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  • Wow! All I can say, any more and well....Its not about me... Its about awesome music!!!!

  • better start doing it right

  • Let the dance begin!

  • I'm 18 again!!!!! Thank you man! Love this song. The "original" Genesis was the best. They were the first band to introduce light shows during their concerts.

  • @ColCasperUK @ColCasperUK obviously, you're not a musician, otherwise you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss some perfect compositions, so I'll forgive you for being a snit to boot.

  • Just listened to Jordan Rudess "Dance On A Volcano", and he screwed up my favorite part around 4:51

  • First album ith phil as lead singer. contrasts with his later work

  • @Anirudh1i

    I saw them do this live when I was 13, it was $6.00 to get in, it was AMAZING!

  • eu prefiro pink floy, embora esta musica tenha um riff bem legal

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  • Right from the awesome intro ,...ya just know EVERYTHING about this song is great !! Whole album is spectacular ! - and Hackett makes this album awesome -

  • The real Genesis didnt die when Peter left the band, it's when Phils beard left Phil

  • @ColCasperUK

    Realy?...hahahahahaha...when was that...?

  • @railmanROM Right after the Duke tour I think. That was the last good album front to back and the tour was the best of the ones after that minus maybe the Three Sides Encore tour which had Suppers Ready

  • @ColCasperUK "That was the last good album front to back". I disagree: Abacab still holds water all the way through, if you don't categorize it. It rocks far more than their previous albums, but so what? The melodies, harmonies, and rhythms are still way beyond what top 40 bands do.

  • @davidfsnyder If you think Who Dunnit it and Me and Sarah Jane rocks then...well words cant describe how pathetic that is , Im sorry but I would rather listen to Invisible Touch than Abacab any day and that says A LOT

  • @ColCasperUK Thanks for making me laugh on this otherwise dreary work-day Friday.

  • la mia preferita di sempre rimane Ripples

  • New band called "Downing Grey" is covering so much of the great material from this entire era you have to see these guys!

    Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, UK, Rush, ELP, Gentle Giant, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Atomic Rooster, Focus.

    Going to be a great tribute show to bring back memories and have fun with, well worth the price fro cure.!

  • @keeprogoing

    Of course, there's also "The Musical Box" who are pretty much unofficially approved by Genesis band members.

  • This and Yes were John Lennons favorite groups!!!

    Yes I know! He said irt over and over

  • Best album after Gabriel's departure.

    Only album I can tolerate to listen to, too...

    I mean, really, imagine if Phil would've stuck with their prog sound through, say, Invisible Touch and the Shapes album. Don't get me wrong, I like Land of Confusion and In Too Deep, but really? Nothing beats the years containing Hackett's work. Yes fell after their guitarists' departure, and so did Genesis. Something about those guitars, man...

    But, don't let me complain. This is a great song!

  • @TheOneEyedHound I actually believe Wind & Wuthering and even Duke are great prog records, but probably Trick of the Tail is the best from the after-gabriel era

  • <3

  • What kind of people actually LIKE this kind of music?

    Well, i do

  • I like Led Zeppelin.

  • Live version on the album Seconds Out also Kicks Ass !!!

  • :') What a great song, omg, omg. <3

  • let this be the start of your education ... later stuff not so good but early stuff is inspiring ....

  • @andybrum41 i was just thinking i had to go back and study old genesis, 70s genesis wasn't so popular because i guess it was too good to get top 40 radio airplay...

  • Kim Crimson!!!! L love it.....

  • seems Kim Crimson is a special band for short bus riders.....

    I thought the point of comments were for the song and the band put forth here.

    I saw this band & song live. it was absolutely awesome.... better start doing it right!!!!

  • better start doing it right.

    king crimson sucked!!! they didnt sell a fraction of the albums that Genesis did.

    you dont want to boil as well, b-b-better start the dance with me?? better start doing it right....... let the dance begin.......

  • @londosdan1964 - Most clueless, ignorant, deaf morons think King Crimson sucks.

    Why would music lovers care about your opinion?

  • @londosdan1964 I have in the court. I am still trying to figure out how to play the solos in 21st CSM. I think in the 70 and 80s .. people wanted good music and they got it. Now people don;t want it and what we have is .....

    There are still wonderfull talented people out there. It's just the masses don't want to hear them. They want their rap and their Britneys and Justins.

  • @ETericET It's not that the masses don't want to hear good music. Quite the contrary. It's because the music industry has become too big business to have anything to do with music anymore. They'll only sell crap on the airwaves, so that people only have crap to choose from. Everybody and their dog seems to bitch and complain about how much better music was in the olden days...

  • love it. Saw it in concert in 1976. Still gives me chills.

  • caldera of st. vitus

    watch?v=MCHe3CPmjUY&NR=1

  • This song brings back great memories, The 20 mile hikes my pals and i used to make in the 1980s , Into the High sierra for Golden Trout.

    We start at sunrise,With terrible hangovers.

    60lb backpacks are light at first, We are all 18-20 years old.

    First hours we are all together, But that slowly starts to change.

    The rest stops start getting longer and longer, But a few say enough! We must make camp before sundown.

    Some will not listen.

    Some get left behind.

    Blisters and Success.

    I WIN.

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  • For me the best album .

  • there last prog album in my eyes

  • @zackjp explane the term PROG. i only hope that you are not linking genesis with the vile left wing liberal bowl movement that i think you are a member of.

  • @VIKINGxDNA i have no clue what your talking bout

    prog= progressive rock it's a genre

  • @VIKINGxDNA I'm viking too, dope head. And liberal as all get out. What does that have to do with listening to good music? Go back to your bong.

  • @davidfsnyder Sorry , i have not done a bongload since 1982, some of us do grow up you know.

    OH and BTW.

    FUCK OFF.

  • @VIKINGxDNA nope, no fucking off. I grew up long before you did, when are you planning to?

  • My dad has played me genesis for the past 30 years and i love it. Musical genius.

  • @robhutchinson2904 you still live with your dad?

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  • WOW!!!!!! I CAN'T BELEIVE IT!! I'D LOVE TO PLAY MUSIC ONLY BCS I HEARD THIS!!!

  • The most innovative band with Pink Floyd and ELP

  • @vanhalter I think you can add YES to that list IMO.

  • @Hurriken42 Right! and YES

  • @Hurriken42 You must NEVER forget about King Crimson :-)

  • @nourhouse1 Epitath is still as relevent and true now. But all I can do is talk to the wind.

  • @vanhalter And Yes, King Crimson and Rush. But especially King Crimson

  • from 2:06 to 2:31 -> unbelievable awesomeness

  • @rickfan1964: No, it is 3.5/4. The beat is 1/4, not 1/8. And by cutting off the final 1/8, you get a funny kind of syncopation.

  • I would love to dance with you Phil, based on this vocal performance. I don't care that he became a super annoying solo artist, at least on this here album he sings wonderfully.

  • Beautiful song.......Beautiful Album

  • high time

  • ORGASM TO THE FIRST MINUTE

  • the people with experience listening to genesis says that DUKE was the last PROGRESSIVE ALBUM for genesis as in abacab the 90% of the songs are all pop songs...and at least 2 songs in those albums from abacab to we can't dance are progressive rock with the exception of invisible touch that has TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT, THE BRAZILIAN and DOMINO, which the only progressive songs in that era are home by the sea and tonight tonight tonight

  • @rodrigoNIN90 the last 2 songs are the last personal progressive songs of genesis that i liked from that albums, but also i hate to say that i like man on the corner, no son of mine and land of confusion

  • Really like this song... Has anyone heard the Jordan Rudess cover? Thats where I first heard this track, it led me here, and im still just as happy with the track!

  • Nobody liked early Genesis more than me. After Pete left there was indeed a departure, than a rupture, but they still put out good material , whatever the style. Actually the later work was good pop not the lame kind. If more pop sounded like that, I'd not be ashamed to listen more to it. Anyway, I think it was better that way than having them put out lame prog (can you name a good song ELP - another favorite of mine - wrote in the '80s? Maybe 1 or 2 not more).

  • Phil Collins killed Genesis as a Prog Band.

  • @journeythruthepast I love that you took the time to tell me that. That's the exact reason I posted that! In other words, you have been trolled.

  • @DriftPirateD You're clearly bullshitting us, you made a mistake.  Just own up to it. You can't pull the troll card for something insignificant as this.

  • @MasterYumyums You should see the guys over on th Zappa video. More responses than here by FAR. This is my hobby. I was helped in this one by a buddy of mine since I don't really listen to Genesis. The points go to him.

  • @DriftPirateD That I definitely believe, him being Zappa and all. My point is that there's no need to get huffy over people's musical opinions over the internet.

  • @MasterYumyums I'm definitely not huffy. I appreciate Genesis. I most certainly don't listen to them on a regular basis, but I understand their music and appreciate it. I'm one of those guys that goes around posting negativity or microtrolls to arouse responses. Microtrolls are the best. Like with Zappa I said something about his excessive drug use. 90% of the time I feel the opposite of how I post. It's harmless fun, because anyone who loses sleep over a youtube comment already has some issues.

  • @DriftPirateD OH I missed that you were the person who I commented to below. That explains that.

  • this, is art.

  • it really kills me that you folks can sit around on your fat butts "analyzing" good tunes. could you all please just shut the f*** up for a moment and just enjoy the music???? get on with your life. PLEASE.

  • @kalon216 Hate to tell you this, but people get paid to do that. It's also a given on any site music is posted and comments are allowed. Music divides people, for better or worse, and everyone is going to put in their two cents.

  • Why would anybody climb a volcano just to dance on it?

  • This record was re-mixed and re-released. It's also as perfect a record that was ever made.

    Tony Banks playing a HUGE ROLE in the composition for these tracks.

  • One of my all-time favorites. When I'm tired of searching for a good prog song in my library, I automatically listen to this. By the way, I ripped my version from my cd from 2007, and at 5:15 I noticed a synth sound I have never heard before. And then I realized the other parts of the song are slightly different from my version. Is it a different mix?

  • Last great Genesis album was Mama...

  • @Lewis1key I'll go along with that.

  • why there is no prog anymore?

  • @btom22259 cos youre not looking hard enough ;) . Though it`ll probably never be so good.

  • @btom22259 What? There's prog. Keith Emerson just released an album like two years ago. Also there's a band called Transatlantic that you should listen to.

  • @btom22259 because words change like the way far left, centrists star to say balance a wham-o0o product into the sasquatch santa claus into the middle earth

  • That Is Prog Rock.

  • I hardly suggest simplest music cause today, it's so urge, and kids got really astonishing techniques ! Where is the pause ? It's alike they want to kill old generation's fashions and moderation !

  • My all-time favorite Genesis record! (19 year old) ;)

  • @skapunkteddybear My all-time favorite Genesis record!(14 year old);) best band ever

  • I had a Genesis cd. Fuck it! It was so POP.. I bought it in 90's.. This earlier era of Genesis is fucking good.. I'm in love

  • @Luckzzz you're an idiot. -_-

  • @Luckzzz You have to listen to this on 33 1/3 vinyl on an old Technics turntable! The only way in my opinion to get the full effect with all the crackles and pops. Classic! Something is lost on CD's that can't be repeated in its original format.

  • @mcqueensmustang1 heh, i heard this recently on vinyl, but it was a mint record, no crackles and pops, great smooth sound tho! digital is harsh!

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  • @ETericET Wrong on your dates and Genesis history, mate. Phil took over on this album, "Trick of the Tail", in 1976. This album is still pretty good and prog, but it was a slow decline from here on out. Every successive album is more and more pop. "Duke" (1980) is the last album with some vestiges of prog but still a slick 80s production. The next album "Abacab" is straight up shit. The transition was gradual and Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford were just as responsible for new pop direction.

  • @beastraeatsall Fine, I'll remove my comment

  • @beastraeatsall Damn straight Beast-i called ABACAB (so named for the phrasing), GRABACAB! git outta town-yer not GENESIS anymore LOL

  • @beastraeatsall I disagree. I like much of what they did in the 80's and 90's. Me and Sarah Jane is a nice little suite. So is "Duke's Travels". Listen to it tripping, you'll "get it." Faulting Rutherford and Banks for navigating the crazy business model of the music "industry" is either ignorance of the reality that they had to deal with (listen to the first song on "And Then There Were Three ...") or ... well, let's just say you haven't walked in their shoes so stfu.

  • @Luckzzz this was the last true great genesis lp, after this they to pop and singles charts. never as good as this or what went before

  • @spaceman979 abacab is underated and you forgot Duke is in there somewhere

  • @curefreak Ah comeon

  • Man, what's the time sig for the verse? ( eg the first one) I tried to count, but for some reason i'm not getting it :L

  • @PimpBrovasTV I get it to be 7/8, the snare is falling on the last 16th

  • @stigomaster ah yeah i got it now, i think it just was the snare confusing me! thanks

  • @stigomaster your absolutly right ^^

  • @PimpBrovasTV: It is like the whole song 7/8, but the verse is played like 4/4 with the last 1/8 cut off.

  • sounds like a big mess

  • @curefreak I'll take you seriously and say I had the same experience when I first listened to early Genesis music (pre 1980). But it was like one of these autostereograms which, while at first glance seem to be a meaningless pattern, after staring at it , the full 3-D effect emerges. The trouble is that you have to have enough trust in the musicians in order to persevere, in the hope of getting a reward. My trust and patience ran out after "Invisible Touch"!

  • lol

  • 1 of the greatest songs ever from 1 of the greatest albums ever from 1 of the greatest bands ever.

  • Genesis at their Genius best ! ! ! Still get chills . . . :~]

  • Seems like I will investigate on this album tomorrow when I go to HMV before Future Shop, I won't buy it... I'll only gather informations... yes... ;)

  • Anything off Trick of the Tail. Pure badassery.

  • I'm such in love with the instrumental of this song... My father asked me at supper who introduced me to Genesis since he had never heard me talk of them before and I truly wonder who could have introduced me to Genesis... I think that person will recorgnize herself ;)

  • This song is phenomenal! Heard it for the first time today, opened my eyes to what great music sounds like.

  • Genesis really like their opening album tracks. 'Looking For Someone', 'The Musical Box', 'Watcher of the Skies', 'Dancing With the Moonlit Knight', 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' and 'Dance on a Volcano' are all very strong. Haven't hear 'Eleventh Earl of Mar' yet.

  • I love Gabriel. I love pre-"Abacab" Collins. Genesis may have fallen from grace in its later years, but it's heartwarming to listen to a classic like "Nursery Cryme", a wonderful concept album like "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", and the utterly amazing "Wind and Wuthering" in my free time.

  • This track from the first Gabriel-less Genesis LP establishes that the band didn't need Peter to be "Genesis". "Dance on a Volcano" matches up with any cut from "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway".

  • @bpmcl the rest of the albums sucks! genesis needed peter...

  • My dad used to play me his vinyl when i was a kid. This one is my alltime favourite since 20 years now, wow. Not only the best Genesis album but one of the best ones ever imho :)

  • i love theguitar on this one

  • IMHO, Genesis never skipped a beat between this LP's release in early 1976 and the much bally-hooed leaving of Peter Gabriel after "Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" a year earlier. Legend has it that they tried over 200 singers to replace the amazing Pete and all the while they had an erstwhile replacement behind the drum kit in Phil Collins..dare I say a sound-alike to Pete?

  • @rowdymax1 he sounds nothing like pete you idiot. lol there both good and completely different

  • @tbscrazy12 Actually most initial reviews of Genesis post Gabriel stated that Phil Collins sounded more like Peter Gabriel than Peter Gabriel.

  • @rowdymax1 Before I actually listened to Genesis, I never could tell the difference between the two. So yes, that guy who called you an idiot is a moron.

  • Let the dance begin, classic.

  • just realised this is in7/4 (maybe 7/8). damn it works well

  • @jeevesthepunk It's in 7/8. Quite fun to play on the drums ;D

  • Phil Collins was better off as a drummer!  That's when he was good!

  • Saw Genesis back in '91 at Knebworth on their 'We Can't Dance' tour. They performed this and it was truly awesome.

  • So underrated.

  • All first indications after Genesis moved on without Gabriel were that they'd be fine. But then they found a hit in 78 with "Follow You, Follow Me" and followed indeed, down the path of Phil Collins' soul-infused pop writing and, for better or for worse, megastardom. But despite keeping the prog approach to instrumentation and arrangements, they were mostly doing lame pop IMO. By Invisible Touch, it all just sounded like another Phil Collins solo record, which is to say weak.

  • @journeythruthepast Interestingly, I read an article last year that it was actually Tony Banks who was pushing Genesis to go commercial and Phil just went along with it. But the ironic part was that Phil benefited the most by going pop. The shame is that Trick of a Tail and Wind and Wuthering were such post-Gabriel masterpieces and they had to sacrifice art for money.

  • @journeythruthepast

    True that in later years some of the Genesis stuff was quite weak. But it is natural that a band loses its cutting edge as they get older. Genesis are by far my favourite band. I love the old stuff (The Musical Box, Firth of Fifth, The Cinema Show) but I could not live without the albums A Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering. Even And Then There Were Three. To me, the 3-4 albums immediately post-Gabriel were every bit as good as the three or four before that.

  • @journeythruthepast man, that was totally because steve left the band, and steve was 60 % of the band at least and you know it

  • @grez14 Yeah I forgot to mention that but you're right. Banks and Rutherford went right along with the move to pop and it got them all rich. Collins took the brunt of the blame but he just did it better than the other two could. I can sort of respect him cause in recent years he's had a good sense of humour about it and said back then he was so annoying and overbearing as a pop star. Almost like he's a bit embarrassed at the stardom he ascended to. Gabriel always gets kudos but he tried pop too.

  • @journeythruthepast All three of them wrote. 

  • A wise man once said to me...Prog is great...but it doesn't pay the bills, I should have followed that advice years ago. :)

  • @journeythruthepast

    A wise man once said to me...Prog is great...but it doesn't pay the bills, I should have followed that advice years ago. :)

  • @journeythruthepast

    But this IS Peter Gabriel singing. He didn't leave until the next album.

  • @DriftPirateD @DriftPirateD Um no he didn't. This is Phil singing. Do some research. Peter's last LP was The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

  • @DriftPirateD Phil Collins is the singer on this album, and all the ones that came afterwards with the exception of the last Genesis album 'Calling All Stations' where Ray Wilson was the singer.

  • @journeythruthepast for me ''Mama'' album was their last great one.

  • @journeythruthepast Yeah, you're right. Fading Lights sucks. Domino takes no talent. Yeah.

  • @ThroughRock Why are yiu responding to my comment? I think you meant to respond to rezzalozztv.

  • @journeythruthepast Because you mentioned that you dislike the pop era, and I was being sarcastic, as Domino and Fading Lights are two extraordinary songs that they made in the pop era, and so is Home By the Sea. I wish there were more all-era fans.

  • @journeythruthepast Oh come on now! You can't hate the pop era. They made some great and very fun records. Plus, they made a few excellent prog rock songs then. Haven't you heard Home By the Sea/Second Home by the Sea? Banks even called it his best instrumental work at one point, and THAT is saying something.

  • @SoundsofRuneScape Ok I don't like the pop era as much. It got worse as it got along IMO. But I'm far from the biggest hater of this era you'll find. Some Genesis fans hate everything after 1978. I like some of their pop-era songs to be honest, but overall give me Gabriel's era any day.

  • @journeythruthepast They did come back on form with We Can't Dance (and, to a lesser extent, Calling All Stations), though. :)

  • @journeythruthepast You just encapsulated everything I felt in regards to Genesis. My old friend's favorite band was Genesis, but he only listened to 80s Genesis, which consequently hails in comparison to their stuff throughout the 70s.

  • can i be a kid again???? oh yeah

  • great stuff, brings back lot's of good memories!!!

  • what an epic opener, haha, wow

  • no borders

  • (((O)))PositiveRatingsAreBlock­edOnThisVid(((O)))

  • What can I say, This is just fantastic music..

    I was turned on to Genesis by a now deceased dear friend. Everytime I hear vintage Genesis I think of him... Good memories for sure.. RIPJEFF.

    You and Genesis will live forever...

  • Those Moog Taurus pedals!!...Rutherford is the man!!

  • Still my favorite.Middle Earth.

  • love the keyboard on this one

  • Great Album!