do you think i'm to blame?
i associate this song with the party that, oddly, followed my high school graduation (which was somewhat after its release). nevertheless, it is awesome, so let us praise it.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 June 2011 05:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
is its pattern, in fact, abacab?is it an illusion?is it a game?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 June 2011 05:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Isn't it in, like, 11/4 or something?
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 June 2011 05:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think the pattern is a bab cab, plus an intro. yesand yes
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― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Saturday, 4 June 2011 05:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
think the chorus is in 11/4, but the verse is 4/4
― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Saturday, 4 June 2011 05:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
great song!
A) This song is in relentless 4/4B) I have played bass on this song in a live setting and doing so is uber boring.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Sunday, 5 June 2011 11:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
hard for me to imagine a world where a song this awesome was new on the radio. what happened?
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 5 June 2011 14:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
great song from a very good Genesis album, one of the few post-Gabriel I'm a fan of.
yea, hard to believe this was a single really...
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 June 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
feel like our punk rock parents were kind of had
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 5 June 2011 14:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Great song, but I always forget it exists when "No Reply At All" starts up, as it is the best song.Also good is the Dodo -> Lurker b-side one two punch.
― Better than the rest / baby you're the best (Ówen P.), Sunday, 5 June 2011 15:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is an unbearably heavy record, by the way, production-wise it makes a lot of contemporaneous records sound like pablum.
― Better than the rest / baby you're the best (Ówen P.), Sunday, 5 June 2011 15:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
really the only song I don't like on that album is Whodunit?
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 June 2011 15:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's a bad song but worth it just for the phased-out transition from "we know" to "we ALL know"
― Better than the rest / baby you're the best (Ówen P.), Sunday, 5 June 2011 15:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
And "Me and Sarah Jane" is pretty lousy tbh
A) This song is in relentless 4/4
duh, yeah. thought i counted 33 beats through the chorus, but it's just 32. looked for weirdness and tricked myself into finding it.
― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Sunday, 5 June 2011 15:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love this song so much. Ówen P's love for "No Reply at All" as well.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Sunday, 5 June 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
I share his love, I meant to say.
me and sarah jane is great! this is the last great genesis album, certainly; actually, it's the best since Trick
― akm, Sunday, 5 June 2011 17:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
ANYBODY LISTENING?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 June 2011 17:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
I always replace "abacab" with "happy cat" when I hear this. In my head. (I'm allowed.)
― henry s, Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love this song. I think the version on "Three Sides Live" is the definite one.
― Mark, Sunday, 5 June 2011 21:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
I always replace "abacab" with "happy cat" when I hear this.
gonna try this next time
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 June 2011 21:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
always seemed a bit motorik to me.
― Mark, Sunday, 5 June 2011 21:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maybe my favourite Genesis song, period
― a "goaty"-style beard (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 6 June 2011 07:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
reminds me of lying in bed after dark, as a little kid with my first battery powered radio. adjusting that big antenna on it to get the stations to come in properly. this was always on.
― Kim, Monday, 6 June 2011 13:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
The intro has a rather obvious influence:
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Monday, 6 June 2011 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Otherwise, the song is OK, but not anything close to Genesis at their best. The "Abacab" album is among their least Genesis-sounding, and also among their lesser albums.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Monday, 6 June 2011 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
I always replace "abacab" with "happy cat" "a kebab" when I hear this.
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Monday, 6 June 2011 15:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
as a kid i thought it might be disco transport "Abba Cab"
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 6 June 2011 16:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
slightly off-topic but
ANYBODY LISTENING?― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, June 5, 2011
no reply at all
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 00:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
My roommate heard the one line as "there's a hole in the subway!" which led to a whole alternate reading of the song as being about a subterranean gang operating out of secret subway tunnels, etc. I have no recollection of how the rest of the lyrics could be tied to this, mind you. Great song, the chorus organ part is one of my favorite little things to fiddle out when I sit down at a keyboard (although agreed, the bass part is kind of absurdly plodding).
Overall good record although off the top of my head I can't reconstruct any of the second side...
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 00:35 (10 months ago) Permalink