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Trick of the Tail Vs. Wind & Wuthering |
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Steve Wyzard 
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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.
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Cristi
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Posted: November 16 2022 at 13:31 |
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I love those two songs.  |
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Posted: November 16 2022 at 15:55 |
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W&W by a narrow margin.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: November 16 2022 at 17:51 |
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Trick of the Tail and the margin is quite wide.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: November 16 2022 at 18:06 |
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I wouldn't say by a wide margin but I do like ATOTT better since I think it's a little more consistent.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: November 16 2022 at 18:06 |
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I'll bet you don't love "your own special way."
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Posted: November 16 2022 at 18:21 |
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Both equally , both are must have
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Posted: November 16 2022 at 20:10 |
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I never get tired of Wind and Wuthering, but A Trick of Tale does not always grab me, even though I like it a lot as well.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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b_olariu
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Posted: November 16 2022 at 23:44 |
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I like them equally
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Cristi
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Posted: November 17 2022 at 00:26 |
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I've already said what I think about the song, even in this thread.
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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 |
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Posted: November 17 2022 at 05:54 |
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Trick, but only narrowly.
Haven’t listened to either for a while. In fact, I need to have a bit of a Genesis session…. |
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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.
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like them both equally they both have their different magic Your own special way sort of takes W&W off the perfect album list. Although I like it more now then I did originally.
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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.....
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Posted: November 17 2022 at 12:24 |
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ATOTT by a nose. Or a tail, I suppose...
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Posted: November 17 2022 at 12:38 |
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I like W&W, but not enough to not be a wide margin apart from ATOTT...
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Posted: November 17 2022 at 18:45 |
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Trick of the Tail by a wide margin. Because I was at the first concert of that tour and it was AWESOME !       |
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Posted: November 17 2022 at 21:06 |
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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.
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