Let's Discus Genesis

Soulless pop drivel or dribble.

"No woman can truly love a man who listens to Phil Collins."

Ouch.

mindweak wrote:

pretty sure this is a long quote from american psycho but looks like you guys got trolled....i mean did you catch the handle? paul allen? wow you guys are dense

We are dense because maybe we have not seen every movie in the world?

anon. wrote:

If anybody knows the bass EQ settings for that "thum, thum, thum" sound in the Milli Vanili records post them here.

What is "thum thum thum"? Can you provide an example from one of their songs?

Great thread

Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhyzGDPwmYU

That thud, thud, thud from :09-:29, and from 1:28 - 2:27

One Frank Farians secrets? And a formula in many of their sic, hits.

It sounds live a compressed kick drum or an over modulated bass.

But it's never been documented in any recording magazines (Mix),

how the sound was achieved?

anon. wrote:

Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhyzGDPwmYU

That thud, thud, thud from :09-:29, and from 1:28 - 2:27

One Frank Farians secrets? And a formula in many of their sic, hits.

It sounds live a compressed kick drum or an over modulated bass.

But it's never been documented in any recording magazines (Mix),

how the sound was achieved?

Whoa 😐

If I hadn't lived through it, I'd never believe that for a brief moment in the mid 80's Phil Collins was a bona fide mega-star.

Paul Alllen wrote:

I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. .

Blah blah blah, The greatest artist of the 80s was Houston. Greatest song, the greatest love of all.

Ohhh baby. Love me some JC.

Kimmy_Bop wrote:

I like Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins as

Solo artists, but I could never get into genesis. I have some of their cassettes, so my taste

May change one day but their progressive rock non standard time signature and nonstandard everything is impossible to listen to. Maybe I should try adjusting to it. 3 minutes of genesis every other day, followed by 10 minutes every Sunday. Maybe 30 minutes at massage (give the masseuse a genesis cd)

I can listen to "Nursery cryme" and "Selling England by the pound" all day long. If you want unlistenable prog rock try Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

Did you know that Whitney Houston's debut LP, called simply Whitney Houston had 4 number one singles on it?

It's hard to choose a favorite among so many great tracks, but "The Greatest Love of All" is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation, dignity. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves. Since it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really. And it's beautifully stated on the album.

Huey Lewis and the News wrote:

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

"Let There Be Light" was a Roger Waters, Pink Floyd song.

Speaking of songs, one of the most dangerous practices

is listening to music at a low volume.

But let's discuss Genesis?

One particular tune is from anti-drug compilation album for the

Do It Now Foundation, "First Vibrations" credited to Genesis

from 1968.

Having rediscovered the song, "The Long Road" is about

a man's acerbic slide into heroin addiction. But it's writer, is

mysteriously credited to man named Jack Ttanna. There

is no explanation from either Gabriel or Collins?

Genesis - The Long Road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KK7GrwtF6A

It sounds like Peter Gabriel or a very very early Phil Collins

audition.

Going back to the practice of active listening.

At 3:09, there's a brief haunting man that sounds like he's

saying "Yoko, Yoko, Yoko!", in the margins of the music

you can hear both bass and guitar parading the name

of "John Lennon", who at the time experimented with

heroin. Nobody can deny the lyrics:

In the passage the singer sings.

"the girl who loves him

is filled with delusions

she sees her rose colored world

turning black

her lover is hooked

and she sees no solution

she knows...

[lyrics obscured

with a sic, "Yoko, Yoko, Yoko!", heard

in the background]

There is no data on the song although it's featured as

a bonus track from Genesis' first album "In the Beginning",

I think....it's an early Phil Collins audition. One of the most

poignant expressions of drug addiction from the the nineteen

sixties.

It is a sampled break, most famously used on Eric B and Rakim's 'paid in full'. Either they used the break themselves or sampled Eric B and Rakim's version of it.

well.... wrote:

Are they the ones who sang "Let there be light"?

Yes, and then after that they "created" the sun. Oops!