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   I listen to the music mostly, myself. However, I do look at the lyrics
in the booklets while I listen to them. I understand what some of the
songs are saying. I will agree that Back in NYC it is hard to
understand what Pete is saying.

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genesis24601 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: November 14 2005 Status: Offline Points: 57	Topic: Genesis lyrics- Posted: November 26 2005 at 23:12
	I listen to the music mostly, myself. However, I do look at the lyrics in the booklets while I listen to them. I understand what some of the songs are saying. I will agree that Back in NYC it is hard to understand what Pete is saying.
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B3Brad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: November 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 28	Posted: November 13 2005 at 23:01
	I don't pay a whole lot of attention to the lyrics, Peter Gabriel isn't understandable on most of 'The Lamb,' especially 'Back In NYC.' Edited by B3Brad

Rael72 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: November 13 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 42	Posted: November 13 2005 at 19:19
	My user name and signature is based on them. NOTHING beats the lyrics in Genesis tunes. Supper's Ready, The Lamia, The Colony Of Slippermen, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, One For The Vine...it's nothing short of magnificent.
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Blacksword Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130	Posted: November 07 2005 at 09:06
	Perhaps this thread should be in the main prog lounge?? I like Gabriels lyrcis, but in the case of any band it's the music I listen to over lyrics. Every now and then a lyricist comes along who is worth listening to, I guess. Gabriel is one, as well as Peter Hammill, Fish, and Neil Peart. I especially like the lyrics on 'The Lamb..'
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The Miracle Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427	Posted: November 06 2005 at 15:23
	I love their lyrics too, but don't really understand them Usually when I listen to music I pay attention to voice more than the lyrics and the fact that I don't understand them doesn't bother me. When I listen to Italian prog, I don't understand anything, and still I enjoy it as much as English sung music. Peter Gabriel has one of the greatest voices in prog, and that's what matters to me the most
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The Doctor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 23 2005 Location: The Tardis Status: Offline Points: 8543	Posted: November 06 2005 at 15:16
	I love Genesis' lyrics, at least during the gabriel and early collins era. I know most of the songs' lyrics by heart. I'm not sure who my favorite lyricist is, but I'm sure it's between Banks (Firth of Fifth, Time Table, Mad Man Moon, Seven Stones, Burning Rope, etc.) and Gabriel (Supper's Ready, Musical Box, the entire album The Lamb, except for the Light Dies Down). Although I also like Rutherford's lyrics (especially Fountain of Salmacis, Ripples, Eleventh Earl of Mar), Hackett's lyrics (Entangled, For Absent Friends, Blood on the Rooftops), and Phillip's lyrics (Dusk and Visions of Angels). When you say understand the lyrics, do you mean understand the words that are coming out of gabriel's mouth or understand the meaning behind the words? Shouldn't this be in the main prog lounge and not in tech talk?
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Genesisprog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 14 2005 Location: Estonia Status: Offline Points: 188	Posted: November 06 2005 at 14:24
	Do you listen them? Or do you just listen music? How well you understand lyrics of Genesis (Gabriel era)
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