Invisible Touch
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Topic: Invisible Touch
Posted By: fudgenuts64
Subject: Invisible Touch
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 23:01
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Strange poll, but I feel as if this was the last album they put out that had some genuinely cool ideas. The New Wave influences make it for me, Tonight Tonight Tonight and The Brazilian are both such strong art rock tracks. I gotta go with Tonight, such an atmosphere. Will also give a nod to Domino, best proggy track they did since ATTWT in my opinion. Gotta listen to those b-sides more, I included them as many consider them to be really good material.
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 23:10
| This album didn't make it on my list, since I find it very weak and removed from what their potential was at that time. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 23:22
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I rather eat rocks. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 23:24
| I like the title track but in my opinion the two part domino is the most prog sounding thing on the album. Tonight, tonight, tonight is just a stretched out pop song imo and not all that interesting apart from a cool middle section. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 00:28
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Domino is the best track imo.
Land of confusion and Tonight, tonight tonight are reasonable, but the rest of the album is utter sh*t imo. The title track, I find almost offensive. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 01:31
| Yeah - Domino (musically, part 1, lyrically, part 2). A bit of a stretch to call it Prog, though a decent Crossover piece for what it is. |
Posted By: Zenbadger
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 02:47
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Album's not as bad as people make out. Some very well crafted pop songs that were the soundtrack to the late 80's and still hold up today. Domino's probably my least favourite track!
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 02:57
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1. Domino 2. Tonight, Tonight, Tonigh 3. The Brazilian I don't know the last three tracks, but I doubt if even one of them would reach.this top three.
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 03:06
Cannot see what anyone sees in The Brazilian Anything She Does is a really clever tune as is Domino and Tonight. Has not aged too well as an album but hey in 20 years it may be called epic! ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 06:11
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Domino - a faint echo of their prog past.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 07:01
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someone_else wrote:Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 08:28
Agree Tonight, Brazilian and Domino are all okay but rarely listen to them.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 08:36
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I like the album as a whole, but my favorite is Land of Confusion, followed by The Brazilian. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 08:38
| Land of Confusion |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 08:44
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I've always liked "Land of Confusion." It's a catchy number. The video was hilarious! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 09:39
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"Land of Confusion." ------------- "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?" |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 09:39
| Domino, baby! No, seriously, it was the proggiest composition on an otherwise shameful, throwaway effort recorded in order to capture some of the spirit of the '80s (not exactly a lofty aim). Except for its ending, I dig it and wish some of it had rubbed off on the rest of the album. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 09:53
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I have never listened to the album. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 11:48
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I find it an enjoyable album even if it is not in the same league as their 70s output. Voted Land of Confusion, with mention for Tonight Tonight, Domino, The Brazillian, and the title track (I knew a girl like that once - very troubling). ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 13:44
Probably Domino just for that "look at the beautiful river of blood" part, but I love this album 
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 13:48
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land of confusion for now. needs more listens. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 18:24
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The Brazilian. IMO, the album sounds very dated now and doesn't hold up well. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 18:47
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INVISIBLE TOUCH by a wide margin. I don't enjoy the 'proggy' side of this album, I would rather choose some songs from Phil's solo career if there were here, "I cannot believe it's true" f.e. -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 21:30
| "Land of Confusion", for me. It may not have any prog, but it's a wonderful pop song anyway. "Tonight, tonight, tonight" and "The Brazilian" are wonderful as well. I have never understood the love many people have with "Domino", though; it may be the proggiest on the album, but it just has about nothing that I enjoy (the live version is much better, though). |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 22:54
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Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: September 16 2014 at 05:09
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I'm in the minority that really likes this album. The long versions are not extended btw. They are the unedited versions, the full album tracks unlike what was / is issued. I like it for Phil's drumming but Do The Neurotic got my vote (makes a great album finale) very lyrical Rutherford is just fine on bass and guitar here. P.S. Finding any Genesis I don't like is a tough job....  |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: September 16 2014 at 06:38
I just hate the drum machine overdose on the Invisible Touch. Otherwise, it's a pretty classy album.
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: September 16 2014 at 13:32
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Domino ------------- |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 06:29
But that's enough to turn me off the whole album. Domino is the only half decent track.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 06:52
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This would be last Genesis LP I would buy. I kinda liked Land Of Confusion because it had a good video, but this album was the last straw, it's where I stopped keeping up with new releases by them.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 09:36
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The album has the charm of a tupperware box, and mostly sounds like it was recorded inside one.
I remember reading a glowing 5 star review for IT when it came out, in Kerrang! a UK heavy metal magazine. They were often criticised for bias towards certain bands. Rush, Hawkwind and Genesis could do no wrong in their eyes. Someone wrote in complaining when Status Quo split for the third time or whatever, asking why Kerrang had devoted seven pages to Rush just because they'd released an album, but only half a page obituary to Quo when they were splitting. I didn't mind. Love Rush, don't dig Quo, but I could see their point.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 17:19
Can't believe Land of Confusion is winning as it's one of the poppy songs on this album and I thought this was a prog site! I mean I think Tonight is proggier even if it is also a little poppy.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: September 19 2014 at 07:29
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Domino, though Tonight Tonight Tonight is good too.
I used to really like the album, but looking back on it now it seems rather poppy. As Morrissey (The Smiths) once sang: "Oh, has the world changed or have I changed?" Well, I did, I suppose. Land Of Confusion: like twosteves I can't believe that it is winning. Feeding The Fire is quite nice. It should have been put on the album instead of "In Too Deep" or some other short low-prog track. Not that FDF is proggy, but at least it sounds a bit more "alive". |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 22:26
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Tonight, tonight, tonight, I'm gonna make it right.
------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 23 2014 at 02:53
| The Brazilian (Domino is much better live) |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 29 2017 at 08:44
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Domino Feeding the Fire and Do the Neurotic are better than most songs on Invisible Touch. But then again, they chose to put Whodunnit instead of You Might Recall on Abacab, so...
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Posted By: Frankh
Date Posted: September 29 2017 at 09:37
| None of the above. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 27 2018 at 02:02
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Land of Confusion (easily). ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |