linden wrote: 

That is probably the funniest thing I have ever read here.  I certainly hope the next song I hear from him is not "Shock the Monkey."

Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks felix_the_man wrote: 

 tiggers wrote: 

AND Steve Hackett   !!

Please count this song out of your playlist. Thank you so VERY much.

 Zep wrote: 
yeah.   it's borked.  I wouldn't mind hearing this song unborked.   Its new to me and I like it.   I hope bill reads this and realizes its problems.

Some of PG's best songs are the ones where he sings about his penis.

I also heard distortions in this song, as others noted below. I don't think it was my connection.

The song itself was new to me and although I did not dislike it, I probably won't look deeper into the old Genesis stuff...

redfern777 wrote:
I meant the drumming part. The drum pattern is great on this (and throughout the whole album). The proof that Collins could be, and once was, a terrific musician. Call Ripley's team! Maybe I'll take flak for it, but I think that between 1972 and 1976 (by the way that's FIVE studio albums in four years, including a double length from which this song is taken, and the last two of those fronted by Collins - that's 20+ years of Radiohead output!) , Genesis produced some of the most interesting and groundbreaking period signature music of the 20th century and for that is up there with King Crimson, The Beatles (a special case, admittedly), Pink Floyd, Elvis before the Army, Ravel, Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, Miles Davis,  Bob Marley, the Clash etc.(list obviously not exhaustive).

But more than that, although they are often accused to be a leading part of of the "bombastic" prog movement (I think they went more or less their own way - and in fact left the multi-act market early on) they were the ones on the creative side (the bombastic prog scene was inflated by the hundreds of less talented bands that were axed later by Punk to the jubilation of many rock critics - the most important so called prog bands mainstreamed and survived, at least the British ones)­. Not only those Genesis records showed remarkable musicianship and a knack for well crafted melodies, they had to be recreated on stage - hardly a Rock 'N Roll proposition. So the band had to be imaginative on stage as well. Of course their shows became a Trademark over the years - from theatrical in the early 70s to Grand Rock Circus in the 80s, and that's part of their legend, but few people seem to know that on paper they "invented the shows" before knowing what was technically possible and so always pushed the envelope - and I might add they did so also from a compete lack of showmanship (they used to sit down to play and even Gabriel had to fight shyness). So it started with masks, in between stories and costume changes, then black lights, magnesium bombs, "flying gear", projections, Boeing 747 headlights, computerized mirrors, the list goes on and on. And even the infamous Vari Lite was created on specs for them. http://www.vari-lite.com/index.php?submenu=Company&src=gendocs&ref=About-Vari-Lite&category=Company
I saw the first Vari Lite show given by them in the 1981-82 tour and I can tell you it changed the way arena shows had to be delivered. So, maybe, there is a little bit of Phil Collins in the U2 shows we like...

I think this song is borked - which might not be a bad thing.

fredriley wrote:

Yes but Genesis also gave us Peter Gabriel which more than make up for Colins. Yes Gabriel is THAT good!

Wow... I suppose that "eclectic" truly goes for the audience as much as the music that gets played here.
Amazing the level of shallowness and sheer ignorance shown in some of the comments posted about this song.

reason06 wrote:I think the feed was scrambled somehow.

Aargh! Genesis! The group that launched Phil sodding Collins on an unsuspecting world. Is there such a thing as a Music Crimes Tribunal? If so Collins should be hauled before it toot sweet to answer for his crimes. It was nice to see him make a complete arse of himself on the satirical TV programme Brass Eye, the (in)famous 'pedophile' edition, where he was conned into backing a campaign of "nonce-sense". Even better, when he realised he'd been had, instead of just taking it on the chin and shrugging his shoulders, he went ballistic, completely ape, which only added mightily to the entertainment.

good, it's not only me it's skipping/gapping/dying for then. i'd guess bad network before bad file though.

at least it's not happening to a good song. mutex0r!

-PL-

Dior wrote:

Phil Collins? Peter Gabriel is singing...

Art_Carnage wrote:
Stick to your country shit 'dude'

not a good one...

Umm, whats wrong with this? bad file?

Art_Carnage wrote:

Evidently you have no understanding of this song at all. It's about a teenage boy thinking he can have sex with a girl by following a procedure he read in a book but by doing so he just upsets her. It's a satire of the macho stereotype of how a guy's supposed to bed a woman and pretty funny. I have no idea where you get 'wimpy' on that except maybe for some brain dead Texas idea of whatever you don't like you label 'wimpy' or liberal. Get your head out of the sticks, there's a world of facts out there. You simply don't understand the song.

Art_Carnage wrote:

Wimp-rock? Go away, far far away.

rockasaurus wrote:

It's not as good as "Groovy Kind of Love", but really, what is?

Art_Carnage wrote:So sorry, I believe you may have posted to the wrong page. Childish heckling should be posted to http://www.kissmybigass.com
Have a nice day!

Wimp-rock at its very worst. Just awful.

robco1 wrote:

This reminds of why I used to like Genesis.

MAKE IT STOP........!

Great Album...I'm hovering like a fly waiting for the windshield on the freeway

What a fantastic album. It is kind of strange for me to hear this out of "context" of the rest of the story. I always thought of this as the comic relief interlude.

"I've got unexpected distress for my mistress"

Dior wrote:

Mets-en !!! :o)