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Someone will have the answer, but it's not me! There are Genesis-heads out there who could tell you what they ate for breakfast on the morning that this one was wrapped up in the studio. Not Gabriel though (on flute).
Yes, starting at 5:20, the keyboard sound and harmony is spine chilling beautiful. Some of you may not know that Tony Banks was the first keyboardist for YES, to be later replaced by Rick Wakeman. This song is a masterpiece of musical art.
@michaelgran100 Oh man you got your facts wrong: It was Peter Banks that was the first keyboardist for yes, or how it used to be called "Mabel Greer's Toyshop". I know, I got confused too, but Tony Banks has always been with Genesis.
@ThoughtThinkerTomas Actually my friend, we are BOTH wrong. Peter Banks was the original guitarist for Yes. The original keyboardist was in fact Tony Kaye. Now you can really see where the confusion on the names comes from!
@michaelgran100 The name of the fisrt keyboardist for YES is Tony Kaye. And the name of the first guitarist for YES is Peter Banks. Have a nice day ! :-)
One of my all time favorite Phil vocals. Trick, and Wind & Wuthering were extraordinary examples of Phil's vocal prowess. To my London pal, Geoff for turning me onto every Genesis album prior to Duke. Thanx for the early years my friend.
saw these guys 4 times, saw peter once. Genesis is by far the best band I have ever seen live. there music is orchestral & flowing that its hard not to love it.
the stories, the theatrics, the hair on my arms standing at attention.
The live shows really showed me the talent that these guys possed.....
To everyone who wonders why this song isn't more popular:
People like different music for different reasons. Songs like these are absolute masterpieces in their own right, ballads that bring people together and remind them of better times, and keep them happy in brutal ones. However, there is other music out there, music for moving and meeting new people and making friends and dancing and such...
Culture is a very diverse, very strange thing, and instead of cursing it for it's many arms, enjoy
You know there was crap pop music in the 70's , e.g. in 1976 at the time of this briliant record: Disco Duck?!!, Barry Manilow, I Write the Songs...etc.
There is always shallow pop music and there is ALWAYS good music. You have to go look for it. Radiohead, Fleet Foxes, Pete Yorn, Elbow..
You may or may not like those bands but there are bands out there not writing for commercial success.
Bands had a lot more freedom back in the 70s compared to the "sterilized for your protection" pre-packaged pre-digested music product of today. 30-40 years ago, it didn't matter what you looked like or what designer you were wearing, if you were making music that someone might buy, you could make a record. There was a lot of crap music in the 70s, but then you have magical works of art like A Trick of The Tail. One of my favorite Genesis albums, like comfort food for the soul.
A trick of the tail, one of my top 10 albums of all time. So many super songs on it. IMO Genesis from the 70s is so much better than Genesis of the 80s and after.
Good song, seen them with Peter Gabriel back in the early 1970's. "Selling England by the pound". "The Lamb lies down on broadway". Music was at it's zenith back them.
well, we continue to whine about about genesis' pop direction, I wasn't a huge fan of it either, but i liked a few nuggets, and I got to see the band perform their old tunes on tour during mama, invisible touch, and i can't dance..to me, it was worth it that they stayed together, lame pop included. Better they took that direction than dissolving completely when gabriel took a powder.
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This is a masterpiece. There is no other description fitting enough. I remember the first time I heard it like it was an hour ago. I think I wore it out on my vinyl copy.
This is a masterpiece. There is no other description fitting enough. I remember the first time I heard it like it was an hour ago. I think I wore it out on my vinyl copy.
My dad used to pick me up and rock me to sleep when I was a toddler to this song. Every time I hear it I think of how safe I felt. It can make me cry.
Well, I like Lady Gaga and other singers from today. And I grew up with 70's music, as well as 80's and 60's music. There were some great artists in the 90's as well.
Every generation thinks that only they produced the definitive music of all time. Not true.
When this album came out I bought it vinyl to play indoors. I also bought it on cassette to play in the car. When the cassette wore out I bought another copy. When that wore out at least I still had it on vinyl at home. That eventually wore out too. This is probably my favourite album of all time. I still remember where every single glitch was on every copy that I've ever owned. I really must get it on CD some time. Maybe that'll last the test of time.
I don't think we can fault them for any "sell out". As steelyman08 says, they lasted long enough to have people discover their older stuff. This album is truly amazing, esp.when you consider that "Wind and Wuthering", another great one, was released the same year ('76)! First song that grabbed me was "Turn It On," then Abacab (altho sparse and thin tie-ish), then these.
Listen to the yearning in Phil's voice...my fave Genesis track. To those who accuse them of selling out, don't blame them- they were barely making a living and needed to move on. This music was a product of a more reflective time for artists, when magic was created using minimal tools. Few people have the attention span or the inner dialogue to create music like this any more.
i was fourteen and it was the first album i had ever bought...i was breathless when i listened to it,,,,alone in my room, at night with all the lights out.. i'll never forget that.
i was fourteen and it was the first album i had ever bought...i was breathless when i listened to it,,,,alone in my room, at night with all the lights out.. i'll never forget that.
My fave album, back in the days when Phil Collins still had his credibility intact, before he started churning out his sickly stream of broken marriage love songs.
This is one of the most sad and beautiful songs I know from Genesis, found a good analysis of the lyrics via Google. But to me it is definitely about longing.
War für mich die letzte gute Genesis ( alt ) da war wahrscheinlich noch der Geist von Peter dabei. Sie ist die Nummer zwei für mich, nach Selling England.
Und „Mad Man Moon“ läst mir immer noch die Gänsehaut fühlen und meinen Kreislauf sinken , auch nach 35 Jahren.
What music of that era, will never be matched. Genesis were my 'first' band, though many followed. Trick of the Tail is a brilliant album despite being the first without Gabriel, a different Genesis as the late 1970s gave way to punk. What nostalgia, I was 15 years old when I bought it, and the album was only 3 years old then!! I still listen to it. Nursery Cryme the best album though - so powerful. Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull for starters. What else can one say?
Glad that in this times so full of hate and reproach one can still listen to this groups and their magnificent music, long live GENESISPINKFLOYDCAMELJETHROTULLROLLINGSTONESBEATLESKAYAKKINKSSTEVEHARLEYYESPATBENATARBLONDIEANTHONYPHILLIPS ETC ETC
After reading all the comments it really does beg the question:
What on earth DID happen to music in the last 35 years????
Instead of it growing off of the creativity of the 70's "masters" like Genesis, Yes, Tull, Rush,etc. it seems to have diminished incrementally as the decades have passed!
And you would think that with the technology we now have that it would have become more creative? I lived the 70's and know that music has not become more creative, but more commercial, how sad.
@NS9144 I couldn't agree more with your comments. I too lived through all that era and could only look on aghast at what happened. I have a personal beef about punk rock - not the stuff itself, but the complete submission by the music press [mostly overeducated and overly 'sociological'] to alternative ideology/irony as the answer to everything. For me, that's where the rot started, then it went into freefall. 35 years of my sulking has slightly dulled the senses however.
What music of that era, will never be matched. Genesis were my 'first' band, though many followed. Trick of the Tail is a brilliant album despite being the first without Gabriel, a different Genesis as the late 1970s gave way to punk. What nostalgia, I was 15 years old when I bought it, and the album was only 3 years old then!! I still listen to it. Nursery Cryme the best album though - so powerful. Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, etc - what else can one say?
@NS9144 It's due to the fact that 25-35 years ago listening to music in reasonable sound quality required a decent stereo; amp, speakers, turntable, and the purchase of full albums. This required a fairly significant investment, which was generally made by adults. Therefore music companies targeted an age group of 18-35 year olds.
Today, inexpensive MP3 players and single song buying options have given the 12-18's enormous purchasing power. They buy the most music, and companies market to them.
@NS9144 creativity was raped and pulled inside the record industry who after decades of surprises by artists decided that they needed to control everything again. they fucked it up.
@NS9144 MONEY happened. Just as sports ceased to be games when they became an industry... Just as art was corrupted into advertising... just as spirituality was debased into religion... When something good becomes a mere commodity it loses its soul, its essence. It becomes about power and influence, not about creation... a prison in sand, or a haven in hell? ... a gaol can give you a goal... and is not mediocrity a prison?
@JonasPlanck And the result of this is that some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. It's a shame because they don't know that the best things in life are free.
Not only commercial, but also essentially MEANINGLESS, senseless i'd even say!!! Genesis songs were mostly some kind of stories, now , modern ''artist'' (if we can call them like that...) don't even know what the word STORY means... all they know is '' YO, YO! FUCK, BITCH'' and etc..... What a shame is our current generation!... I'm only 24 and DAMN i wish we could get back to those magic 70s!!! AMEN!
I spent many evenings in Summer 1976, listening to this Entangled and Ripples, soaking them in. What did it matter what the words meant? The music was sublime. My sister bought a copy of the album home from college, with news of all it meant. How dare she,
This is beautiful, I've always loved A Trick of the Tail. It's hard to understand why, after such a great start, Collins-era Genesis rapidly deteriorated into a pop act.
This song is Awesome !! Just listen to the piano sequence and you´ll start to fly or feel something like getting into heaven !! It´s Wonderful !! My favorite of Genesis in all time. It makes me dream of my childhood !!
Tony has been the driving forcs behind genesis from the beginning and it's a shame he wasn't able to keep his stile of playing and composition going after, "And Then There Were Three."
This was the ultimate transition album. The artistry of Peter Gabriel still lived in the album with the new sound emerging. For a wild ride check out "From Genesis to Revelation" the first album - they were 16 when they did it.
this has to be one of the very best of tony banks. the worst?.....probably something off abacab....though others are beginning to spring to mind as i complete this...
@steelyman08 I am a huge prog fan, and genesis is my by far favorite band, but being 16, i would never have discovered Genesis without the 80's and 90's version of the band, so i choose to look at it as an upside-down fork. Genesis came from the prog half of it, but in order to survive as a band, they had to follow the fork upwards to success, or they would have disappeared.
@steelyman08 I think by ABACAB, it became less "Genesis" and more "Phil Collins and Co.," not that Phil isn't a talented musician and has made some great music - but he's also made some "commercial" schlock too. On their self-titled "Genesis" album (the ones with the geometric shapes that fit into the child's sorting toy, we saw some nods back to old Genesis but by "Invisible Touch," Genesis, as it was, ceased to exist - in my mind anyway. Gimmie the classic Genesis as fronted by PG any day!
@astralaris Ref. my comment above, BTW, before anyone posts it - I know that Phil is on this album - NOT PG, but if asked to make a choice I would take PG over Phil ... That said, this album is "genius" - Genesis, one of the best w/ Phil out front.
OK: I'm in my parents bedroom (which is where the stereo is located) listening to this album. It's 1976, LPs still existed. I'm pouring over the lyrics; the gatefold cover. I'm in heaven: this is my favourite track on the album - still is!
I used to sit for hours listening to this album and Wind and Wuthering on a Saturday..... those were the days! Seemed I had all the time in the world!
i was introuduced to this art in1974 when i was 14 from my cousin visiting from scotland ,man i thought it was from another world ,it was so good i still love it!
Does anyone put out music like this anymore?...I'm just so grateful to have been around when guys like these, WERE putting it out!...Mad Man Moon is perfection...
@actormanic Yes, there are actually NEW progressive groups out there. Unfortunately, you won't hear them any time soon on commercial radio. For that, you'll have to turn to NPR stations - like WXPN in Philly (also found on the internet). These groups are virtually unknown in the mainstream crown b/c they just aren't promoted and played by the big stations. What a pity…
Wow - didn't realize Tony was so young when he wrote this one. This was the song that sealed the deal for me with Genesis. TOTT was the first album of theirs I sampled. Tremendous depth and range.
@wajobu I agree this is one of Tony's greatest songs; my fav of all time in fact. But I do not believe it is correct that he wrote it in 1968. I know he wrote Trick of the Tail (song) that year though.
@cosmicjazzer I'll check my source...somewhere I have a taped interview from 1979 or 80 where he noted this. I believe that it was "Genesis on The Source"...I still have the cassette--I'll double check.
I 'discovered' Genesis in 1978 aged 14 and, whilst I loved the Gabriel years, this album and this song in particular affected me deeply. Thanks for the post.
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ClassicRockDVD 2 weeks ago
This has always been one of Genesis' most underrated songs in my opinion.
XEspmasterX 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
is that peter on flute or Steve's bro, john?
footguy5 1 month ago
@footguy5
Someone will have the answer, but it's not me! There are Genesis-heads out there who could tell you what they ate for breakfast on the morning that this one was wrapped up in the studio. Not Gabriel though (on flute).
steelyman08 1 month ago
@steelyman08 Well, I haven't seen any details on it, so it was either an uncredited performance or it was a Mellotron flute.
eddievhfan1984 2 weeks ago
@footguy5 synth
EyMeng 2 weeks ago
It makes me think of lost dreams, old times with hope. Now everything is different although I didn't loose hope
63gerdab 3 months ago
songs don't get much better than this
WalterSobchak1000 3 months ago 2
Tony Banks is a genius. The harmonies he uses are absolutely fucking incredible.
muurtalo 3 months ago 6
I consider "A Trick Of The Tail" to be one of Genesis' absolute best albums.
TIMOTHYSAARINEN 4 months ago 2
i just love this song, for min 25 years.. wauu super lyric..
Danichdelight 4 months ago
Yes, starting at 5:20, the keyboard sound and harmony is spine chilling beautiful. Some of you may not know that Tony Banks was the first keyboardist for YES, to be later replaced by Rick Wakeman. This song is a masterpiece of musical art.
michaelgran100 4 months ago
@michaelgran100 Oh man you got your facts wrong: It was Peter Banks that was the first keyboardist for yes, or how it used to be called "Mabel Greer's Toyshop". I know, I got confused too, but Tony Banks has always been with Genesis.
ThoughtThinkerTomas 4 months ago
@ThoughtThinkerTomas Actually my friend, we are BOTH wrong. Peter Banks was the original guitarist for Yes. The original keyboardist was in fact Tony Kaye. Now you can really see where the confusion on the names comes from!
michaelgran100 4 months ago
@michaelgran100 AH... this is so funny. my bad. :P
ThoughtThinkerTomas 4 months ago
@michaelgran100 The name of the fisrt keyboardist for YES is Tony Kaye. And the name of the first guitarist for YES is Peter Banks. Have a nice day ! :-)
ThePeterats 4 months ago
A fantastic song - the last few bars are so beautiful ;-)
Bjowolf2 5 months ago
Tony Banks à son meilleur. Un délice musical que cette pièce.
ThePeterats 5 months ago
@ThePeterats i am glad he is appreciated in france too, i dont know enough to reply in french though...
MrClose2theEdge 4 months ago
All-time masterpiece. Genesis at their romantic, salient best. Just beautiful.
millsy2010 5 months ago 3
Capolavoro struggente e dolcissimo......
18165paolo 6 months ago
One of my all time favorite Phil vocals. Trick, and Wind & Wuthering were extraordinary examples of Phil's vocal prowess. To my London pal, Geoff for turning me onto every Genesis album prior to Duke. Thanx for the early years my friend.
CoreaKixx420 6 months ago
Powerful Stuff...
unamacarana 6 months ago
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Sim2428 6 months ago
Gorgeous
musicizzzzzzzzzzzzzz 6 months ago
A masterpiece, reminds of a summer a long time ago, now blurred in time. Gone but not forgotten. Soundtrack to my life
jonnygator1 6 months ago 2
Vorrei fare una intervista a questo uno che ha votato per non mi piace. Io ringrazio i Genesis di essere esistiti, e il Padreterno di averceli dati.
albertbac 6 months ago
saw these guys 4 times, saw peter once. Genesis is by far the best band I have ever seen live. there music is orchestral & flowing that its hard not to love it.
the stories, the theatrics, the hair on my arms standing at attention.
The live shows really showed me the talent that these guys possed.....
londosdan1964 6 months ago 2
Forever caught in desert lands one has to learn to disbelieve the sea
P7ish 6 months ago 3
Capolavoro assoluto!
18165paolo 7 months ago
5 best albums ever made r rush 2112, rush a farewell to kings, rush hemispheres, genesis nursery cryme, and genesis foxtrot.
nosamcuminhand1 7 months ago
I never get tired of hearing this song and smiling at the lyrics.
calliopenovaland 7 months ago
wow. masterpiece
LailaBecef 7 months ago
To everyone who wonders why this song isn't more popular:
People like different music for different reasons. Songs like these are absolute masterpieces in their own right, ballads that bring people together and remind them of better times, and keep them happy in brutal ones. However, there is other music out there, music for moving and meeting new people and making friends and dancing and such...
Culture is a very diverse, very strange thing, and instead of cursing it for it's many arms, enjoy
AnonymousProffession 7 months ago 2
You know there was crap pop music in the 70's , e.g. in 1976 at the time of this briliant record: Disco Duck?!!, Barry Manilow, I Write the Songs...etc.
There is always shallow pop music and there is ALWAYS good music. You have to go look for it. Radiohead, Fleet Foxes, Pete Yorn, Elbow..
You may or may not like those bands but there are bands out there not writing for commercial success.
apexm5 7 months ago
Bands had a lot more freedom back in the 70s compared to the "sterilized for your protection" pre-packaged pre-digested music product of today. 30-40 years ago, it didn't matter what you looked like or what designer you were wearing, if you were making music that someone might buy, you could make a record. There was a lot of crap music in the 70s, but then you have magical works of art like A Trick of The Tail. One of my favorite Genesis albums, like comfort food for the soul.
popomatic1970 7 months ago
What happened to music?Absolutely nothing since,that's why we are still listening to this.Not a lot to follow.
bluevasilis 7 months ago
this is all tony banks beautiful song
onetomanyish 8 months ago
A trick of the tail, one of my top 10 albums of all time. So many super songs on it. IMO Genesis from the 70s is so much better than Genesis of the 80s and after.
Cheessa 8 months ago
Strepitoso questo brano!
18165paolo 8 months ago
Good song, seen them with Peter Gabriel back in the early 1970's. "Selling England by the pound". "The Lamb lies down on broadway". Music was at it's zenith back them.
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KimForemanClayton 9 months ago
From the Office Of National Statistics:
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WitchedAndWarlocks 9 months ago
roll on a muddy beach in Necastle - Banks at his best
ocean686 10 months ago
This song breaks my heart.......beautiful
1hardycena 10 months ago
well, we continue to whine about about genesis' pop direction, I wasn't a huge fan of it either, but i liked a few nuggets, and I got to see the band perform their old tunes on tour during mama, invisible touch, and i can't dance..to me, it was worth it that they stayed together, lame pop included. Better they took that direction than dissolving completely when gabriel took a powder.
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Tommygun1028 10 months ago
Ainda tenho o disco em Vinil e eu desconheço outro grupo que tenha a mesma criatividade do Genesis. Para sempre sejam idolatrados....
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This is a masterpiece. There is no other description fitting enough. I remember the first time I heard it like it was an hour ago. I think I wore it out on my vinyl copy.
johnmac56hzx 11 months ago
This is a masterpiece. There is no other description fitting enough. I remember the first time I heard it like it was an hour ago. I think I wore it out on my vinyl copy.
johnmac56hzx 11 months ago
My dad used to pick me up and rock me to sleep when I was a toddler to this song. Every time I hear it I think of how safe I felt. It can make me cry.
Symbioticism 11 months ago 25
@Symbioticism Good for you, my man. I envy you. I try with my kids but the music falls on deaf ears. Peace.
3daypriest 5 months ago
@steelyman08 & OysterLava ... "That must have been another of your dreams..." :-)
Thanks for posting love this album.
astralaris 11 months ago
Well, I like Lady Gaga and other singers from today. And I grew up with 70's music, as well as 80's and 60's music. There were some great artists in the 90's as well.
Every generation thinks that only they produced the definitive music of all time. Not true.
kas3001 11 months ago
quanti ricordi: eravamo giovani, innamoratissimi. Un alito di vento carezzava le nostre anime....
andreatube1962 11 months ago
When this album came out I bought it vinyl to play indoors. I also bought it on cassette to play in the car. When the cassette wore out I bought another copy. When that wore out at least I still had it on vinyl at home. That eventually wore out too. This is probably my favourite album of all time. I still remember where every single glitch was on every copy that I've ever owned. I really must get it on CD some time. Maybe that'll last the test of time.
KennyBennyRabbit 11 months ago
"If this desert's all there'll ever be, then tell me what becomes of me?"
OysterLava 1 year ago
60 thousand views while Lady Gaga's crap has fucking millions? Well, makes sense, ain't it?
muurtalo 1 year ago
I don't think we can fault them for any "sell out". As steelyman08 says, they lasted long enough to have people discover their older stuff. This album is truly amazing, esp.when you consider that "Wind and Wuthering", another great one, was released the same year ('76)! First song that grabbed me was "Turn It On," then Abacab (altho sparse and thin tie-ish), then these.
crawfoot1 1 year ago
genesis simply worked their asses off to be believeable -- today musicians shrout themselselves in beefsteaks and believe they are original....
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
From 3:20 to 4:52... It's just wonderful. I just cried.
TheKimerus 1 year ago
The best singing part: When he sings "To fly higher" at 5:58. Not too many popular singers could sing it so well.
Forsure3333 1 year ago
Listen to the yearning in Phil's voice...my fave Genesis track. To those who accuse them of selling out, don't blame them- they were barely making a living and needed to move on. This music was a product of a more reflective time for artists, when magic was created using minimal tools. Few people have the attention span or the inner dialogue to create music like this any more.
gunquit 1 year ago
Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel for ever, maybe a little bit Anthony Phillips. Ok...and Phil, but he is on a cruel trip is called: "color your life...
harlekin0263 1 year ago
Every single song of this album is a Masterpiece...Unique...Music from heaven,,,
1010is 1 year ago
what a lovely song. Can make you cry.
djbladdered 1 year ago
@djbladdered It does!
Forsure3333 1 year ago
I was 6 years old,when this album appears....
20 years later i found its worth....
dream and sway away....
no way to all that ""BumBumBum" of today.....*sigh*
ThePixxieboy 1 year ago
magic album proper chill out music.....
efteaem 1 year ago
so beautiful
BassFranky 1 year ago
@steelyman08 You should listen to Matt Berry, you'll enjoy his music
MrMrEFE 1 year ago
I had heard Duke before hearing this album. It is an amazing album.
dannyjoe1052 1 year ago
i was fourteen and it was the first album i had ever bought...i was breathless when i listened to it,,,,alone in my room, at night with all the lights out.. i'll never forget that.
pure magic
babbelaar64 1 year ago 3
i was fourteen and it was the first album i had ever bought...i was breathless when i listened to it,,,,alone in my room, at night with all the lights out.. i'll never forget that.
babbelaar64 1 year ago
STEELYMAN THE COMMENT ABOUT MUSIC OF THIS CALIBER IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING, TRICK OF THE TAIL WAS A MASTERPIECE FROM START TO FINISH.
baggiebloke652000 1 year ago 2
My fave album, back in the days when Phil Collins still had his credibility intact, before he started churning out his sickly stream of broken marriage love songs.
Brilliant album !
YCSMusic 1 year ago
the chords are sooo rich and the melody and lyrics are so brilliant. I remember sitting in my chair just blown away the first time I heard this.
I still get blown away by it too, after all these years.
Tony Banks is a quiet humble genius.
TheBoolet 1 year ago
@TheBoolet Not sure that Tony Banks is all that humble... but he is a genius for sure!
cosmicjazzer 1 year ago
Tony IS Genesis IMHO.
wakaday 1 year ago
I love this song so much, i can't describe x
Lukin34 1 year ago
perfect, brilliant
alannparsonns 1 year ago
Haven't heard this for years. Truely beautiful.
daiedwards 1 year ago
Tony Banks is brilliant! :)
ladyjerrico 1 year ago 3
Tony Banks you are great!!!!!
MsWindowsExperience 1 year ago 2
Гениально!
nikon2n 1 year ago
This is one of the most sad and beautiful songs I know from Genesis, found a good analysis of the lyrics via Google. But to me it is definitely about longing.
probiedoo 1 year ago
Strepitosa....come ogni composizione dei Genesis degli anni '70...
francesco31006 1 year ago
I remember seeing Genesis live at Masonic Temple in Detroit. Mesmerizing! Musical geniouses - along with RUSH
jalredrrt 1 year ago
I love this music. Beautiful, magic, everything is just right, thanks Tony Banks, thanks Genesis.
funklover24 1 year ago 2
Great album. Its a real shame that they decided to become a pop band after this.
MisterMortombachman 1 year ago 2
Tony Banks Was The "Real Mind" of Genesis from the Beginning Despite P.Gabriel+S.Hackett Disappeared in Late 70`is and He Still Kept The Band
Moving On;But Then The music Panorama of Genisis Declined(Offcourse Nothing Against P.Collins) But The Days Before Abacab Were The Best !
Take Care All Genesis Fans,Young or Old.
bombom52 1 year ago 2
man, this has got to be my favourite song of all time.
sanctuaryfromthelaw9 1 year ago 2
...this is my life...
MrPederT 1 year ago
Love it
dayrider100 1 year ago
Oh such happy days they were.................541/2 years old and I still love this.
Music means so much to me........Rock on music lovers....rock on.
next........blood on the rooftops.....even better.
1970sman 1 year ago
Genesis reallly nailed it with this track. Wonderful, evocative music. Progressive, melodic rock at it's zenith of accomplishment.
steveh777ify 1 year ago
Genesis--A Trick Of The Tail
War für mich die letzte gute Genesis ( alt ) da war wahrscheinlich noch der Geist von Peter dabei. Sie ist die Nummer zwei für mich, nach Selling England.
Und „Mad Man Moon“ läst mir immer noch die Gänsehaut fühlen und meinen Kreislauf sinken , auch nach 35 Jahren.
NussGeorg 1 year ago
What music of that era, will never be matched. Genesis were my 'first' band, though many followed. Trick of the Tail is a brilliant album despite being the first without Gabriel, a different Genesis as the late 1970s gave way to punk. What nostalgia, I was 15 years old when I bought it, and the album was only 3 years old then!! I still listen to it. Nursery Cryme the best album though - so powerful. Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull for starters. What else can one say?
WG1807 1 year ago
capolavoro
pavonense 1 year ago
My first (real) english lessons in the 80's.
Thanks for all S'man08
MonsOthonis 1 year ago
Glad that in this times so full of hate and reproach one can still listen to this groups and their magnificent music, long live GENESISPINKFLOYDCAMELJETHROTULLROLLINGSTONESBEATLESKAYAKKINKSSTEVEHARLEYYESPATBENATARBLONDIEANTHONYPHILLIPS ETC ETC
Long live the 70s, long live rock and roll.....
pater001 1 year ago
una delle più belle canzoni dei Genesis! Fa emozionare e non stanca mai, sono 30 anni che l'ascolto...
marakamel 1 year ago
@marakamel sono daccordo con te : i capolavori non stancano mai. genesis forever
19fabri63 1 year ago
great composition and music- still after all these years....one of my favourite songs.
MrGpees 1 year ago
After reading all the comments it really does beg the question:
What on earth DID happen to music in the last 35 years????
Instead of it growing off of the creativity of the 70's "masters" like Genesis, Yes, Tull, Rush,etc. it seems to have diminished incrementally as the decades have passed!
And you would think that with the technology we now have that it would have become more creative? I lived the 70's and know that music has not become more creative, but more commercial, how sad.
NS9144 1 year ago 33
@NS9144 I couldn't agree more with your comments. I too lived through all that era and could only look on aghast at what happened. I have a personal beef about punk rock - not the stuff itself, but the complete submission by the music press [mostly overeducated and overly 'sociological'] to alternative ideology/irony as the answer to everything. For me, that's where the rot started, then it went into freefall. 35 years of my sulking has slightly dulled the senses however.
martinjp1958 1 year ago
@martinjp1958
What music of that era, will never be matched. Genesis were my 'first' band, though many followed. Trick of the Tail is a brilliant album despite being the first without Gabriel, a different Genesis as the late 1970s gave way to punk. What nostalgia, I was 15 years old when I bought it, and the album was only 3 years old then!! I still listen to it. Nursery Cryme the best album though - so powerful. Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, etc - what else can one say?
WG1807 1 year ago 3
@WG1807
you could say King Crimson
767fife 1 year ago
@767fife
You could mate. I just forgot them in the general euphoria. Our era will live forever, it's too poignant not to.
WG1807 1 year ago
@NS9144 I agree
CrashmagFilms 1 year ago
@NS9144 It's due to the fact that 25-35 years ago listening to music in reasonable sound quality required a decent stereo; amp, speakers, turntable, and the purchase of full albums. This required a fairly significant investment, which was generally made by adults. Therefore music companies targeted an age group of 18-35 year olds.
Today, inexpensive MP3 players and single song buying options have given the 12-18's enormous purchasing power. They buy the most music, and companies market to them.
WitchedAndWarlocks 9 months ago
@NS9144
Punk music happened. This is public information.
UntrodTripod 8 months ago
@UntrodTripod And later rap "music" happened...
kannonim 7 months ago
@NS9144 well said mate so true
tokaicarl 8 months ago
@NS9144 creativity was raped and pulled inside the record industry who after decades of surprises by artists decided that they needed to control everything again. they fucked it up.
StewieFavre 8 months ago
@NS9144 MONEY happened. Just as sports ceased to be games when they became an industry... Just as art was corrupted into advertising... just as spirituality was debased into religion... When something good becomes a mere commodity it loses its soul, its essence. It becomes about power and influence, not about creation... a prison in sand, or a haven in hell? ... a gaol can give you a goal... and is not mediocrity a prison?
JonasPlanck 8 months ago 13
@JonasPlanck
I'd give you five thumbs up if I could. Great comment.
steelyman08 8 months ago
@JonasPlanck incredibly inspiring comment. Are you a writer?
GanoMaganza 4 months ago
@GanoMaganza Artist. See my channel for an explanation. Yeesh, I had no idea that comment would get bumped to the top like that...
JonasPlanck 4 months ago
@JonasPlanck And the result of this is that some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. It's a shame because they don't know that the best things in life are free.
rumpraisin 3 months ago
@NS9144 OMG yes! rush and genesis is what its about! im 17
nosamcuminhand1 7 months ago 2
@NS9144
Not only commercial, but also essentially MEANINGLESS, senseless i'd even say!!! Genesis songs were mostly some kind of stories, now , modern ''artist'' (if we can call them like that...) don't even know what the word STORY means... all they know is '' YO, YO! FUCK, BITCH'' and etc..... What a shame is our current generation!... I'm only 24 and DAMN i wish we could get back to those magic 70s!!! AMEN!
81GrandPrix 7 months ago
I spent many evenings in Summer 1976, listening to this Entangled and Ripples, soaking them in. What did it matter what the words meant? The music was sublime. My sister bought a copy of the album home from college, with news of all it meant. How dare she,
but heaven is where the sun shines.
tinoszczvrcic 1 year ago 3
This song is Phil Collins' finest moment on any musical recording.
rschreck 1 year ago 2
Unfortunately this kind of music never had been reoccurred.
I just remember when I purchased the LP than it came out.
A forgotten Masterpiece.
kongobongoman 1 year ago 2
I was 16 in 1976 - the UK had been suffering a (relative) drought but I remember this time like yesterday.
I left school in this Summer and always think back on this time - and this fantastic album - with real affection and great nostalgia.
Do you remember how the punk-obsessed music press were writing off Genesis on the departure of Peter?
coppersmiths 1 year ago 2
This is beautiful, I've always loved A Trick of the Tail. It's hard to understand why, after such a great start, Collins-era Genesis rapidly deteriorated into a pop act.
skaisaliveandwell 1 year ago 7
This song is Awesome !! Just listen to the piano sequence and you´ll start to fly or feel something like getting into heaven !! It´s Wonderful !! My favorite of Genesis in all time. It makes me dream of my childhood !!
clovisdepaula1 1 year ago 2
Tony has been the driving forcs behind genesis from the beginning and it's a shame he wasn't able to keep his stile of playing and composition going after, "And Then There Were Three."
WhatFuckingUsernameI 1 year ago
What an amazing piano sequence! Flight... without dubbed in "jet" sounds. Just music.
Stosh08057 1 year ago
This was the ultimate transition album. The artistry of Peter Gabriel still lived in the album with the new sound emerging. For a wild ride check out "From Genesis to Revelation" the first album - they were 16 when they did it.
bryangav1 1 year ago
Genesis is Genesis forever...!
Elohim9120 1 year ago
beautiful song from a beautiful Album. Genesis kept the soft progressive concept, after Gabriel left.
mobyboy 1 year ago
this is the best post gabriel genesis album,in my opinion !
smokehogg 1 year ago 4
fez parte de uma importante parte da minha vida....foi bom rever
lbroggini 1 year ago
Great tune :) there's a line missing from the words though, the 6th line should be "But I was the one who decided to go"
99white 1 year ago
this has to be one of the very best of tony banks. the worst?.....probably something off abacab....though others are beginning to spring to mind as i complete this...
MINERSSTRIKE 1 year ago 5
@MINERSSTRIKE
Frightening isn't it? They come to that proverbial fork in the road and opt for the path most traveled. Never have got my head around that one.
steelyman08 1 year ago 9
@steelyman08 I am a huge prog fan, and genesis is my by far favorite band, but being 16, i would never have discovered Genesis without the 80's and 90's version of the band, so i choose to look at it as an upside-down fork. Genesis came from the prog half of it, but in order to survive as a band, they had to follow the fork upwards to success, or they would have disappeared.
remnrone 1 year ago
@steelyman08 I think by ABACAB, it became less "Genesis" and more "Phil Collins and Co.," not that Phil isn't a talented musician and has made some great music - but he's also made some "commercial" schlock too. On their self-titled "Genesis" album (the ones with the geometric shapes that fit into the child's sorting toy, we saw some nods back to old Genesis but by "Invisible Touch," Genesis, as it was, ceased to exist - in my mind anyway. Gimmie the classic Genesis as fronted by PG any day!
astralaris 11 months ago
@astralaris Ref. my comment above, BTW, before anyone posts it - I know that Phil is on this album - NOT PG, but if asked to make a choice I would take PG over Phil ... That said, this album is "genius" - Genesis, one of the best w/ Phil out front.
astralaris 11 months ago
@MINERSSTRIKE Who Dunnit is probably the song you are talking about. The worst that Genesis has to offer.
bildo1977 1 year ago
@MINERSSTRIKE YOU my friend need to get a grip
Lukin34 1 year ago
OK: I'm in my parents bedroom (which is where the stereo is located) listening to this album. It's 1976, LPs still existed. I'm pouring over the lyrics; the gatefold cover. I'm in heaven: this is my favourite track on the album - still is!
TeenyR1 1 year ago 14
Thank you steelyman08 for posting this incredible song :)
Just1SingleTear 1 year ago 3
But to the multitude who stand in the rain
Heaven is where the sun shines.....
Just1SingleTear 1 year ago
non è mio fratello, ma è il mio idolo.
19fabri63 1 year ago
Tony Banks è mio fratello!
albertbac 1 year ago
great song
Xanaseb 2 years ago
I used to sit for hours listening to this album and Wind and Wuthering on a Saturday..... those were the days! Seemed I had all the time in the world!
captainbaptain 2 years ago 7
Thanks for sharing steelyman08. Could probably repeat chapter and verse, great album, this one and WInd and Wuthering are particular FAVES of mine.
rockchick80s 2 years ago 4
masterpiece
born1412 2 years ago 2
i was introuduced to this art in1974 when i was 14 from my cousin visiting from scotland ,man i thought it was from another world ,it was so good i still love it!
thewish4 2 years ago
@thewish4
I thought this album came out in '76?
degree7 1 year ago
@degree7 your right, i had a brainfart,the first genesis album my cuz.introduced me to was foxtrot,released 72?....thx ..my bad...:(
thewish4 1 year ago
haha, no prob
degree7 1 year ago
Does anyone put out music like this anymore?...I'm just so grateful to have been around when guys like these, WERE putting it out!...Mad Man Moon is perfection...
actormanic 2 years ago 11
@actormanic Yes, there are actually NEW progressive groups out there. Unfortunately, you won't hear them any time soon on commercial radio. For that, you'll have to turn to NPR stations - like WXPN in Philly (also found on the internet). These groups are virtually unknown in the mainstream crown b/c they just aren't promoted and played by the big stations. What a pity…
astralaris 11 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
The theme is the first one ,also the best one of Genesis after Peter Gabriel,.
joyunme 2 years ago
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joyunme 1 year ago
i can listen to this over and over.quite beautiful
jltjr5 2 years ago 16
@steelyman08 so true! tony is one of the most gifted musician keys and guitar!
sandwich451 2 years ago 2
my favorite genesis song
sandwich451 2 years ago 5
One of Tony Banks's most beautiful songs, written in 1968.
wajobu 2 years ago 6
Wow - didn't realize Tony was so young when he wrote this one. This was the song that sealed the deal for me with Genesis. TOTT was the first album of theirs I sampled. Tremendous depth and range.
ipykipyk 2 years ago 3
@wajobu I agree this is one of Tony's greatest songs; my fav of all time in fact. But I do not believe it is correct that he wrote it in 1968. I know he wrote Trick of the Tail (song) that year though.
cosmicjazzer 1 year ago
@cosmicjazzer I'll check my source...somewhere I have a taped interview from 1979 or 80 where he noted this. I believe that it was "Genesis on The Source"...I still have the cassette--I'll double check.
wajobu 1 year ago
@wajobu Ok thanks! :)
cosmicjazzer 1 year ago
I 'discovered' Genesis in 1978 aged 14 and, whilst I loved the Gabriel years, this album and this song in particular affected me deeply. Thanks for the post.
chrismoose64 2 years ago 5