up to God. Maybe with those two songs there is a connecting theme, but I'm having trouble applying "All In a Mouse's Night" and "Blood On the Rooftops" to that theme, except maybe the line "seems Helen of Troy has found a new face again" from "Blood On the Rooftops" could be parallel to the part in "One For the Vine" where the leader sees another figure in the crowd "vanish into air" to pursue his same path.
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refugee
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 09:09 | |
Scott, I don’t know if you can use this in your blog, but I’ve detected a very intersting thing in One for the Vine. "The vine" sounds very much like "divine". Try it out in the lines: He walked into a valley, all alone. There he talked with water, and then with the vine/divine. Isn’t it much like Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane? That again may mean that he’s about to be sacrificed – which he indeed is in a way. What do you think? |
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He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
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irrelevant
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 09:06 | |
Have you listened to One Size Fits All? Great album, highly recommended.
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 08:42 | |
Blood on the Rooftops.
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mwood
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 08:34 | |
I don't think that there is any sort of overriding concept here, but the songs do hang together very well - for me, anyway. I looked up the lyrics to "Florentine Pogen", and sure enough, it contains this bit: Chester's go-rilla
She go oink Chester's go-rilla She go quack Chester's go-rilla She go moo Chester's go-rilla She go So there you go. |
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: November 16 2011 at 23:05 | |
All of the songs are about pants
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