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Greg W 
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 Posted: September 06 2007 at 23:49 |
I wouldnt call it a masterpiece, but I like it. 
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razifa
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 23:44 |
Very bad song!!! Insipid! Reptitive, soulless, boring, etc.... etc.... etc....
I can't stand it!!!
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raindance2007
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 23:22 |
very good song 
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Arsillus
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 20:23 |
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Great song! One of the best cuts from that album. But then again, the whole album pwns.
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Zargus
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 19:21 |
Horible, the worst song on the otherwise good Trick of the tail album. I voted bad song. 
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Dean
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 19:03 |
I don't understand why Phil Collins sung it in mockney when he's practically a cockney anyway, I guess he thought he was reprising his Artful Dodger role. The middle instrumental break? yeah, well it's Genesis, it's what they were good at, but if doesn't matter how much sugar you put on a cow-pat, it's still manure.
Anywho, much rather listen to There Goes a Tenner by Kate Bush.
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Peter
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 18:57 |
Terriffic song -- i've always counted it among my favourites from the Collins-fronted era.
Great fun -- an entertaining story, well-crafted lyrics, a jaunty tune, a good vocal performance, and some top-notch instrumental work from Banks and the band. 
The Genesis boys still "had it' at that juncture -- very much so! 
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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White Shadow
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 18:28 |
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I enjoy it very much.
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JesusisLord
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 16:53 |
a little poppy, a little cheesy, but a good song nonetheless... Maybe in the spirit of Harold and his barrell !!!
Anyway, I do enjoy Banks run on the keyboards
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And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phillipians 2:11
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chopper
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 15:59 |
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Well, it's better than "Your own special way" and the ending is good, but I find this style of Collins a bit annoying, so I normally skip over it.
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Nightfly
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 15:57 |
 fuxi wrote:
Not a good song, but a superb instrumental middle section! |
Agreed the mid section is brilliant and the song would be pretty average without it.
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 12:48 |
It's a bad song with a nice ending! 
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jimidom
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 11:32 |
Excellent song! It might have even been the first Genesis video I ever saw.
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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST
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scandosch
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 10:56 |
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I remember back in 1977 not having bought the two albums sung by PHil Collins, as I was convinced that nobody could sing for Genesis if not PG. Well, I happened to see the video (yes, even if MTV wasn't born yet!) of Robbery from the middle section, hence the keyboard solo. I was in exstasy and wondering "who the hell is this band". Then Phil singing comes in...The next thing I remember is me junping on a train to go in the city and buy "Trick" and "Wind" right away. YES, a monster song!!!
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ProgBagel
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 10:26 |
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I don't know....more on the positive side so I guess a good one, a middle option would help.
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Chicapah
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 10:23 |
Tony shines on the middle instrumental section. The song sorta plods along and then WOW! The whole track turns into a monster. Worked very well live, too.
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Melomaniac
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 10:02 |
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I always considered this song to be a Collins' era version of songs like Harold The Barrel and The Battle of Epping Forest, only I like this one a whole lot more.
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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Bj-1
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 09:22 |
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Love it, although it's not the best cut from ATOTT. It is one of my personal favorites though.
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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fuxi
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 09:20 |
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Not a good song, but a superb instrumental middle section!
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iguana
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 08:38 |
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listened to the live version on “seconds out“ the other day. and just
after the first ARP-solo, when hackett's guitar sneaks in over that
mellotron crescendo with the 13/8-beat, i thought “whoa, if anyone
asked me, i'd play him this part for an epitomy of 70's prog rock!“
apart from that, the song is a lot of fun. not early GENESIS's finest, but
a good song
nonetheless!
R.I.P. luciano. god bless.
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progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false?
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