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While we're at it, check out Jim Webb's concept album from 1967, The Magic Garden, recorded by the Fifth Dimension. It was sort-of the American version of The Magical Mystery Tour. Another example of Webb's writing beyond the pop single concept that dominated American pop music at the time.

Teach this to yourself on the piano or get the sheet music. You'll see how soul-flowingly all-encompassing it is...

He's the best ever. I usernamed myself, partially, after him!

Hear, cjm608! Hosting SNL, dueting with Andy Samberg, singin' Sondheim! Don't laugh, or do, and, shed a tear or two!

MrSamuel1414, no, you are not alone on this one. I've known this open secret, about Genesis being the greatest, since early 1974, when, in the wake of Oldfield's Tubular Bells and Crimson's Starless and Bible Black, suddenly there was The Musical Box on my early seventies vestige head FM stati...

This song generally doesn't follow me around, but every time I say 'what the heck, let's hear it," I end up having a good time...

stavr0, I think it's nigh impossible for the world's best song to be "oversaturated," as played by Genesis themselves. I'm intimately familiar with pretty much all the best songs of the 20th or any other century, and this continues to rank No. 1 with me. Just my (and a few others') opinion!

jackbossa, is there any way of amping up the sound a little? Maybe it's me, or does this sound a little weak?

It's Bill O'Bully again...

This song illustrates how Holland-Dozier-Holland took a soulful sort of pomp and circumstance (you know, that take-notice majesty of many of their classic compositions) and in this case wraps it around one of the greatest conga drum bridges ever, a touch that even the likes of the late Donny Hat...

Motown is without question the classyest music ever made. (Move over, Duke Ellington!) It melted and spun grit into elegant musical crystal. Thank you again (and never often enough), Berry Gordy.

I still cannot accept John's assassination as anything but the looming cultural tragedy of our time. After shedding plenty of real ones when the events of 12/08/80 ripped through every thing good and fun we held dear, leaving us, simply, incredulous, I find myself in a perpetual state of dry te...

Pure art.

This song, She Loves You and Happiness Is a Warm Gun are my fave Beatles songs, unless one considers Ask Me Why or A Little Help from My Friends...or...

This is one of the great songs of the 20th century. But Paul's not alone in that songwriiting pantheon: there's Imagine; there's Tonight! Tonignt!; there's Send in the Clowns, and who can forget Scarborough Fair/Canticle, Stairway to Heaven, or The Cinema Show...

I was there March 30 & 31, 1990, Bear Stadium, Berkeley, California, the only concert(s) ever held (to this day) in that 100,000-seat staduim. Best show ever, imho, and that includes the Beatles' final tour in the summer of 1966, which I caught at now-gone Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, Augu...

@banksprogheim And some nice augmented chords by Il Banks.

I got into Tubular Bells in December 1973, not knowing the music would appear in The Exorcist later that month. What a surprise when we went to see the movie on Christmas Night, only to hear our already favorite music of the month!

I can remember so well in December of 1973 when I picked up this album, after hearing it on the local 'head' station. It became the hit of our flat that season.

Imagine our surprise when roomies and I went to see the newly-opened The Exorcist, stoned of course, and lo and behold, our fave s...

Peter, I bet I could hang around your place all day!

I'm very impressed. Thank you so much. One of the best Tony Banks/Genesis songs, to which you have done impressive tribute. Tomorrow I'll throw some bread to the ducks, indeed.

54nomore, I couldn't agree w/ you more about the 60s being the greatest decade in music history. Motown took everyone by surprise, and catapulted to the top notch of American pop; the folk scene here was phenomenal, and the British invasion was a breath of fresh musical literacy, which surely, a...

Haven't heard this in more than forty years. Had almost forgotten about it, when I heard someone mention the songtitle this afternoon and my reaction to that was Oh yeah, THAT!

Bobby Vee's big hits were quite emotion-weilding, imo. I really liked them all.

Thanks for that. --A Hackett era fan