I think Harold the Barrel was all PG too.
lol my favorite genesis tune bar none
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 8 September 2023 14:29 (nine months ago) link
Love how Gabriel pronounces "Manhattan" like "man had honor" on the title track
― J. Sam, Friday, 8 September 2023 16:44 (nine months ago) link
yeah, I love that too, it's like, for just a moment, he's Mark E Smith
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 8 September 2023 17:23 (nine months ago) link
I’ve always been surprised that Back in NYC was not totally written by PG.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 9 September 2023 07:32 (nine months ago) link
echoes of the broadway everglades
love how everything melts here
― School of RAAC (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 September 2023 07:46 (nine months ago) link
lol i'd forgotten the silly Bonzos break in "Counting Out Time"
― School of RAAC (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 September 2023 08:24 (nine months ago) link
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 9 September 2023 14:19 (nine months ago) link
yeah it does have a bit of a Dodo/Lurker/ABCAB feel to it. I still feel like that song is very future-feeling, and that they kind of retreated from this for the rest of the decade
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 9 September 2023 16:55 (nine months ago) link
haha Abacab.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 9 September 2023 16:56 (nine months ago) link
I would have said that the one-bass-note-on-a-Taurus-pedal in "Back in NYC" is also very Mike Rutherford, but apparently he didn't start using them until 1976.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 10 September 2023 16:47 (nine months ago) link
Love how Gabriel pronounces "Manhattan" like "man had honor" on the title track― J. Sam
― J. Sam
wait that lyric is "manhattan"?
i have a soft spot for "counting out time"... that guitar break sounds very enossified to my ears, and the lyric, well, the only way i could think to work out sex was by numbers ("try writing the alphabet with your tongue"), and it never really worked for me. so i found that song very relatable.
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:11 (nine months ago) link
I'll admit I don't know a lot about the sex habits of Puerto Rican adolescent boys in 1974 New York, but I would assume Rael would be less likely to learn about sex from a presumably non-pornographic instruction manual than an upper-middle-class UK student at an all-male boarding school in the 60s would have been. That's a failure of characterization on Gabriel's part.
*embarrassed shrug*
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:44 (nine months ago) link