Favorite Story Based Genesis Song? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I love the stories of Peter's extemporaneous "fillers" that he used to invent on the spot in order to cover the otherwise-dead-space that his mates required between songs for endless re-tunings, re-programming, volume checks, re-stringings, and other activities. The one on Genesis Live is legend, but if they were all as creative and supernatural-sci-fi-ish as that one, I would have wanted that book! I wouldn't be surprised to learn that "Squonk" or "A Trick of the Tail" came from one of these.

Otherwise, Sides Three and Four of The Lamb never fail to trip my imagination.

Edited by BrufordFreak - April 18 2020 at 07:55

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Yeah. We’ve had plenty of discussion about Battle of Epping Forest, and we’ll probably have a lot more. I still don’t understand the swarm of dislike for it. Especially when directed toward the song structure. I can in fact understand how some might suffer fatigue and just get worded out. But their use of varied parts with transitional elements crossing time signatures and keys is quintessential Genesis and they were very adept at it by that time. I love guitar parts, I might add too.

I think this is probably more apparent if you're British, but personally: here (and in some other places) the lyrics feel uncomfortably condescending towards their subjects. The impression is given that posh public schoolboy Peter Gabriel finds the antics of the lower classes awfully comical. I'm put in mind of a quote from Michael Caine about his motivations for playing the lead in Get Carter:

"One of the reasons I wanted to make that picture was my background. In English movies, gangsters were either stupid or funny. I wanted to show that they're neither. Gangsters are not stupid, and they're certainly not very funny." He identified with Carter as a memory of his working class upbringing, having friends and family members who were involved in crime and felt Carter represented a path his life might have taken under different circumstances: "Carter is the dead-end product of my own environment, my childhood. I know him well. He is the ghost of Michael Caine."

I mean there's a place for The Lavender Hill Mob as well as Get Carter. But that place was really in in 1951, not 1973.

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Slippermen, but 'Harold the barrel' should be on the list imo.

Fountain of Salmacis. Best Genesis - EVER !!

Get Em`Out By Friday

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All of them!!! (But I voted for the mighty hogweed.)

Yeah. We’ve had plenty of discussion about Battle of Epping Forest, and we’ll probably have a lot more. I still don’t understand the swarm of dislike for it. Especially when directed toward the song structure. I can in fact understand how some might suffer fatigue and just get worded out. But their use of varied parts with transitional elements crossing time signatures and keys is quintessential Genesis and they were very adept at it by that time. I love guitar parts, I might add too.

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Get 'Em Out By Friday. Hogweed and Slippermen come next. Both good but neither quite get close to Get 'Em Out. Epping has always been the (relative) dud on SEBTP to me, but the lyrics and story are good fun. Just a bit of a mess song-wise. All In A Mouse's Night comes before Robbery, Assault, and Battery for me, probably just because I heard WaW long before ATotT.

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Get Em' Out, of course.

I think cinema show should be on this list. Smile

Anyway, I voted for Hogweed but all of these are pretty good.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - July 13 2019 at 19:28

Poll Question: Which is your favorite?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Return of The Giant Hogweed	11	[19.64%]
Get Em' Out By Friday	24	[42.86%]
The Battle of Epping Forest	11	[19.64%]
The Colony of Slippermen	5	[8.93%]
Robbery, Assault and Battery	2	[3.57%]
All in a Mouses Night	3	[5.36%]
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