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Top 10 (at the moment) Bob Dylan songs 1 Series Of Dreams 2 Not Dark Yet 3 Born In Time 4 Most of the Time 5 Visions of Johanna 6 Ring Them Bells 7 When The Deal Goes Down 8 High Water 9 Jokerman 10 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Top 10 (at the moment) Genesis songs 1 Carpet Crawlers 2 Entangled 3 One For The Vine 4 Undertow 5 It's Gonna Get Better 6 The Chamber of 32 Doors 7 Supper's Ready (I mean, how can you not have it on a list...) 8 Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers 9 Duchess 10 Firth of Fifth

Can-Utility - oh yes! A bit of a lost gem, I’d say - overshadowed by other greats on that record. I love that Genesis was in a phase of playing some amazing part and never returning to it - it made for such dense, complex songs - but with this one, I just LONG for the “those who love our majesty “ section to return at the end - it is so powerful and beautiful.

For me, Zep has been so...wrung out by classic rock radio, that I went a long while without listening to them at all. But...I do find remembering that they were an ALBUMS band, not some group with 6 or 8 song played in endless rotation, is useful. They went lots of different places on the records - places that Rock And Roll, Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker etc don't show you. I find Houses Of The Holy to be just about a perfect record.

You know, I've never really given that record the time of day. I'm not sure why. I heard it at some point - around the time I heard all their stuff for the first time - and I think it along with Atom Heart Mother just didn't really grab me. I shall give it a spin and re-assess. :)

Very hard because it shifts fairly regularly, but at the moment I'd go with - SEBTP The Lamb Wind & Wuthering Foxtrot ATOTT

Wind & Wuthering often slides into my #1 spot - it is just so rich and lush. So many gorgeous melodies and harmonies, and everyone’s playing is top notch. The only thing that gives it a tiny demerit point for me is All In A Mouse’s Night. I just wish they’d written a different set of lyrics for it - it is a little too cute and twee for me.

A damn sight better than having that Van Halen song stuck in there. Love this tune.

Agree. I have always thought that ATTWT is the most...inconsequential Genesis record (of the era that Collins was in the band as drummer and/or singer). Despite it having one of their biggest early hits...it's somehow like if it didn't exist, it almost wouldn't matter - which I don't think you could say for any other record of theirs. If Follow You Follow Me had just been a single and the rest of the record wasn't made, the career path would seem to be about the same. I say that despite just listening to it recently and quite enjoying parts of it. There are lots of bands I guess that have a bunch of albums, and some are quintessential and some are just "there". I don't think of Genesis (or Rush, or Pink Floyd, for instance) in that category.... except for this one album. But I might just go listen to it again. 😂

Definitely. I enjoy some of their later period stuff, too - and Trespass before that, actually. But the five piece version with Hackett - and then the brief 4 piece without Gabriel is my favourite thing. Despite that, I’ve also being going back to And Then They Were Three. It’s a kind of weird in between record - not quite Duke but on the way, but with more meandering and some sub level tunes. But - it’s still Genesis in the 70s, and still has moments that give me chills. Undertow kills me.

How Does It Feel When It's Love - Van Halen. Which is a piece of s**t. Don't know how it got in there.

Genesis. Going through some hard times...and a deep dive into their catalogue from 1972 - 1978 or so is just making me feel so much beauty.

I wonder if Geddy and Alex listened to tapes that DO exist, and decided they were not up to their standards, performance wise. I've not dug deep into bootleg land, but have watched some blurry vids on youtube of Signals tour footage...and boy, some of the tempos are crazy. And inconsistent. I know some of the other live stuff, even the Live in YYZ concert suffer from Peart's rather...well, erratic time keeping, but maybe the Signals stuff across the board was worse? Or maybe they weren't happy with their own parts?

I wasn't implying that the Golden Ale isn't good...in general, I'm not a big Ale fan...to me it tastes like "dad beer" 😊...like the kind of middle of the road (Canadian reference here) Labatt 50 that you would steal sips from when you were a kid. I wish the "official" Rush beer was an IPA, but that's just preference talking. I imagine people who like classic ales might like it. I live a few blocks from Hendersons, so I've been able to try, I think, most of the Rush beers. I believe, but don't quote me, that some are only available at the brewery. I had an MP that was very good...and as I said in my original post, the Signals I really really liked. It is an unusual one, some connection to Riesling wine...and at 11.5% or so, it's not a "drink 3 cans while you hang out" kinda beer (at least for me!)

I sure love this one.

I've always thought the lyric "In a town without a name" is kind of hilariously stupid... and also...I like to link it to another stupid line from an AOR classic - "He took the midnight train going anywhere". I imagine the guy going up to the ticket window. "One ticket, please". "Destination?". "Uh...doesn't matter...anywhere." *Ticket clerk books a one way to the town without a name.... 😂

Bruce Springsteen Live In NYC 2001 I have a complicated relationship with the Boss's music...half of it I could go a lifetime and never hear again...but I do really love some of it. This concert, with an at-the-time recently reformed E Street Band, has some really stellar tunes in the setlist. The versions of Backstreets, The River, 41 Shots, Youngstown, Lost In The Flood and Jungleland are top notch.

Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs

Not that I have seen, no! I believe on that song and others that he uses that technique on, Hackett (or even sometimes Banks) will come in with a 2nd guitar so that it really gets to a point where you can't tell what is what. I also recall him talking about them pulling one of those songs out (Your Own Special Way) many years later after probably only playing it on the one tour...and he couldn't remember how he had tuned the guitar to accurately replicate it! 😂

I was watching an interview with Mike Rutherford where he talked about how he used to use alternate tunings for his 12 string guitar - instead of tuning the 2nd strings in octaves or unisons for the higher strings (like a normal 12 is tuned) he would tune the 2nd strings in different harmonies. You can hear the effect at the top of The Cinema Show - It is such an interesting effect, and really makes it seem like some other, more exotic instrument than it is. I've never heard of anyone else using this technique, though I can't imagine that he is the only one to experiment this way. (It seems like something Joni Mitchell might have done...). But it seems like it would kinda be a bigger deal...but I seldom hear people talk about it. (And I have to say, it seems in general that Rutherford is a bit of an overlooked musician... he did some pretty amazing stuff in Genesis' heyday...) Has anyone heard of other guitarists using this concept?

William Doyle - he has a record called Your Wilderness Revisited that knocks me out.

Much more drawn to sad, or I suppose more specifically, melancholy music than upbeat music. Like, I adore the Beatles, all of it, but I'll take Strawberry Fields over Good Day Sunshine most of the time. It would take a long time to list all the sad music I love. The first artist that popped into my head was Aimee Mann. She cuts right to my soul.

It is such an amazing record - perhaps over exposed, but when you really take the time to take the journey with it, it never fails to astound and move me....I mean, Great Gig In The Sky?! It is such a singular piece of music to find in the middle of an album like that. Amazing. That said, Wish You Were here, if I have a gun to my head, is my #1. But the run of Meddle to Final Cut is really something special in music history. ( I know some people would stop that run at The Wall...and I'm not in the mood for Final Cut very often, but I think it is a powerful piece none the less...)

Not a fan of the golden ale at all...but the Signals special release is really interesting and tasty!

I am EXPONENTIALLY more excited to read a Geddy memoir than any of Neil's work - I think his dry humour and conversational style are going to be an absolute joy to read. Can't wait.