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Poll Question: Which one from the ones more voted?
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1 [2.33%]
1 [2.33%]
2 [4.65%]
4 [9.30%]
7 [16.28%]
1 [2.33%]
10 [23.26%]
4 [9.30%]
2 [4.65%]
4 [9.30%]
4 [9.30%]
3 [6.98%]
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    Posted: March 24 2014 at 12:04

Here are those songs that you voted more, so last choice. By this way can be an aproximation of a best Genesis lyric. As you can see I leave out Supper's ready, cos I suspect it would be an obvious winner.

 In fact it will be one more poll, different of these ones, but after this.

 We are a small club voting this, but I really enjoyed it, so thanks for you participation Smile
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Darn, two of my favorite lyrics didn't make the list. Harold the Barrel and The Battle of Epping Forest.

Oh well, from this list, I like Get 'Em Out by Friday.
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Musical Box because it fits Peter's delivery so well! Smile
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Blood On The Rooftops appeals to simple little me
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No love for "Fading Lights"? I think the lyrics are pretty cool.
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

No love for "Fading Lights"? I think the lyrics are pretty cool.

Agree, great lyrics by Banks on this one, but originally I decided to make the poll only with the four stars or more albums, to avoid something too tedious and not in the taste of the majority. That's the reason why lyrics like this one you mention are not here.
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I find the lyrics to Blood on the Rooftops to be quite poignant.
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I love Blood on the Rooftops, but I've never understood it. It seems to be about watching TV and drinking tea but not liking what's on. I suspect it requires some British awareness of the time. Blood on the Rooftops must be a reference to something unpleasant that happened and reported on the news.

It's the mystery that I love. I don't have to understand it, knowing there's some meaning in there that evades me is what I like so much about it.
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Harold the Barrell. Oh yeah, it's not on the list. So I voted Cinema Show. I don't really know what it's all about, but it blows my mind every time I hear it!
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Originally posted by stegor stegor wrote:

I love Blood on the Rooftops, but I've never understood it. It seems to be about watching TV and drinking tea but not liking what's on. I suspect it requires some British awareness of the time. Blood on the Rooftops must be a reference to something unpleasant that happened and reported on the news.It's the mystery that I love. I don't have to understand it, knowing there's some meaning in there that evades me is what I like so much about it.


If serve for something, in the words of Banks, Hackett had an intro and a verse but not a chorus. Collins had this melody with a few words "blood on the rooftops" and they used it as a chorus. And the lyrics were developed around this words.
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[QUOTE=Xonty]Musical Box because it fits Peter's delivery so well! Smile[/QUOTE]
Ditto with Blood on the Rooftops and Phil's delivery. Simply heartbreaking, and I can't relate to any of it!
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Blood on the Rooftops seems to be about the struggle of a regular bloke trying to understand world events, particularly, I think, the massacre of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich.
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I've never really assessed Genesis lyrics, just coz Pete came up with pure genius - I've always loved his Harold The Barrel lyrics for some reason or another - but there were never any douche lyrics I could ever think of that he came up with...........
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Originally posted by stegor stegor wrote:

I love Blood on the Rooftops, but I've never understood it. It seems to be about watching TV and drinking tea but not liking what's on. I suspect it requires some British awareness of the time. Blood on the Rooftops must be a reference to something unpleasant that happened and reported on the news.

It's the mystery that I love. I don't have to understand it, knowing there's some meaning in there that evades me is what I like so much about it.

For me its just a reference to TV that has a natural detachment to those horrible events being reported. We sit in the armchair sipping tea watching all sorts of images that only vaguely impact on us. There is also that nostalgia when mentioning a classic TV programme like Streets Of San Francisco that resonates with those of a certain age (ie me!)
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I've always loved the tale `One For The Vine' told, and it's surely one of the times when a Genesis lyrics became almost biblical.
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