Trick of the Tail Vs. Wind & Wuthering

Saperlipopette! wrote: Dellinger wrote: I find it weird how Trick of the Tail is winning so notoriously. Even though there are many songs I like a lot on both albums, in Trick it is mostly poppier songs to my ears, while the songs I like from Wind and Wuthering are proggier I much prefer the much poppier ELO Time to the much proggier ELO 2 - and do not take such things into consideration. Maybe that's why? (I voted that I like them equally though)

Yes, of course. The thing for me is that those songs on Wind and Wuthering are not only proggier, but I like them better... yet, it's my own taste, of course.

While I don't find them to be similar pieces, YOSW and the track AToTT are similarly the most accessible tunes on their respective albums, and I'm surprised that one gets so much more hate than the other. Sure, YOSW is "sappier," one could say, but they are both pretty easy-going pop rock tracks. And YOSW actually has some more interesting and unexpected chord progression choices, particularly in the middle section. It just seems like the chorus is what turns away the proggers.

I find it weird how Trick of the Tail is winning so notoriously. Even though there are many songs I like a lot on both albums, in Trick it is mostly poppier songs to my ears, while the songs I like from Wind and Wuthering are proggier, and in general, my favourites from the era... mostly One for the Vine, which for me captures best what I loved from the Gabriel era, and Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers in that Quiet Earth (for me a single song), which is my very favourite Genesis instrumental (easily over Los Endos). And Afterglow closes with also one of my favourite pop moments from the band.

I like W&W, but not enough to not be a wide margin apart from ATOTT...

To those that mentioned "Your Own Special Way", that song is SUPER out of place on the album. It does not fit the record at all... I still think that A Trick of the Tail is only slightly better than Wind & Wuthering.....

I'm happy with Match Of The Day and with W&W just as they are. Almost every classic Genesis album includes some More Fool Me, or whatever that not everybody likes. Consistency per se doesn't elevate me at all, a great song is rather required. And TBH, Squonk isn't much of an elevator, give me YOSW anytime. Mad Man Moon, Entangled, that ones I love.

Cristi wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Cristi wrote: Steve Wyzard wrote: A Trick of the Tail is better by a wide margin. Even if "Your Own Special Way" were replaced by "Inside and Out" (as it should have been), both "All in a Mouse's Night" and "Blood on the Rooftops" are a bit "twee" and make Wind and Wuthering a "very good" rather than "great" album. I love those two songs.    I'll bet you don't love "your own special way."  I've already said what I think about the song, even in this thread.

yep inside and Out is a 5 stars track and would have been a nice addition to W/W
Your own special way was probably selected to satisfy a top single request by Charisma or band management
All in a mouse's night is imo a very nice track, it deserves its place on W/W

I like them equally

Both equally , both are must have

I wouldn't say by a wide margin but I do like ATOTT better since I think it's a little more consistent.