This is another failure of Abacab: it's meant to be a more urgent, stark, direct record, but the epics on here are anything but, and thus ultimately tedious. Invisible Touch doesn't have this problem.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
this thread is forcing me to look deep inside and reexamine some longstanding core principles
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
Phil Collins would have made a great guest on The Muppet Show.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
the songs deal woith real human emotions, rather than fall back on wacky fantasy nonsense
i already regret engaging but, which songs on abacab do this beyond "dodo"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
The title track.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
I want to see Phil drum battle against Animal.
― jmm, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 7:40 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i must not be reading it right
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
^^^ he has a built-in ability to endlessly disagree
― Tim F, Monday, July 17, 2017 8:12 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is hilarious btw tim
Well, maybe just the heartbreaking second half of the title track.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
"Phil Collins would have made a great guest on The Muppet Show."
well his spitting image puppet would have made a great guest on the muppet show, then we could have had a puppet-off
― akm, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
Phil sighting at 1:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wCOuLZmt1c
Has anyone watched the Phil Collins This Is Your Life? I just skipped to the Genesis section as it seems like the worst show in the history of television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPn2FQpWz0k
― jmm, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
I've seen the Mike Rutherford one. I don't think Jonathan King makes an appearance as I believe it arrived during his Proto-Yewtree period
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
man I'm sorry but I just tried to listen to Anything She Does and that song is just straight up garbage.
― akm, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
Excellent song. Great chorus.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
benny hill in the video iirc
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
song couldve used some yakety sax to liven it up a bit imo
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdyEiZG9fdQ
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
this thread is forcing me to look deep inside and reexamine some longstanding core principles― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 7:22 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkPhil Collins would have made a great guest on The Muppet Show.― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 7:30 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 7:22 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 7:30 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
great 1-2 punch
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
i had forgotten about the bridge to "no reply at all", so great
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, July 17, 2017 3:47 PM (four years ago)
it really is
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 September 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
Lmao at Turrican relentlessly hating on this album upthread. For me it's so obviously the best Collins-era album and it's not even close (I'd still go with Gabriel era if I had to choose, but only The Lamb and Foxtrot are better than Abacab imo).
Also perfect aesthetic synergy of musical content + album art (specifically the version with the primary colors + gray, but the different color variations on the initial pressing was a cool idea)
― J. Sam, Friday, 19 August 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Yeah this album is incredible. And it's probably my second favourite Genesis album overall after SEBTP and "Keep It Dark" favourite Genesis song overall :)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 19 August 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
"Who Dunnit" joins "Temporary Secretary" and "Mother" in the trifecta of famously very divisive tracks on early 80s UK number one albums by major acts that RYM refers to as 'zolo' and for which fanclubs might as well exist.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 19 August 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R6qu62xekE
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 August 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
ABACAB RULES Is how I break it down to an extent
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 20 August 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
^^^
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 20 August 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
would vote for “like it or not” now
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
Fishy got problems
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link