This is the POLL We Live In: Genesis - Invisible Touch

I can't keep up with all these threads tbh

This is the one where people are arguing about Genesis. HTH

In the beginning ...

As I've said, 'Invisible Touch' has a lyrical theme that pretty much anyone over a certain age can relate to.

tf is this self parody

Nope, just the truth.

Trollo, Lurker.

sadness, and i'm 49 - turd must be 109

I rest my case.

you won't; guaranteed.

As I've said, 'Invisible Touch' has a lyrical theme that pretty much anyone over a certain age can relate to.

tf is this self parody

I was thinking more Patrick Bateman parody

*QI klaxon*

Well, I don't think Invisible Touch is their undisputed masterpiece (and I hate 'Sussudio' with a passion, for that matter) ... but it's without doubt their second best album of the '80s.

'Throwing It All Away' just came up on shuffle and I was just struck once more by how much of a beautifully sung and beautifully written song it is. I had to listen to the rest of Invisible Touch immediately.

It is like the perfect midlife boomer ballad. That gently billowing guitar line is lovely.

compare "Follow You Follow Me."

I am willing to come out and say that "Throwing" is probably a better song. More nuanced in both lyric and in delivery.

"Throwing It All Away" is such a lovely song. I particularly love the drums. This is mostly a Mike song, right?

Think it's Mike all the way

In Too Deep badly stiffed here

In Too Deep is the ballad I always forget about, like Taking It All Too Hard. Unlike most IT songs (save maybe Anything She Does?) In Too Deep wouldn't be out of place on No Jacket.

'In Too Deep' is another sublime track - if it had been on No Jacket Required, it'd have been the best thing on there.

compare "Follow You Follow Me."

I am willing to come out and say that "Throwing" is probably a better song. More nuanced in both lyric and in delivery.

― you had better come correct (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, November 26, 2017 3:07 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh absolutely! They'd truly mastered the art of the concise ballad by the time of Invisible Touch.

YOU KEEP TELLING ME I'VE GOT EVERYTHING!
YOU-SAY-I'VE-GOT EEEEEEVERYYYYTHIIIIING IIIII WAAAANT!

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“ it's without doubt their second best album of the '80s.”

Whatttt? It’s maybe the fourth, after Abacab, Duke, and S/T....and I’m not sure it edges out We Can’t Dance either...

I remember a school summer holiday when I played this album to death in rotation with Selling England By The Pound and IQ's Nomzamo (and I was still the coolest kid in my street!). I would've voted for Tonight Tonight Tonight. The ferocious release of the "You keep tellin' me I got everything" vocal after the super-tensile instrumental passage still resonates with me and is as raging as any Black Flag.

Absolutely! I've read some folks say "oh, the instrumental section on 'Tonight, Tonight, Tonight' is so dull" because they're not going full-on like they did in the '70s, but it's meant to be this long, slow build that climaxes in that part. As you say, a ferocious release.

I'd rank the '80s albums Duke > Invisible Touch > Genesis > Abacab at this point. While the latter two have their high points ('Home by the Sea'/'Second Home by the Sea', 'Dodo/Lurker', 'Mama'), they've also got tracks like 'Illegal Alien', 'Another Record', 'Who Dunnit?' etc. which aren't really all that great. Invisible Touch has absolutely no filler on it.

Aw, I love Another Record...

^ yeah, you can't mention "Another Record" in the same list with those other two.

round and round and round and a-round it go, uhhhh, see me smile

some talk on another thread reminded me that I actually used to love the song Illegal Alien as a kid, not only because it was super catchy but because I had assumed the lyrics were about space aliens that crashed to Earth and that for some reason they had been outlawed. I dunno, like half the video games I played on my PC had a plot like that. anyway, I'll still defend the music at least.