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WORKING IN LINE

Mike Rutherford

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Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, released in 1980

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Working in Line (single version)
2. Compression

Line-up / Musicians

- Mike Rutherford / guitars, basses
- Noel McCalla / lead vocals
- Ant Phillips / keyboards
- Simon Phillips / drums
- Morris Pert / percussion

Releases information

Vinyl 7" Charisma CB 353

Thanks to Per Köhler for the addition
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MIKE RUTHERFORD Working in Line ratings distribution


3.22
(4 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of rock music(50%)
50%
Excellent addition to any rock music collection(25%)
25%
Good, but non-essential (25%)
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Collectors/fans only (0%)
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Review by Guillermo
PROG REVIEWER
3 stars I think that the time that the members of GENESIS took out of the band in 1979 really was a good opportunity for them to take a rest from the band and to "re-charge their batteries" for new things to be worked as a band. I also think that it was a good time to record two solo albums by Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks, respectively, and with Phil Collins working with BRAND X for a last time. Both solo albums by Rutherford and Banks (and also later with Genesis` s "Duke" album) also were showing the first signs of a transition that many Progressive Rock bands were increasingly doing about moving their music more towards the Pop Rock market of the eighties (while still having some Progressive Rock influences in some songs). A change in decade also marked a change in musical styles for most of them. Maybe it was a thing more dictated by the record companies, the radio stations, the media, and/or by their managers , or maybe it was a move done in collaboration with some of these musicians who maybe also wanted this change to happen. In my opinion, most of their music in the eighties, despite the changes, was better than most of the music which other new Pop Rock bands of that decade were releasing then. At least for me, it was much better and interesting to listen to their music than to DURAN DURAN`s music, for example..

This single by Mike Rutherford is an example of those two musical forces which I mentioned above, but still being very Progressive Rock in style. "Working in Line" is an energetic song which has an acoustic gutiar (I don`t know if it is a 12- string guitar) being the main instrument of the song, playing a riff, with Rutherford also playing a distorted lead guitar particularly during the last part of the song. Maybe Rutherford then was becoming more confident about his role as lead guitarist and this is showed in his new sound with the use of distorted guitars, which became very characteristic from him since Genesis`s "...and then there were three.." album from 1978, but sounding increasingly more confident in his lead guitar playing with the passing of time. I think that this song was a very good choice to be released as a single in 1980, but I don`t know how much success had in the Hit Parade charts or in the radio.

The single releases also have been a good opportunity for many musicians to release songs which are not included in their albums. So, in the "B" side of this single there is a song called "Compression" which only was originally released in this single. In this case, it is a more slow song, maybe a ballad or a love song, with Mike Rutherford playing arpeggios in a distorted guitar, with very good keyboards arrangements played by Anthony Phillips. There are also bass pedals played by Rutherford. I think that in the particular case of Rutherford (who I think that he does not have a very good voice to be a lead singer) having other singers like Noel McCalla to his sing his songs was a good idea. "Compression" is a good song, maybe more influenced by Prog Rock arrangements than "Working in Line".

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