Bad Choice for a Single

flippedcanvas:

You are 100% right, but Invisible Touch is so bad, so totally awful I am at pains to recognise it as the same band. It didn't even ocour to me to think of Invisible Touch!! Thats Phil Collins, as far as I'm concerned, not Genesis..

'Follow you follow me' cuts deeper with me because I like ATTWT as an album, and FYFM was an unusually flacid end to a Genesis album. It was the defining moment when Genesis proved they could be an awful dissapointment. From then on you kinda expected it.

 

'Follow you follow me' by Genesis. It didn't really represent Genesis at the time, although it showed where they were going. The song is just poor, and I know for a fact their producer David Hentschel, didn't want it on ATTWT, because it was so crap.

The tune always makes me yawn and feel slightly queazy.

Also, anything by Asia, single or otherwise is total bollards..

Both "Kayleigh" and "Lavender" have suffered horribly after being released and over-played as singles. As part of the concept of "Misplaced Childhood", both work very well, but out of context they become horrible FM Radio MOR ballads and thus end up tarnished.

It's a bit like having only heard one part of one movement from a single concerto of Vivaldi's 4 Seasons over and over again (I hate those phone systems for that!) - you could soon start thinking that Vivaldi is boring. However, in context, the 4 Seasons suite (of 4 complete 3-movement concerti) is very exciting, a dramatic example of programme music (music written to express something specific as opposed to simply "Concerto for Violin in G Major"), and hence the earliest piece of prog imaginable.

Possibly.

I disslike singles altogether but i'll push that aside.

I think "Soon" by Yes was a bad single because on its own it doesnt seem that great but when you hear it as part of "Gates of Delirium" it sounds really good and fits in after the guitar/keyboard battle mellows out and jon sings this heartwarming piece. It doesn't have much impact on its own but it was amazingly approprietly placed in GOD.

Same with "Total Mass Retain", it didnt show off much greatness of the masterpiece "Close to the Edge" at all.

I'll go by the other side:

Twilight Allehouse and Happy the Man were two hit singles released by Genesis:

Happy the Man was an A side (and not B side as many people believed) with Seven Stones as B side.

Twilight Alehouse was B side of I Know What I Like.

Both songs deserved to be part of an album because have more quality than More Fool Me, For Absent Friends and IMHO even than I Know What I Like.

So both were bad choices for hit singles when really deserved to be part of an album.

Iván

Marcelo wrote: A single represents the intention to be on the radio for masses, through a simple and basic song. Valid point, and what a surprise after buy! (Imagine some guy who likes melodic pop in '70s buying -i.e.- ELP's BSS cause he heard "Still... You Turn Me On").

Actually he probably would have loved it... Its the guy who bought the first ELP album after listening to Lucky Man... and then hearing "The Three Fates".  That beginning organ solo even scared me the first time...

Led Zep never had a bad choice of single release in the UK - they never released one!!

Singles are a "Most Representative" of a bands accomplishments..... Especially of the forum herein..... Progressive Rock !!!!!!!!!   Does not everyone want to be successful ??????? 

Was Kayleigh and Pull me Under an accurate picture of Marillion and Dream Theater at the time?

 

"A single is the antithesis of progressive music, right?" Not necessarily... what about 'Wondrous Stories' by Yes, or 'Limelight' by Rush, 'House of the King' by Focus?