Unquiet Slumbers - Afterglow

Yes, I'd agree with that. I love WAW and those three tracks round the album off perfectly.

^ Yeah, I'll check out your review, WW.

Eleventh Earl of Mar isone of my favourite album openers, so dramatic! Apparently it took Tony Banks a year to put One for the Vine together. How do you think that songs rates alongside his other 'epics'?

^ well WW, he said he pieced it together from lots of silly little pieces of music, that he knew wouldn't make the album unless all in one song, and he wanted them all there

Um no, never did it for me these last tracks. I found them a little tedious compared to earlier Genesis instrumentals (After the Ordeal, Hairless Heart). Afterglow has grown on me - maybe not incredibly prog, but a huge epic of a song. One for the Vine is magnificent: a true Genesis classic, as is Blood on the Rooftops. I can happily ignore the rest most of the time and would curl up with Trick of the Tail any night... but that's another thread.

Afterglow was an immediate pleaser with me when I bought the album as it cameout, but nowadays I cannot stand it anymore. I would not say it is unworthy of them, but it certainly ranks with the less complicated tracks as Carpet Crawler, I Know What etc... Still acceptable

But the real stinker on this album is the unsufferably long (and awfully stupid tear-jerker) Your Own Special Way. I am sure Banks allowed this crap to last twice the time it had to just to block yrt another Hackett track. There was plenty of tension with Hackett having tons of tracks ready, but Banks was being a bitch about who got the credits (this was fairly common in those years in every group) and asked Rutherford to double its lenght (let's fave it even clocking at two minutes, this stinker would still be too long)

This probably was the drop that overflowed the bucket and prompted Hackett to leave the band (instead of keeping a parallel solo career)