Well, I've been waiting. Waiting for this poll - The "Invisible Touch" Poll

Voting "Domino", just ahead of "Land Of Confusion" and "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight". Those three tracks are really the essence of this patchy album, although the title track was kind of catchy as a typical 80s radio single.

THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO WHEN SHE'S NEXT IN LINE.

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So what about that New Toyota Ad with Phil Collins?

goddamn look all those hits, shit was like a bald english thriller.

gotta go with tonightx3, though, has to be the best thing to ever come out of someone saying "jesus, they want a 5th single? let's give them the brooding one that goes on for 9 minutes".

I went with "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" too but it was a toss-up between it and "Throwing It All Away".

And one that starts "Going down going down like a monk-keeeeyyy...."

I have zero recollection of "Anything She Does".

"Throwing It All Away" is one of my favorite eighties ballads, for the ooh-ooh-ooh-oohs over the piano and drums.

Was going to vote "In too deep", then realised I was singing the Dead or Alive song.

Though not officially released as a single, a music video of the song exists. It features Benny Hill (in his Fred Scuttle guise) as an incompetent security guard whom many fans sneak past to get backstage while the band rehearses. He later finds the people who have sneaked past him have made a mess of the hospitality room, yet manages to clear them all out and restore the room to its original condition just as the band returns to see it. The most accessible form of the video exists most prominently on YouTube.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1z3et_genesis-anything-she-does_music

haha I was about to post that.

lol okay I remember this song now

this is kind of the song that makes the whole album a dick

You know the Genesis version of "In Too Deep" right?

If they'd done it funk, like "Susudio", it'd been miles better!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1z25q_live-genesis-the-brazilian_music

awesome

Kate Bush is looking great in the Benny Hill video!

I can't decide what's more grating: the synth wallop or Collins' yelling on "Anything She Does." It's like he's singing through a trumpet.

That's the thing; I'm not going to be a gigantic Genesis apologist or anything but a lot of the songs on this album are interesting in terms of arrangement/theme/performance, so it's kind of super-jarring to have this dollop of suck dropped into the middle of it.

The reason I couldn't place the song at first is because I ALWAYS skipped it when I played the album.

Embarrassing to admit, but I think I really mostly like this album because of American Psycho.

Voting "Tonight Tonight Tonight."

god i saw the end of their reunion tour movie on vh1 classic and they played invisible touch, only it sounded they played it a lower key (to the point that when they did the big key change at the end it sounded like the one they start the recorded version in). hope for the audience's sake that this was in no way a high point of the concert.

gotta go with tonightx3, though, has to be the best thing to ever come out of someone saying "jesus, they want a 5th single? let's give them the brooding one that goes on for 9 minutes".

The 7 inch edit was nowhere near that length though.

As for "Anything She Does" I remember a lot of radio stations picked it up after the album was released, thinking it might be the next single after "Invisible Touch". Kind of happy it never became a single though, agreed it's probably the worst thing in here.

This album used to play a lot at my place when I was very young. "Tonight Tonight Tonight" had a special importance for me as some kind of master-signifier for a vague notion of immoral, even soul-harming seduction, though I have no idea what kind of terms I would have framed this in at 8 years old.

Probably something like the sex/vampires stuff in 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'.

Good album. Went with "Throwing It All Away".

Looking at the hits statistics, it strikes me that this album spawned no less than five US Top 5 singles. So no wonder it is remembered by a lot of people here. In the non-album based lists of Europe, the fourth and fifth single pulled off an album would be a more moderate seller than in the US, but even here, all those songs were very well known hits. Of course, this hilarious vid helped keep the interest, and an "Invisible Touch" thread shouldn't be without that particular video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7FKO5DlV0

It's hard for young'uns to realize that a bald, paunchy Brit was one of the biggest stars in the world between 1984 and 1990.

Of course, this hilarious vid helped keep the interest

It even helped get Spitting Image on US television for a brief run.

wow these songs are things that i barely think of as songs. i never owned a genesis or phil collins album, but this stuff permeated the atmosphere of my adolescence. it was like water to a fish, it was just always around me and i don't remember if i even had any real opinion of it.

The kids these days are right, "Invisible Touch" and "Land of Confusion" are bangin' tunes.

^^ you can blame that on being born the mid-eighties and parents playing adult contemporary in the car

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I was in a small store in Manhattan last winter, and "Throwing It All Away" came over the PA. I spied not one, not two, but three shoppers absentmindedly humming along.

"Anything She Does" is pretty good, I think! I like every song on this album.

You know, that in twenty years or more, you'll still look the same as you do today. You'll still be a young girl, When I'm old and grey.

??!!!! right?

I want to know if the prediction of this song was accurate & the object of this verse is still youthful & vivacious. Phil's prophecy about his future appearance was destined to be accurate, as he already looked like the glans of a gnome when it was recorded.

Hahahaha!

Maybe it was about Peter.

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The Brazilian 5

WTF???????????????????

the glans of a gnome!

I almost voted for the Brazilian but went for Domino instead. TBH this isnt a Genesis album I'm that fussed with, gimme ABACAB or Lamb any day (but you all knew this already).

It's hard for young'uns to realize that a bald, paunchy Brit was one of the biggest stars in the world between 1984 and 1990.

― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

http://www.kenthinks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bennyhill.jpg

Dammit I missed this poll!! Would've voted the title track. This was the first album I ever remember really loving. Must've been about six or seven. I was just OBSESSED with all those great radio singles, even "In Too Deep".

That is one ugly album cover, though.

HOW THE FUCK did "Invisible Touch" get no votes???

LOL it didn't, I didn't even notice. Thats hilarious.

She sees the hat & invisible touch-it.

Srsly I wld love to hear anyone's justification of why the Brazillian is #1 best.

Cos it has some cool percussion bits!

...wait, am I thinking of the right song?

And why is there no ABACAB poll >:|

It's the instrumental.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to nominate this:

http://www.robbierocks.ch/LP%20Cov%20SM/D-G/Genesis/1993-genesis%20live%20vol%202..jpg

as the worst album cover of all time.

The awkward, hunched-over poses! The colors! The 4-year-old-with-crayons font!

missed this poll, but my choice would probably have been domino or throwing it all away, though i loved the brazilian to DEATH when i was a kid, for all the heavy synth tom abuse.

Invisible Touch - 0

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

She seems to have an invisible touch-0.

Whenever I hear that song from now on I will sing it "She seems to have an invisible touch...ZERO"!

Bwaha =)

I too voted for Domino but almost voted for the Brazilian. Love the weird bent keyboard sounds, the messed up drum melodies, and then the kind of unstoppable keyboard march that constitutes the "chorus," if this song has one.

"Invisible Touch" is loads better than "Land of Confusion," "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight," or "Throwing it All Away" and should have placed. Late Genesis was good at: up-with-people pop songs + overwrought concept suites + instrumentals. And "Mama," which doesn't fit any of these, which in fact sounds more like "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight," but which is awesome.

Hmm I would've voted "In Too Deep." This was one of my first vinyl records.

i'm trying to think if there's any other big blockbuster album where one of the biggest hits could possibly get 0 votes in a poll

Only on ILM! =)

The setlist of the last Genesis tour (which was pretty good) offered a nice mix of old and, um, not as old. But it ended on the most WTF note:

Behind the Lines / Duke’s End / Turn It On Again/No Son Of Mine/Land of Confusion/In The Cage / The Cinema Show / Duke’s Travels / Afterglow/Hold on My Heart/Home by the Sea / Second Home By The Sea/Follow You Follow Me/Firth of Fifth / I Know What I Like/Mama/Ripples/Throwing It All Away/Domino/Drum Duet / Los Endos/Tonight, Tonight, Tonight / Invisible Touch/I Can’t Dance/Carpet Crawlers

Really? "Invisible Touch" to "I Can't Dance" to "Carpet Crawlers?" What a awkward bummer, it was.

Amusingly, throughout the night, women would leave to go stand in the beer line during the proggier numbers, guys would leave during the ballads. Pretty funny.

i never noticed how fat and gnome like phil's profile on that live album was, but that's because I never bought that album, I guess

I assumed they ended with Carpet Crawlers due to having re-released it a couple of years ago.

My bf's best friend went to the Paris show, he basically stood in a line all day to get in. I couldnt imagine those big shows (Rome esp), how the eff do you stay in a giant crowd for 12+ hours, how does going to the toilet and eating work!?

This was one of the few contemporary albums my parents had when I were a nipper. I had no memory of it until I clicked here and saw the cover. Just look at that cover.