Cinema Show

The cinema show is superb song indeed, along with The knife, Firth of the fifth and the best epic ever - Supper's ready, but my favourite is Musical box. And don't forget Aisle of plenty - one and a half minute of...   

stonebeard wrote: i like the keyboard solo, but then again, who doesn't????? but i always listen to Moonlit Knight first when i listen to Selling England

Yeah, cause its the first song on the album

I can't say I'm too fond of the first half of Cinema Show, but that 7/8 keyboard solo is just so damn good that it's worth listening to the whole song.

Call me a nut, but one of my favourtie Genesis songs is Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats. That little melody is so damn capitvating.

I know, most people pass it off as filler, because thats really all it is. But the first time I heard it, it jus struck something inside of me. Don't know what it was.

I'm not saying its their absolute best song, I just really like it.

This is my first post.

On the lyrics, Romeo has a date with Juliet to the movies, they are just two contemporanean teenager lovers.

Romeo tries to conquer Juliet 's love with gifts like chocolate surprises while Juliet "dabs her skin with pretty smells" just to attract Romeo's attention. The line "I will make my bed with her tonight" means just the natural sex hunger of all of the normal teenagers. (And some of the adults too.)

So, they go to the cinema and here is where Peter speaks about an ancient mythological character, Tyresias; who was man and then a woman, so he could experiment the both sides of sexual act (remember this is a theory) "a man like the sea I raged"... "a woman like the earth I gave, but there is in fact more earth than sea" which obviously means that in the sexual act, women enjoy more than men.

Ok, Romeo and Juliet are now in the theater ready to fulfill their desires, (I don't think about a rape, but in a romantic night).

The lights went down........ people keeps silence.......

...and now the movie starts, here comes the BEST KEYBOARD SOLO ON THE ROCK HISTORY (my opinion) it seems to be a sci-fi movie. Romeo and Juliet may be now deeply in their erotic desires of the night...

After that, we see Old Tessa in the aisles of a supermarket where England is being sold by the pound, this is the aftermath of the album; the Aisle Of Plenty... but that's another story.

By the way... I made a solo piano arrangement of this song, I love it.

That's all, I'm Baazetu form Mexico, excuse my bad English.

Edited by Baazetu

 

 

 Hi Absent enemy

 Personally I love the arrival section of colony of Slipper Men which was the second filler that enabled Peter to get into his slipperman costume. Someone could start a thread on fillers that they love

Baazetu wrote: This is my first post. On the lyrics, Romeo has a date with Juliet to the movies, they are just two contemporanean teenager lovers. Romeo tries to conquer Juliet 's love with gifts like chocolate surprises while Juliet "dabs her skin with pretty smells" just to attract Romeo's attention. The line "I will make my bed with her tonight" means just the natural sex hunger of all of the normal teenagers. (And some of the adults too.) So, they go to the cinema and here is where Peter speaks about an ancient mythological character, Tyresias; who was man and then a woman, so he could experiment the both sides of sexual act (remember this is a theory) "a man like the sea I raged"... "a woman like the earth I gave, but there is in fact more earth than sea" which obviously means that in the sexual act, women enjoy more than men. Ok, Romeo and Juliet are now in the theater ready to fulfill their desires, (I don't think about a rape, but in a romantic night). The lights went down........ people keeps silence....... ...and now the movie starts, here comes the BEST KEYBOARD SOLO ON THE ROCK HISTORY (my opinion) it seems to be a sci-fi movie. Romeo and Juliet may be now deeply in their erotic desires of the night... After that, we see Old Tessa in the aisles of a supermarket where England is being selled by the pound, this is the aftermath of the album; the Aisle Of Plenty... but that's another story. By the way... I made a solo piano arrangement of this song, I love it. That's all, I'm Baazetu form Mexico, excuse my bad English.

Welcome! your english is near flawlwess (one small mistake, dont worry i make em all the time)

Cinema show is technically outstanding, no doubt.
Yet I prefer Dancing with the moonlit knight from the same album for the emotion it conveys (and they are not my favourite Genesis tracks anyway)

AbsentEnemy wrote: stonebeard wrote: i like the keyboard solo, but then again, who doesn't????? but i always listen to Moonlit Knight first when i listen to Selling England Yeah, cause its the first song on the album I can't say I'm too fond of the first half of Cinema Show, but that 7/8 keyboard solo is just so damn good that it's worth listening to the whole song. Call me a nut, but one of my favourtie Genesis songs is Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats. That little melody is so damn capitvating.

I love Silent Sorrow too! In fact I love all the little musical interludes in Lamb. They add "atmospherics" and are not really filler at all.

Aerosol Grey wrote: especially how soft and hard to hear the druming is when it should be raging.

You should definetly hear the Seconds Out version then (maybe you already have). It's more or less the same as the studio version but Phil takes the drums up a few notches.

Yes, this is one of the best Genesis songs I've heard. Love the keyboards later in the song.